under the penalty prescribed in this section for each offence, and to be recovered in the same manner. P. G. L., (1860,) art. 32, sec. 10. 1852, ch. 235, sec. 2. 10. One-half of the penalty recovered in any case under the preceding section shall go to the informer, and the residue shall be paid to the collector of county or city taxes, for the use of the county or city where the prosecution therefor may be instituted. Ibid. sec. 11. 1852, ch. 235, sec. 3. 11. If any person against whom any judgment may be rendered for the penalty provided in section 9, shall not immediately pay the same and the costs of the prosecution, or give security satisfactory to the justice rendering the judgment for the payment, he shall be committed to jail, there to remain until the same shall be paid, or until the expiration of ten days from the date of the commitment, whichever shall first occur. ARTICLE XXX. DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND-EDUCATION OF. 1. Certificate as to deaf and dumb 4. What recommendation shall state. from county commissioners or 5. Limit of annual payment for one. mayor and city council of Balti- 6. more to governor. 2. Duty of governor upon receipt of 7. certificate. 3. Fifteen thousand dollars annually appropriated for instruction of the blind. Governor to report to general assembly. Special tax levied to pay bonds. 8. Powers of directors of institution for the blind. P. G. L., (1860,) art. 33, sec. 1. 1860, ch. 129, sec. 1. 1. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the several counties of this State, and of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, on application of any parent, guardian or next friend (provided, such parent, guardian and next friend has been a bona fide citizen of this State for at least two years previous to such application) of any deaf and dumb person of teachable age and capacity, not exceeding the age of twentyone years, to inquire into the age and capacity of said deaf and dumb person, and also into the ability of such person, his or her parent or guardian, to pay the expense of his or her education; and if satisfied by evidence produced that such person is of teachable age, and is endowed with capacity to receive instruction, and that neither such person, his or her parents or guardian, is possessed of means to pay for such instruction, then it shall be the further duty of the county commissioners, or of the mayor and city council of Baltimore aforesaid, to certify the same to the governor of this State. P. G. L., (1860,) art. 33, sec. 2. 1860, ch. 129, sec. 2. 1865, ch. 68. 2. On receiving the certificate of the county commissioners, or of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the governor to authorize the instruction of said deaf and dumb person in the Maryland institute for the deaf and dumb, located at Frederick, for a term not exceeding seven years; and it shall be the further duty of the governor, on the certificate of the president of said institution that such deaf and dumb person has been taught at said institution, to order the comptroller of the treasury to draw his warrant on the treasurer of this State for two hundred dollars per annum, för each deaf and dumb person taught in pursuance of his authority at said institution, payable to the president thereof, in quarterly payments, on the first days of January, April, July and October, in each year; and the governor shall also order the comptroller of the treasury to draw on the treasurer his warrant, payable to the proper party, for the expenses necessarily incurred in transporting and returning said deaf and dumb person; provided, that the whole amount drawn from the treasury, for the purposes aforesaid, shall not exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars in any one year; provided, further, that the governor shall dispose of applications in behalf of deaf and dumb persons, under the provisions of this article, in the order in which they may be made; and if the applications be more than sufficient to absorb the foregoing appropriation, he shall suspend the action upon the excess until vacancies occur, or further provision be made by the general assembly. P. G. L., (1860,) art. 33, sec. 3. 1849, ch. 209, sec. 1. 1854, ch. 224. 1868, ch. 205. 1886, ch. 278. 3. A sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars shall be annually appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the governor, in placing for instruction in the Maryland institution for the instruction of the blind, such indigent blind persons of the age of seven years and upwards, inhabitants of this State, and the county or city from which they are recommended, as may be duly recommended to the governor by the county commissioners of each county, or by the judges of the orphans' court of Baltimore city. Ibid. sec. 4. 1849, ch. 209, sec. 1. 4. The recommendation shall state that such blind persons are in such indigent circumstances as to be unable, from their own resources, or those of their parents, to obtain instruction, and are of good natural capacity. Ibid. sec. 5. 1849, ch 209, sec. 1. 1865, ch. 75. 1886, ch. 278. 5. The amount per annum paid for any one individual shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars. Ibid. sec. 6. 1849, ch. 209, sec. 3. 6. The governor shall report to the general assembly at each regular session thereof, the amount of money expended by him in pursuance of the provisions of sections 3, 4 and 5, and the names, ages and places of residence of the different applicants. 1867, ch. 247. 1868, ch. 409. 1870, ch. 322. 1874, ch. 42. 7. A special tax of five-sixteenths of one cent on every hundred dollars of taxable property within this State is hereby levied to meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the redemption of the bonds or certificates of debt, issued under the act of 1874, chapter 42; and the said tax shall be annually levied, collected and be paid over to the State treasurer until the said bonds shall have been paid: and a separate and distinct account shall be kept thereof, and the proceeds thereof are hereby pledged to the payment of the principal and interest on said bonds, or certificates of debt; and for that purpose so much thereof as may be necessary shall first be applied to the interest, and the balance invested by the treasurer in said bonds or certificates, or other bonds of this State. 1874, ch. 236. 8. The directors of the Maryland institution for the instruction of the blind, are authorized and empowered to apply such portion of their endowment fund and annual income as they may deem expedient to establish work-shops, and to open a store for the sale of articles manufactured by the blind, and to extend the benefits of such work-shops and store, to the adult blind of this State, not resident in the institution, on such terms, and under such regulations as they may prescribe. ARTICLE XXXI. DEBT---PUBLIC. 1. Principal and interest on to be paid¦ 5. Advertisement for presentation of by treasurer when due. sterling debt. 2. Baring Bros. & Co., State's agents 6. Advertisement for purchase of unto pay interest due in London. 3. Sterling debt of 1838, redemption of. 4. New certificates of debt for such redemption. exchanged certificates. 7. Privilege of purchaser. 8. Proceeds of certificates to be used ch. 279. 1838, ch. 336. 1839, ch. 33. 1852, ch. 23. 1853, ch. 360. P. G. L., (1860,) art. 34, sec. 1. 1834, 1846, ch. 238. 1847, ch. 41. 1. The interest on the public debts heretofore created by this State, shall be punctually paid at the times and places, and at the rates stipulated, and the same shall be paid as heretofore by the officers and agents whose duty it is made to pay the same; and the principal of said debts shall be paid by the treasurer as it falls due, according to the conditions of the contract by which cach debt was incurred. P. G. L., (1860,) art. 34, sec. 2. 1839, ch. 38, sec. 5. 2. The Messrs. Baring Brothers & Company, of London, are hereby declared to be the agents of the State, for the payment of the interest on its public debt there payable, with an allowance of one per cent. commission for the service; and the treasurer shall semi-annually, in April and October, transmit the amount of such interest, and all charges and duty, to the said Baring Brothers & Company, for disbursement in payment of said interest. 1888, ch. 201, sec. 1. 3. For the purposes of the conversion, extension, exchange and redemption of the sterling indebtedness of this State, created under the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and thirtyeight, chapter three hundred and eighty-six, amounting to nine hundred thousand two hundred and fifty pounds sterling, a loan is created, to be called "The exchange loan of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine," to the amount of four millions three hundred and eighty-one thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-three cents, the same being the present value, in gold coin of the United States, of the sterling indebtedness of this State, created under said act, at the valuation of four dollars eighty-six cents and six and a half tenths of a cent for each pound sterling, the same being the exchangeable value of a pound sterling expressed in the money of the United States, as declared by the secretary of the treasury of the United States on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; and said loan hereby created, in all its parts, shall bear date of the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the governor, comptroller of the treasury, and the treasurer of this State, or a majority of them, not exceeding three and sixty-five hundredths per centum per annum, payable in gold coin of the United States on the first days of January and July in each and every year; and it is declared that said loan, and every part thereof, and the interest payable thereon, shall be and remain exempted from all State, county and municipal taxation, and that the principal amount of said loan shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the State of Maryland, after the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred and three. |