Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-02-11
duties as shall be prescribed by law.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
Sec. 8. Each township shall be divided
into so many compactly located school
districts as may be deemed necessary {:
Provided, That no school district shall be
formed containing less than one hundred
inhabitants. In each school district there
shall be elected or appointed annually one
School Trustee, who shall hold his office
three years Provided, That at the first
election held under this provision there shall
be three Trustees elected, whose terms shall
be one, two, and three years. respectively.
ROAD DISTRICTS.
Sec. 4. Each township shall be divided
into one or more districts. In each road
district there shall be elected annually one
Overseer of Roads, under whose direction
the roads shall be kept in repair, at the
public expense. in a mode prescribed by
law.
Sec. 5. The General Assembly, at its
first session after the adoption of this Con-
stitution 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
General Assembly from providing by law
for all additional officers in any city or
county.
Sec. G.. Sherifs shall hold no other office.
They may be required by law to renew their
security, and in default of so doing, their
offices shall be declared vacant. Counties
shall never be made responsible for the acts
of tue sheriffs.
ARTICLE VIII.
EDUCATION.
SEC. L. The General Assembly shall
elect on joint ballot, within thirty days
after its organization under this Consti-
tuition fourth and every year thereafter,
a 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, a uniform system of public free
schools. ..t.u.... q la',...
Sec. 2. There shall be a Board of Edu-
cation, composed of the Governor, Superin-
tendent Of Public Instruction, and Attorney
General, which shall appoint, and have pow
er to remove for cause and upon notice to
the incumbents, subject to confirmation by
the Senate, all county superintendent Of
public free schools. aThis board shall have
regulated by law the management and in
vestment of all the school funds, and such
supervision of schools of higher grades as the
law shall provide,
SEC 3. The General Assembly shall pro-
vide by law, at its first session under this
Constitution, a uniform system of public
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
as practicable.
Sec. 4. The General Assembly shall have
power, after a 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 up in ignorance
and vagrancy.
SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall es-
tablish as soon as practicable normal schools
and such grades of schools as shall be for
the public good.
Sec. g.. The Board of Education shall pro-
vide for uniformity Of textbooks, and the
furnishing of school houses with such appa-
ratus and library as may be necessary, I'M
der such regulations as may be provided by
law.
Sec. 7. The General Assembly shall set
apart as a permanent and perpetual 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 appro-
priated lands. of all property aecruing to
the State by forfeiture, and all fines %collec-
ted for offences against the State, and such
other sums as the General Assembly may
appropriate.
SEC. s. The General Assembly shall ap-
ply the annual interest on the literary fund,
capitation or other special tax provided for
by this Constitution. for public free school
purposes, and an annual tax upon the pro-
perty 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 of five and twenty-one years in each
public free school district being the basis of
such division. Provision shall be made to
supply children attending the public free
schools with necessary text books 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 a tax on property
for the support of public free schools. AL
unexpended sums. of any one year in any
public free school district shall go into the
general school fund for re-diyision the next
year: Provided, That any tax authorized
by this section TO DO raised by counties or
school districts shall not exceed FIVE mills on
a dollar in anyone year, and shall not be
subject to rediyision, as hereinbefore pro-
yided in this section.
Sec. 8. The General Assembly shall
have power to foster all higher grades Of
schools under its supervision, and to provide
for such purpose a permanent educational
fund. ....f ~ G.,-
SEC. 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.
Sec. IL. Each, city and county shall be
held accountable for the destruction of
school property that may take place with
in its limits by incendiaries or open violence.
Sec. -. The General Assembly shall fix
the salaries and prescribe the duties of all
school officers, and shall make all needful
laws and regulations to carry into effect the
public free school system provided for by
this article.
ARTICLE TX.
MILITIA.
Sec. l. The militia of this state shall
consist of all able bodied male persons
between the ages of eighteen and forty five
vooro avcent slch nersons as hereafter NAV