798 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 271
CHAPTER 271.

AN ACT to add nine new sections to Article 30 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Deaf, Dumb
and Blind, " sub-title "Workshop and School for Blind, ''
to be known as Sections 15 to 23, inclusive, and to follow
immediately after Section 14 of said Article, providing for
the re-education of the adult blind and the relief of the
needy adult blind of the State of Maryland under the super-
vision and control of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind,
and providing for the management thereof and for the main-
tenance thereof, and the levying of a per capita charge upon
the respective counties and the City of Baltimore for adult
blind committed to its care.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That nine new sections be and the same are hereby
added to Article 30 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Deaf, Dumb and Blind, " sub-title" "Workshop
and School for Blind, " to be known as Sections 15 to 23, in-
clusive, to follow immediately after Section 14 of said Article,
and to read as follows:

15. The manner of assignment of the adult blind for re-
education and for relief in the Maryland Workshop for the
Blind shall be as follows: There shall be placed in the Mary-
land Workshop for the Blind or under its supervision such
blind or partially blind over eighteen years of age, inhabitants
of the State, and of the county or city for which they are
recommended, as may be recommended to the Governor by
the County Commissioners of each county or by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore City.

16. For each adult blind committed to the care and super-
vision of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind, from the City
of Baltimore or any of the counties in the State, the said city
or county as the case may be, shall, as herein specified, pay
into the State Treasury the sum of $250. 00 per annum for
the care of each blind adult, and the remaining amount re-
quired for the care of such adult blind shall be paid from the
Treasury of the State. The expenses for the care of all adult
blind shall be a charge upon each county and the City of
Baltimore committing such adult blind to the Maryland Work-
shop for the Blind as hereinafter provided. It shall be the