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I think that is very simply what was behind

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that. We worked in 1960 to get this included and, as I

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say, my guess is it was there because of the Constitution

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of either 1851 or 1864.

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I would like to direct my remarks just a littl

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bit to Section 3 of Article 8. I have a quotation here,

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and I will not read it, but in Kentucky they had this

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same experience. The surplus funds which was given to

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the various states in 1837, Maryland got some of this,

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as did Kentucky, and they immediately began to divert

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that money to other purposes; and there seems to be this

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tendency in a number of states. Dr. Pullen has-com-

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pletely covered this and I think I need not belabor it,

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but most of the people know something about this from

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the history of education and their own experience. I

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gave to Dr. Pullen — he took it out with him- — House

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Bill No. 94, which is not the school fund itself, but,

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as you know, there is a bill in the legislature at the

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moment that, if passed, would give the State Roads Com-

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mission authority to enter into agreements with the

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retirement systems to buy land.