The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-18
cac, road district there shall be elected an

each road district there shall be elected an.
nually one overscer of roads, under whose
direction the roads shall be kept in repair
OF the public expense in q mode prescribed
by Law.
SECTION S. The General Assembly, al
it's frat session after tho adoption Of this
Constitution, shall pass such laws as may
be necessary to give effect to the provisions
of this article. But nothing in this article
shall be construed as prohibiting the Gene
raj Assembly from providing by law for
any additio lal officers in any city or
county.
SECrIoS G. Sherif's shall hold no other
office. They may be required by law to
renew their security, and in default of GO
doing their Offices shall be declared vacant.
Counties shall never be made responsible
for the acts Of the sheritfs.
ARTICLE VIII,
EDUCATION.
SECTION l. The General Assembly shall
elect in Joint ballot within thirty days
after its organization under this Constitu-
ton, and every fourth year thereafter, O
Superintendent Of Public Instruction. He
shall have the general supervision Of the
public free school interests Of the State,
and shall report to the General Assembly
for its consideration within thirty days
after his election plan for a uniform sys-
tenn of public free schools.
SECTION Q. There shall be Board of
Education, composed Of the Governor, Su
perintendent Of Public Instruction, and
Attorney G eneral, which shall appoint, and
have power to remove, for cause and upon
notice to the incumbents, subject to con-
frmatiofi by the Senate, all county super
intendents Of public free schools. This
board shall have regulated by law the man
agement and investment Of all school
funds, and such supervision of schools OF
higher grades as the law shall provide.
SECTION 8. The General Assembly shall
provide by law ct its first session under
this Constitution uniform system Of pub
lie free schools, and for its gradual, equal,
and full introduction into all the counties
of the State by the year 1876, or as much
earlier es practicable.
SECTION 4. The General Assembly shall
have power, after full Introduction of the
public free school system, to make such
laws IS shall not permit parents aud guar
dams to allow their children to grow up in
ignorance and vagrancy.
SECTION 5. The General Assembly shall
establish as soon as practicable normal
schools, and may establish agricultural
schools, and such grades Of schools as shall
be for the public good.
SECTION 6. The Board of Education shall
provide for uniformity Of textbooks, and
the furnishing of school-houses with such
apparatus and library as may be neces-
sary, under such regulations as may be
provided By lav.
SECTION I. The General Assembly shall
get apart, IS permanent and perpetual
D." literary fund.-" the present literary funds
Of the State, the proceeds Of all public
lands donated by Congress for public school
purposes, of all escheated property, of all
waste and unappropriated lands, Of all
property accruing to the State by forfeiture,
and all fines collected for offences committed
against the State, and such other sums as
the General Assembly may appropriate.
SECTION s. The General Assembly shall
apply the annual interest on the literary
fund, the capitation tax provided for by
this Constitution for public free school pur-
poses, and an annual tax upon the property
of the State of not less than one mill nor
more than FIVE mills on the dollar, for the
equal benefit of all the people of the State,
the number Of children between the ages
O. five and twen,y-one years in each public
free school district being the basis of such
division. Provision shall be made TO sup
ply children attending the public free
schools with necessary textbooks in cases
where the parent Or guardian is unable, by
reason Of poverty. to furnish them. Each
county and public free school district may
raise additional Gums by tax on property
for the support of public free schools. All
unexpended sums of any one year in any
public free echoCl district shall 90 into the
general school fund for re-di7ision the next
year PrOUided, That any tax authorized
by this section TO he raised by counties or
school districts shall rot exceed five mills
on dollar in any one year, and shall not
be subject to re.division, as hcreinbefore
provided in this section.
SECTION Q. The General Assembly shall
have power to foster all higher grades Of
schools under It's supervision, and to pro-
vide for such purpose permanent cduca-
tional fund.
SECTION 10. All grants and donations re-
ceived by the General Assembly for educa-
tional purposes shall be applied according
to the terms prescribed by the donors.
SECTION II. Each city and county shall
be held accountable for the destruction of
school property that may take place within
its limits by incendiaries or open violence.
SECTION IL. The General Assembly shall
fix the salaries and prescribe the duties Of
all school officers, and shall make all need
full laws and regulations to carry into effect
the public free schoo! system provided for
by this article.
ARTICLE TX.
MILITIA.
SECTION |. The militia of this State shall
consist of all ablc-abodied male persons be-
tween the ages Of eighteen and forty
years, except such persons as hereafter
may be exempted by the laws OF the United
States or Of this State; but those who be-
bid them to carry arms, shall not be COM
PEELED to do SO, but shall pay al equivalent
for personal service and the militia shall
be organized, armed, and equipped, and
trained, as the General Assembly may pro-
vide by law.
SECTION 2. The Legislature shall provide
by law for the encouragement of volunteer
corps of the several arms Of the service,
which shall be classcd as the active militia,
and all other militia shall be classified as
the reserve militia, and shall not be re-
quired to muster in time OF peace.