Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Act to Establish a System of Common Schools, in the State of California: And Other Acts Providing for the Revenue of the Same, With Explanatory Forms
Sec. 1. The Legislature shall provide for the election, by the people, of a Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall hold his office for three years, and whose duties shall be prescribed by law, and who shall receive such compensation as the Legislature may direct.
Sec. 2. The Legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural provement. The proceeds of all lands that may be granted by the United States to this State for the support of Schools, which may be sold or disposed of, and the acres of land granted to the new States under an Act of Congress distributing the proceeds of the Public Lands among the several States of the Union, approved A. D. 1841 and all estates of deceased per sons, who may have died without leaving a will, or heir, and also such per cent. As may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands in this State, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all the rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the Legislature may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the use Of Common Schools throughout the State.
Sec. 3. The Legislature shall provide for a system of Common Schools, by which a School shall be kept up and supported in each district, at least three months in every year and any school district neglecting to keep up and support such a School, may be deprived of its proportion of the interest of the public fund during such neg lect.
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