468 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I II. Ch. 186. 1879. _PP•‘>¤¥¤l>l¤, wl- general distribution, and for the sake of philanthropy, and with no desire
- '““°‘l· for pecuniary gain; and
Erlucstisiwfths Whereas the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, l’u“‘r New Jersey, and Delaware have made appropriations for the aid of said American Printing House for the Blind, of which, on account of the outbreak of the civil war, only a small part of the money appropriated by the first three named States was ever available; and Whereas by the money from the States of Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware, a printing-house for the blind was established, and is now supplied with presses, type, stereotype foundry, steam-engine, a wellequipped bindery, and all the appliances necessary for the manufacture of embossed books, and has for the last ten years been manufacturing embossed books superior in every way to any manunictured elsewhere, which have been distributed gratuitously to the blind in the States of Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware, by which the blind in those States have been very much benefited; and YVhereas it is desirable that the blind of the whole country should be equally benefited, and the intentions of the trustees to establish an educational institution of the most practical benetleence and wisest philanthropy upon a national basis, should be accomplished, inasmuch as the education of the blind is a subject of national importance: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation. States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, out of money in the United States Treasury American P1-int, not otherwise appropriated, be, and hereby is, set apart as a perpetual ing-House for the fund for the purpose of aiding the education of the blind in the United Bli¤<l· States of America, through the American Printing House for the Blind. I¤"°“m°“*· Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby directed to hold said sum in trust for the purpose aforesaid; and it shall be his duty, upon the passage of this act, to invest said sum in United States interest-bearin g bonds, bearing interest at four per centum, of the issue of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, and upon their maturity to reinvest their proceeds in other United States interest-bearing bonds, and so on forever. Income. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby authorized to pay over, semi-annually, to the trustees of the Amercian Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky, and chartered in eighteen hundred and nity-eight by the legislature of Kentucky, upon the requisition of their president, countersigned by their treasurer, the semi-annual interest upon the said bonds, upon the following conditions: Conditions of First. The income upon the bonds thus held in trust for the education P=*5’m<>¤*· of t-he blind shall be expended by the trustees of the American Printing House each year in manufacturing and furnishing embossed books for Distribution of the blind and tangible apparatus for their instruction; and the total P¤l}li¢¤*i0¤S· amount of such books and apparatus so manufactured and furnislicd by this income shall each year be distributed among all the public institutions ior the education of the blind in the States and Territories of the United Sta-tes and the District of Columbia, upon the requisition of the Bssis- superintendent of each, duly certified by its board of trustees. The basis of such distribution shall be the total number of pupils in all the public institutions for the education of the blind, to be authenticated in such manner and as often as the trustees of the said American Printing House shall require ; and each institution shall receive, in books and apparatus, that portion of the total income of said bonds held by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in trust for the education of the blind, as is shown by the ratio between the number of pupils in that institution for the education of the blind and the total number of pupils in all the public institutions for the education of the blind, which ratio shall be computed upon the iirst Monday in January of each year. Buildings. Second. No part of the income from said bonds shall be expended in the erection or leasing of buildings.
