The Mountain State: A Description of the Natural Resources of West Virginia ; Prepared for Distribution at the World's Columbian ExpositionMoses W. Donnally, 1893 - 259 páginas |
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Página 63 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Página 53 - States to this state, for educational purposes (except the lands heretofore granted for the purposes of a "university), and all moneys and the clear proceeds of all property that may accrue to the state by forfeiture or escheat...
Página 54 - The Legislature shall provide for the support of free schools by appropriating thereto the interest of the invested "School Fund," the net proceeds of all forfeitures and fines accruing to this State under the laws thereof; the State capitation tax, and by general taxation of persons and property or otherwise. It shall also provide for raising in each county or district, by the authority of the people thereof, such a proportion of the amount required for the support of free schools therein as shall...
Página 65 - An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for tbe benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Página 53 - The existing permanent and invested school fund, and all money accruing to this State from forfeited, delinquent, waste and unappropriated lands; and from lands heretofore sold for taxes and purchased by the State of Virginia, if hereafter redeemed or sold to others than this State; all grants, devises or bequests that may be made to this State, for the purposes of education or where the purposes of such grants, devises or bequests are not specified; this 307 State's just share of the literary fund...
Página 53 - State, and the interest thereof shall be annually applied to the support of free schools throughout the State, and to no other purpose whatever. But any portion of said interest remaining unexpended at the close of the fiscal year shall be added to, and remain a part of, the capital of the school fund.
Página 53 - ... and the interest thereof shall be annually applied to the support of free schools throughout the State, and to no other purpose whatever. But any portion of said interest remaining unexpended at the close of a fiscal year shall be applied to and remain a part of the capital of the "School Fund...
Página 112 - Charleston 263 miles) is 1 j^\ mills (or about one-seventh of a cent) per ton per mile. For longer distances, or to points on the Ohio and Mississippi below Cincinnati!, the rates per mile are much less. The usual rates from Cincinnati to the mouth of the Kentucky river, Louisville, and points between, amount to about 10£ cents per ton, making the cost from the Charleston pool to Louisville, including towing and rent and return of barges, 48 cen|3 per ton.
Página 53 - ... all moneys that may be paid as an equivalent for exemption from military duty ; and such sums as may from time to time be appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose, shall be set apart as a separate fund, to be called the "School Fund...
Página 53 - State's just share of the literary fund of Virginia, whether paid over or otherwise liquidated, and any sums of money, stocks, or property which this State shall have the right to claim from the State of Virginia for educational purposes...