ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 801

adult blind is a proper charge against some other county, or
the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, it shall be the duty
of the County Commissioners of each of said counties or the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case may be,
to file such proofs as they may have, with the State Comp-
troller within thirty days from the time of such notification,
and thereupon it shall be the duty of the State Comptroller to
investigate the question of the residence of such adult blind,
and to determine of what county or the City of Baltimore,
as the case may be, said adult blind is a proper charge, and
shall thereupon notify the said counties or the City of Balti-
more, as the case may be, of such determination, and shall
notify the Maryland Workshop for the Blind, and the State
Comptroller, and the counties and the City of Baltimore as
aforesaid, shall thereafter treat and regard such adult blind
as of the county or city, as the case may be, according to the
determination of the State Comptroller, and if the State
Comptroller shall find that such adult blind is not a proper
charge against any county or the City of Baltimore, in the
State, such adult blind shall thereafter be regarded as a proper
charge against the State at large.

17. A needy blind person shall be construed to mean any
person of either sex, of good moral character, who, by reason
of lack of sight is unable to provide himself with the necessi-
ties of life; who has not sufficient means of his own to main-
tain himself, and unless relieved as authorized by this Act,
would become a charge upon the public or upon those not
required by law to support him; provided, however, that no
person shall be eligible to the relief, who is suffering from
insanity which, in itself, would make him a charge upon others
for his support; and further provided that no person shall be
eligible to the relief while publicly soliciting alms in any
part of the State. The term "publicly soliciting" shall be con-
strued to mean the wearing, carrying of receptacles for the re-
ception of alms, or the doing of the same by proxy or corres-
pondence or house to house begging, or playing musical instru-
ments, or singing on public thoroughfares for the purpose of
soliciting alms.

18. A needy blind person, in order to receive the relief
under this Act, must be a citizen of the United States, must
be a resident of this State at the passage of this Act, or must

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