reference to the effects of alcohol and narcotics on the human system; and to obtain a second-grade license the applicant must be examined on spelling, reading, mental arithmetic, practical arithmetic, elementary geography, elementary English grammar and composition, and primary United States history, and primary physiology with special reference to the effects of alcohol and narcotics on the human system; but a teacher otherwise qualified shall not be refused a certificate to teach for the next two years by reason of a want of sufficient knowledge on the subject of physiology. SEC. 4023. To obtain a third-grade license the applicant must be examined on the subjects required for second grade and must make thereon an average of not less than sixty per centum, with not less than forty per centum on any subject. State board of examiners. (Act approved March 18, 1896.) SEC. 7. Any teacher may secure a State license by passing a satisfactory examination, in the presence of the county superintendent or other authorized agent of the State board of examiners, in spelling, reading, practical and mental arithmetic, geography, English grammar and composition, United States history, Mississippi history, elements of natural philosophy, civil government, elements of physiology and hygiene with special reference to the effects of alcohol and narcotics on the human system, * * * MISSOURI. [From School Laws of the State of Missouri, 1899.] SEC. 9799. Instruction in physiology and hygiene.-Physiology and hygiene, including their several branches, with special instruction as to the effect of alcoholic drinks, narcotics, and stimulants on the human system, shall constitute a part of the course of instruction and be taught in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money or under State control. [R. S., 1889, § 8024, amended, Laws, 1897, p. 233.] (Page 46.) Examination for teachers' certificates. SEC. 9958. * * * Teachers shall be granted a third-grade certificate who are of good moral character and who shall pass a satisfactory examination upon the following branches: Arithmetic, language lessons, English grammar, geography, spelling, reading, penmanship, United States history, civil government (including State government), and physiology and hygiene with special reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks and stimulants and narcotics generally upon the human system. (Page 82.) * * * Examination for first and second grade certificates same as the foregoing, with certain additional subjects.-(ED.) ΜΟΝΤΑΝΑ. [From School Laws of the State of Montana, 1899 (pages 56–57).] Schools-Course of study. SECTION 1861. All common schools shall be taught in the English language, and instruction shall be given in the following branches, viz: Reading, penmanship, orthography, written arithmetic, mental arithmetic, geography, English grammar, physiology and hygiene with special reference to the effect of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics on the human system, history of the United States, civics of the United States and of Montana. Attention must be given during the entire school course to the cultivation of manners, to the laws of health, physical exercise, ventilation, and temperature of the school room. NEBRASKA. [From The School Laws and School Land Laws of Nebraska, 1901 (page 59).] SEC. 5a. Scientific temperance instruction.-Provisions shall be made by the proper local school authorities for instructing the pupils in all schools supported by public money, or under State control, in physiology and hygiene with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks and other stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. SEC. 6. Examination.-No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of the State of Nebraska after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks and other stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. SEC. 4. The powers and duties of the board shall be as follows: First. To prescribe and cause to be adopted a uniform series of text-books in the principal studies pursued in the public schools, to wit: Reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, language, grammar, geography, history of the United States, physiology, and drawing. Special prominence shall be given in all public schools to the effect of alcoholic stimulants and of narcotics upon the human system. No school district shall be entitled to receive its pro rata of the public-school money unless such text-books on the above subjects as have been prescribed by the State board of education shall be used in all the public schools pursuing subjects covered by said text-books; and text-books shall not be changed oftener than once in four years. *** NEW HAMPSHIRE. [From School Laws of the State of New Hampshire, 1901 (pages 27-28).] The school board. SEC. 6. (As amended by chapter 40 and chapter 50, Session Laws of 1895.) They shall prescribe in all mixed schools and in all graded schools above primary the studies of physiology and hygiene, having special reference to the effects of alcoholic stimulants and of narcotics upon the human system, and shall see that the studies so prescribed are thoroughly taught in said schools and that well-approved text-books upon these subjects are furnished to teachers and scholars. « NEW JERSEY. [From New Jersey School Laws, 1902 (pages 104-105).] Nature and effect of alcohol and narcotics to be taught. * 237. The nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effects upon the human system shall be taught in all schools supported wholly or in part by public moneys as thoroughly and in the same manner as other like branches shall be taught, by the use of graded text-books in the hands of the pupils when other branches shall be thus taught, and orally only in the case of pupils unable to read. a Section 2, chapter 40, Laws of 1895: If any member of the school board shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of the first paragraph of section 6 he shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars. In the text-books on physiology and hygiene the space devoted to the consideration of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effects upon the human system shall be sufficient for a full and adequate treatment of the subject. The failure or refusal of any district to comply with the provisions of this section shall be sufficient cause for withholding from such district the State appropriation. Teachers to be examined in physiology. 238. No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools, except to persons applying for special certificates to teach music, drawing, manual training, or other subjects not included in the usual school curriculum, who shall not have passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene with special reference to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effects upon the human system. See District of Columbia. NEW MEXICO. district. * NEW YORK. [From the Consolidated School Law of the State of New York, 1901.] * * TITLE V.-School commissioners. * SEC. 13. Every commissioner shall have power, and it shall be his duty: * * 5. To examine * * * persons proposing to teach common schools within his No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of this State who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system. (Pages 26, 28.) * * TITLE VII, ARTICLE 6.-Trustees. * SEC. 47. It shall be the duty of the trustee or, trustees of every school district, and they shall have power: * * * 11. To establish rules for the government and discipline of the schools in their respective districts, and to prescribe the course of studies to be pursued in such schools. Provision shall be made for instructing pupils in all schools supported by public money, or under State control, in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system. (Pages 49, 50-51.) TITLE VIII, ARTICLE 4.-Boards of education. SEC. 15. The said board of education of every union free-school district shall severally have power, and it shall be their duty: * * * 5. To make provision for the instruction of pupils in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system. (Page 77.) TITLE XV, ARTICLE 6.-Physiology and hygiene in the public schools. (As amended by sec. 1, ch. 901, Laws of 1896.) SEC. 19. The nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effects on the human system shall be taught in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene as thoroughly as are other branches in all schools under State control or supported wholly or in part by public money of the State, and also in all schools connected with reformatory institutions. All pupils in the abovementioned schools below the second year of the high school and above the third year of school work, computing from the beginning of the lowest primary, not kindergarten, year, or in corresponding classes of ungraded schools, shall be taught and shall study this subject every year with suitable text-books in the hands of all pupils, for not less than three lessons a week for ten or more weeks, or the equivalent of the same in each year, and must pass satisfactory tests in this as in other studies before promotion to the next succeeding year's work; except that where there are nine or more school years below the high school, the study may be omitted in all years above the eighth year and below the high school, by such pupils as have passed the required tests of the eighth year. In all schools above mentioned all pupils in the lowest three primary, not kindergarten, school years, or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools, shall each year be instructed in this subject orally for not less than two lessons a week for ten weeks, or the equivalent of the same in each year, by teachers using text-books adapted for such oral instruction as a guide and standard, and such pupils must pass such tests in this as may be required in other studies before promotion to the next succeeding year's work. Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting or requiring the teaching of this subject in kindergarten schools. The local school authorities shall provide needed facilities and definite time and place for this branch in the regular courses of study. The text-books in the pupils' hands shall be graded to the capacities of fourth year, intermediate, grammar, and high-school pupils, or to corresponding classes in ungraded schools. For students below high-school grade, such text-books shall give at least one-fifth their space, and for students of high-school grade, shall give not less than twenty pages, to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics. This subject must be treated in the textbooks in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, and pages on this subject in a separate chapter at the end of the book shall not be counted in determining the minimum. No text-book on physiology not conforming to this act shall be used in the public schools, except so long as may be necessary to fulfill the conditions of any legal adoption existing at the time of the passage of this act. All regents' examinations in physiology and hygiene shall include a due proportion of questions on the nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effects on the human system. SEC. 20. In all normal schools, teachers' training classes, and teachers' institutes adequate time and attention shall be given to instruction in the best methods of teaching this branch, and no teacher shall be licensed who has not passed a satisfactory examination in the subject and the best methods of teaching it. On satisfactory evidence that any teacher has willfully refused to teach this subject, as provided in this act, the State superintendent of public instruction shall revoke the license of such teacher. No public money of the State shall be apportioned by the State superintendent of public instruction or paid for the benefit of any city until the superintendent of schools therein shall have filed with the treasurer or chamberlain of such city an affidavit, and with the State superintendent of public instruction a duplicate of such affidavit, that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts, and that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief all the provisions of this act have been complied with in all the schools under his supervision in such city during the last preceding legal school year; nor shall any public money of the State be apportioned by the State superintendent of public instruction, or by school commissioners, or paid for the benefit of any school district, until the president of the board of trustees, or in the case of commonschool districts the trustee or some one member of the board of trustees, shall have filed with the school commissioner having jurisdiction an affidavit that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts, and that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief all the provisions of this act have been complied with in such district, which affidavit shall be included in the trustees' annual report: and it shall be the duty of every school commissioner to file with the State superintendent of public instruction an affidavit in connection with his annual report showing all districts in his jurisdiction that have, and those that have not, complied with all the provisions of this act, according to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief, based on a thorough investigation by him as to the facts; nor shall any public money of the State be apportioned or paid for the benefit of any teachers' training class, teachers' institute, or other school mentioned herein, until the officer having jurisdiction or supervision thereof shall have filed with the State superintendent of public instruction an affidavit that he has made a thorough investigation as to the facts, and that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief all the provisions of this act relative thereto have been complied with. The principal of each normal school in the State shall, at the close of each of their school years, file with the State superintendent of public instruction an affidavit that all the provisions of this law applicable thereto have been complied with during the school year just terminated, and until such affidavit shall be filed no warrant shall be issued by the State superintendent of public instruction for the payment by the treasurer of any part of the money appropriated for such school. It shall be the duty of the State superintendent of public instruction to provide blank forms of affidavit required herein for use by the local school officers, and he shall include in his annual report a statement showing every school, city, or district which has failed to comply with all the provisions of this act during the preceding school year. On complaint by appeal to the State superintendent of public instruction by any patron of the schools mentioned in the last preceding section, or by any citizen, that any provision of this act has not been complied with in any city or district, the State superintendent of public instruction shall make immediate investigation, and on satisfactory evidence of the truth of such complaint shall thereupon and thereafter withhold all public money of the State to which such city or district would otherwise be entitled, until all the provisions of this act shall be complied with in said city or district, and shall exercise his power of reclamation and deduction under section nine of article one of title two of the consolidated school law. (Pages 104-108.) * NORTH CAROLINA. [From Public School Law of North Carolina, 1901.] SEC. 37. * * The branches taught in the public schools shall be orthography, defining [reading], writing, drawing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, language lessons, history of North Carolina, including the constitution of the State, history of the United States, including the Constitution of the United States, physiology, hygiene, nature and effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, elements of civil government, elements of agriculture, theory and practice of teaching, and such other branches as the State board of education may direct. (Page 25.) AN ACT to establish a text-book commission (ratified February 8, 1901). * SEC. 2. * * 營 It shall not be lawful for any school officer, director, or teacher to use any other books upon the same branches other than those adopted by said State text-book commission. Said uniform series shall include the following branches, to wit: Orthography, defining, reading, writing, drawing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, language lessons, history of North Carolina, containing the constitution of the State, history of the United States, containing the Constitution of the United States, physiology, hygiene, nature and effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, elements of civil government, elements of agriculture, theory and practice of teaching: *. (Page 40.) * * |