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Provisions

IX.1 of 1847 • Education funds preserved; how applied.

APPROVED

The Text

The capital of the common-school fund, the capital of the literature fund, and the capital of the United States deposit fund shall be respectively preserved inviolate. The revenues of the said common-school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools; the revenues of the said literature fund shall be applied to the support of academies; and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars of the revenues of the United States deposit fund shall each year be appropriated to and made a part of the capital of the said common-school fund.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1847

• In Article IX:

• Has 91 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1846

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1835-VII.10

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