The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-03-20

collected Mt the same time and by the
same agents as the general State
levy, and shall be paid into the
Treasury of the State. There shall
be assessed on all taxable polls in the
State, an annual tax of 81 ON each
poll, the proceeds of which tax shall
be applied solely to educational pur-
poses: Provided, That no person
shall ever be deprived of the right of
suffrage for the non-payment Of said
tax. No other poll or capitation tax
shall be levied in the State, nor shall
the amount assessed on each poll ex-
ceed the limit given in this section.
The school Tux shall be distributed
among the several school districts of
the State, in proportion to the re-
spective number of pupils attending
the public schools. No religious sect
or sects shall have exclusive right to,
or control of, any part of the school
funds of the State, nor shall sectarian
principles be taught in the public
schools.
SEC. 6. Within five years after the
first regular session of the General
Assembly, following the adoption of
this Constitution. it shall be the duty
OF the General Assembly to provide
for the establishment and SUPPORT of
State Normal School, which shall
be open to all persons who may wish
to become teachers.
SEC. Z. Educational institutions
for the benefit of all the blind, deaf
and dumb, and such other benevo-
lent institutions as the public good
may require, shall be established and
supported by the State, subject to
such regulations as may be prescribed
by law.
SEC. s. Provisions shall be made
by law, as soon as practicable, for the
establishment and maintenance of q
State Reform School for juvenile Of
tenders.
SEC. 8. The General Assembly shall
provide for the maintenance of the
State University, and, as soon rs
practicable, provide for the estab-
llshment of an Agricultural College,
and shall appropriate the land given
to this State for the support of such
college, by the Act of Congress.
passed July 2, 1862, or the morey or
scrip, as the case may be, arising
from the sale of said lands, or any
lands which may hereafter be given
or appropriated for such purposes,
for the support and maintenance of
such college, and may make the same
branch of the State University, for
instruction in agriculture, the me.
chanic arts, aud the natural sciences
connected Herewith.
SEC. 10. All the public schools,
college and universities of this State,
supported by the public funds, shall
be free and open to all the children
and youths of the State, without re-
gar't to race or color.
SEC. IL. The proceeds of all lands
that have been, or hereafter may be,
! given by the United States to this
State for educational purposes, and
not otherwise appropriated by this
State or the United States, and of all
lands or other property given by in
aiVlauals, or appropriated by the
State for like purposes, and of all
estates of deceased persons who have
died without leaving will or heir,
shall DC securely invested and sacred
ly preserve rs State School Fund,
and the annual interest and income
OF said fund, together with snch
other means rs the General Assembly
may provide, shall he faithfully ap
propriated for tie purpose of estnb-
lishing and maintaining free public
schools, and for no other purposes or
uses whatever.
; nn ICIIJ -.
AMENDMENT AND REVISION OF THE CON
I STITUTION.
SEC. 30. Any amendment or amend
ments to this Constitution may be
proposed in the Senate or House of
Representatives. If the same be
agreed to by two thirds of the mem
bers elected to each House, such
amendment or amendments shall be
entered on the journals respectively,
with the yeas and nays taken thereon
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