PHILIP P. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

CHAPTER 209.

CHAP. 209.

An act to provide for the Instruction of Indigent Blind
Persons, inhabitants of this State.

Passed Mar. 1,
1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That a sum, not exceeding two thousand
dollars, be annually appropriated out of the interest up-
on the surplus fund now belonging to the State of Ma-
ryland, to be applied under the direction of the Gover-
nor, for the instruction or placing for instruction in some
suitable or convenient institution established for that
purpose, such indigent blind persons, inhabitants of this
State, as may be duly recommended to him by the com-
missioners or levy court of each county in the State, and
by the judges of the orphans court of Baltimore city and
county, in which such indigent blind person may reside,
stating that, such blind persons are in such indigent cir-
cumstances as to be unable from their own resources, or
those of their parents, to obtain instruction for them-

Additional ap-
propriation.

selves, and are of good natural capacity; provided also,
that each person so to be instructed shall have attained
the age of nine years, and that the amount per annum,
for any one individual, shall not. exceed the sum of two
hundred dollars, nor the term .of instruction eight years.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the said sum of
two thousand dollars herein appropriated, shall not be
used or exhausted in any one year, then the balance
may be applied to the purposes mentioned in this act,
in any subsequent year or years, in addition to the ap-
propriation for such subsequent year or years.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the Governor shall
report annually to the Legislature the amount of money
expended by him in pursuance of the provisions of this
act, and the names, ages and places of residence of the
different applicants under this act.

Annual report.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the act to provide
for the instruction of indigent blind persons, inhabitants
of this State, passed December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-seven, chapter one hundred and seventy-
three, and all other acts or supplements providing for
the instruction of the indigent blind of this State, be
and they are hereby repealed.

Repealed.