Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-04-10

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ARTICLE IN.-FUniIC srHuniS-
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eigniefn geaTs,
Snr, = Here shsll be a Superintendent
/ ~ public luslurliun, Nh1, sfrr tho q
I terra ul n.lss, shsli b. s.reiri by laa g'a. '-
| the trsl irIu ~ Office shall le nlitl hg ap
poiHlWsnt ~ ile UoyeTaOG by ard slfl
ihe advice raj eruspRt 0f ihs Senate, H..
/ supgr.ntr" ls..l shall bold his oilcn fer l,.
/ team 0f f,uF yrars, iis shall receive an
annual sslagy ~ lN0 iL0Usanl tye hWnlreI
dollars, uniil otherwise provided ~ isH
la case ~ vacancy ia tie oiito II tie su
peFillsHaslI, il shall b, ll'rl lg appoint
neRl ~ lhe n0yerloT until tie neAl Een'
sral election,
See . The superintenll shall have
the supervision II The eublle Free stAo Z
Of tie state, add shall perform sush other
duties concerning public Instruction as ih'
Legislature may direct, Tho Legislature
may lay OI the state into convenient school
Districts, aGl provide for lie formation oi
a Board Of school Directors in each District
IL may give the District Boards such leg
islailNe powers, In regard d. tic schools
sehool-house-, and school fund ofihe Dis
lriei, as may he deemed necessary AMI
proper, Ii shall Lo the duiy 9i the Slrer'
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mend 10 the Legislature, such provisions OF
law as may be found necessary, Ia the pro-
grrss Of line, 10 the establishment anl per
iselicn Of complete system OF education,
adapted 10 the circumstances aud wants VI
tho people Of this State. Ec shall, nt each
session Of the Legislature, funish that body
with complete report olailth Free schools
In the state, giving an account Of Tie con
ditionof the same, aud the progress Of eln-
cation within tho state. Whenever required
by either House Of the Legislature, II shall
be his duty TO funish all information called
for, in relation TO Public schools.
Sec. 1. The Legislature shall establish 2
uniform system OF Public Free schools
throughout tho state.
Sec, g.. The Legislature, At Its rs'snssicn
Tor Rs soon thereafter as may be possible J
shall pass such laws as will require the at
tendance on the Public Free schools Of the
state of all the scholastic Inhabitants may
be shown TO have received regular instruc
ton, for said period of time in each and
every year, from any Private teacher hay-
ing proper certificate Of competency, this
shall exempt them from the operation OF the
laws contemplated By this section.
Sec. g. As n baai3 for the establishment
and endowment ofsaii Public Free schools,
all the funds, lands and other property
heretofore set apart and appropriated, OF
that may hereafter be set apart and appro,
priatcd, for the support and maintenance
of Public schools, shall constitute the Pub
lie school Fund. And all sums Of money
that may come to this State hereafter from
the sale Of any portion of the public domain
of the State of Texas, shall also constitute
n part ofthe Public school Fund. And the Leg
islature shall appropriate all the proceeds
resulting from sales of public lands Of this
State to such Public school Fund. And the
Legislature shall set apart, for the benefit
of Public schools, One-fourth Of the annual
revenue dcrivable from general taxation;
and shall also cause TO be levied and col
lectca, an annual poll tax Of one dollar, on
al. male persons in this State between tie
ages of twenty -one and sixty years, for the
benefit of Public schools. And said fund
and the income derived therefrOm, and the
taxes herein provided for school purposes,
shall be a perpetual fund, to be applied, as
needed, exclusively for the education ofall
the scholastic inhabitants ofthis Sicte; and
no law shall ever be made appropriating
such fund for any other use or purpose
whatever.
Sec. I. The Legislature shall, Unnecessary
in addition TO the income derived from fhe
Public school Fund, and from the taxes for
school purposes provided for in the torego-
ing section, provide for tile raising of such
amount by tnxptiOn, in the several school
Districts in the c,ate, MS will be necessary
to provide the necessary school house in
each district, and insure the education OF
all the scholastic inhabitants of the several
Districts.
Sec. 8, fhe public lands heretcfcrc given
TO counties shall be under the control Of the
Legislature, and may be suld unlC! such
regulations as the Legislative may pre-
scribe; and in such case the proceeds of the
same shall be added to the Public school
Fund
Sec. 0. The Legislature shall, at its first
session, land from time to time thereafter,
as may be found necessarily provide all
needful rules and regulations for the pur-
pose of carrying into effect the provisions
of this Article. II is made the imperative
duty CT The Legislature 70 see to it, that all
the children in the stet,, within the schOlas-
tic age, arc without delay, provided with
ample means Of education. The Iegisla-
turc shall annually appropriate for school
purposes, and ID be equally distributed
among all the scholastic population of the
state, the interest accruing on the school
Fund, and the. income derived from taxa
tion for 5chool purposes; and shall, from
time TO time, as may De necessary, invest
the principal ofihe school Fund in the bonds
of the United States Goysrua.oat, and in
no other security.
. ARTICLE X-LAND OFFICE.
Sec. I. There shall he one General Land
Office in the state which shah be Mt the seat
of Government, where all titles which have
heretofore emanatcd or may hereafter en-
anate from government, shall be registered;
and the Legislature may establish, from
time to time, such subordinate officers as
they may deem requisite.
sec. =. That the icS!udc OF inc pubic
lands may be ascertained, it is declared
that all scryeys of lard heretofore made
and not returned to the General Land Of
fee, in accordance with the provisions Of
an Act entitled "An Act concerning Sur
vcys Of Land" approved 10th FEBRUARY, 1852,
are hereby declared null and void.
See. 3. al certificates from land located
after the 30th day Of October, 1856, upon
lands which were title before such location
Of certificate, are hereby declared nall and
void; provided, that in case WHERE ,he lo,a-
ton, for the want Of correct mars, or pro-
per connection Of surveys, is fonad TO be
in conflict Hith older surveys. whether ii
tied or NOT, such certificates may be lifted
and relocated. -. % ..-...... .
I, Seo. 4. All unsatisfed genuine land GER
tihtates, now il existence, shall be surveyed
and returned 10 theGeneral Land Office by
ihe first day of Janmry, 1875, or be forever
barred. r. r y.rf-...
Sec. 8. All public. lands heretofore re-
serted for The benefit Of railroads Of R~il-
way Compsnfes, shall herehfter be subject
to locstion md survey by any genuine land
eertifcaies- .. a-a bro r-r..
Sec 6. The Legislature shall not here
after grant lands 20 any person or persons,
nrr shall anv certificate IN land 10 srlI Al