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CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS. 47
same may be collected; and provided, that all the sums arising from said tax which
may be collected from Africans, or persons of African descent, shall be exclusively
appropriated for the maintenance of a system of public schools for Africans and
their children; and it shall be the duty of the Legislature to encourage schools
among these people.
SEC. 8. The moneys and lands heretofore granted to, or which may hereafter be
granted for the endowment and support of one or more universities, shall constitute
a special fund for the maintenance of said universities, and until the universities are
located and commenced, the principal, and the interest arising from the investment
of the principal, shall be invested in like manner, and under the same restrictions
as provided for the investment and control of the perpetual public school fund, in
Sections four and five (4 and 5) in this Article of the Constitution, and the Legisla-
ture shall have no power to appropriate the university fund for any other purpose
than that of the maintenance of said universities, and the Legislature shall, at an
early day, make such provisions by law as will organize and put into operation the
university.
SEC. 9. The four hundred thousand acres of land that have been surveyed and
set apart, under the provisions of a law approved 30th August, A.D. 1856, for the
benefit of a Lunatic Asylum, a Deaf and Dumb Asylum, a Blind Asylum, and an
Orphan Asylum, shall constitute a fund for the support of such institutions, one
fourth part for each; and the said fund shall never be diverted to any other purpose.
The said lands may be sold, and the fund invested under the same rules and regula-
tions as provided for the lands belonging to the school fund. The income of said
fund only shall be applied to the support of such institutions; and until so applied,
shall be invested in the same manner as the principal.
SEC. 10. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of two thirds of the
Senate, shall appoint an officer to be styled'the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
His term of office shall be four years, and his annual salary shall not be less than
($2000) two thousand dollars, payable at stated times; and the Governor, Comp-
troller, and Superintendent of Public Education shall constitute a Board to be styled
a Board of Education, and shall have the general management and control of the
perpetual school fund, and common schools, under such regulations as the Legisla-
ture may hereafter prescribe.
SEc. 11. The several counties in this State which have not received their quantum
of the lands for the purpose of education, shall be entitled to the same quantity here-
tofore appropriated by the Congress of the Republic of Texas and the State to
other counties. And the counties which have not had the lands to which they are
entitled for educational purposes located, shall have the right to contract for the
location, surveying and procuring the patents for said lands, and of paying for the
same with any portion of said lands so patented, not to exceed one fourth of the
whole amount to be so located, surveyed, and patented-to be divided according to
quality, allowing to each party a fair proportion of land, water, and timber.
ARTICLE XI.
SEC. 1. All certificates for head-right claims to land issued to fictitious persons,
or which\were forged, and all locations and surveys thereon, are, and the same were
null and void from the beginning.
ARTICLE XII.-LAwD OFFICE.
SEC. 1. There shall be one General Land Office in the State, which shall be at
the Seat of Government, where all titles which have heretofore emanated, or may
hereafter emanate from Government, shall be registered; and the Legislature may
establish from time to time such subordinate offices as they may deem requisite.
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/49/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.