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of institutions of learning in the several States and Territories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and restrictions as the heads of the Departments and Bureaus mentioned may prescribe. [31 Stat. L. 1039.]

The above provision occurs in the Deficiencies Appropriation Act of March 3, 1901, ch. 831.

VII. STUDY OF EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND

NARCOTICS

An act to provide for the study of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene, by the pupils in the public schools of the Territories and of the District of Columbia, and in the Military and Naval Academies, and Indian and colored schools in the Territories of the United States.

[Act of May 20, 1886, ch. 362, 24 Stat. L. 69.]

[SEC. 1.] [Study of effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics to be compulsory.] That the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and special instructions as to their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of study taught in the common or public schools, and in the Military and Naval Schools, and shall be studied and taught as thoroughly and in the same manner as other like required branches are in said schools, by the use of text-books in the hands of pupils where other branches are thus studied in said schools, and by all pupils in all said. schools throughout the Territories, in the Military and Naval Academies of the United States, and in the District of Columbia, and in all Indian and colored schools in the Territories of the United States. [24 Stat. L. 69.]

SEC. 2. [Officers failing to enforce act to be removed.] That it shall be the duty of the proper officers in control of any school described in the foregoing section to enforce the provisions of this act; and any such officer, school director, committee, superintendent, or teacher who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the requirements of this act, or shall neglect or fail to make proper provisions for the instruction required and in the manner specified by the first section of this act, for all pupils in each and every school under his jurisdiction, shall be removed from office, and the vacancy filled as in other cases. [24 Stat. L. 69.]

SEC. 3. [Teachers to pass examination on hygiene, etc.] That no certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of the District of Columbia or Territories, after the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the nature and the effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics upon the human system. [24 Stat. L. 69.]

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VIII. EDUCATION OF THE BLIND

An Act To promote the education of the blind.

[Act of March 3, 1879, ch. 186, 20 Stat. L. 467.]

[SEC. 1.] [Permanent fund to aid education of the blind.] That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, out of money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and hereby is, set apart as a perpetual fund for the purpose of aiding the education of the blind in the United States of America, through the American Printing House for the Blind. [20 Stat. L. 467.]

The foregoing section was preceded by the following preamble:

"Whereas, the trustees, superintendents, and teachers of the various State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, representing the interests of over thirty thousand blind persons in the United States, have united in a petition to Congress to take into consideration the needs of the blind of the United States; and

"Whereas the Association of the American Instructors of the Blind, at their session in Philadelphia, in August, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, representing twenty-six State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, have set forth in a series of resolutions that the especial needs of the blind are embossed books and tangible apparatus, and have recommended that if any aid should be given by Congress it would most efficiently come through increasing the means of the American Printing House for the Blind, located at Louisville, Kentucky; and

Whereas it appears that the Kentucky legislature, in eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, by an act of special legislation, declared James Guthrie, W. F. Bullock, Theodore S. Bell, Bryce M. Patten, John Milton, H. T. Curd, and A. O. Brannin, and their successors, a body corporate under the name and style of the Trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind, with the avowed purpose of printing books and making apparatus for the instruction of the blind of the United States, for general distribution, and for the sake of philanthropy, and with no desire for pecuniary gain; and

Whereas the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware have made appropriations for the aid of said American Printing House for the Blind, of which, on account of the outbreak of the civil war, only a small part of the money appropriated by the first three named States was ever available; and

"Whereas by the money from the States of Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware, a printing-house for the blind was established, and is now supplied with presses, type, stereotype foundry, steam-engine, a well-equipped bindery, and all the appliances necessary for the manufacture of embossed books, and has for the last ten years been manufacturing embossed books superior in every way to any manufactured elsewhere, which have been distributed gratuitously to the blind in the States of Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware, by which the blind in those States have been very much benefited; and "Whereas it is desirable that the blind of the whole country should be equally benefited, and the intentions of the trustees to establish an educational institution of the most practical beneficence and wisest philanthropy upon a national basis, should be accomplished, inasmuch as the education of the blind is a subject of national importance: Therefore,"

As to the education of indigent blind, see the title HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS.

See American Printing House v. American Printing House, (1881) 104 U. S. 711, 26 U. S. (L. ed.) 902.

SEC. 2. [Fund to be held in trust and invested.] That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby directed to hold said sum in trust for the purpose aforesaid; and it shall be his duty, upon the passage of this act, to invest said sum in United States interest-bearing bonds, bearing interest at four per centum, of the issue of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, and upon their maturity to reinvest their proceeds in other United States interest-bearing bonds, and so on forever. [20 Stat. L. 468.]

This section was affected by the provisions of the Act of June 25, 1906, ch. 3536, infra, p. 116.

SEC. 3. [Conditions of payment to American Printing House for Blind.] That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby authorized to pay over, semi-annually, to the trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky, and chartered in eighteen hundred and fifty-eight by the legislature of Kentucky, upon the requisition of their president, countersigned by their treasurer, the semiannual interest upon the said bonds, upon the following conditions:

First. The income upon the bonds thus held in trust for the education of the blind shall be expended by the trustees of the American Printing House each year in manufacturing and furnishing embossed books for the blind and tangible apparatus for their instruction;

And the total amount of such books and apparatus so manufactured and furnished by this income shall each year be distributed among all the public institutions for the education of the blind in the States and Territories of the United States and the District of Columbia, upon the requisition of the superintendent of each, duly certified by its board of trustees.

The basis of such distribution shall be the total number of pupils in all the public institutions for the education of the blind, to be authenticated in such manner and as often as the trustees of the said American Printing House shall require;

And each institution shall receive, in books and apparatus, that portion of the total income of said bonds held by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in trust for the education of the blind, as is shown by the ratio between the number of pupils in that institution for the education of the blind and the total number of pupils in all the public institutions for the education of the blind, which ratio shall be computed upon the first Monday in January of each year.

Second. No part of the income from said bonds shall be expended in the erection or leasing of buildings.

Third. No profit shall be put on any books or tangible apparatus for the instruction of the blind manufactured or furnished by the trustees of said American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky; and the price put upon each article so manufactured or furnished shall only be its actual cost.

Fourth. The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States shall have the authority to withhold the income arising from said bonds thus set apart for the education of the blind of the United States whenever he shall receive satisfactory proof that the trustees of said American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky, are not using the income from these bonds for the benefit of the blind in the public institutions for the education of the blind in the United States.

Fifth. Before any money be paid to the treasurer of the American Printing House for the Blind by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, the treasurer of the American Printing House for the Blind shall execute a bond, with two approved sureties, to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned that the interest so received shall be expended according to this law and all amendments thereto, which shall be held by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and shall be renewed every two years.

Sixth. The superintendents of the various public institutions for the

education of the blind in the United States shall each, ex officio, be a mem ber of the board of trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind, located in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. [20 Stat. L. 468.]

SEC. 4. [Trustees to make annual reports.] That the trustees of said American Printing House for the Blind shall annually make to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States a report of the items of their expenditure of the income of said bonds during the year preceding their report, and shall annually furnish him with a voucher from each public institution for the education of the blind, showing that the amount of books and tangible apparatus due has been received. [20 Stat. L. 469.]

SEC. 5. [Effect.] That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. [20 Stat. L. 469.]

An Act To modify the requirements of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the education of the blind," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.

[Act of June 25, 1906, ch. 3536, 34 Stat. L. 460.]

[Proceeds of matured bonds made a trust fund - permanent annual appropriation in place of interest disposition.] That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars heretofore invested in United States registered four per centum bonds, funded loan of nineteen hundred and seven, inscribed "Secretary of the Treasury, trustee-interest to the Treasurer of the United States for credit of appropriation To promote the education of the blind,'" shall upon the maturity and redemption of said bonds on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and seven, in lieu of reinvestment in other Government bonds, be set apart and credited on the books of the Treasury Department as a perpetual trust fund; and the sum of ten thousand dollars, being equivalent to four per centum on the principal of said trust fund, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and such appropriation shall be deemed a permanent annual appropriation and shall be expended in the manner and for the purposes authorized by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An Act to promote the education of the blind," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. [34 Stat. L. 460.]

The Act of March 3, 1879, ch. 186, mentioned in the text, is given supra, p. 114.

IX. HOWARD UNIVERSITY

The

[SEC. 1.] [Report on condition, receipts and disbursements.] President and directors of the Howard University shall report to the Secretary of the Interior the condition of the institution on the first of July of each year, embracing therein the number of pupils received and discharged or leaving the same for any cause during the preceding year,

and the number remaining; also, the branches of knowledge and industry taught and the progress made therein, together with a statement showing the receipts of the institution and from what sources, and its disbursements and for what objects. [30 Stat. L. 624.]

This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of July 1, 1898, ch. 546. Similar provisions occur in prior Appropriation Acts. See 26 Stat. L. 973; 27 Stat. L. 372; 27 Stat. L. 595. The provision in the Act of Aug. 5, 1892, ch. 380, 27 Stat. L. 372, reads as follows:

"For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources,

And the proper officers of said university shall report annually to the Secretary of the Interior how the appropriation is expended; and the Secretary of the Interior shall estimate in detail for the next fiscal year the items of expenditure provided for in this paragraph;

[SEC. 1.] [Use of appropriations for theological department forbidden - inspection.] That hereafter no part of the appropriations made by Congress for the Howard University shall be used, directly or indirectly, for the support of the theological department of said university, nor for the support of any sectarian, denominational, or religious instruction therein: And provided further, That no part thereof shall be paid to said university until it shall accord to the Secretary of the Interior, or to his designated agent or agents, authority to visit and inspect such university and to control and supervise the expenditure therein of all moneys paid under said appropriations. [30 Stat. L. 1101.]

This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of March 3, 1899, ch. 424. Substantially the same provision occurs in the Act of July 1, 1898, ch. 546, 30 Stat. L. 624.

EIGHT HOUR LAW

See LABOR

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