ARTICLE VIII.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Section 1.Educational, reformatory, and penal institutions, and those for the benefit of the insane, blind, deaf and mute, and such other institutions as the public good may require, shall be established and supported by the State, in such manner as may be prescribed by law.
Section 2.The General Assembly shall have no power to change or to locate the seat of government of the State, but shall at its first session subsequent to the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty provide by law for submitting the question of the permanent location of the seat of government to the qualified electors of the State, at the general election then next ensuing, and a majority of all the votes upon said question cast at said election, shall be necessary to determine the location thereof. Said General Assembly shall also provide that in case there shall be no choice of location at said election, the question of choice between the two places for which the highest number of votes shall have been cast, shall be submitted in like manner to the qualified electors of the State, at the next general election; Provided, That until the seat of government shall have been permanently located as herein provided, the temporary location thereof shall remain at the city of Denver.
Section 3.When the seat of government shall have been located as herein provided, the location thereof shall not thereafter be changed, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the qualified electors of the State voting on that question, at a general election, at which the question of location of the seat of government shall have been submitted to the General Assembly.
Section 4.The General Assembly shall make no appropriation or expenditure for Capitol buildings or grounds, until the seat of government shall have been permanently located as herein provided.
Section 5.The following Territorial Institutions, to-wit; The University at Boulder, the Agricultural College at Fort Collins, the School of Mines at Golden, the Institute for the Education of Mutes at Colorado Springs, shall, upon the adoption of this Constitution become Institutions of the State of Colorado and the management thereof subject to the control of the State, under such laws and regulations as the General Assembly shall provide, and the location of said Institutions, as well as all gifts, grants and appropriations of money and property, real and personal, heretofore made to said several Institutions, are hereby confirmed to the use and benefit of the same respectively; Provided, this section shall not apply to any Institution the property, real or personal, of which is now vested in the trustees thereof, until such property be transferred by proper conveyance, together with the control thereof, to the officers provided for the management of said Institution by this Constitution, or by law.
