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county on a certified copy under seal of the said court of the
said judgment.

13. If the court shall ratify and confirm the sale, said ratifica-
tion shall be deemed and taken as conclusive evidence of the

sufficiency and regularity of the notice required as aforesaid, and
manner of making said sale, and the return and proceedings
shall be recorded as if the judgment had been rendered in said
court.

ARTICLE LXXXIV.
Schools.

SEC. 1. The several schools, academies and colleges shall re-
spectively receive the donations granted to them by laws or reso-
lutions existing at the time of the adoption of this code, and
where in any county the donation payable to any schools, aca-
demies or colleges in such county, has been added to the
common school fund, it shall be payable as directed by the sixth
section of this article.

2. Every school, academy or college that receives a donation
in money from the State, shall afford tuition in all the branches
of learning taught in such school, and books, free of any charge,
to at least one poor child for every hundred dollars that such
school, academy or college receives from the State.

3. The trustees of each school, academy or college receiving a
donation in money from the State, shall select the number of
children to be educated under the preceding section from among
the poor children of the county to which such school, academy
or college belongs, having due regard to the pecuniary situation
of the persons so selected.

4. The trustees of the several schools, academies and colleges
which receive donations from the State, shall report to the Comp-
troller, on or before the twentieth day of January in each year,
an accurate account of their proceedings, together with the con-
dition of their several institutions, and setting forth therein the
number of poor children educated therein; and every school,
academy or college which shall, after having been required so