The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-08-07

ARTICLE N
EDUCATION.

or iON L Iue SsDeEal super 4slOu
of the'Public Schools OF the State shall
be vested in a Board of Education,
whose powers and duties shall be pre-
scribed by law. The Superintendent
of Public Instruction, Secretary of
State, and State Treasurer shall consti-
tute the Board, Of which the Superin-
tendent Of Public Instruction shsll be
. President.
SEC. The Legislature shall, as
soon as practicable. provide for the
establishment Of q thorough aud uni
form system OF free public schools
throughout the State, wherein all resi-
dents between the ages CT five and
twenty-one years, may be educated
gratuitously. Onc or more public
schools shall be maintained in each
school district within the State at least
three months in each year.
SEC. 3. The Public School Fund Of
the State shall forever remain irreduci-
bic; the interest thereon only shall be
expended in the maintenance of the
schools of the State, and shall be dis
tributed among the several counties and
school districts In such manner as may
be provided by law. No part of this
fund, principal or interest. shall ever
be transferred to any other fund, or used
or appropriated for any other purpose
than that herein provided The State
Treasurer shall be custodian of this
fund, and the State shall make good
ell losses thereof that may in any man
! ner occur.
SEC. 4. The nett proceeds of the sale
of all lands that have been, or hereafter
may be granted by the United States to
the State for educational purposes
except the lands heretofore granted, or
that may be hereafter granted, for the
purposes Of University, or for Col
lege of Agriculture-all moneys aud
the clear proceeds OF all property that
may accrue TO the State by forfeiture or
escheat; all moneys which may be paid
as al equivalent Tor military duty; and
all moneys arising from any grant to
the State, where the purposes OF the
grant are not specified; the nett pro-
ceeds of the sales or other disposition of
the Fl i've hundred thousand acres of land
TO which the State is entitled on its ad-
mission. by the provisions of section
237S of the Revised Statutes of the
United States; together with the five
per ceHtum of the nett proceeds of the
sales of public lands which the State
may receive on its admission into the
Union Of Congress consents to such ap-
preparations last mentioned shall be
set apart as separate fund, TO be call
ed the School Fund, the interest Of
which, aud all other revenues derived
| from the school lands, shall be eX-
clusively applied in such manner as the
| Legislature may from time to time pre-
scribe to the support Of common and
graded schools, and to the purchase of
suitable libraries and apparatus there
! for.
SEC. ,. All fines, penalties and for
felted recogElzance, arising under the
| general laws OF the State, shall belong,
and be paid over to the counties re-
| spectively where the offenses shall have
been committed, and shall be appro-
priated exclusively to the support of
common schools where the same may
| accrue.
SEC. 6. Provision shall be made by
law for the distribution of the income
of the school fund among the several
districts, for the support of common
schools III proportion to the number of
children therein. between the ages of
| five and twenty one years; and no ap-
preparation shall be made from the
school fund to any district for the year
In which school shall not be main
tanned at least three months.
SEC. :. Provision shall be made by
law for the support of the State Uni.
versity, and for connecting with the
same, from time to tine. such colleges,
in different parts of the State, as the
interests of education may require.
The proceeds of all lands that have
been, or may hereafter. be granted by
the United States, to the Territory or
State, for the support OF a University
shall remain an irreducible fund, to be
called the University Fund, the inter
est of which shall be- apportioned to
the support of the State University and
its branches, wherever located in the
State; and no sectarian instruction shall
be allowed therein.
SEC. s. The Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, Secretary of State and
the State Treasurer. shall constitute a
State Board of Land Commissioners.
for the sale, leasing and general man.
agement of the public lands belonging
10 the State, and for the Investment OF
the funds arising therefrom, III such
manner rs the Legislature may pro
vide Any two of said Commissioners
shall be n quorum for the transaction
of all business pertaining 10 the duties
of their office.
SEC. Q. Ii shall be the duty of the
State Board of Land Commissioners to
provide for the location. protection. sale
or other disposition of all the lands be-
longing to the State, under such regu-
lstions as may DO prescribed by law.
No law shall ever be passed by the
Legislature. granting any privileges 10
persons who may have settled upon
any school lands subsequent TO the pub
lie surveys thereof. by which the
amount TO be derived from the sale or
other disposition of such lands shall be
diminished directly or indirectly. The
Legislature shall. at the earliest practi-
cable period. provide by law that the
several grants of land, made by Con-
gress to the State, shall be located,
preserved and held for disposal. for the
respective purposes for which said
grants were made, or which are desig-
mated in this Constitution. aud shall
provide for the sale. leasing and gener
al management of said lands from time
10 time. and for the application of the
proceeds thereof in the manner directed