Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 5
Columbia Institution or the Deaf
§245 Judges of the municipal court to
report deaf and dumb persons in District
It shall be the duty of the judges of the Municipal Court
of the District of Columbia to ascertain the names and residences of all deaf
and dumb persons within their respective districts; who of them are of
teachable age, and also who of them are in indigent circumstances; and to
report the same to the president of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
(R.S. §4866; Feb. 18, 1909, Ch. 134, 35 Stat. 623; 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4, 1911, ch. 285, §1, 36 Stat. 1422; Transferred and repealed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)