24 KANSAS. shall be faithfully applied to the specific objects of the original grants or appropriations. Sec. 2. The general assembly shall make such provision, by taxation or otherwise, as with the income arising from the school trustfund will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the State ; but no religious or other sect or sects shall ever have any exclusive right to, or control of, any part of the school- funds of this State. Sec. 3. The general assembly may take measures for the establishment of a university, with such branches as the public convenience may hereafter demand, for the promotion of literature, the arts, sciences, medical and agricultural instruction. Sec. 4. Provision may be made by law for the support of normal schools, with suitable libraries and scientific apparatus. ARTICLE VIII. Public Institutions. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the general assembly, at as early a date as possible, to provide State asylums for the benefit, treatment, and instruction of the blind, deaf and dumb, and insane. Sec. 2. The general assembly shall make provision for the establishment of an asylum for idiots, to be regulated by law. Sec. 3. The respective counties of the State shall provide in some suitable manner for those inhabitants who, by reason of age, infirmity, or other misfortune, may have claims upon the sympathy and aid of society, under provision to be made by the laws of the general assembly. Sec. 4. The general assembly shall make provision for the establishment of houses of refuge for the correction, reform, and instruction of juvenile offenders. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the general assembly to make provision as soon as possible for a State general hospital. ARTICLE IX. Public Debt and Public Works. Section 1. No money shall be paid out of the treasury, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law. Sec. 2. The credit of the State shall never be given or loaned in aid of any individual, association, or corporation. Sec. 3. For the purpose of defraying extraordinary expenditures, the State may contract public debts ; but such debts shall never, in the aggregate, exceed..one hundred thousand dollars, unless authorized by a direct vote of the people at a general election. Every such debt shall be authorized by law, and every such law shall provide for the payment of the annual interest of such debt, and the principal within ten years from the passage of such law ; and such appropriation shall not be repealed until the principal and interest shall have been wholly paid.
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