and maintain in connection with the
University a department of agriculture, of mechanics, of mining, and of
normal instruction.

[Sidenote: Children must attend school.]

SEC. 15. The General Assembly is hereby empowered to enact that every
child of sufficient mental and physical ability shall attend the public
schools during the period between the ages of six and eighteen years for
a term of not less than sixteen months, unless educated by other means.

ARTICLE X.

HOMESTEADS AND EXEMPTIONS.

[Sidenote: Exemption.]

SECTION 1. The personal property of any resident of this State to the
value of five hundred dollars, to be selected by such resident, shall be
and is hereby exempted from sale under execution or other final process
of any court issued for the collection of any debt.

[Sidenote: Homestead.]

SEC. 2. Every homestead, and the dwellings and buildings used therewith,
not exceeding in value one thousand dollars, to be selected by the owner
thereof, or in lieu thereof, at the option of the owner, any lot in a
city or village, with the dwellings and buildings used thereon, owned
and occupied by any resident of this State, and not exceeding the value
of one thousand dollars, shall be exempt from sale under execution or
other final process obtained on any debt. But no property shall be
exempt from sale for taxes or for payment of obligations contracted for
the purchase of said premises.

[Sidenote: Homestead exempted from debt.]

SEC. 3. The homestead, after the death of the owner thereof, shall be
exempt from the payment of any debt during the minority of his children
or any one of them.

[Sidenote: Laborer's lien.]

SEC. 4. The provisions of sections one and two of this article shall not
be so construed as to prevent a laborer's lien for work done and
performed for the person claiming such exemption, or a mechanic's lien
for work done on the premises.

[Sidenote: Benefit of widow.]

SEC. 5. If the owner of a homestead die, leaving a widow but no
children, the same shall be exempt from the debts of her husband, and
the rents and profits thereof shall inure to her benefit during her
widowhood, unless she be the owner of a homestead in her own right.

[Sidenote: Property of a married female secured to her.]

SEC. 6. The real and personal property of any female in this State
acquired before marriage, and all property, real and personal, to which
she may, after marriage, become in any manner entit