chapter VI

for the

## activities of pro-Southern groups in this period.

[217] Ratified March 4, 1905, _Laws_ of North Carolina, 1905, ch. 707, p. 863.

[218] _Laws_ of Florida, 1915, ch. 6939 (no. 133), Vol. I, p. 311. Approved June 3, 1915. The appropriation was not available until each of eleven ex-Confederate states, or a majority of them, did likewise. The governor of Florida was appointed to communicate with other Southern governors about carrying out the act.

[219] _Laws_ of Texas, 1907, ch. IX, p. 449. Approved May 14, 1907. The law of 1911 added general history to the list of books. _Laws_, 1911, ch. 11, sec. 4, p. 90.

[220] _Code_ of Georgia, 1910, art. 1, sec. 2, par. 1439, Vol. I, p. 367. Also _Laws_, 1903, sec. 2, p. 54. _Laws_ of Alabama, 1903, sec. 1, p. 167. _Code_ of Mississippi, 1906, ch. 125, 4595, p. 1246. _Laws_ of Kansas, 1915, ch. 297, p. 383.

[221] _Annotated Revision of the Statutes_ of Louisiana, 1915, 2519, Vol. I, p. 841 (sec. 3, act 214, 1912, p. 465). The books were to remain unchanged for a period of six years. _Laws_ of Indiana, 1913, ch. 58, p. 115. _Laws_ of Kansas, 1915, ch. 297, p. 383. In Indiana, the price of the history of the United States to be used in the common schools, could not exceed 65 cents. Burns’ _Annotated Statutes_ of Indiana, 1914, 6338 (5867), Vol. III, p. 253.

[222] _Laws_ of Nevada, 1901, p. 50. Approved March 8, 1901.

[223] _Revised Code_ of Idaho, 1908, sec. 574, Vol. I, p. 370; _Laws_ of 1907, sec. 3, p. 477. (Sen. Bill no. 84. Approved March 14, 1907.) There was also found on the statute books Idaho’s previous stipulation prohibiting political documents in the schools. _Compiled Statutes_, 1919, Vol. I, p. 297.

[224] _General Laws_ of California, 1913, ch. 482, art. 4542, p. 1713.

[225] _Laws_ of Ohio, 1892, p. 241; also _Code_, 1910, sec. 7719, p. 1635.

[226] _Statutes_ of New Mexico, 1915, par. 4959, sec. 153, Vol. II, p. 1429. Act of June 8, 1912. Legislation in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin included the stereotyped restriction regarding “matter of a

## partisan character.” See _Laws_ of West Virginia, 1909, ch. 23, sec.

4, p. 346; _General Statutes_ of Oklahoma, 1908, sec. 6324, p. 1313, _Laws_ of 1907, ch. 77, p. 681; _Statutes_ of Wisconsin, 1913, ch. 27, sec. 553m-12, p. 319, _ibid._, 1915, ch. 27 s 553m-12, p. 330.

[227] _Code_ of West Virginia, 1916, ch. 45, par. 165a, p. 599 (Acts of 1901, ch. 141).

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