[108] Laws of Kansas, 1899, ch. 176, p. 357. It was required that the general history textbook must equal Myers’ General History and the English history must equal Montgomery’s English History.
[109] Laws of Montana, op. cit.
[110] Laws of South Dakota, 1891, par. 11, p. 239.
[111] Laws of Missouri, 1897, sec. 5, p. 23. Approved March 31, 1897.
[112] Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, 1894, ch. 139, sec. 6975, p. 1519. Act of December 7, 1875. Also in Digest, 1904, sec. 7531, p. 1543; ibid., 1916, sec. 9379, p. 2132.
[113] Laws of Arkansas, 1899, sec. 5, p. 148.
[114] Laws of Idaho, 1884-85, p. 185; Laws of California, 1883-84, ch. VIII, sec. 1, p. 6.
[115] Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, sec. 1, Vol. X, p. 145; Code of Alabama, 1897, art. 18, 1810.
[116] Indeed, as early as 1842, New Hampshire had prescribed that “no book shall be directed to be used as a school book which is calculated to favor any particular religious or political sect or tenet.” Revised Statutes of New Hampshire, 1842, ch. 73, sec. 12, p. 151; Compiled Statutes, 1853, sec. 13, p. 178; General Laws, 1878, ch. 89, sec. 12, p. 217.
[117] Laws of Mississippi, 1890, ch. 74, p. 88. The state superintendent, governor, and attorney-general were made a committee “to examine the various textbooks upon United States history and recommend with their approval such works as accord with their best judgment.”