Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-08-17


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| nee in this state
sEc = Public officers. except the Gov
| ernor AZ 4 judges %. the supreme and cir
| tult UOt
| corruption. malfeAsance, misteasInce or
non -feasance in office shall be prosecuted
and tried in the same manner a. criminal
offenses; aud judgment, upon conviction,
| shall he given of dismissal from Office. in
addition to such further punishment as
may he prescribed therefor by law.
SIC. o. The compensation Of all officers,
not otherwise provided for in this cOnsti
tuition, shall be as prescribed by law.
SEC. 10. No person. being q member Of
Congress, or holding commission to any
civil or military Office under the United
States, except postmaster OF the fourth
class shall be eligible to any Office under
this state; and if any person shall, after
his election to any office, be appointed to
any office, civil or military, under the gov
ernment o: the United States, or OF any
State or Territory. his acceptance thereof
shall vacate his Office
Sec II. Salaries shall be paid quarterly.
The Governor, secretary of state, superin-
tendent of public instructions and state
treasurer shall each receive fifteen hun
dred dollars per annum. The judges of the
supreme and circuit courts shall each re-
ceive two thousand dollars per annum.
The salary of circuit attorney shall not eX.
ceed one thousand dollars per annum.
ARTICLE xI.
EDUCATION.
SECTION 1. The general supervision of
the public schools of the state shall be vested
In a board of education, whose powers and
duties shall be prescribed by law. The su-
pcrintendent of public instruction, secre.
tary Of state, and state treasurer shall con-
stitute the board of which the superintend.
ent Of public instruction shall be presi-
dent.
SEC. 2. The legislature shall as soon as
practicable, provide for the establishment
and maintenance of thorough and uni
form system Of free schools throughout
the ages of five and twcnty-one years, may
be educated gratuitously. One or more
public schools may 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 irrcducible; the
interest thereon only shall be expended in
the maintenance of the school, of the state,
| and shall be distributed among the several
counties and school districts in such man.
ncr 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 pur-
pose than that herein provided. The state
| treasurer shall be the custodian of this fund,
and the state shall make good all losses
thereof that may in any manner occur.
Sec. 4. The net proceeds of the sale o +
| all Ian DIS that have been, or hereafter may
be granted by the United States to the state
| r educational purposes Except the lands
| heretofore granted. or that may be hereaf
ter granted for the purposes Of Univer.
sity, or for y college of agriculture,) all
moneys aud the clear proceeds of all prop
erty that may accrue to the state by for
feilure or escheat; all moneys which may
be paid as equivalent for military duty;
aud all moneys arising from any grant to
the state, where the purposes OF the grant
grant are not specified. The net proceeds
Of the sales Or other disposition OF the five
| the state is entitled on its admission, by
the provisions of section 237S OF the revised
statutes of the United States; together
with the PER ceafum of the net proceeds
of the sales Of the public lands which the
state may receive on its admission into the
| Union III Congress consents 10 such ap-
prupriations last mentioned shall be set
apart as a separate fund, To he called the
school fund. the interest Of which, aud all
other reyealirs derived from the school
laEis, SHALL be exclusively applied in such
! manner A. the legislature may prescribe to
the support of common and graded schools
and to the Iarcta-e ot suitable Libraries
! and sIs,sarRias tncrsior-
So Al nass penalties and forfeised
recss<aIzaaces. @rs-aRs a1sirr the grnerai
Ias. ~ Ihe s4ie. sA.a bcsSax. znd oe paid
over. 20 tie csants<s respectively. xeerS