The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-05-07
CHARTER leo.

AN ACT to provide for the Education and Sup
port Of the Deaf and Dumb.
SECTION |. De il enacted By the General A.
seanbiy Of The STATE Of fona, That to meet the or
binary expenses of the institution for the educa-
tien Of the deaf and dumb, including furniture,
books, school apparatus and the compensation Of
officers and teachers there is hereby appropriated
the sum Of five thousand dollars per annum or
50 much thereof as may be necessary.
SEC. 2. The board Of trustees Of said institu-
ton shall pay such salaries in their pigments
shall be just to the superintendent, matron and
teachers employed therein.
SEC. ). The trustees shall appoint some one
of their employees stewart, who, under their di-
reetion, shall purchase all supplies for the nstitu
ton.
SEC. 4. For the purpose Of meeting current
expenses, there is hereby appropriated the sum of
thirty dollars per quarter, for each pupil in said
institution
SEC. 5. The superintendent Of said institution
shall report TO the Governor or before the 10th
day Of December preceding each regular session
OF the General Assembly, the number Of pupils in
attendance, with the name, age, sex, residence
place Of nativity, and also the cause Of deafness
of each pupil. He shall make report Of the
studies pursued and the trades taught in said in
stitution, together with complete detailed state
nent OF the expenditures for said institution and
the receipts account Of the same; the salaries
paid to each officer and teacher and also the kind
number and value of all articles manufactured
and Sold
SEC s. When the pupils Of said nstitution are
net otherwise supplied with clothing, they shall be
furnished by the superintendent, who shall make
out account Of the cost thereof in each case,
against the parent or guardian il the pupil be :
miner, and against the pupil il he or she have no
parent guardian have attained the age Of
majority; which account rhall be certified to be
correct by said superintendent; and when so GER
tiled, such account shall be presumed correct in
all courts The superintendent shall thereupon
remit said account by mail to the treasurer Of the
county from which the pupil so supplied, shall
have come to said institution; such treasu ;er shall
proceed at once to collect the by suit in the
name Of his county If necessary, and pay the
same into the State treasury; the superintendent
shall at the same time remit duplicate Of such
account 10 thu Auditor Of State, who hall credit
the same 10 the account of the institution and
charge ii to the proper county. Prorided, il it
shall appear by the affidavit Of three disnterested
citizens of the county not OF kin to the pupil
that the said pupil or his Der parents would be
unreasonaby oppressed by ruch fuit, then
such treasurer shall not commence the said suit,
but shall credit the same to the State on his books
and repors the amount Of such account to the
board Of supervisors Of his county, and il shall
be the duty of said board to levy sufficient, tax to
pay the same to the State, and to cause the ssmo
10 be paid into the 5tate treasury.
SEC. Z. TIE aboTe mentioned app9opriatiop
lncluuing the accounts Tor clothing aforesaid
shall lie drawn quarterly on the requi.iton Of the
board Of trustees OF the institution in the usual
Msnler
Bee. g. Chapter 81 Of SLe tho Acts of the
Tenth General Assembly be hnd the same is here
repealed i
SEC. g. That for putting new roof and
making other necessary repairs upon the building,
occupied by said Institution there Is hereby ap-
proprated the of two thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary to b. drawn on
the requisition of said trustees upon the Auditor
Of State.
SEC. TO- This act, being deemed Of i'm mediate
Importance shall take effect upon It's publication
in the Daily STATE Register and fora City Re-
paiieaa, newspapers printed in this State
Approved April TIL isbs,
hersby certify that the foregoing Act took eff
feet BY publieston,.s required in Section 10 there
of,on the lsth, day Of AprilA. D. 1868.
ED WslsET, secy of State