Applications for admission to the Perkins Institution, 1833-1861.

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Applications for admission to the Perkins Institution, 1833-1861.

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The Commonwealth, pursuant to St 1828, c 113, s 7 as amended by Resolves 1833, c 28, was required to pay to the Trustees of the New England Asylum for the Blind (later known successively as the the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind (1832), the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind (1839), the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind (1877), and the Perkins School for the Blind (1955)) an annual sum to provide for the tuition of up to twenty indigent children certified by a physician to be blind. Upon application from the parent, guardian, or town official, the governor was required to determine twenty beneficiaries. Applications to the governor requested authorization for beneficiary status. The state secretary, acting as the governor's secretary, maintained these filings.

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