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The vote by which the first section was ordered to a second
reading, was reconsidered.
Mr. Devries submitted the following as a substitute for the
whole Report:
SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall at its first session
after the adoption of this Constitution, proceed to establish
a thorough and efficient system of the Public Schools through-
out the State.
Sec. 2. The present School system shall remain in force
until superseded by the system provided for in the first sec-
tion of this article.
Sec. 3. The General Assembly shall cause to be levied at
each regular Session an annual tax of not less than 10 cents
on the $100 00 of taxable property throughout the State,
which tax shall be collected at the same time, and by the
same agents as the general levy, such levy to be divided
among the several counties and Baltimore city, in proportion
to their respective population between the ages of 7 and 20
years.
Sec. 4. The School fund of the State shall be kept inviolate
and appropriated only to the purpose of education.
Pending the consideration of which,
Mr. Barnes submitted the following as a substitute for the
whole report:
SECTION 1. The system of Public Education now existing
shall continue until the first day of March, 1868, and as soon
as this Constitution shall be ratified, shall be under the man-
agement and control of the present profession of the State
Normal School, who shall receive the same compensation now
provided by law for the Superintendent of Public Education
in the State. And the votes in the several Election Districts
of each county, shall at the first general election, after the
ratification of this Constitution, and at each succeeding gene-
ral election for members of the House of Delegates thereafter,
elect one School Commissioner for each Election District in
each county, the returns thereof to be made in the same man-
ner now required by law for other county officers, and the
persons elected as Commissioners, shall constitute a Board of
Public Education for the respective counties where they are
chosen, and the Board so constituted shall have power to
provide such system of Public Education for their respective
counties as they may deem best, and they shall have full
power to put the same into effective operation in their respec-
tive counties, and the County Commissioners of each county
shall from time to time levy upon the assessable property of
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