Smith v. Tolbert

None of the headnotes require elaboration, except the third. By the educational scheme of the constitution of 1877, as originally adopted, the legislature was required to establish “a thorough system of common schools for the education of children in the elementary branches of an English education only, . . the expenses of which shall be provided for by taxation, or *270otherwise.” Paragraph 1 of section 1 of article 8 of the constitution of 1877 (Civil Code of 1910, § 6576). Under this scheme the legislature was authorized to grant authority “to counties upon the recommendation of two grand…