"Provided, That before the expenditure of any part of this appropriation, by proper deeds of conveyance, to be approved by the Attorney General of the United States, all the real estate now owned by the said Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb shall be vested in the United States, as trustee, for the sole use and purpose provided in the Act entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind,' approved February 16, 1857, and the several Acts amendatory thereof: Provided, That, whenever Congress shall so determine, any part of said estate may be sold, and so much of the proceeds thereof as shall be needful for the purpose shall be applied to reimburse the United States for the expenditure herein provided.".

The proviso at the end of the first paragraph under the heading "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb" in chapter 235, volume 21, Statutes at Large, page 259, which appears at pages 275 and 276 and which reads as follows: "Provided, That when any indigent applicant for admission to the institution, belonging to the District of Columbia, and being of teachable age, is found on examination by the president of the institution to be of feeble mind, and hence incapable of receiving instruction among children of sound mind, the Secretary of the Interior may cause such person to be instructed in some institution for the education of feeble-minded children in Pennsylvania, or some other State, at a cost not greater for each pupil than is, or may be for the time being, paid by such State for similar instruction, and the sum necessary therefor is appropriated out of the sum above provided for current expenses of the institution."; together with the amendment thereto at the end of the last paragraph under the heading "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb" in chapter 837, volume 26, Statutes at Large, page 371, which appears at page 393 and which reads as follows: "and hereafter the estimates for this expense shall each year be submitted in the annual estimates for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia" (31 D.C. Code, 1951 edition, sec. 1009).

The second proviso at the end of the first paragraph under the heading "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb" in chapter 143, volume 22, Statutes at Large, page 603, which appears at pages 625 and 626 and which reads as follows: "Provided further, That hereafter the report of said institution shall contain an itemized statement of all employees, the salaries or wages respectively, each of them, and also of all other expenses of said institution" (31 D.C. Code, 1951 edition, sec. 1018).

The last clause of the first proviso and all of the second proviso at the end of the first paragraph under the heading "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb" in chapter 837, volume 26, Statutes at Large, page 371, which appears at page 393 and which reads as follows: "and hereafter there shall not be admitted to said institution under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, nor shall there be maintained after such admission, at any one time from any State or Territory exceeding three deaf-mutes while there are applications pending from deaf-mutes, citizens of States or Territories having less than three pupils in said institution: Provided further, That hereafter there shall be included in the annual Book of Estimates a statement showing the number of persons.

employed each year in this institution and the compensation paid to each" (31 D.C. Čode, 1951 edition, secs. 1013 and 1014).

The proviso at the end of the first paragraph under the heading "Current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb" in chapter 546, volume 30, Statutes at Large, page 597, which appears at page 624 and which reads as follows: "Provided, That direc tors appointed under the provisions of section forty-eight hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall remain in office until the appointment and acceptance of office of their successors; and the directors of the institution shall have control of the disbursement of all moneys appropriated by Congress for the benefit of said institution, accounts for which shall be settled and adjusted at the Treasury Department as required by the provisions of section two hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes" (31 D.C. Code, 1951 Ed., sec. 1007).

(b) All other laws and parts of laws, or of the charter heretofore granted, as amended, which are in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Enacted June 18, 1954, P.L. 420, 83rd Cong., sec. 9, 68 Stat. 266; amended Sept. 13, 1960, P.L. 86-776, sec. 3, 74 Stat. 917.

AN ACT To cancel a deed of trust to the United States from the predecessor in name of Gallaudet College and any evidences of indebtedness related to the same transaction, to quiet the college's title to property belonging to it, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) as used in this Act, the term "Institution" means the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (also known as Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and, later, as the Columbia Insti tution for the Deaf), which was continued as a body corporate under the name of Gallaudet College by the Act approved June 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 265, Public Law 420, 83d Čong. ch. 324).

(b) All property conveyed by the Institution to the United States. as trustee, pursuant to certain provisos under the heading "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb" in the Act of June 10, 1872, Fortysecond Congress, second session (17 Stat. L. 347, at 360), by deed dated June 20, 1872, and recorded in liber 752, folio 272, of the land records for the District of Columbia, and all property otherwise made subject to such deed of trust, is hereby given, granted, remised, released, and quitclaimed unto Gallaudet College, free and clear of any trust, lien. encumbrance, or indebtedness arising out of said deed or under the said Act of June 10, 1872, and the college is forever discharged from the obligation of repayment, to the United States, of the sum referred to in said Act and in said deed, or in any note or other evidence of indebtedness executed in connection therewith.

(D.C. Code 31-1033) Enacted Sept. 13, 1960, P.L. 86-776, sec. 1, 74 Stat. 916. SEC. 2. The said deed, and any note or other evidence of indebtedness executed in connection therewith, and all original papers with respect thereto, shall be delivered by the Administrator of General Services (or any other officer of the United States having custody thereof) to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (or his

esignee) and shall by the Secretary (or his designee) be canceled nd returned to Gallaudet College for its historical records.

(D.C. Code 31-1034) Enacted Sept. 13, 1960, P.L. 86-776, sec. 2, 74 Stat. 917. SEC. 3.***.

(NOTE.

This section amended section 9 of P.L. 420, 83rd Congress. The lanuage of this section reflects the amendment.)

SEC. 4. ***.

(NOTE. This section amended section 3 of P.L. 420, 83rd Congress. The lanuage of this section reflects the amendment.)

REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES

An act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the United States, n force on the first day of December, anno Domini one thousand ight hundred and seventy three.

TITLE XI-THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 2

CHAPTER TWO-THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

SEC. 441. The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of public business relating to the following subjects:

Ninth Columbia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.3

(D.C. Code 31-1022) Enacted June 22, 1874 as R.S. 441 18 Stat. 74.

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. IV

Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 11, 1940, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939, approved April 3, 1939.

FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

SEC. 11. Transfer of certain Interior Department institutions.—

(d) Columbia Institution for the Deaf-The functions of the Department of the Interior relating to the administration of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf are transferred to the Federal Security Agency and shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. The annual report required to be furnished to the Secretary of the Interior by the presi

2 Functions of Department of Interior with regard to Columbia Institution for the Deaf (see footnote 2 regarding name) transferred June 30, 1940, to Federal Security Agency 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, sec. 11(d), 5 F.R. 2422, 54 Stat. 1237), and transferred Apr. 11, 1953, to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, sec. 5, 8, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631).

Name changed to "Columbia Institution for the Deaf" by Act of Mar. 4, 1911, P.L. 525, 61st Cong., sec. 1, 36 Stat. 1422; then to "Gallaudet College" by Act of June 18, 1954, P.L. 420, 83rd Cong., sec. 1, 68 Stat. 265.

Name changed to "Gallaudet College" by Act of June 18, 1954, P.L. 420, 83rd Cong., sec. 1, 60 Stat. 265.

dent and directors of the Institution shall be furnished to the Federal Security Administrator, and the annual report of the superintendent of the Institution to the Congress shall be submitted through the Federal Security Administrator.

(e) Federal Security Administrator.-The functions transferred by this section shall be administered under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator through such officers or subdivisions of the Federal Security Agency as the Administrator shall designate.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 13. Transfer of functions of heads of departments.-Except as otherwise provided in this Plan, the functions of the head of any department relating to the administration of any agency or function transferred from his department by this Plan, are transferred to, and shall be exercised by, the head of the department or agency to which such transferred agency or function is transferred by this Plan.

SEO. 14. Transfer of records, property, and personnel.-Except as otherwise provided in this Plan, all records and property (including office equipment) of the several agencies, and all records and property used primarily in the administration of any functions, transferred by this Plan, and all personnel used in the administration of such agencies and functions (including officers whose chief duties relate to such administration and whose offices are not abolished) are transferred to the respective agencies concerned, for use in the administration of the agencies and functions transferred by this Plan: Provided, That any personnel transferred to any agency by this seetion found by the head of such agency to be in excess of the personnel necessary for the administration of the functions transferred to his agency shall be transferred under existing law to other positions in the Government service, or separated from the service subject to the provisions of section 10(a) of the Reorganization Act of 1939.

SEC. 15. Transfer of funds.—So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds available for the use of any agency in the exercise of any function transferred by this Plan. or for the use of the head of any agency in the exercise of any function so transferred, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget with the approval of the President shall determine, shall be transferred to the agency concerned for use in connection with the exercise of the function so transferred. In determining the amount to be transferred the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may include an amount to provide for the liquidation of obligations incurred against such appropriations, allocations, or other funds prior to the transfer: Provided. That the use of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations. or other funds transferred by this section shall be subject to the provisions of section 4(d) (3) and section 9 of the Reorganization Act of 1939.

(Effective June 30, 1939) 5 F.R. 2421, 2422; 54 Stat. 1234, 1236-1238.

American Printing House For The Blind

AN ACT To promote the education of the blind

Whereas, the trustees, superintendents, and teachers of the various State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, representing the interests of over thirty thousand blind persons in the United States, have united in a petition to Congress to take into consideration the needs of the blind in the United States; and

Whereas the Association of the American Instructors of the Blind, at their session in Philadelphia, in August, eighteen hundred and seventysix, representing twenty-six State and public institutions for the instruction of the blind, have set forth in a series of resolutions that the especial needs of the blind are embossed books and tangible apparatus, and have recommended that if any aid should be given by Congress it would most efficiently come through increasing the means of the American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky; and

Whereas it appears that the Kentucky legislature, in eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, by an act of special legislation, declared James Guthrie, W. F. Bullock, Theodore S. Bell, Bryce M. Patten, John Milton, H. T. Curd, and A. O. Branning, and their successors a body corporate under the name and style of the Trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind, with the avowed purpose of printing books and making apparatus for the instruction of the blind of the United States, for general distribution, and for the sake of philanthropy, and with no desire for pecuniary gain; and

Whereas the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, 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 manufactured 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

Whereas 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 beneficence 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 States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, out of money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and hereby is, set apart as a perpetual fund for the purpose of aiding the education of the blind in the United States of America, through the American Printing House for the Blind.