SCHOOL FUND.
Mr. ROBERTS submitted a resolution which was adopted, as follows:
Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee be instructed to report amendments to the 8th Article of the Constitution (provided it is not deemed incompatible with the public good,) as follows, to wit:
1. To the effect that the funds in the second section thereof mentioned, shall be and remain a consolidated and perpetual fund for the support of common schools in this State, which may be increased but never diminished, and which shall have a uniform and general application throughout the State, so that each county will draw its quota of interest arising therefrom, in proportion to the number of children therein.
2. That that proportion of the common school fund which may arise in each county from direct taxation, and from fines and forfeitures under the penal code, shall remain in said county for the exclusive and entire benefit of the common schools therein.
