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PUBLIC LAW 91-231-APR. 15, 1970

Columbia. The ratio referred to in each of the two immediately preceding sentences shall be computed upon the first Monday in January of each year; and for purposes of such sentences the number of blind pupils in public and private nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are educated shall be authenticated in such manner and as often as the trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind shall require. For purposes of this Act, an institution for the education of the blind is any institution which provides education exclusively for the blind, or exclusively for the blind and other handicapped children (in which case special classes are provided for the blind); the chief State school officer of a State is the superintendent of public elementary and secondary schools in such State or, if there is none, such other official as the Governor certifies to have comparable responsibility in the State; and a blind pupil is a blind individual pursuing a course of study in an institution of less than college grade. " (B) The portion of the appropriation received by each chief State school officer, in such books and other materials under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph which represents the number of blind pupils in private nonprofit institutions in such State in which blind pupils are educated shall be distributed among such institutions on the basis of the number of blind pupils in each such institution as compared to the total number of such pupils in all of the private nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are educated in such State. " (C) All books and other materials furnished pursuant to this Act, and control and administration of their use, shall vest only in a public agency. Such books and materials made available pursuant to this Act for use of teachers and blind pupils in any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, the (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia in any •, school shall be limited to those books and materials which have been approved by an appropriate educational authority or agency of such State, Territory, possession. Commonwealth, or District. or any local educational authority thereof, for use, or are used, in a public elementary or secondary school therein.'' (b) The paragraph designated "Fourth" of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the education of the blind", approved March 8, 1879, as amended (20 U.S.C. 102), is amended by inserting immediately after "public", the following: "and private nonprofit". (c) Section 4 of such Act is amended by inserting immediately after "public", the following: "or private nonprofit". Approved April 13, 1970.

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AN ACT To increase the pay of P^'ederal employees.

April 15, 1970 [s. 3690]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may Federal Empioybe cited as the "Federal Employees Salary Act of 1970". 1970^^ ^"^^ ^""^ °^ SEC. 2. (a)(1) The President shall increase the rates of basic pay, basic compensation, and salaries (as such rates were increased by Executive Order Numbered 11474, dated June 16, 1969) contained ^^\^^^^ "^^ in the schedules listed in paragraph (2) of this subsection by amounts ""iT', „,o„, equal, as nearly as may be practicable and with regard to maintaining

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