TITLE XVII.

Education.

CONSTITUTION — ARTICLE VIII.
ARTICLE 27. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
ARTICLE 28. EDUCATION OF DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND.

CONSTITUTION— ARTICLE VIII.

1 System of free schools, taxation
2 When system to expire
3 School fund inviolate

1865, c 1, 160,
1867, c 123
System of free
schools
26 Md 505

1865, res 11
Taxation

SECTION 1. The General Assembly, at it first session after the adoption of this
Constitution, shall by law establish throughout the State a thorough and effi-
cient system of free public schools, and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise,
for their maintenance

When system to
expire.

SEC 2 The system of public schools, as now constituted, shall remain in
force until the end of the said first session of the General Assembly, and shall
then expire; except so far us adopted, or continued, by the General Assembly.

School fund
inviolate

SEC 3 The school fund of the State shall be kept inviolate, and appropri-
ated only to the purposes of education.