Returns of the Perkins Institution, 1833-1847.

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Returns of the Perkins Institution, 1833-1847.

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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 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. Returns of the supervisor of the school to the governor or the state secretary, acting as the governor's secretary, are quarterly notifications of the name and number of beneficiaries.

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