The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-03-07
STATE NORMAL sCHOoL BILL.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL BILL.
AN ACT TO establish, locate and endow a
State Normal School.
Be Il enacted By tie Legislature Of tie State
Of Kansas:
SECTION /. That there be and is hereby
established and permanently located at the
town of Emporia, in Lyon county, State
Normal School, the exclusive purposes of
which shall be the instruction of persons,
both male and female, in the art of teaching,
and in all the various branches that pertain
TO a good common school education. and in
the mechanic arts. and in the arts of hus-
bandry and agricultural chemistry, and in
the fundamental laws of the United States,
and in what regards the rights and duties
of citizens: Provided, That a tract of land
not less than twenty acres, adjacent to said
town of Emporia, be donated and secured
to the State. in fee simple, as site for said
Normal School, within twelve months from
the taking effect of this act.
SEC. 2. That the Governor of the State
is hereby empowered to appoint three Com
missioners, which Commissioners, or ma
jority of them, shall meet at Emporia, afore-
said, on or before the first day of Septem
Der, 1868, and having taken an oath to
faithfully discharge their duties, shall pro-
coed to select the aforesaid site, and see
that good and sufficient deed be made to
the State for the same, which deed shall be
duly recorded in the records Of the Record
er of Deeds for Lyon county, aforesaid, and
deposited with the Auditor of State, and on
the site thus selected by the Commissioners
aforesaid the State Normal School shall be
forever located, and said Commissioners
shall make full report of their proceedings
to the Governor on or before the first day
af January 1864.
= SEC. 3. That all lands granted to the
State OF Kansas, ond- selected by said State,
adjoining, or as contiguous as may be to
each of the salt springs belonging to said
Safe, and granted by the fourth sub divis-
ion Of the third section of All act of Con
gress entitled .'Au act for the admission Of
Kansas into the Union" approved January
Goth, 1861, save and except the salt
springs, and the section of land upon which
each of the said salt springs are located.
and one additional section, are hereby set
apart and reserved as a perpetual endow-
ment for the support and maintenance OF the
Normal School established and located by
this act.
SEC. A. That all moneys derived from the
sale, rent or lease of the lands aforesaid 4,
shall be invested in stocks of the United
States, the State Of Kansas, or some other
safe and reliable stocks as the Legislature
may determine, yielding not less than six
per centum per aunum, upon the par value
of said stocks. and that the money so in
vested shall constitute a perpetual fund. the
| principal Of which shall remain forever un-
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! be nyiolabIy appropriated by the Legsla-
! ture of the State of Kansas, to the support
and maintenance of the Normal School es-
/ tabIi3hed and located by the provisions of
this act, and to the further purpose OF con
structing and keeping in repair suitable
building or buildings for the said Normal
School, but to no other purpose or purposes
whatever.
SEC s. The Legislature may, at any time,
alter. amend OF repeal this act. but such al
teration. amendment or repeal shall not
cause a removal Of said Normal School nor
operate as diversion or diminution of the
endowment fund herein provided for.
SEC &. This act to take effect and be in
force from and after its publication; and I'M
mediately after the approval hereof by the
Governor, it is hereby made the duty of the
Secretary of State to cause this act to be
published once in THE EMPoRIA News, a
newspaper published in Lyon county. Kan
sas. which shall constitute such publication
I hereby certify that the above bill orig
mated in the House on the 30th day Of
January, A. D. 1868, aud passed that body
on the 9Th day of February, A. D. 1868
JOSIAH KELLOGG,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
i A. r BANks,
Chief Clerk House of Representatives.
Passed the Senate March Cd. 1868.
!. T. A OSBORN,
President of the Senate.
JOAN FRANCIS, Secretary.
Approved March Sd. 1868.
THOMAS CARNEY.
STATE OF KANSAS, EXECUTIVE DEPARTN' T
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE,
TOPEKA. Kansas. March 8, 1868
hereby certify the foregoing to be ira
; copy of the original enrolled law on file il
e my Office.
n In testimony whereof l have hereunt
i, II. set my hand and seal # Office
W. w H LAWRENCE,
Secretary of State.
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