The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-21

several counties in proportion to the I number of school children of school agt ] therein, and shall be so spportioned t I the schools in the districts or town ships in the county ae to provide, as nearly as practicable. school terms of | equal duration in such school districts | or townships Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored chill dren, and no child of either race shall | be permitted to attend a school of the l other race.
 Sec 3. The principal of all funds arising from the sale or other disposl- I tions of lands or other property, whlch | has been or may hereafter be granted | or entrusted o this State or given by | the United States for educational pur- | poses shall be preserved inviolate and undiminished; and the income arising therefrom shall be faithfully applied to I the specific object of the original grants
 or. appropriations.
 | Sec. 8. All lands or other property
 given by individuals ,or appropriated | by the State for educational purposes and all estates of deceased persons, 1 who die without leaving a will or heir
 shall be faithfully applied to the main-
 tenance of the public schools.
 | Sec f. All poll taxes levied and col l lected in this State shall be applied l to the support of the public schools in 1 the respective counties where levied and collected.
 Sec. 5. The income arising from the ! sixteenth section trust fund, the sur plus revenue fund. until it is called for by the United States Government, and | the funds enumerated in Section ahd of this article. together with the special annual tax of 30 cents on each l $100 of taxable property in rnfs State shall be applied to the support and
 maintenance of the public schools and
 it shall be the duty of the General As semhay to increase, from time to time, the public school fund as the necessity l therefor and the condition of the treasury and the resources of the State may justify Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the General Assembly to levy in any one year greater rate of taxation than 65 cents on each $00
 worth of taxable property; and pro vided further, that nothing herein con- tained shall prevent the legislature from first providing for the payment of the States honded indebtedness and interest thereon out of all the revenues of the State.
 Sec. $. Not more than 1 Der cent of
 
 after be appropriated for the support of public schools shall be used or ex- pended otherwise than for the payment of teachers employed in such schools; provided. that the General Assembly | may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house suspend the operation of this sec | ton.
 Sec. '. The supervision of the
 public schools of tAk State. shall be
 vested in Superinke endent of Educa- | ton. whose powers. duties, and com | pensation shall be fixed by law. | Sec. 8. No money raised for the sup | port of the public schools of the State, shall be appropriated to or used for ;ne | support of any sectarian or denomina- | tional schools.
 Sec. g. The Agricultural and Mechanical College now calledth Ala
 bama Polytechnic Institute shall be
 under the management and control of | a Board of Trustees. The Board for l the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
 lege shall consist of two members from
 the Congressional District in which the
 college is located and one from each
 of the other Congressional Districts in the State, said trustees shall be ap-
 pointed by the Governor by and with l the advice and consent of the Senate | and shall hold office for a term of six
 years and until their successors shall | be appointed and qualified. After the first appointment, the Board shall be divided into three classes, as nearly
 equal as may be. The seats of the first
 class shall be vacated at the expira tiOn of two years, and those of the second | class in four years, and those of the | third class at the end of six years from
 the date of appointment. so that one
 third may be chosen biennially. No
 trustee shall receive any pay or tmol-
 ument other than his actual eXpe n6es
 incurred in the discharge of his duties
 as such, The Governor shall be ex-
 officio president, and the Superina2nt
 of Education ex-officio a member of said Board of Trustees. The State University shall be under the manage
 ment and control. of a Board of Trus-
 tees which shall consist of two mem
 bers from the Congressional District in which the University is located and one from each of the other Congccs-
 sional Districts in the State, and the ] Superintendent of Education and the Governor. who shall be ex-officio PfesI-
 dent of the Board.
 The members of the Board of Trus-
 tees now existing shall hold office until
 their respective terms expire under eX- iSting law, and until thelr successors shall be elected and confirmed, as here I matter required. When the term o1
 any member of such Board shall eX
 pire. the remaining members of th+ l Board shall, by secret ballot, elect his
 successor At every meeting of tht
 Legislature the Superintendent of Edu-
 cation shall certify to the Senate tn:
 names of all who shall have been St l elected since the last session of the legislature fand the Senate shall con | firm or reject them. as 1t shall deter
 mine is for the best interest of thf University. If it reject the names oi
 any members, it shall thereupon elee' Trustees In the stead of those rejected The Trustees who shall hereafter be | elected and contirHsd shall hold office for a term of six years from the date | of their confirmation or election by the I Senate, and until their succeSsors Shal be elected and confirmed. No Trustees
 shall receive any pay or emolumen l other than his actual expenses tncuFret l in the discharge of his duties as such
 No Trustee shall hold office for mor'
 than F successive years.
 Sec. 10. The General Assembly shal
 have no power to change the location
 of the State University or the Agricul
 tural and Mechanical College, or th'
 Institutions for Deaf and Blind or the Alabama Girls Industrial School a. now established by law. except upon 8 | vote of two thirds of the General As
 sembly. taken by yeas and nays, anc entered upon the Journals.
 Tho Assembly, Shal