Chapter LIX. to amend the “Act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,” approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven
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Chap. LIX.— An Act to amend the “Act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,” approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.May 29, 1858.1857, ch. 46.*Ante*, p. 161. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That, in addition to the provision$3,000 a year, for five years, allowed for salaries and incidental expenses. made in the above-recited act for the maintenance and tuition of pupils in the said institution, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, payable quarterly, shall be allowed, for five years, for the payment of salaries and incidental expenses of said institution, and that three thousand dollars be, 294THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 59, 81. 1858. and is hereby, appropriated for the present fiscal year, payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the deaf and dumb and the blindDeaf and dumb and blind children of persons in U. S. military and naval service entitled to instruction. children of all persons in the military and naval service of the United States, while such persons are actually in such service, shall be entitled to instruction in said institution, on the same terms as deaf and dumb and blind children belonging to the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That all receipts and disbursementsReceipts, &c. to be reported to Secretary of Interior. under this act shall be reported to the Secretary of the Interior, as required in the sixth section of the act to which this is an amendment. Approved, May 29, 1858.