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Title 24USC / Chapter V

Chapter 5 Columbia Institution or the Deaf

§238 Admission of deaf mutes from District

All deaf mutes of teachable age, of good mental capacity, and properly belonging to the District of Columbia shall be received and instructed in the Columbia Institution for the Deaf their admission thereto being subject to the approval of the superintendent of public schools of the District of Columbia. And said institution shall not be regarded nor classified as an institution of charity.

(Mar. 1, 1901, ch. 670, §1, 81 Stat. 844; Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, §1, 36 Stat. 1422; Transferred and repealed by acts Aug. 6, 1946, ch. 770, §1(61), 60 Stat. 871; June 18, 1954, ch. 324, §9, 68 Stat. 267; Dec. 24, 1970, Pub. L. 91–587, §5, 84 Stat. 1579)