the qualified electors of the State, in such manner and at such times as other State officers are elected; his powers, duties and compensation shall efined by the General Assembly.

SEC. 2. There shall be a State Board of Education, composed of the Govr. the State Superintendent of Education, and not exceeding seven person's e appointed by the Governor every four years, of which Board the Govr shall be Chairman, and the State Superintendent of Education, Secretary. § Board shall have the regulation of examination of teachers applying for ificates of qualification, and shall award all scholarships, and have such r powers and duties as may be determined by law. The traveling exses of the persons to be appointed shall be provided for by the General mbly.

SEC. 3. The General Assembly shall make provision for the election or intment of all other necessary school officers, and shall define their qualiions, powers, duties, compensation and terms of office.

SEC. 4. The salaries of the State and County school officers and compeon of County Treasurers for collecting and disbursing school moneys shall be paid out of the school funds, but shall be otherwise provided for by General Assembly.

SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall provide for a liberal system of free ic schools for all children between the ages of six and twenty-one years. for the division of the Counties into suitable school districts, as compact orm as practicable, having regard to natural boundaries, and not to exceed y-nine nor be less than nine square miles in area: Provided, That in cities en thousand inhabitants and over, this limitation of area shall not apply: vided, further, That when any school district laid out under this Section 1 embrace cities or towns already organized into special school districts which graded school buildings have been erected by the issue of bonds. y special taxation, or by donation, all the territory included in said school rict shall bear its just proportion of any tax that may be levied to liquidate a bonds or support the public schools therein: Provided, further, That ing in this Article contained shall be construed as a repeal of the laws er which the several graded school districts of this State are organized. present division of the Counties into school districts and the provisions now governing the same shall remain until changed by the General

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SEC. 6. The existing County Boards of Commissioners of the several nties, or such officer or officers as may hereafter be vested with the same similar powers and duties, shall levy an annual tax of three mills on the ar upon all taxable property in their respective Counties, which tax shall ollected at the same time and by the same officers as the other taxes for same year, and shall be held in the County treasury of the respective nties; and the said fund shall be apportioned among the school districts the County in proportion to the number of pupils enrolled in the public ols of the respective districts, and the officer or officers charged by law o making said apportionment shall notify the Trustees of the respective ool districts thereof. who shall expend and disburse the same as the GenAssembly may prescribe. The General Assembly shall define "enrollt." Not less than three Trustees for each school district shall be selected n the qualified voters and taxpayers therein, in such manner and for such us as the General Assembly may determine, except in cases of special ool districts now existing, where the provisions of law now governing the e shall remain until changed by the General Assembly: Provided, The ner of the selection of said Trustees need not be uniform throughout the te. There shall be assessed on all taxable polls in the State between the s of twenty-one and sixty years (excepting Confederate soldiers above the of fifty years.) an annual tax of one dollar on each poll, the proceeds which tax shall be expended for school purposes in the several school ricts in which it is collected. Whenever during the three next ensuing l years the tax levied by the said County Boards of Commissioners or ilar officers and the poll tax shall not yield an amount equal to three

mediately abutting said property: Provided. That said improvements shall be ordered only upon the written consent of one-half of the owners of the property abutting upon the street, sidewalk, or parts of either, proposed to be inproved, and upon condition that said assessment abutting property owners shall not exceed one-half of the cost of such improvements, except in the city of Sumter, where the corporate authorities shall pay at least one-third of the cost of such improvements, and the abutting property owners not exceed ing two-thirds of the cost thereof.14

SEC. 16. The General Assembly may authorize the cities of AndersL Greenwood and towns of Bennettsville, Timmonsville and Honea Path to levy an assessment upon abutting property for the purpose of paying for perma nent improvements on streets and sidewalks immediately abutting such pro erty: Provided, That said improvements be ordered only upon written consei of a majority of the owners of property abutting upon the street, sidewal or part of either proposed to be improved, and upon condition that si corporate authorities shall pay at least one-half of the costs of such improve ments.15

SEC. 16. The General Assembly may authorize the corporate authoritiof the cities of Florence and Orangeburg and the town of Landrum to l an assessment upon abutting property for the purpose of paying for per manent improvements on streets immediatey abutting such property : P. vided, That the said improvements be ordered only on the written consent d a majority of the owners of the property abutting upon the street, sidewal or part of either, proposed to be improved, and upon the condition that si corporate authorities shall pay at least one-third of the costs of said improv ments. 16

SEC. 17. The General Assembly may authorize the corporate authoriti of the town of Fort Mill to levy an assessment upon abutting property & the purpose of paying for permanent improvements on streets and sidewal or streets or sidewalks, immediately abutting such property: Provided, TL said improvements be ordered only upon the written consent of two-thirds the owners of property abutting upon the streets or sidewalks, and upon condition that the corporate authorities shall pay at least one-half of " cost of such improvements.17

SEC. 18. The General Assembly may authorize the town of Clinton d the city of Easley to levy an assessment upon abutting property to pay permanent improvements on streets and sidewalks immediately abutting property: Provided. That said improvements be ordered only upon the writt consent of a majority of the owners of property abutting upon the street sidewalk, or part of either to be improved, and upon the further condit that the corporate authorities shall pay at least one-half of the costs of improvements, 18

ARTICLE XI.

EDUCATION.

SECTION 1. The supervision of public instruction shall be vested in a St Superintendent of Education, who shall be elected for the term of two ye

14 Section 16 is a new section; it was proposed by the general assembly of 15 adopted by the electors on November 3, 1914, and ratified by the general asser of 1915. It will be observed that there are two other sections numbered 16; C numbering occurs in the resolutions by which these amendments were proposed 27 have been given accordingly.

15 Section 16 is a new section; it was proposed by the general assembly of 10 adopted by the electors on November 3, 1914, and ratified by the general ass of 1915. See Note 14 concerning the numbering of this section.

16 Section 16 is a new section; it was proposed by the general assembly of 15 adopted by the electors on November 3, 1914, and ratified by the general asse of 1915. See Note 14 concerning the numbering of this section.

17 Section 17 is a new section; it was proposed by the general assembly of 150 adopted by the electors on November 3, 1914, and ratified by the general as of 1915.

18 Section 18 is a new section; it was proposed by the general assembly of 1 adopted by the electors on November 7, 1916, and ratified by the general ass

of 1917.

the qualified electors of the State, in such manner and at such times as other State officers are elected; his powers, duties and compensation shall efined by the General Assembly.

SEC. 2. There shall be a State Board of Education, composed of the Govr. the State Superintendent of Education, and not exceeding seven persons e appointed by the Governor every four years, of which Board the Govor shall be Chairman, and the State Superintendent of Education, Secretary. Board shall have the regulation of examination of teachers applying for ificates of qualification, and shall award all scholarships, and have such -r powers and duties as may be determined by law. The traveling exses of the persons to be appointed shall be provided for by the General embly.

SEC. 3. The General Assembly shall make provision for the election or intment of all other necessary school officers, and shall define their qualirions, powers, duties, compensation and terms of office.

SEC. 4. The salaries of the State and County school officers and compenon of County Treasurers for collecting and disbursing school moneys shall be paid out of the school funds, but shall be otherwise provided for by General Assembly.

SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall provide for a liberal system of free lie schools for all children between the ages of six and twenty-one years. for the division of the Counties into suitable school districts, as compact. form as practicable, having regard to natural boundaries, and not to exceed y-nine nor be less than nine square miles in area: Provided, That in cities ten thousand inhabitants and over, this limitation of area shall not apply: vided, further, That when any school district laid out under this Section I embrace cities or towns already organized into special school districts which graded school buildings have been erected by the issue of bonds. by special taxation, or by donation, all the territory included in said school rict shall bear its just proportion of any tax that may be levied to liquidate l bonds or support the public schools therein: Provided, further. That hing in this Article contained shall be construed as a repeal of the laws er which the several graded school districts of this State are organized. : present division of the Counties into school districts and the provisions law now governing the same shall remain until changed by the General embly.

SEC. 6. The existing County Boards of Commissioners of the several nties, or such officer or officers as may hereafter be vested with the same similar powers and duties, shall levy an annual tax of three mills on the ar upon all taxable property in their respective Counties, which tax shall ollected at the same time and by the same officers as the other taxes for same year, and shall be held in the County treasury of the respective nties; and the said fund shall be apportioned among the school districts he County in proportion to the number of pupils enrolled in the public ols of the respective districts, and the officer or officers charged by law making said apportionment shall notify the Trustees of the respective ol districts thereof, who shall expend and disburse the same as the GenAssembly may prescribe. The General Assembly shall define "enrollNot less than three Trustees for each school district shall be selected the qualified voters and taxpayers therein, in such manner and for such as as the General Assembly may determine, except in cases of special ol districts now existing, where the provisions of law now governing the e shall remain until changed by the General Assembly: Provided. The mer of the selection of said Trustees need not be uniform throughout the There shall be assessed on all taxable polls in the State between the of twenty-one and sixty years (excepting Confederate soldiers above the of fifty years.) an annual tax of one dollar on each poll, the proceeds which tax shall be expended for school purposes in the several school ricts in which it is collected. Whenever during the three next ensuing 1 years the tax levied by the said County Boards of Commissioners or lar officers and the poll tax shall not yield an amount equal to three

dollars per capita of the number of children enrolled in the public schools of each County for the scholastic year ending the thirty-first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as it appears in the report of the State Superintendent of Education for said scholastic year, the ComptrollerGeneral shall, for the aforesaid three next ensuing fiscal years, on the art. day of each of said years, levy such an annual tax on the taxable property of the State as he may determine to be necessary to make up such deficien to be collected as other State taxes, and apportion the same among the Com of the State in proportion to the respective deficiencies therein. The sum apportioned shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the County Treasurers the respective Counties, in proportion to the respective deficiencies therein, a the warrant of the Comptroller-General, and shall be apportioned among the school districts of the Counties, and disbursed as other school funds; and fra and after the thirty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred ninety-eight, the General, Assembly shall cause to be levied annually on d the taxable property of the State such a tax, in addition to the said tä levied by the said County Boards of Commissioners or similar officers, al poll tax above provided, as may be necessary to keep the schools open thread out the State for such length of time in each scholastic year as the Gene Assembly may prescribe; and said tax shall be apportioned among the Court in proportion to the deficiencies therein and disbursed as other school fun Any school district may by the authority of the General Assembly levy additional tax for the support of its schools.

SEC. 7. Separate schools shall be provided for children of the white colored races, and no child of either race shall ever be permitted to atte school provided for children of the other race.

SEC. 8. The General Assembly may provide for the maintenance of C son Agricultural College, South Caarolina School for Deaf and Blind located Cedar Springs, the University of South Carolina, and the Winthrop Norad and Industrial College, a branch thereof, as now established by law, and create scholarships therein, the proceeds realized from the landscript g by the Act of Congress, passed the second day of July, in the year eig hundred and sixty-two, for the support of an agricultural college, and lands or funds which have heretofore been, or may hereafter be, gives appropriated for educational purposes by the Congress of the United St shall be applied as directed in the Acts appropriating the same: Provided. I the General Assembly shall, as soon as practicable, wholly separate C College from Claflin University, and provide for a separate corps of profe and instructors therein, representation to be given to men and women of negro race, and it shall be the Colored Normal. Industrial, Agricultural Mechanical College of this State.19

SEC. 9. The property or credit of the State of South Carolina, or of County, city, town, township, school district, or other subdivision of the State, or any public money, from whatever source derived, shall not, by donation, loan, contract, appropriation, or otherwise, be used, directly a directly in aid or maintenance of any college, school, hospital, orphan '» or other institution, society or organization, of whatever kind, which is wŽH or in part under the direction or control of any church or of any religios sectarian denomination, society or organization.

SEC. 10. All gifts of every kind for educational purposes, if accepte the General Assembly, shall be applied and used for the purposes desiz by the giver, unless the same be in conflict with the provisions of this stitution.

SEC. 11. All gifts to the State where the purpose is not designated escheated property, the net assets or funds of all estates or copartnerships i hands of the Courts of the State where there have been no claimants for same within the last seventy years, and other money coming into the Trea

19 Amendment proposed by the general assembly of 1914, adopted by the el on November 3, 1914, and ratified by the general assembly of 1915. The ameri added the expression, "South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, located at € Springs."

he State by reason of the twelfth section of an Act entitled "An Act to proa mode of distribution of the moneys as direct tax from the citizens of this te by the United States in trust to the State of South Carolina," approved twenty-fourth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. ther with such other means as the General Assembly may provide, shall securely invested as the State School Fund, and the annual income thereof be apportioned by the General Assembly for the purpose of maintaining public schools.

SEC. 12. All the net income to be derived by the State from the sale or se for the sale of spirituous, malt, vinous and intoxicating liquors and rages, not including so much thereof as it now or may hereafter be allowed law to go to the Counties and municipal corporations of the State, shall applied annually in aid of the supplementary taxes provided for in the h Section of this Article; and if after said application there should be urplus, it shall be devoted to public school purposes, and apportioned as General Assembly may determine: Provided, however. That the said plementary taxes shall only be levied when the net income aforesaid from sale or license for the sale of alcoholic liquors or beverages are not suffit to meet and equalize the deficiencies for which the said supplementary es are provided.

ARTICLE XII.

CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS.

SECTION 1. Institutions for [the] care of the insane and the poor shall ays be fostered and supported by this State and shall be subject to such lations as the. General Assembly may enact.20

SEC. 2. The Governor shall, with the advice and consent of the Senate, oint a Board of Regents, consisting of five members, whose terms of office be so designated that the term of one member shall expire each year, ject to removal by the Governor for cause, which Board shall have charge such institution, or institutions, as may be maintained by the State for care of the insane. The Board of Regents shall have exclusive power ppoint, and, in its discretion, remove one superintendent thereof, and the erintendent, who shall be a physician, shall have the power, in his dision, to appoint and remove all other officers and employees of such institu, or institutions, subject to the approval of the Board of Regents.21 SEC. 3. The respective Counties of this State shall make such provision may be determined by law for all those inhabitants who by reason of age, mities and misfortune may have a claim upon the sympathy and aid of ety.

SEC. 4. The Directors of the benevolent and penal State institutions which be hereafter created shall be appointed or elected as the General Assembly direct.

SEC. 5. The Directors and Superintendent of the Penitentiary shall be apted or elected as the General Assembly may direct.

SEC. 6. All convicts sentenced to hard labor by any of the Courts in State may be employed upon the public works of the State or of the nties and upon the public highways.

SEC. 7. Provision may be made by the General Assembly for the establisht and maintenance by the State of a Reformatory for juvenile offenders rate and apart from hardened criminals.

SEC. S. The Governor shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur he offices aforesaid, except where otherwise provided for, with the power emoval until the next session of the General Assembly and until a sucor or successors shall be appointed and confirmed.

Amendment proposed by the general assembly of 1914, adopted by the electors November 3, 1914, and ratified by the general assembly of 1915. The amendment k out the words "blind, deaf and dumb" where they occurred in the original on after the word "insane."

Amendment proposed by the general assembly of 1915, adopted by the electors November 7, 1916, and ratified by the general assembly of 1917.