The age-herald., 1901-09-08

l the bonded indebtedness or the State ana | interest thereon out of all the revenues | of the State.
 261 Not more than four per cent of | all moneys raised, or which may here
 after be appropriated for the support of l public schools, shall be used or expended
 otherwise than for the payment of teach 1 CTS employed in such schools; provided,
 that the Legislature may. by a vote or two-thirds of each House, suspend the
 operation of this section.
 262. The supervision of the public
 schools shall be vested in a Superintend-
 ent of Education, whose powers, duties | and compensation shall be fixed by law
 26S. No money raised for the support of the public schools, shall be appropri-
 ated to or used for the support Of any
 sectarian or denominational school. 264 The State University shall be under
 the management and control of a board | of trustees which shall consist or two
 members from the congressional districts
 in which the University is located, one | from each of the other congressional dis
 tricts in the State, the Superintendent of | Education and the Governor, who shall | be ex officio president of the board. The members of the board of trustees as now l constituted shall hold office until their
 successors shall be elected and confirmed
 as hereinafter required Successors to | those trustees whose terms expire in l902
 shall hold office until 1907; successors to |
 shall hold office until 1911: successors to
 those trustees whose terms expire in 1905 | shall hold office until 1915, and thereafter | their successors shall hold office for a | term of twelve years. When the term or | any member of such board shall expire, | the remaining members of the board shall | by secret ballot elect his successor; pro vided that any trustee so elected snail 1 hold office from the date of his election
 until his confirmation or rejection by the | xrNf- l ration of the term for which he was cleo l ted, and until his successor is elected. At | every meeting of the Legislature, the Su- l perintendent of Education shall certify to | the Senate the names of all who shall | have been SD elected since the last ses- l sion of the Legislature, and the Senate
 shall confirm or reject them. as it shall l determine Is for the best interest Of the University. If 1t reject the names Of any | members, 1t shall thereupon elect trustees
 in the stead of those rejected In case or | a vacancy on said board by death or res 1 ignation of member or from any cause 1 other than the expiration of his term of | office the board shall elect his successor, 1 who hall hold office until the next session l of the Legislature. No trustee shall re- 1 ceive any pay or emolument other than 1 his actual expenses incurred in the dis | charge of his duties as such. | l 265. After the ratification or this con- l stitution there shall be paid out of the | treasury of this State at the time and in | the manner provided by law, the sum of | not less than thirty-six thousand dollars | per annum as interest on the funds of the | University of Alabama, heretofore cover | ed into the treasury, for the maintenance | and support of said institution; provided, | that the Legislature shall have the power | at any time they deem proper for the best | interest of said University to abolish the | military system at said institution, or re- | duce the said system to a department of | instruction, and that such action on the 1 part of the Legislature shall not cause | any diminution of the amount of the an- | nual interest payable out of the treasury | for the suppart and maintenance of said l University. .| | 266. The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, | formerly called the Agricultural and Me | chanical College, shall be under the man. | agement and control of board of trus- | tees which shall consist of two members l from the congressional district in which | the institute Is located, and one each of | the other congressional districts in the | State; said trustees shall be appointed by | the Governor, by and with the advice of l consent of the Senate, and they shall hold | office for term of twelve years, and until their successors shall be appointed | and qualified. The board shall be divided | into three classes, as nearly equal as may | be so that one-third may be chosen quad rennially. Vacancies occurring in the of- 1 flee of trustees from death or resignation | and the vacancies regularly occurring in
 1905, shall be filled by the Governor, and | such appointee shall hold office until she | next meeting of the Legislature Success 1 sors to those trustees whose terms ex- | pire in 1903 shall hold office until 1911; | successors to those whose terms expire | in nineteen hundred and five shall hold of- | fee until nineteen hundred and fifteen; ad successors to those whose terms of of | fee expire in nineteen hundred and seven, | shall hold office until nineteen hundred and nineteen No trustee shall receive 1 any pay or emolument other than his ac-i
 tual expenses incurred in the discharge | of his duties as such.
 1 267. The Legislature shall not have pow l CT to change the location of the State | University, or the Alabama Polytechnic | Institute, or the Alabama School for the | Deaf and Blind, or the Alabama Girls In- l dustrial school, as now established by | law, except upon two-thirds vote of the | Legislature, taken by yeas and nays and 1 entered upon the journals !. 1 268. The Legislature shall provide for | taking school census by townships and | districts throughout the State not oftener | than once in two years and shall provide | for the punishment of all persons or of- ffccrs making false or fraudulent enumer- | ations and returns; provided, the State Superintendent of Education may order | and supervise the taking of a new census
 in any township district county when
 ever he may have reasonable cause to be-
 aieve false or fraudulent returns have | been made.
 l 269. The several counties in this State | shall have power to levy and collect 1 special tax not exceeding ten cents on | each one hundred dollars of taxable prop | erty in such counties for the support of | public schools; provided, that the rate of l such tax, the time it Is to continue, ana | the purpose thereof, shall have been first | submitted to vote of the qualified cleo l tors of the county, and voted for by l three-fifths of those voting at such elec- | tion. but the rate of such special tax | shall not increase the rate of taxation, | State and county combined, in any one | year, to more than one dollar and twen- | ty-fve cents on each one hundred dol | lars of taxable property; excluding, how | ever all special county taxes for public | buildings roads, bridges and the pay | ment of debts existing at the ratification | of the Constitution of eighteen hundred | and seventy-five. The funds arising from | such special school tax shall be so ap- l portioned and paid through the proper school officials to the several schools In the townships and districts In the county | that the school terms of the respective | schools shall be extended by such supple | ment as nearly the same length of time | as practcable; provided. that this sec | tion shall not apply to the cities of De- | catur, New Decatur and Cullman.
 270 The provisions of this article ana | of any act of the Legislature passed In