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 CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS.

(From Constitution of Michigan.)

ARTICLE VIII. There shall be elected at each biennial election, a Superintendent of Public Instruction for the term of two two years. He shall keep his office at the seat of government, and shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by law.

His term of office shall commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and of every second year thereafter. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office, the Governor shall fill the same by appointment, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, if in session.

ARTICLE XIII.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have the general supervision of educational affairs.  The proceeds from the sales of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to the state for educational purposes, and the proceeds of all lands or other property given by individuals, or appropriated by the state for like purposes, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest and income of which, together with the rents of all such lands as may remain unsold, shall be inviolably appropriated and annually applied to the specific objects of the original gift, grant, or appropriation.