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Rh Sec. 9. Taxation for schools. The legislature shall make such further provision by taxation or otherwise, as with the income arising from the general school fund will create and maintain a thorough and efficient system of public schools, adequate to the proper instruction of all youth of the state, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, free of charge; and in view of such provision so made, the legislature shall require that every child of sufficient physical and mental ability shall attend a public school during the period between six and eighteen years for a time equivalent to three years, unless educated by other means.

'''Sec. 10. No discrimination between pupils.''' In none of the public schools so established and maintained shall distinction or discrimination be made on account of sex, race or color.

'''Sec. 11. Textbooks.''' Neither the legislature nor the superintendent of public instruction shall have power to prescribe text books to be used in the public schools.

'''Sec. 12. Sectarianism prohibited.''' No sectarian instruction, qualifications or tests shall be imparted, exacted, applied or in any manner tolerated in the schools of any grade or character controlled by the state, nor shall attendance be required at any religious service therein, nor shall any sectarian tenets or doctrines be taught or favored in any public school or institution that may be established under this constitution.

'''Sec. 13. Land commissioners. [Superseded.]'''

'''Sec. 14. Supervision of schools entrusted to state superintendent of public instruction.''' The general supervision of the public schools shall be entrusted to the state superintendent of public instruction, whose powers and duties shall be prescribed by law.

'''Sec. 15. Establishment of university confirmed.''' The establishment of the University of Wyoming is hereby confirmed, and said institution, with its several departments, is hereby declared to be the University of the State of Wyoming. All lands which have been heretofore granted or which may be granted hereafter by congress unto the university as such, or in aid of the instruction to be given in any of its departments, with all other grants, donations, or devises for said university, or for any of its Rh