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carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and for-
ever free, as well to the inhabitants of the state as to the citizens of
the
United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
  Territorial property. Section 2. The title to all lands and other proper-
ty which have accrued to the territory of Wisconsin by grant, gift, pur-
chase, forfeiture, escheat or otherwise shall vest in the state of Wiscon-
sin.
  Ultimate property in lands; escheats. Section 3. The people of the
state, in their right of sovereignty, are declared to possess the ultimate
property, in and to all lands within the jurisdiction of the state; and all
lands the title to which shall fail from a defect of heirs shall revert or
escheat to the people.

                              ARTICLE X.

                                EDUCATION.
  Superintendent of public instruction. Section 1. The supervision of
public instruction shall be vested in a state superintendent and such
other officers as the legislature shall direct; and their qualifications,
powers, duties and compensation shall be prescribed by law. The state
superintendent shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the state at
the same time and in the same manner as members of the supreme court,
and shall hold his office for four years from the succeeding first Monday
in July. The state superintendent chosen at the general election in Nov-
ember, 1902, shall hold and continue in his office until the first Monday
in July, 1905, and his successor shall be chosen at the time of the judi-
cial election in April, 1905. The term of office, time and manner of elect-
ing or appointing all other officers of supervision of public instruction
shall be fixed by law.
  School fund created; income applied. Section 2. The proceeds of all
lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States
to this state for educational purposes (except the lands heretofore
granted for the purpose of a university) and all moneys and the clear
proceeds of all property that may accrue to the state by forfeiture or
escheat, and all moneys which may be paid as an equivalent for exemp-
tion from military duty; and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in
the several counties for any breach of the penal laws, and all moneys
arising from any grant to the state where the purposes of such grant are
not specified, and the five hundred thousand acres of land to which the
state is entitled by the provisions of an act of congress, entitled "An
act
to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and to grant
pre-emption rights," approved the fourth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one; and also the five per centum of the net pro-
ceeds of the public lands to which the state shall become entitled on her
admission into the union (if congress shall consent to such appropriation
of the two grants last mentioned) shall be set apart as a separate fund
to be called "the school fund," the interest of which and all other
reve-
nues derived from the school lands shall be exclusively applied to the
following objects, to wit:
  1. To the support and maintenance of common schools, in each school
district, and the purchase of suitable libraries and apparatus therefor.
  2. The residue shall be appropriated to the support and maintenance of
academies and normal schools, and suitable libraries and apparatus
therefor.
  District schools; tuition; sectarian instruction. Section 3. The legisla-
ture shall provide by law for the establishment of district schools, which
shall be as nearly uniform as practicable; and such schools shall be free
and without charge for tuition to all children between the ages of four
and twenty years; and no sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein.