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Riedel v. Anderson6/4/2003
g are declared to be perpetual funds for school purposes, of which the annual income only can be appropriated, to-wit:... all moneys arising from the sale or lease of sections number sixteen and thirty-six in each township in the state, and the land selected or that may be selected in lieu thereof;...
Art. 7, § 6. State to keep school funds; investment:
All funds belonging to the state for public school purposes, the interest and income of which only are to be used, shall be deemed trust funds in the care of the state, which shall keep them for the exclusive benefit of the public schools, and shall make good any losses that may in any manner occur, so that the same shall remain forever inviolate and undiminished....
Art. 7, § 7. Application of school funds:
The income arising from the funds mentioned in the preceding section, together with all the rents of the unsold school lands and such other means as the legislature may provide, shall be exclusively applied to the support of free schools in every county in the state.
Art. 18, § 1. Acceptance of lands from United States; sale of such lands:
The State of Wyoming hereby agrees to accept the grants of lands heretofore made, or that may hereafter be made by the United States to the state, for educational purposes... with the conditions and limitations that may be imposed by the act or acts of congress, making such grants or donations. Such lands shall be disposed of only at public auction to the highest responsible bidder, after having been duly appraised by the land commissioners, at not less than three-fourths the appraised value thereof, and for not less than $10 per acre;...
Art. 18, § 2. Application of proceeds of sale or rental:
The proceeds from the sale and rental of all lands and other property donated, granted or received, or that may hereafter be donated, granted or received, from the United States or any other source, shall be inviolably appropriated and applied to the specific purposes specified in the original grant or gifts.
Art. 18, § 3. Board of land commissioners:
The governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and superintendent of public instruction shall constitute a board of land commissioners, which under direction of the legislature as limited by this constitution, shall have direction, control, leasing and disposal of lands of the state granted, or which may be hereafter granted for the support and benefit of public schools, subject to the further limitations that the sale of all lands shall be at public auction, after such delay (not less than the time fixed by congress) in portions at proper intervals of time, and at such minimum prices (not less than the minimum fixed by congress) as to realize the largest possible proceeds....
1891 Wyo. Sess. Laws.
After the admission of Colorado in 1876, the next states admitted were North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington in 1889. The delegates to Wyoming's constitutional convention in September 1889 borrowed substantial sections of Wyoming's Constitution from these other states, completing the draft in less than one month. Robert B. Keiter & Tim Newcomb, The Wyoming State Constitution: A Reference Guide 1, 4 (1993). The Colorado Constitution at Art. IX, § 10 (1876), the Washington Constitution at Art. XVI, § 1 (1889), the Idaho Constitution at Art. IX, § 8 (1889), and the South Dakota Constitution at Art. VIII, § 7 (1889) each expressly provided that the states' school lands were "held in trust." After Wyoming's admission, the Oklahoma Constitution at Art. XI, § 1 (1907) likewise declared that the lands and
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