SEC. 12. A circuit court shall be held, at least twice a year, by the judges of cach circuit, in every county and corporation thereof, wherein a circuit court is now or may hereafter be established. But the judges may be required or authorized to hold the courts of their respective circuits alternately, and the judge of one circuit to hold court in any other circuit. COUNTY AND CORPORATION COURTS. County Courts. SEC. 13. In each county of this Commonwealth there shall be a court, called the county court, which shall be held monthly by a judge learned in the law of the State, and to be known as the county court judge: Provided, that counties containing less than - thousand inhabitants shall be attached to adjoining counties for the formation of districts for county judges. County court judges shall be appointed in the same manner as judges of the circuit courts; shall hold their office for a term of eight years; and, at the time of election and during continuance in office, shall reside in their respective counties or districts. The jurisdiction of said courts shall be the same as that of the existing county courts, except so far as it is modified by this Constitution, or may be changed by law. CORPORATION COURTS. SEC. 14. The General Assembly may vest such jurisdiction as may be deemed necessary in corporation courts, which shall be held by a judge chosen in the same manner, with like qualifications and for same terms as judges of county courts. And all officers appertaining to cities and other municipal corporations, shall be elected or appointed by the constituted authorities thereof in the manner prescribed by law. SEC. 15. All the judges shall be commissioned by the Governor, and shall receive such salaries and allowances as may be determined by law, the amount of which shall not be diminished during their term of office. SEC. 16. Judges may be removed from office by a concurrent vote of both Houses of the General Assembly, but a majority of all the members elected to each House must concur in such vote, and the cause of removal shall be entered on the journal of each House. The judge against whom the General Assembly may be about to proceed, shall have notice thereof, accompanied by a copy of the causes alleged for his removal, at least twenty days before the day on which either House of the General Assembly shall act thereon. SEC. 17. Judges of the supreme court of appeals and judges of the circuit courts shall not hold any other office or public trust during their continuance in office. SEC. 18. Judges, and all other officers elected or appointed, shall continue to discharge the duties of their offices after their terms of service have expired, until their successors have qualified. SEC. 19. Writs shall run in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and be attested by the clerks of the several courts. Indictments shall conclude against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth. NO. 7.-REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall elect, on joint ballot, within thirty days after its organization under this Constitution, and every fourth year thereafter, a Superintendent of Public Instruction. He shall have the general supervision of the public free school interests of the State, and shall report to the General Assembly for its consideration, within thirty days after his election, a uniform system of public free schools. SEC. 2. There shall be a Board of Education, composed of the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Attorney-General, which shall appoint, and have power to remove, for cause and upon notice to the incumbents, subject to confirmation by the Senate, all County Superintendents of public free schools. This board shall have, regulated by law, the management and investment of all the school funds, and such supervision of schools of higher grades as the law shall provide. SEC. 3. The General Assembly shall provide by law, at its first session under this Constitution, a uniform system of public free schools, and for its gradual, equal and full introduction into all the counties of the State, by the year 1876, or as much earlier as practicable. SEC. 4. The General Assembly shall have power, after a full introduction of the public free school system, to make such laws as shall not permit parents and guardians to allow their children to grow up in ignorance and vagrancy. SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall establish, as soon as practicable, normal schools, and may establish such grades of schools and agricultural schools as shall be for the public good. SEC. 6. The Board of Education shall provide for uniformity of text-books, the providing of school-houses, and such apparatus and library as may be necessary, under such regulations as may be provided by law. SEC. 7. The General Assembly shall set apart, as a permanent and perpetual literary fund, the present literary funds of the State, the proceeds of all public lands donated by Congress for public school purposes, of all escheated property, of all waste and unappropriated lands, of all property accruing to the State by forfeiture, and all fines collected for offences committed against the State, and such other sums as the General Assembly may appropriate. SEC. 8. The General Assembly shall apply the annual interest on the literary fund, any capitation or other special tax provided for by this Constitution for public free school purposes, and an annual tax upon the property of the State of not less than one mill nor more than five mills on the dollar, for the equal benefit of all the people of the State, the number of children between the ages of five and twenty-one years, in each public free school district, being the basis of such division. Provision shall be made to supply necessary text-books to indigent children attending the public free schools, in cases where the parent or guardian is unable, by reason of poverty, to furnish them. Each county and public free school district may raise additional sums by a tax on property for the support of public free schools. All unexpended sums of any one year in any public free school district shall go into the general school fund for re-division the next year: Provided, That any tax authorized by this section to be raised by counties or school districts shall not exceed five mills on a dollar in any one year, and shall not be subject to re-division as hereinbefore provided in this section. SEC. 9. The General Assembly shall have power to foster all higher grades of schools under its supervision, and to provide for such purpose a permanent educational fund. SEC. 10. All grants and donations received by the General Assembly for educational purposes shall be applied according to the terms prescribed by the donors. SEC. 11. The General Assembly shall fix the salaries and prescribe the duties of all school officers, and shall make all needful laws and regulations to carry into effect the public free school system provided for by this article. 38 NO. 8.-REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION AND APPORTIONMENT. 66 18--Carroll shall have one delegate. 19-Charles City shall have one delegate. Cumberland shall have one delegate. 26-Elizabeth City and Warwick shall have two delegates. 28-Fauquier shall have two delegates. 46 29-Fairfax shall have one delegate. 66 31---Franklin shall have two delegates. 35-Goochland shall have one delegate. 38-Gloucester shall have one delegate. 39--Grayson shall have one delegate. District No. 42-Henrico and Richmond City shall have eight delegates, 66 66 66 43-Henry shall have one delegate. 44-Isle of Wight shall have one delegate. 45-James City and the City of Williamsburg shall have one delegate. 46-King and Queen shall have one delegate. 47-King William shall have one delegate. 48-King George shall have one delegate. 51-Louisa shall have two delegates. 66 60-New Kent shall have one delegate. 61-Norfolk county and the city of Portsmouth shall have three 66 67-Orange shall have one delegate. 68--Patrick shall have one delegate. 70-Pittsylvania shall have four delegates. 76-Princess Anne shall have one delegate, |