. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . chool for the deaf and dumb, which shall be subject to the specialregulations to be made for the same; and as soon as circumstances shallthereafter permit, other schools, intended to meet the same purpose,shall be established at such points in the Republic as shall be deemedconyenient, the same to be paid for out of the national funds. 4 The National School of Mexico. Unfortunately, the laudable provisions of this law were notcompUed with on account of the difficult circumstancesbrought upon the whole country by the French intervention,
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . chool for the deaf and dumb, which shall be subject to the specialregulations to be made for the same; and as soon as circumstances shallthereafter permit, other schools, intended to meet the same purpose,shall be established at such points in the Republic as shall be deemedconyenient, the same to be paid for out of the national funds. 4 The National School of Mexico. Unfortunately, the laudable provisions of this law were notcompUed with on account of the difficult circumstancesbrought upon the whole country by the French intervention,the governmental authorities having been compelled to with-draw a short time after to Paso del Norte, a plac e called nowCiudad Juarez—that is to say, Juarez City. In 1865 a French professor, Mr. Edward Huet, deaf anddumb by birth, came to this country for the purpose of estab-lishing, at this capital, a school for the deaf and dumb. The energy and activity that characterized him were dis-played to the greatest extent whenever an enterprise calculated. DON FEKUEBO, SECllETAKT. to promote the interests of his fellow-sufferers was started;and encouraged by an ardent zeal to extend to Mexico thebenefits he had before spread in Brazil, where, at Rio Janeiro,he had established the Imperial Institute for the Deaf andDumb with the aid of that countrys government, he presentedhimself to the philanthropist Don Jose Antonio Fonseca,whose learning and patriotism were widely known, and ex-plained to him his object, soliciting, at the same time, hisefficient and well-deserved influence in obtaining official The National School of Mexico. 5 patronage, indispensable at that time to the realization of hisscheme. The moral feelings of Mr. Fouseca having been vividly-touched, he accepted with enthusiasm the scheme, and profit-ing by his intimate friendship with Don Ignacio Trigueros,then the president of the common council, and who was a manof learning and of noble feelings, succeeded in induc
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