172.610. Seminary fund created.

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172.610. Seminary fund created. — There is hereby created and established a permanent fund for the support of the state university, with its several divisions, to be denominated "The Seminary Fund", which shall consist of all certificates of indebtedness of the state of Missouri, issued under sections 172.610 to 172.720 * , and the proceeds thereof; the net proceeds of all sales of lands granted to the state for the benefit of the state university with its several divisions, as provided by law; and all gifts, grants, bequests, or devises to said seminary fund or the state for the benefit of the university, and not otherwise appropriated by the terms of any such gift, grant, bequest or devise, which fund shall be paid into the state treasury, and be securely invested by the board of curators of the state university and sacredly preserved as a seminary fund, the annual income of which shall be faithfully appropriated for the maintenance of the state university, and for no other uses or purposes whatsoever, said income to be applied as directed by the board of curators of the state university, unless otherwise directed by the terms of the act of congress or of the general assembly relating thereto, or by the terms of the certificate, instrument of gift, grant, bequest or devise by which any such certificate, property, securities, or money were received.

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(RSMo 1939 § 10876, A.L. 1945 p. 1634 § 2, A.L. 1951 p. 472 § 1)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 9717; 1919 § 11589; 1909 § 11161

*Section 172.720 was repealed by H.B. 419, 2025.

CROSS REFERENCE:

Seminary fund, Const. Art. IX § 6