The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-07-09

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lald over under the rules -"
"dii' chairman of the Committee on Ed
TV'iot' ihaue report, and presented Article
- on me subject of Educatlon and recon.
lnenueu that it he adopted as substitute for tho
'0''ouS matters then referred
ARTICLE TX.
EDUCATION
SECTION l. The Legislature shall provide for
UNIFORM system OF public free schools, and shall
ProVide ior the liberal maintenance of the same
SEC. 2 There shal. be a Superntendant rs
Tuoilc instruction, whose duties shall he nre
scIioeu oy law, and whose term of office shall he
iour years and until the election and oualitca-
tOn OF his successor
SEC 8. The Governor, Secretary of State At.
torney General, State Treasurer and Sts,e Sn.
perlntendent of Public Schools shall constitute
Oody corporate, t0 be known as the State
6oard OF Education of Florida, of which he
"overnor shall be President, and the State ..,
perlntendent Secretary. This Board shall have
power 10 remove for cause and upon notice TO
the incumbent, any subordinate school officer
anu shall have, regulated by law, the manage
men' and investment of all State school funds
ana such Supervision of schools OF higher grades
as the law shall provide.
SEC. 1. The State School Fund the interest of
which shall be exclusively applied to the support
ana maintenance of public free schools shall he
derived from the following sources:
The proceeds of all lands that have been or
may hereafter ne granted 10 the State by The
United States tor public school purposes dona-
lions To the State hen the purpose is not speci-
neu appropriations by the State the proceeds
oI escheaied property or ioreitures; twenty five
! per centum OF the sales Ofpublic lands which are
now or may hereafter be owned by the State
- SEC D The principal of the State School
Fund shall remain sacred and nvoable.
SEC T. A special tax of one ~ mill on the
dollar ot all taxable property in the State in adj
dition TO the other means provided shall be lev
/ led and apporloned annually for the support
/ ana maint, nance OF public free schools
SEC. !. Provision shall be made by law for
J ihe distribution OF the interest on the State
/ School Fund and the special tax among the sew
| eral counties OF the State in proportion to The
! number OF children residing therein between
the ages OF six and tweniy-one years
| SEC 5. Zach county shall be required TO as
seSs and collect annually for the support of pub
! TIC Tree schools therein Il tax O not less than
three tl mills nor more than five (5I mills on The
dollar OF all taxable property in the same
SEC. 9. The County School Fund shall CON
S>t OF the proportion OF the interest of the Slate
School Fund apportioned to the county, all fines
collected under the penal laws Of the State with
IN the county, all licenses and cApiiatIon taxes
| collected within the county, and shall be dis
hurscd by the County Board Of lucaton solely
for the maintenance and support of public free
schools
SEC. 10 The Legislature shall provide for the
subdivision of counties into convenient School
| Districts, tor The election annually ot one of
! three School Trustees, who shall have super
vision et all the schools in the district, and for
the leyyinL and collection ot 4 district school
tax, Tor the exclusive Of public tree schools
within The district, whenever majority of the
qualified electors who are treeholders thereof
shall cast their ballots in tavor OF such levy
/ PtDrpifd That e"H TAX authorized by this sec
tion shall not exc, II lplr f. mills the dollar
in any one wear on the taxable property OF the
district
SEC IL ANY incorporated town or city may
! constitute school district. The fund raised by
! Section ~ may be expended in the district
| where levied IN bull ng repairing school
/ houses in the purchase rt school libraries and
textbooks for salaries Of teachers, or for other
/ educational purposes, that the distribution
among all the schools OF the district be equit-
able
Sec - White and colored children shall not
! be taught IN the same school, but impir pro-
vision shall be made tor both.
SEC IL No inw Shall be enAcfed anthOrzioG
the diversion or the lending OF any county or
district school funds, or the appropriation OF any
part OF the permanent, or available school fund
| TO anv other than school purposes; nor shall
| the same, or any part thereof, be appropriated
TO or used for the support OF any sectaron
| school
SEC. a. The Legislature shall make such pro-
visions will secure a uniform system oi teXt-
books in the public free schools OF the S'ate,
and shall have power 10 make such laws as shall
not permit parents and guardians To allow their
children or wards to grow up in ignorance and
Vagrancy.
Messrs. Sheats and Ives, of the same COM
mittee, offered the following:
ADDITIONAL SECTIONS.
SEC. IS. The Legislature shall make provis
ion tor the conversion of the State Agricultural
College into a State University, with Agrcul-
tural, Literary, Industrial and Military depart
meats and with exclusive power TO confer the
higher degrees shall provide tor connecting
and Tor increasing the efficiency of the East
Florida Seminary, located at GAINESVILLE, anu
the West Florida Seminary, located at Tallahas-
sec as branches of the State University, without
changing their location; and shall provide tor
College Normal School or branch OF the State
University for the benefit OF the C0lored youths
of the State, the best interests OF their educa-
ton may demand Procded, That in case the
Legislature shall require the levying oil special
tax for higher educaion that such levy shall
not exceed, in any one year, one quarter OF one
mill on the dollar of all the taxable property of
the State, and shall be apportioned equally to
or set apart for the benefit OF each OF the lour
| institutions above enumerated
SEC 16 The State University, the oemlnares
and the other institution contemplated in the
above section, shall each be under the manage
ment and control OF a Board OF Trustees; said
Trustees shall be appointed by The Governor
with the advice and consent OF the Senate, Tor
|
whom shall reside in the same Senatorial DIS
trici and so arranged that the term OF once oil
one half the members of each Board shall eX-
pre bennially. No Trustee shall receive any
pay or emolument other than his actual ex
penses incurred in the discharge OF his duties as
| such The Governor and superintendent OF
Public Instruction shall be ero6fclo members OF
each OF said Boards Of Trustees.
Both reports and accompanying papers placed
among the orders of The day, and 200 copies or
dered printed
Mr. McCaskill, Chairman of the Committee
on Taxation and Finance, made the following
report:
CONVENTION HALL,
TALLAHASSEE FLA, July ., 1885
Hon. SAMUEL PAsCo,
President Of tie C0noentt0n:
SIR: Your Committee on Taxation and FL
nance to whom was referred
Resolution No. 90 Introduced by Mr.. Edge, OF
Walton county, exempting property OF wld0W
women and manned persons to the extent OF one
hundred and fifty dollars from taxation, have
had the same under consideration and would
recommend the following as an additional sec
tion to Article XII:
SEC TO- That there shall be exempt from tax
T alton personal property TO the value of two hun
dred dollars to every widow who has a family
dependent upon her tor support. and to every
= nerson whe has lost q limb in war or by mlsfor
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