Chapter L. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,” approved February sixteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* Feb. 23, 1865. 1857, ch. 46
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Chap. L.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind,” approved February sixteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* Feb. 23, 1865. 1857, ch. 46. Vol. xi. p. 161. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That so much of said act as Teaching the blind not required. Change of corporate name.requires the teaching of the blind in said institution be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the corporate name and style thereof shall here after be “The Columbia Institution for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.
” Indigent blind, where to be educated. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause all indigent blind children who are now, or may hereafter become entitled, under the law as it now exists, to instruction in said institution, to be instructed in some institution for the education of the blind, in Maryland, or some other state, at a cost not greater for each pupil than is, or may be for the time being, paid by such state, and to cause the same to be paid out of the treasury of the United States.
When act to take effect. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That this act shall take effect from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Approved, February 23, 1865.