CONSTITUTION 7 



SCHOOL FUND. ART. IX 



elude common schools, and such high schools, normal schools, 

 and technical schools as may hereafter be established. But the 

 entire revenue derived from the common school fund, and the 

 state tax for common schools, shall be exclusively applied to the 

 support of the common schools. 



Cited in 6 Wash. 121 ; 16 Wash. 576 ; 17 Wash. 139 ; 29 Wash. 595 ; 40 Wash. 

 105 ; 51 Wash. 501 ; 70 Wash. 300. 



A common school, within this section, means one that is common to all chil- 

 dren of proper age and capacity, free, and subject to and under the control of 

 the voters of the district : School Dist. v. Bryan, 51 Wash. 498. 



A department of a state normal school wherein a portion of the school chil- 

 dren of a district are given instruction which they would otherwise receive in 

 the district schools is not a part of the common school system within this sec- 

 tion, and no part of the common school fund can be applied to the support of 

 such department : idem. 



ART. IX, SEC. 3. COMMON SCHOOL FUND. 



The principal of the common school fund shall remain 

 permanent and irreducible. The said fund shall be derived 

 from the following sources, to-wit: Appropriations and dona- 

 tions by the state to this fund; donations and bequests by in- 

 dividuals to the state or public for common schools ; the pro- 

 ceeds of lands and other property which revert to the state by 

 escheat and forfeiture; the proceeds of all property granted to 

 the state when the purpose of the grant is not specified, or is 

 uncertain ; funds accumulated in the treasury of the state for 

 the disbursement of which provision has not been made by law; 

 the proceeds of the sale of timber, stone, minerals, and other 

 property from school and state lands, other than those granted 

 for specific purposes ; all moneys received from persons appro- 

 priating timber, stone, minerals or other property from school 

 and state lands other than those granted for specific purposes, 

 and all moneys other than rental recovered from persons tres- 

 passing on said lands ; five per centum of the proceeds of the sale 

 of public lands lying within the state, which shall be sold by the 

 United States subsequent to the admission of the state into the 

 Union as provided by section 584 of the following code; the 

 principal of all funds arising from the sale of lands and other 

 property which have been and hereafter may be, granted to the 

 state for the support of common schools. The Legislature may 



