Pennsylvania Act 1901-349 — DEAF AND DUMB PUPILS TO BE TAUGHT BY ORAL METHOD

Act text

AN ACT

Making an appropriation to the Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children before they are of School Age, at Belmont and Monument avenues, in Philadelphia.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary be and the same are hereby specifically appropriated to the Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children before they are of School Age, in Philadelphia, for the following purposes, namely:

For the maintenance, education and support of the sixty pupils in the Home during the entire two fiscal years (no vacations) commencing June first, one thousand nine hundred and one, at an annual rate of three hundred dollars per capita, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For ordinary and extraordinary repairs, furnishing six hundred feet of retaining walls, made necessary by change from original country grade to conform with grade authorized by city engineer and finally adopted; sidewalk, sodding, repairing paths and carriage roads, one drain, two inlets, new range for first cottage, purchase of small point of land at the intersection of Belmont and Monument avenues; the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

And provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall become available until the managers of this institution shall have filed with the State Board of Charities and the Auditor General a declaration that hereafter all pupils received into this institution, under sixteen years of age, who have not been pupils of another institution of a similar character, shall be taught exclusively by the oral method, unless physically incapable of being taught by such method.

Said appropriation to be paid in accordance with the provisions of an act of Assembly approved March fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.