Provisions
IX.3 of 1895 • Common school, literature and United States deposit funds.
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 revenue of the said common-school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools; the revenue 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 part of the capital of the said common-school fund.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article IX: Education
• Has 90 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-IX.1
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