Applications for instruction of the deaf, 1819-1887.

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Applications for instruction of the deaf, 1819-1887.

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The Commonwealth, in order to fulfill its responsibility to provide education to its deaf residents, was required to pay tuition to the American Asylum in Hartford (Resolves 1819, c 60), to the Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes in Northampton, and to the Horace Mann School in Boston (Boston School for Deaf Mutes until 1887) (Resolves 1868, c 200) for students who qualified as state beneficiaries. Applications for instruction certified that the student was deaf and in need of financial assistance.

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