Chapter CCLXII. *making Appropriations for the Service of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and establishing additional Regulations for the Government of the Institution, and for other Purposes.* July 27, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
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Chap. CCLXII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Service of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and establishing additional Regulations for the Government of the Institution, and for other Purposes.* July 27, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and Appropriation for the Columbia institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb. 1867, ch. 167.
Vol. xiv. p. 464.the same are hereby, appropriated, out [of] any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the benefit of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb: For the support of the institution, in addition to the existing appropriation to meet the increased expense of maintaining pupils whose admission was authorized by an act of Congress, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand dollars. For continuing the work upon buildings of the institution, in accord-FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 262. 1868.233ance with the plans heretofore submitted to Congress, forty-eight thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That in addition to the directors Three additional directors authorized; their appointment and term of office.whose appointment has heretofore been provided for by law, there shall be three other directors appointed in the following manner: One senator by the President of the Senate, and two representatives by the Speaker of the House; these directors to hold their offices for the term of a single Congress, and to be eligible to a reappointment.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That no part of the real or personal Property to be devoted only to what purposes.property now held or hereafter to be acquired by said institution shall be devoted to any other purpose than the education of the deaf and dumb, nor shall any portion of the real estate be aliened, sold, or conveyed, Real estate not to be sold, &c. without, &c. Repeal of part of 1857, ch. 46, § 4. Vol. xi. p. 162.except under the authority of a special act of Congress.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, as allows the payment of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum for the maintenance and tuition of each pupil admitted by order of the Secretary of the Interior, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the number of students in the Number of students may be increased to twenty-five.collegiate department from the several States, as authorized by the act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall be increased from ten to twenty-five in number.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, and Appropriation for government hospital for the insane in the District of Columbia.the same are hereby, appropriated, for the purposes hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine: *Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia.—*For the support, clothing, medical and moral treatment of the insane of the army and navy and revenue-cutter service, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the government hospital for the insane, including five hundred dollars for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, ninety thousand five hundred dollars.
For finishing, furnishing, lighting, and heating the unfinished part of the east wing of the main hospital edifice, seven thousand dollars. *Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.—*For the support of the institution, including one thousand dollars for books and illustrative Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.apparatus, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For the proper enclosure, improvement, and enlargement of the grounds of the institution, in accordance with plans heretofore submitted to Congress, three thousand six hundred dollars. *Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum.—*For the support Columbia hospital for women and lying-in asylum.
Providence Hospital. Proviso.of the asylum, over and above the probable amount which will be received from independent or pay patients, fifteen thousand dollars. For the completion of the Providence Hospital in Washington City, District of Columbia, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all expenditures for the said Providence Hospital under appropriations of Congress shall be made under the direction and control of the Surgeon-General of the army, whose duty it shall be to report at the December session of every Congress a full and complete statement of all expenses in curred under and by virtue of appropriations made by Congress.
For the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, in the city of National Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home. Transient paupers in Washington, D. C.Washington, District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. For care, support, and medical treatment of sixty transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington, under a contract to be formed with such institution, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* Proviso.That said contract shall be made by the Surgeon-General of the army, who shall report to the December session of every Congress, stat ing with whom the said contract is made, and the amount and nature thereof. 234 FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 262, 263. 1868. Reports to Congress of expenditures under appropriations. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the superintendent of the said Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb shall, at the commencement of every December session of Congress, make a full and complete statement of all the expenditures made by virtue of any appropriations by Congress. Said statement shall include the amount paid to said superintendent, and also for teachers, to whom paid, and the rate at which paid; and all expenditures for the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum shall be under the direction of the Surgeon-General of the army, who shall also report to Congress, at every December session, a full and accurate account of all expenditures made by said asylum out Accounts for appropriations for charitable purposes to be audited by first auditor.
Jurisdiction of Secretary of Interior.of appropriations by Congress; and all accounts for all appropriations made by Congress for charitable purposes and for charitable institutions in the District of Columbia shall be audited by the fiirst auditor of the Treasury. But nothing herein contained shall take from the Secretary of the Interior the jurisdiction he now has over the subject of charities and charitable institutions in the District of Columbia. Approved, July 27, 1868.