Iowa Constitution
Article IX - EDUCATION AND SCHOOL LANDS.
§ 3 Perpetual support fund.
The general assembly
shall encourage, by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectual,
scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement. The proceeds of all
lands that have been, or hereafter may be, granted by the United States
to this state, for the support of schools, which may have been, or shall
hereafter be sold, or disposed of, and the five hundred thousand acres
of land granted to the new states, under an Act of Congress,
distributing the proceeds of the public lands among the several states
of the union, approved in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-one,* and all estates of deceased persons who may have
died without leaving a will or heir, and also such per cent. as has been
or may hereafter be granted by Congress, on the sale of lands in this
state, shall be, and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which,
together with all rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the
general assembly may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the
support of common schools throughout the state.
*In the original text, “forty-one” did not contain a hyphen Referred to in Iowa Code §16.4A
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