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Title 24USC / Chapter V

Chapter 5 Columbia Institution or the Deaf

§242 Admission of pupils from States and Territories

Deaf-mutes, not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five in number, residing in the several States and Territories, applying for admission to the collegiate department of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, shall be received on the same terms and conditions as those prescribed by law for residents of the District of Columbia, at the discretion of the president of the institution; but no student coming from either of the States shall be supported by the United States during any portion of the time he remains therein.

(R.S. §4865; Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, §1, 36 Stat. 1422; July 1, 1918, ch. 113, §1, 40 Stat. 680; Transferred and repealed by acts Aug. 6, 1946, ch. 770, §1(61), 60 Stat. 871; June 18, 1954, ch. 324, §9, 68 Stat. 267; Dec. 24, 1970, Pub.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)