twenty-one years. And the children of the white race and the children of
the colored race shall be taught in separate public schools; but there
shall be no discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either
race.

[Sidenote: Counties to be divided into districts.]

SEC. 3. Each county of the State shall be divided into a convenient
number of districts, in which one or more public schools shall be
maintained at least four months in every year; and if the commissioners
of any county shall fail to comply with the aforesaid requirements of
this section they shall be liable to indictment.

[Sidenote: What property shall be devoted to educational purposes.]

SEC. 4. The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be
granted by the United States to this State and not otherwise
appropriated by this State or the United States, also all moneys,
stocks, bonds and other property now belonging to any State fund for
purposes of education, also the net proceeds of all sales of the swamp
lands belonging to the State, and all other grants, gifts or devises
that have been or hereafter may be made to the State and not otherwise
appropriated by the State or by the terms of the grant, gift or devise,
shall be paid into the State treasury, and, together with so much of the
ordinary revenue of the State as may be by law set apart for that
purpose, shall be faithfully appropriated for establishing and
maintaining in this State a system of free public schools, and for no
other uses or purposes whatsoever.

[Sidenote: County school fund.]

[Sidenote: Proviso.]

SEC. 5. All moneys, stocks, bonds and other property belonging to a
county school fund, also the net proceeds from the sale of estrays, also
the clear proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures and of all fines
collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal or
military laws of the State, and all moneys which shall be paid by
persons as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, shall belong
to and remain in the several counties, and shall be faithfully
appropriated for establishing and maintaining free public schools in the
several counties of this State: _Provided_, that the amount collected in
each county shall be annually reported to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.

[Sidenote: Election of trustees and provisions for maintenance of the
university.]

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall have power to provide for the
election of trus