Amending Section 8, Chapter 2 of the Session Laws of Thirty-fifth Legis.
lative Assembly
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New
Mexico.
Section 1. That Section 8 of Chapter 2 of the Ses-
sion Laws of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the Terri.
tory of New Mexico, entitled “An act to establish and
maintain an asylum for the deaf and dumb, a reform school,
an institute for the blind, and a miner's hospital for disabled
miners, approved February 13, 1903,” be, and the same is
hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec. 8. The Institute for the Blind herein established and
created is iritended and meant for the proper instruction of
the blind youth of the Territory, and for and during the period
of four years from and after the passage of this act all such
persons resident in the Territory between the ages of five
and twenty-five years shall be entitled, upon application to the
Board of Trustees, to free care and support and instruction
at such institutions; except in cases where such pupil, or the
parents or guardian thereof, is or are possessed of property
or means sufficient to enable such pupil to pay the reason-
able costs and charges incurred by the attendance of such
pupil at such institution, in which case such pupil, or the
parents or the guardian of such, shall pay therefor. At the ex-
piration of the four year limitation period herein before speci-
fied the maximum age limit under the provisions of this act
shall be twenty-one years."