The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-28

public free school interests Of the State, and
shall report to the General Assembly for
its consid eration, within thirty days after
his election, uniform system Of public
free schools,
81 SEcTEoNn2. There shall be Board OF
Education, composed Of the Governor, sri-
perintendent of Public instruction, ana
Attorney 4General, which shall appoint, and
have power to remove for cause and upon
notice to the ,incumbents, subject to con-
firmation by,the Senate, all county super1n-
tcndents Of public free schools. THIS
board shall have regulated BY law the
management aud investment Of all the
school funds, and such supervision OF
schools of higher grades as the law shal'
provide. - S'@''i, US
SECTION 8. The General Assembly shall
provide. by law, at its first session under
this Constitution, uniform system OF pub
lie free schools, and for its gradual, equal
and full, introduction into oil the counties
of the State by the year 1876, OF as muen
earlier as practicable. ),
SECTION 4. The General Assembly shall
have power, after full introduction OF the
public free-school system, to make such
laws as shall not permit parents and
guardians to allow their children to grow
no in ignorance and vagraney.
SECTION S. The General Assembly shall
establish as soon as practicable normal
schools and such grades Of schools as shall
be for the public good. :. :,
SEcrIss 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 necessary,
under such regulations as may be provided
by law. 49,
SECTION 7. The General Assembly shall
set apart rs permanent and perpetual
literary fund the present literary funds OF
the State, the proceeds of all public lands
donated by Congress for public school pur-
poses, of all escheated property, OF oil
waste and appropriated lands, OF gil pro-
perty accruing to the State by forfeiture,
and all fines collected for offences against
the State, and such other sums as the Gene
raj Assembly may appropriate. :.
SECTION 8. The General Assembly shall
apply the annual interest on the literary
fund, any capitation or other special tax
provided for by this Constitution for public
free school purposes, and On annual tax
upon the property of che 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 Of i've
and twenty-one years in each public free
school district being the basis OF such dlvl-
sion. Provision shall be made to supply
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 sums by tax on property Tor
the support of public free schools. All un-
expended sums of any one year IN any
public free school district shall 60 into the
rcneral school fund for re-division the next
wear: Provided, That any tax authorized
by this section to be raised by counties or
school districts shall not exceed five mills
on a dollar in any one year, and shall not
he subject to re-division as herelnbefore
provided in this section.
SECTION 9. The General Assembly shall
have power to foster oil higher grades Of
schools under its supervision; and to pro-
vide for such purpose a permanent educa-
tional fund.
SECTION 10. All grants and donations re-
ceivcd 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 H.. The General Assembly shall
fix the salaries and prescribe the duties OF
ali school officers, and shall make oil need
full laws and regulations to carry into effect
the public free school system provided tol
by this article.
The General Assembly, " as soon as prac,
ticable," shall provide for reassessment
of lands, and "no land SHAH be assessed
aJore or beioo its ualue." A sinking fund
shall be provided.
Every law hereafter enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly creating o debt or author.
zing q loan shall provide sinking fund for
the payment Of the same:
The unfunded debt shall not be funded
or redeemed at value exceeding that esta-
blished by law at the time said debt was
contracted, nor shall any discrimination
hereafter be made in paying the interest
on State bonds which shall give higher
actual value to bonds held in foreign coun-
tries over the same class of bonds held in
this country. ' ~ -.-.
No debt shall be contracted by this State
except to meet casual deficits in the reve-
nue., 10 redeem o previous liability of the
State, to suppress insurrectioni repel inya-
sion: or defend the State in time of war.
Upon debts hereafter contracted it shall
be lawful to receive any rate of interest not
exceeding twelve per cent. per aunum
which may be agreed upon by the parties
and be specified in the bond, note, or other
writing evidencing the debt. When there
is no such agreement, the rate Of interest
shall be six per centum per annum for the
use of every hundred dollars,
THE HOMESTEAD PROVISION.
SECTION l. Every householder Or head
of family shall be entitled, in addition to
the articles now exempt frem levy or dis.
tress for rent, to hold exempt from levy,
seizure, garnieheeing, or sale, under any
execution, order, or other process Issued on
any demand for any debt heretofore or
hereafter contracted, his real and personal
property, or either, including money and
debts due him, whether heretofore or here,
after acquired orcentraeted, to the value Of
not exceeding 81, 900, to be selected by him
Provided, That such exemption shall net
extend to any execution, order, or other
process issued on any demand, in the fol-
lowing cases: -. .> !"
l. For the purchase price Of said pro-
,nrtv or'onv m ri thereof -. -