ARTICLE TENTH.

EDUCATION.
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EDUCATION


Sec. l. general diffusion OF knowledge BE-
ing essential to the preservation Of the rights and
liberties OF the people, shall be the duty of the
Legislature Of this State, to make suit able pro-
vision for the support and maintenance of public
schools.


Sec .. The Legislature shall, early as
practicable, establish free schools throughout the
State, and shall furnish means for their support,
by taxation property; and il shall be the duty
of the Legislature to set apart not less than one
tenth of the annual of the STATE derivabie
from taxation, perpetual fund, which fund
shall be appropriated to the support OF free public
schools; and no law shall ever be made diverting
said fund to any other use; and until such time
the Legislature shall provide for the establishment
of such schools in the several districts of the state,
the fund thus created shall remain d charge
against the state, passed to the credit Of the free
common school fund.


Sec 3. All public lands which have been
heretofore, or which may hereafter be granted for
public schools, to the various counties, or other
political divisions this state, shall not be aenated
in fee nor disposed of otherwise than by lease, for
term not exceeding twenty years, in such man
ner as the legislature may direct.


Sec. 4. The several counties in this state,
which baSe not received their quantum Of lands,
for the purposes of education, shall be entitled to
the same quantity heretofore appropriated by the
Congress Of the Republic Of Texas. to other
counties