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Title 24USC / Chapter V

Chapter 5 Columbia Institution or the Deaf

§243 Limitation on number of pupils from one State

There shall not be admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf under the preceding section, nor shall there be maintained after such admission, at any one time from any State or Territory exceeding three deaf-mutes, while there are applications pending from deaf-mutes, citizens of States or Territories having less than three pupils in said institution.

(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 837, §1, 26 Stat. 392; Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, §1, 36 Stat. 1422; Transferred and repealed by acts Aug. 6, 1946, ch. 770, §1(61), 60 Stat. 871; June 18, 1954, ch. 324, §9, 68 Stat. 267; Dec. 24, 1970, Pub.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)