Chap. 275.—An ACT to set apart the Revenue received for Public Free
School purposes, and to apply the same to the support of the Public
Free Schools of the State.

Approved March 29, 1873.

Whereas, section seven of article eight of the constitution re-
quires that the general assembly shall set apart, as a permanent
and perpetual literary fund, the present literary funds of the
state, the proceeds of all public lands donated by congress for
public school purposes, of all escheated property, of all waste
and unappropriated lands, of all property accruing to the state
by forfeiture, and all fines collected for offences committed
against the state, and such other sums as the general assembly
may appropriate: therefore, |

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
the duty of the auditor of public accounts annually to pay over
in money, according to the usual forms and general provisions
of law, all that portion of the annual revenue of the state which
is set apart for public free school purposes.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.