Section 8 authorizes the appropriation of $7.500.000 for the purpose of removing illiteracy in those 14 years of age and over. It is to be distributed to the States as the proportion of their illiterates bears to the total illiterates of the Nation. Section 9 authorizes an appropriation of $7.500.000 for the Americanization of immigrants. foreign born. 14 years of age and over. It provides that the money shall be spent to teach them to speak and read English. and to understand and appreciate the spirit and purposes of the American Government and the duties of citizenship in a free country. This sum is to be apportioned to the States in the proportion in which their respective foreignborn population bears to the total foreignborn population of the United States.
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