The Wyoming Constitution Convention began September 2, 1889 without the authorization from an enabling act. The articles were individually voted on, creating the final Constitution of Wyoming on September 30, 1889. It was later ratified on November 5, 1889.
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The committee considered the articles on Education; Public Lands and Donations; Coal Mines; Elections; Qualifications to Office; Schedule; and Boards of Arbitration.
Section 1. The legislature shall provide for and maintain a complete and uniform system of public instruction, embracing free elementary schools of every needed kind and grade, a university with such technical and professional departments as the public good may demand, and the means of the state allow, and such other schools as may be necessary.
Sec. 4. All moneys, stocks, bonds, lands and other property belonging to a county school fund, except such moneys and property as may be provided by law for current use in aid of public schools, shall belong to and be securely invested and sacredly preserved in the several counties as a county public school fund, the income of which shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support of free public schools in the several counties of the state.
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Sec. 6. All fines and penalties under general laws of the state shall belong to the public school fund of the respective counties, and be paid over to the custodians of such funds for the current support of the public schools therein.
Sec. 7. All funds belonging to the state for public school purposes, the interest and income of which only are to be used shall be deemed trust funds in the care of the state, which shall keep them for the exclusive benefit of the public schools and shall make good any losses that may in any manner occur, so that the same shall remain forever inviolate and undiminished. None of such funds shall ever be invested or loaned except on the bonds issued by school districts, or registered county bonds of the state or state securities of this or of the United States.
Sec. 8. The income arising from the funds mentioned in the preceding section together with all the rents of the unsold school lands and such other means as the legislature may provide, shall be exclusively applied to the support of free schools in every county in the state.
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