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beneficiaries of the State and has consequently drawn upon
the accumulated fund alluded to above—which fund, how-
ever, is now exhausted, and the Institution has been obliged to
encroach upon monies appropriated by the State for building
purposes.
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The account stands thus :
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Amount to which the Institution is entitled
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under
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chap. 224, 1854, for the years 1854-'55-'56
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-'57-'58-
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'59—six years, at four thousand each year
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$24,000
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Amount actually granted in appropriation
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bills:
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For 1854.........................................
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$2,000
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For 1855........
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2,000
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For 1856........
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2,000
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For 1857.......
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2,000
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For 1858........
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4,000
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For 1859........
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2,000—
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14,000
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Balance due Institution for purpose of instruction
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$10,000
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And they respectfully ask that the amount of ten thousand
dollars, arrearages due the Institution as above stated, be
granted to it.
And they further represent, that there are in the State
from seventy to eighty blind children, proper subjects for edu-
cation; that this Institution has hitherto received and educa-
ted twenty of these as State beneficiaries, but that the build-
ings and appliances are insufficient to properly accommodate
even that number of pupils of different sexes, or carry out,
advantageously, the objects of instruction for which the Insti-
tution was created; that the grounds and improvements be-
longing to the Institution have cost over thirty thousand dol-
lars, of which sum the State has given but fifteen thousand
dollars—say, in 1854, $5,000; in 1856, $3,000; in 1857,
$3,000; in 1859, $4,000; but that of this last donation the
Board has been compelled to appropriate nearly one-half to
the support of State beneficiaries not provided for in the
general appropriation bills, as explained in the first part of
this memorial.
And your memorialists respectfully beg that an appropria-
tion of fifteen thousand dollars for the year 1860, and of fif-
teen thousand dollars for the year 1861, be granted, for the
purpose of enlarging the building and affording greater facili-
ties for instruction; and, also, that provision be made for the
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