[209] Code of Georgia, 1910, art. 7, par. 1528, Vol. I, p. 395. See page 96 for North Carolina’s law setting aside October twelfth for commemoration. The next chapter continues the discussion for laws passed after 1917.
[210] Digest of Arkansas Statutes, 1916, sec. 9654, p. 2166.
[211] Laws of Maryland, 1904, sec. 47, p. 991.
[212] Laws of Minnesota, 1911, ch. 81, sec. 1, p. 97. The day known as Minnesota Day was designated by the superintendent of public instruction by proclamation, the governor concurring.
[213] Laws of Montana, 1913, ch. XIV, 1400, p. 263. In this year the first Monday in November was named. A previous law, 1903, provided for an observance on the last Friday in May. (Laws, 1903, ch. LXXXVIII, p. 161.)
[214] Laws of Missouri, 1915, p. 301.
[215] Laws of Illinois, 1919, Sen. Bill, no. 238, p. 894. In a case such as this the law has been discussed here rather than in the following chapter. The chronological limits of the chapters have not always been strictly adhered to.
[216] Approved March 11, 1904. The law also prohibited “partisan” books. Laws of Mississippi, 1904, ch. 86 (S. B. no. 51), p. 116. Also Code, 1906, ch. 125, 4595, p. 1246. Cf. 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.