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lature shall direct; and their qualifications, powers, duties and compen-
sation 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 su-
perintendent chosen at the general election in November, 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 judicial election in April,
1905. The term of office, time and manner of electing 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 purpose (except the lands heretofore
granted for the purposes 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 proceeds 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 revenues derived from the school lands shall be exclu-
sively 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 leg-
islature 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.
  Annual school tax. SECTION 4. Each town and city shall be required
to raise by tax, annually, for the support of common schools therein, a
sum not less than one-half the amount received by such town or city
respectively for school purposes from the income of the school fund.
  Income of school fund. SECTION 5. Provision shall 'be made by law
for the distribution of the income of the school fund among the several
towns and cities of the state for the support of common schools therein,
in some just proportion to the number of children and youth resident
therein between the ages of four and twenty years, and no asppropria-
tion shall be made from the school fund to any city -or town for the
year in which said city or town shall fail to raise such tax; nor to any
school district for the year in which a school shall not be maintained
at least three months.
  State university; support. SECTION 6. Provision shall be made by
law for the establishment of a state university at or near the seat of
state government, and for connecting with the same, from time to time,
such colleges in different parts of the state as the- interests of, education
may require..The proceeds of all lands that have been or may. hereafter
be granted by the United States to the state for the stipport of.a. unir