[88] Acts of West Virginia, 1869, pp. 56, 104. For the law prescribing the oath, Code of West Virginia, 1868, ch. 45, 32, p. 299; Acts, 1863, ch. 106, p. 138. Constitution, ibid., ch. IX, p. 76. On February 7, 1870, this law was reënacted and amended. Code, op. cit., ch. 14, 32, p. 739 of Appendix.
[89] Laws of Missouri, 1865-6, par. 89, p. 189.
[90] Acts of Arkansas, 1868, sec. 61, p. 182. Again in Acts, 1873, sec. 64, p. 412. Repealed by an act of 1875.
[91] Code of Oregon, 1862, sec. 9, p. 40.
[92] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, 1865, pp. 126-127. The Twentieth Annual Report on the Public Schools in Rhode Island made to the General Assembly at the January Session, A.D. 1865.
[93] Laws of Arizona, 1883, pp. 41 and 157, ibid., 1885, p. 146. The law made it a duty of superintendents of public instruction or county superintendents of schools to administer the following oath, but there was no separate law prescribing that a teacher take such an oath: “I, ——, do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States and the laws of the territory of Arizona; that I will true faith and allegiance bear to the same, and defend them against all enemies whatsoever, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office (name of office) according to the best of my ability, so help me God.”
[94] Laws of North Dakota, 1897, par. 742, p. 109; ibid., 1901, p. 99; ibid., 1905, p. 206. This statute was in the School Laws published in 1923. In 1900, North Dakota’s total population was 319,146 with a foreign population of 113,091.
[95] Laws of Idaho, 1897, sec. 17, p. 85, ibid., 1899, p. 310; Code, 1901, ch. XL, Vol. I, p. 330. This law is found as late as 1921. Also Compiled Statutes, 1919, par. 946, Vol. I, p. 270. In 1900, Idaho’s population was 161,772, of which 24,604 were foreigners.
[96] Laws of Nevada, 1907, ch. CLXXXII, sec. 30, p. 386; also Revised Statutes, 1912, sec. 3277, also Revised Laws, 1861-1912, 370, sec. 2, Vol. I, p. 113. Out of a total population, in 1900, of 42,335 Nevada’s foreign population was 10,093.
[97] New Hampshire, Virginia and Louisiana.