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WEST VIRGINIA, Art. XII, Sec. 4. The existing permanent and invested school fund ; all grants, devises or bequests that may be made to this State, for the purposes of education, State's just share of the literary fund of Virginia sums as may from time to time be appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose, shall be set apart as a separate fund to be called the "School Fund", . . . ; and the interest thereof shall be annually applied to the support of free schools throughout the State, and to no other purpose whatever.

WISCONSIN, Art. I, Sec. 18.

Nor-shall any money be drawn from the treasury for the benefit of religious societies, or religious, or theological seminaries.

Art. X, Sec. 3. The Legislature shall provide by law for the es-
tablishment of District Schools, which shall be as nearly uniform
as practicable; and such schools shall be free and without charge
for tuition, to all children between the ages of four and twenty
years; and no sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein.
Art. X, Sec. 6. Provision shall be made by law for the establishment
of a State University . . . and no sectarian instruction shall be
allowed in such University.

WYOMING, Art. I, Sec. 19. No money of the State shall ever be given or
appropriated to any sectarian or religious society or instruction.
Art. III, Sec. 36. No appropriation shall be made for charitable,
industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, cor-
poration or community not under the absolute control of the
State, nor to any denomination or sectarian institution or asso-
ciation.

Art. VII, Sec. 8. . . . Nor shall any portion of any public school fund ever be used to support or assist any private school, or any school, academy, seminary, college or other institution of learning controlled by any church or sectarian organization or religious denomination whatsoever.

Art. VII, Sec. 12. No sectarian instruction, qualifications or tests shall be imparted, exacted, applied or in any manner tolerated in the schools of any grade or character controlled by the State, nor shall attendance be required at any religious service therein, nor shall any sectarian tenets or doctrines be taught or favored in any public school or institution that may be established under this Constitution.

APPENDIX B.

GRANTS AND ALLOWANCES MADE BY THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS FROM 1780 TO 1859.

1780. Resolves, chap. 51, October.

Minister to Stockbridge Indians exempted from taxes.

1781. Resolves, chap. 87, May.

Minister to Indians allowed 35 pounds for services.

1781. Resolves, chap. 145, May.

To Stephen Sewall, Esq., Hancock Professor of Oriental Languages, 47 pounds, 19 shillings; 4 pounds in full for 1 year and 5 months' service to be paid in new money at rate of 13 of a dollar for a hard dollar.

1781. Resolves, chap. 149, May.

Rev. Samuel Williams, Hollisian Professor of Mathematics at Harvard College, 175 pounds for 1 year 3 months 20 days' service "to be paid," etc.

1781. Resolves, chap. 152, May.

Rev. Edward Wigglesworth, Professor of Divinity, Harvard College, 150 pounds, for 1 year 5 months' service "to be paid," etc. 1781. Resolves, chap. 186, September.

Paid out of treasury to missionary to Eastern Indians, 142 pounds, 10 shillings. Said sum to be charged to United States.

1781. Resolves, chap. 240, September.

Rev. Joseph Willard, president of Harvard College, granted 300 pounds for first year's service and for the expense of removing his family.

1782. Resolves, chap. 75, May: "On the petition of Juniper Barthiaume, Recollect, Missionary to Penobscot tribe of Indians.

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Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested, with the advice of Council, to provide for and accommodate the said Juniper, agreeably to his petition, in such manner as shall by His Excellency be judged most proper. And it is further Resolved, That the Governor be empowered, with the advice of Council, to draw such sum of money out of

This table of grants and allowances is doubtless incomplete, since it is based upon the indexes of the annual volumes of acts and resolves. It is not probable that all the grants and allowances are entered in the indexes.

the public treasury as may be necessary for the purpose aforesaid, provided the sum thus drawn does not amount to more than the value of the wages and rations which are already become due to the said Juniper, together with the additional sum of thirty shillings, to defray the said Juniper's expenses during his present stay in the Town of Boston."

1783. Resolves, chap. 6, May.

Authorizing sale of land to value of 100 pounds, the proceeds for paying missionary to Herring Pond Indians and remainder to pay "such Protestant Teacher as shall hereafter be appointed to preach among the said Indians."

1783. Resolves, chap. 96, May.

Harvard College, 471 pounds to four professors for services. 1784. Acts, chap. 53.

Incorporating certain persons for purpose of building a bridge between Charlestown and Boston over Charles River. After tolls commence incorporators to pay Harvard College or University 200 pounds annually for 40 years when bridge becomes property of Commonwealth, saving to college or university a reasonable and annual compensation for income of ferry which they might have received had not bridge been erected.

1784. Acts, chap. 6.

Incorporating town of Machias and reserving to use of Harvard College to the first ordained minister, to the use of the ministry, and to the use of the school "several lots in the said tract of land."

1784. Resolves, chap. 26, May.

Rev. Jos. Willard, president of Harvard, 105 pounds, 13 shillings, 4 pence which with former grants is in full for salary to Jan. 1,

1784.

Rev. Samuel Williams, professor at Harvard, 232 pounds, 10 shillings for services.

Rev. Edward Wigglesworth, professor at Harvard, 233 pounds, 7 shillings, 8 pence for services.

1786. Resolves, chap. 63, January.

Grant of 132 pounds, 12 shillings, 2 pence to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1786. Resolves, chap. 134, January.

Phillips Academy exempt from taxation on income not exceeding 200 pounds per annum.

1786. Resolves, chap. 75, May.

President of Harvard paid 483 pounds, 6 shillings and 8 pence for services. Two professors given 241 pounds, 13 shillings and 4 pence for services and one professor given 53 pounds, 13 shillings, 4 pence for services.

1786. Resolves, chap. 128, May: Resolve directing the Committee on Unappropriated Lands in Lincoln County to Provide a Minister for the Plantations in said County, etc.

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Whereas Religion and Morality have a direct Tendency to promote the Interest and Happiness, not only of Individuals, but of Society in General; And it being the Unhappiness of many of the Infant Plantations in the County of Lincoln, to be destitute of public religious Instruction, and not under circumstances to make necessary Provision for the Support thereof; and it being of the highest consequence, that the earliest Foundation be laid in those Infant Settlements for acquiring the Knowledge of, and of being led to the Practice of Religion and Morality, this Court, from a due Sense of their Importance, and from a parental Regard to those Settlements, have resolved, and do hereby

Resolve, That the Committee on the Subject of Unappropriated Lands in the County of Lincoln, be, and they are hereby directed, as soon as may be, to provide a discreet and suitable Preacher of Religion and Morality, for the Term of Six Months, and instruct him to repair to those Infant Plantations in the said County of Lincoln, and for such a Time to furnish each during the said Term of Six Months, with religious Instruction, as they may judge most conducive to answer the beneficial purposes intended by this Resolve: And that so much of the Taxes on the said Plantations, as by the late Tax of the General Court are laid on them, be appropriated for defraying the Expence of the said mission, the same to be adjusted at the next sitting of the General Court."

1790. Resolves, chap. 63, May.

Three hundred acres of land in each of twelve townships appropriated to Harvard College forever.

1790. Resolves, chap. 63, January.

One hundred and fifty pounds to treasurer of Society for Propagating the Gospel among Indians and others in North America.

1791. Acts, chap. 50.

Washington Academy in town of Machias established and township of land 6 miles square granted, with usual reservation and settlement.

1791. Acts, chap. 26.

Fryeburg Academy established and granted 12,000 acres of land in York County.

1791. Resolves, chap. 7, May.

Township land 6 miles square granted Hallowell Academy, pro

viding 20 families shall settle within five years. Three lots,

320 acres each, reserved for: first settled minister, one for use of ministry, and one for use and support of schools within town.

1791. Resolves, chap. 74, January.

Berwick Academy granted a township of land 6 miles square in the district of Maine, with usual reservations and settlements.

1792. Acts, chap. 22.

Bristol Academy established in the town of Taunton and granted a township of land 6 miles square in the district of Maine.

1792. Resolves, chap. 158, January.

Three thousand acres of land granted for use of Fryeburg Academy.

1792. Resolves, chap. 64, May.

Township of land, 6 miles, granted to Leicester Academy.1 1792. Resolves, chap. 11, January.

Township of land, 6 miles square, granted to Marblehead Academy.1

1793. Acts, chap. 15.

Williams College established and 1,200 pounds granted, 300 pounds to be expended annually for four years.

1794. Acts, chap. 12.

Bowdoin College established and granted 5 townships of land of contents of 6 miles square each "and provided also there shall be reserved in each township three lots of three hundred and twenty acres each for the following uses, viz. one lot for the first settled minister, one lot for the use of the ministry, and one lot for the use of schools in each of said townships." 2

1795. Acts, chap. 76.

Two hundred pounds to be paid annually by proprietors of West Boston Bridge to establish two tutors in Harvard University (this act altered a previous appropriating act).

1795. Resolves, chap. 44, January.

Five hundred dollars to Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians to carry on benevolent purposes of their Institution.

1795. Resolves, chap. 41, January.

Two townships of land, 6 miles square each in the district of Maine, granted the trustees of Williams College and their successors, provided that "there be reserved in each Township three lots of three hundred and twenty acres each, for the following uses, viz.; one lot for the first settled minister,

1 With usual reservations and settlements.

2 With usual settlements.

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