Extract from the Constitution Relating to Education-Extracts from the Political and E H SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE PRINTING EXTRACT FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF CALIFORNIA. ARTICLE IX. EDUCATION. Encouragement of education. SECTION 1. A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement. Superintendent of public instruction. SEC. 2. A superintendent of public instruction shall, at each gubernatorial election after the adoption of this constitution, be elected by the qualified electors of the state. He shall receive a salary equal to that of the secretary of state, and shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first Monday after the first day of January next succeeding his election. County superintendent of schools. SEC. 3. A superintendent of schools for each county shall be elected by the qualified electors thereof at each gubernatorial election; provided, that the legislature may authorize two or more counties to unite and elect one superintendent for the counties so uniting. State school fund. SEC. 4. The proceeds of all lands that have been or may be granted by the United States to this state for the support of common schools, which may be, or may have been, sold or disposed of, and the five hundred thousand acres of land |