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inviolably appropriated to the support of Common Schools throughout the 
State. 
Sec. 3. The Legislature shall provide for a system of Common Schools, by 
which a school shall be kept up and supported in each district at least three 
months in every year: and any school district neglecting to keep up and 
support such a school, may be deprived of its proportion of the interest of 
the public fund during such neglect. 
Sec. 4. The Legislature shall take measures for the protection, improvement, 
or other disposition of such lands as have been, or may hereafter be, reserved 
or granted by the United States, or any person or persons to this State for 
the use of a University; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of 
such lands, or from any other source, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and 
remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be applied to the sup¬ 
port of said university, with such branches as the public convenience may 
demand for the promotion of literature, the arts and sciences, as may be 
authorized by the terms of such grant. And it shall be the duty of the 
Legislature, as soon as may be, to provide effectual means for the improve¬ 
ment and permanent security of the funds of said University. 
ARTICLE X. 
MODE OF AMENDING AND REVISING THE CONSTITUTION. 
Sec. 1. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed 
in the Senate or Assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority 
of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment 
or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas and nays 
taken thereon, and referred to the Legislature then next to be chosen, and 
shall be published for three months next preceding the time of making such 
choice. And if, in the Legislature next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed 
amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the mem¬ 
bers elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to 
submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such man¬ 
ner, and at such time, as the Legislature shall prescribe; and if the people 
shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of 
the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature voting thereon, 
such amendment or amendments shall become part of the Constitution. 
Sec. 2. And if, at any time, two-thirds of the Senate and Assembly shall 
think it necessary to revise and change this entire Constitution, they shall 
recommend to the electors, at the next election for members of the Legisla¬ 
ture, to vote for or against the convention ; and if it shall appear that a majority 
of the electors voting at such election have voted in favor of calling a con¬ 
vention, the Legislature shall, at its next session, provide by law for calling a 
convention, to be holden within six months after the passage of such law; and 
such convention shall consist of a number of members not less than that of 
both branches of the Legislature. 
ARTICLE XI. 
miscellaneous provisions. 
Sec. 1. The first session of the Legislature shall be held at the Pueblo de 
