Board of Public Instruction v. Croom

Citations

• 57 Fla. 347

Syllabus

<p>1. Section 7, Article 12 of the Constitution of Florida of 1885, as amended, provides for the apportionment arid distribution of the State School Fund therein authorized to be made by law, and contemplates only an apportionment and distribution upon the basis of counties as units of such apportionment and distribution, and not upon the basis of particular schools as such units, and inasmuch as Section one (1) of Chapter 5381 Laws of 1905 undertakes to make certain schools in the State with an average attendance of 80 per cent, the beneficiaries of the act, the said act of the legislature is unconstitutional.</p> <p>2. Queare. Whether under the constitution the Legislature has authority to distribute the General Revenue Fund or any part of it for the support and maintenance of public free schools?</p>