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 effects which may be received for the use and benefit of the school; and property, funds and effects received by gift, grant, donation, devise or bequest shall be applied as directed by the person from whom received.

§ 269. All deaf and dumb persons, residents of this territory, over six years of age and under twenty-one years of age, capable of receiving instruction, free from contagious or chronic disease, shall be received and taught, free of charge. Like pupils may be received from without this territory upon payment to the treasurer of the board of trustees, quarterly in advance, at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars per academic year; but no pupil from without the territory shall ever be received to the exclusion of any pupil resident within this territory from any of the privileges or benefits of the school.All pupils shall freely and equally enjoy all the benefits and privileges of the school, and have the use of the library and books of tuition, and receive board, washing, lodging, attendance, medical care, fuel, etc., etc., without preference or distinction. And all pupils shall be treated with the most considerate regard for their misfortune, and always with kindness and humanity, and the board shall carefully enforce this provision.

§ 270. No trustee or officer of the school shall be interested either directly or indirectly in any contract for the purchase of building materials, supplies, or any other articles for the use of the school.

§ 271. No trustee shall be eligible to the office of superintendent of the school during the term of office for which he was appointed. The trustees shall meet within thirty days after their appointment and organize by choosing from their number a president, secretary and treasurer, to hold their respective offices until the annual meeting in December, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Said board shall have power to appoint one of their number superintendent of buildings and improvements, who shall receive three dollars per day for each day actually and necessarily employed as such superintendent, not to exceed fifty days in any one year, to be paid out of the territorial treasury upon proper vouchers.

§ 272. The governor of this territory is authorized, and it is hereby made his duty, to enter into a contract for not more than five years at one time, with the proper authorities of the states of Iowa, Minnesota or Nebraska, where the most favorable contract can be made, keeping in view economy and the welfare of the patients, to keep, maintain, instruct and educate any blind person who now is or may hereafter become a bona fide resident the territory of Dakota.

§ 273. After such contract is made, the institution of the state with which such contract is made shall be the institution for the blind of this territory, the same as though such institution was located within the territory.