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Page 274 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
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Page 272 - That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall be designated by the President of the United States, together with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the legislature of the said state, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said legislature.
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| Title | History of Lawrence and Monroe Counties, Indiana: Their People, Industries, and Institutions County and regional histories of the "Old Northwest.": Indiana |
| Publisher | B.F. Bowen, 1914 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 764 pages |
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