Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-01-14

terest on such educational fund only to be ap-.
propriated as above provided: and prov,dea
further, That for the first ten years the distrl-
button OF said net proc eds and the interest 6n
said fund to and among the several State
Territories, aud District of Columbia, shall be
made according to the numbers Of their respec-
tive population, of ten years old and upward,
Who can lot read and write, as shown from time
TO time by the last preceding published census
of the United States
Sec. 4. hat The first apportionment under
this act shall be made on or before the thirty
first day of July, eighteen hundred ADD seven
ty-six, aud each Of said States and Territories
shall be entitled to receive its dlstrbutlVe
share OF each airport :onment, to be paid by the
| Secretary Of the Treasury tn its treasurer or
other eff .er authorized by its law to receive
the Same, whenever thereafter it shall f. with
| the Secretary Of the Treasury a certified copy
OF the law Of such State or Territory accepting
the provisions Of this act and undertaking that
the funds provided by the same, whenever
paid over TO it as above provided, shall be
| faithfully applied to the free education OF ell
its children between the ages OF six ard sixteen
years. The disributive share Of the District
OF Columbia shall from time to time De paid
over to the Commission OF said District created
| NY 1Ct VI W iSlSSo dpplOseu
| eighteen hundred aod seventy four. eotltled
IAN act for the government of the District OF
Columbia and for other purposes, or other
officer or officers provided BY law, and sha!I be
applied in the same manner as above provided
tor The s ates and Territories.
| s {. 5. That 10 cUtile aay State, Territory,
or Unc District of Columbia to the benefits o.!
this act, it shall malntaio for at least three
months 10 each year system or Tree pubic
schools tor all tire children within its limits be-
tween toe ages of six and sixteen, aud shall,
through the proper officer there,f for the year
ending the tnirtieth day of June last preceding
such aproriiooment. make full report Of the
number Ct public free schools, tn numrer u
teachers employed. The nuu!er O school
houses owned and the mber Of school houses
| hired, III total plumber Of children taught du-
rug the year, the actual daily Attendance, aud
the actual number OF month"; of the year
| scho3is har" been maintained IN each Of the
several school tistrcs or divisions OF said
Safe, Territory or District, aud the amounts
appropriated by the Legislature. or otherwise
received Tor the purrOSa OF malDtalnlng syS-
ten .ot free public schools And II any State
o: Territory shall mi-appIy, or allow TO be mis-,
applied or IN any miDoer ppr"pri9ted or used
other than for the purposes herein required,
|
thu provisions Of his act or shall! fail to CON
ply with the c0ndiiioos hprein prescribed, or 10
report a. herein provided. Trough its proper
officers, the disposition thereof such State or
Territory shall forfeit it's right to any subse-
quent app rtionmeut iy Vi uc hereof, nnil
tee lu amount 50 misappIicd, lost, or mlsap-
,roariatcd soall have been replaced by SUCH
Stae or Territory, aud applied as herein re
qaircd, ;.3d until such report shall have been
made aLI all lgrorlopmcnts 80 forfeited and
withheld hail be added TO, and become part
Of. he principal Of the educational fund bere,
by created.
Sec 6 That nothing contained in this act
shall be 50 Construed as to affect 10 auy man
rer the existing laws and regulations II re-
card to the adjustment and payment to States
OF The ccn!um Of the nct proceeds Of the
sales Of the public lands within their rcsp@c
i've limits as provided in section thirty TX
| hundred AID cigbtr-uDe o.! the Revised Sta
| tnies Of the United States.