Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-07-31
VIRGINIA CONVENTION.
FRIDAY. July 25tl

SCHEDULE REPORT.
Mr.. Brown presented a report from the
Schedule Committee.
The schedule provides the mode Of sub
hitting the constitution as amended TO the
people, for their ratification or rejection,
and also for the election by the people Of
the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, the
Judges, and other officers ofthe State, if
the constitution was adopted. Laid upon
the table and ordered to be printed.
INSTRUCTIONS.
Papers were presented from the citi-
zcns Of Amherst and Nelson counties--onc
signed by 120 and the other by 1i5 sig
Misunderstanding Col Randolph to vote
for the reconsideration Of the Compromise
Laid upon the table.
Mr.. Claiborne moved that the report Of
the Committee ofthc Whole upon the sub
iect of Education be taken up for consider
alton.
Mr.. Summers moved to amend the mo-
ton by striking out the " ord Education, :"
and inserting the words, ''apportionment
Of the Members to the General Assembly"
The amendment was disagreed to, ayes
40, noes 70.
REPORT ON EDUCATION.
The report Of the Committee Of the
Whole upon the subject of Education was
then taken up for consideration.
The question pending when the subject
was last under consideration, was the fol-
lowing substitute proposed for the latter
portion of the report Of the Committee by
Mr. Garlic.
The Literary Fund shall, for the fu-
ture, be safely invested in the bonds of this
State or other public securities; and no por-
ton thcreofshall be given or loaned to the
Universities or Colleges of the State; nor
shall the same in any wise be diverted
from the purposes ofprimary cducarion;'
for which Mr.. Floyd offered the following
substitute:
/. The permanent capital Of the Lit
erary Fund shall be transferred to the
Commonwealth, and the faith Of the State
is hereby pledged for the amount of the
said capital and the future increase thereof
2. The accruing revenue Of the Literary
Fund shall be annually added to the per
maneut capital, and the fund so constituted
shall be denominated the Free School
Fund" 1t shall be held inviolate, and
shall bcappEed 10 the education Of the free
white children Of this Commonwealth, nor
shall the Free School Fund be applied to
any other purpose whatever.
3. The Legislature shall provide that
the people Of the several counties, cities
and towns Of the commonwealth may by a
vote Of majority Of the qualified voters
thereof annually provide, by a capitation
tax upon the heads of families and an ad
valorem tax, in equal portions, such sum
as shall, in addition to the distribn;able
quota of the "Free School Fund" to which
aid counties, cities and towns may be en-
tilted, lac sufficient for the education of all
the free wl:;te children in each ofsaid coun-
ties, cities ana to ,vns.
i. The annual interest Of the "Frec
School Fund" except fi:aenthousand dol
lars thereof, which shall be appropriated to
the University, shall beappornane1 among
the several counties, cities and towns OF
the State, according 10 the proportion
which the free white population within
such county, city and townshall bearto the
whole free white population within the
commonwealth.
The question being taken upon tie a
mendment, it was rejected.
Mr.. Perkins then offered the follow
ing as q substitute to the proposition Of
Mr.. Garlic:
/. knowledge and learning, generally
diliused through community are essen
tidl to the preservation Of free govern
ment.
2. Il shall be the duty Of the General
Assemblyto provide by law, that the heads
of families in districts not exceeding -
miles square, may elect to have common
and primary schools, and to elect commits
sioners for the same, and to levy an equal
tax, under proper limitations of law, in
such mode as they for themselves may a
dept for the support of the same, but no
tax shall be levied by the Legislature to
support any system or systems of schools,
except the moicty of the capitation tax
required to be imposed by this constitution.
3. The Literary Fund and its accruing
interest, together with any increase thereof
from any source, shall be held sacred, and
applied, as in the existing mode of dis
amongst the several counties of
the State, for the purposes Of primary in
struction.
A. No loan from the Literary Fund shall
be cancelled by the Legislature; but the
may provide by law for the Sc
curly Of any such loan, and the collection
Of interest thereon.
A division was demanded, and the qucs-
ton being first taken upon striking out the
ofMr. Garlic, it was agreed to,
ayes 63-nocs not counted.
A division was demanded, and tie qucs-
ionbeing taking upon inserting il the blank
in the first section Of Mr.. Perkins amend
ment, it was disagreed to.
The insertion Of the remaining sections
was also disagreed to.
Mr.. Bolts moved to fllrhe blank created
by striking out Mr.. Carhle's proposition
with the following:
"The Legislature shall provide by law
for general system Of primary education,
upon sucn plans or pan as may from llmc
to rime seem expcdient; and ali the sources
ofincrease now provided by law for the
of the Literary Fund, shall
be continued, aud the revenue arising from
such fund shall be hereafter applied exclu
sively to the purposes of primary educa-
ton ; and the Legislature shall have no
power to impose any general tax for that
purpose, ether than that provided for in
this constitution.
Mr.. Fcrgusonmovedth the following as an
TO the amendment:
lst The permanent capital ofthc Liter
airy Fund shall be held sacred and invio-
late, and the proceeds thereof shall be APP
piled exclusively to the purposes of cduca-
lion in primary and free schools.
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