North Carolina Institution
For. h e Deaf andDnmh
{"newspaper_name": "The North-Carolina standard.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2710, "word_count": 487, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9459999799728394], "ccnet_perplexity": [1106.9000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
TNHE Literary Board respectfully announces to f..
l. Public, that in accordance with an Act pasSed ~
the last Session of the General Assembly if has ma
provision for putting in operation School for the ednr
ton of the Deaf and Dumb, at near Raleigh toc
mence on the lst day of May next. O"'
The expense of each Pupil will be $I6O per vo,
including Books and Stationary, (and for Poor p9n'
Clothing and Physicians Bill, if necessary as w
Boarding and instruction.
As the chief object of the Law is to provide FIR H.
education of the and destitute, and the aid o
Justices of the county Courts is required in making s
provision, the Board most earnestly request each CI
man of County Court and County Solicitor in Mo
State to bring the Act aforesaid to the notice of he M
tices of their County at the first Ierm hereafter when
majority shall be present. And 10 ascertain by in
qury then made, what number of Deaf and Dumb and
Blind white persons, (disng gushing the sexes) over
and under 30 of age, there may be in such County
who or whose Parents are unable to pay for their en
ton Also whether the Court will levy bv taxation
the amount allowed by Law for their education or that
OF any of them, and communicate the 10 this Board
as early as practicable.


The amount of appropriation for the Dearand Dumb
will allow of the instruction of thirty five benefcacs
each year, provided the County Courts shall raise for
each sent, from their Counties the amount contem.
plated by the Law to wit: SeUeny.fUe Dollars. The
Board propose at the commencement TO receive five
benefcaries from each Judicial Circuit in the State
If greater number shall apply, the selection, in
of equal capacity for education. will be made by lot


Each person applying to be admitted as beneficiary
of the State, will be required to produce Certificate
of the County Court of his County under It's Seal, aud
with the signature of its Clerk, stating


1st. That such applicant is resident of such COunr


End. That he or she, though Deaf and Dumb, is not
deemed to be idIotic or lunatic.


3fd That the Estate of such applicant, or Of his OF
her Parents, is not sufficient to enable him or heb
pay for education.


The Board has opened correspondence with approx
ed Institutions in other States for the education the
Blind to enable tito determine whether the appvOpra.
ton for their benefit can be better expended in opening
School for them within the State, or by sending
broad In the time, it is hoped that every Coun


y will make returns to the Board, of the number,
and age, of the destitute blind persons within lis lm
in the manner already indicated.


WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
President er-o6fciO Literary Boald.


Feb. 3rd, 1915. 586-A