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**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  **~~CNERSECLERS** ***yTORNEY**

**GENERIL**

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Of ~UC84tiOIi 8 **DiVirion** Of iiOa.lth ana Physical Education, the prbary **purporo** 0r vhic!; **18** co encourrge better Cour8e8 in hwlth ti physical education throughout 811 the grade8 Of Lhe 8ChoO1 ViLfr **particular** cmphnels upon **phy8iCd** tralnlng **eour888** in the last ivo year8 of the hLgh rchool. The DiVi8iOn or Qupervislo~ u;iiCurrlculua of the Qtaio Deparment of Education in lu latoat bulletin **recomendr** thar p4qiology be Laugh; **at** Khe ninth **gmdo level**  l **6 a**  credit course 8.ndthat health and phyalcal oducaLlon bo **taught** at th8 l leV8nth **or** tvalfth grade **lOV818 &8**  **a** credit ooumo.

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### ‘%%m **Textbook** Com.irrlon 

### authorhod **by** thi8 AOt 8m **h4V6 WtboPit~**  **t0 8ObCt**  **ti** WiOpt l WlfOm **8y8f.U Of**  WXtbOOk8 **t0** be U88d **in th6**  **$UbliO fF6a**  **80&018 Of**  **l ’** **Oxx8, md**  **tb book8**  80 88hCt.d Md dOpL8d **8hal1** be **pX'iXlt6d in**  **the -1i8il**  **1lmgU48, 8nd**  **8m1 inClUd8**  **Uid** be limited 

### to toxtbook6 on 

### the **follovlng rub**  Jectr, 89.11&@, **CUdiIQ,** Ellg118h **1-*8** **md** grrplar,



### geogmphy, l **iLkaPetic,** phyriology-hygiene, civil government, hirLory of the United aLaLea (ln vhlch the con8trucrlon placed on the Federal Conrtitutlon by the father8 of the Confoder6cy 8h811 be 

### fairly **reyrebented), NsLsry**  **of** Texar, 

### agriculture, **A** 

### 8y8t6n **of** VrLKiXXg **book8,** l 8y8tU Of **dWing** bOOk8, Md Uy &80, if **d80IS6d** mC888w, rdO$t l g8Ogti$hy Of 'fOXa Md a **Civil** gOVeX%WXXt Of T6,xr8;pl'oVid6d-iho$ noIl6Of Iaid book8 rhall contti 8nyLhlng of a partL8an or rectarlan character, snd LhaL nlthlng ln **this** Act shall **be** consLru6d LO yre'feniLhe tdrching of GCRUFA&I,

Bohemian, Spenlsh, Fi%ACh, LaSti, Orgon. L. A. Yoods - rag* 4

**Orrek** ln any of the pub110 l ohools.
%ld Textbook Cammlsslon sJml1 also adopt l arltlplo list of books for use ln t&eblgh 

### saJaools or **the** 

### 8tat0, said mult1p1. list 1na1udlng 

### not rover than **thr..** (3) no? 1000 **than** fir. (5) **tutbooks** on tha folloviry subjootsr algobn, glame l rautry, Solid 6O-tF7, 6Ul.m SOiMOO, bioloq, ~~siO8, ohamlst~, b one-yew #Moral history, uloIont hlstor~, modrmhIstory,morIarrr hlstory,Utln,bpml~, ohyslaxl geogmp4, mgllsh co4msltlon, history of Anricxn litomtu~o, hlrto~ of wlrh llteraturs, **g4SiOlw,** ~l’i.tUM, **M OiVil**  **6OtWMOlbt Uld**  **iOr,** l oh high school braaah of study any OIU or srror8l 

### or tk83 tab00k8 OS raid matip ti8t adopted SOP the subjaot my br releotod$ prorldad, hovetar, tht the 

### sweral textbooks do 

### not oxcod the xllonbh **number** .Q8ittiMt to on. textbook for aad used Ln MJ hQh sob001 88 **tha** toxtbook o? In suah x brumh io tb8t ayh r o&ol,

but w&n l 

### uah **book** 

### or hooks 18 or 81% so 

### a&sea **bf** loaxl ruthorltlos fro ths multIdo llsr; adopted auah book or booka &al1 ba **aontlnued** la that high school for tha uhtlra fit0 (5) pars of t5e 

### adoption porlod. rmvia04, hovrrrr, tbt 

### thamultiplo 

### list hareuh provldau 

### ror shll bpply to all high sobaols alxssd by 

### the Dapxrtnant or ~o4tlan as hi& schools of iA* **first** olus. **Par** us0 in all other high sohools a unIfonr s-tom of **textbooks** an mob **subjrat** wntloaad abors shsll **bo** srlectod by tno 00a8rian~ pr0ria0d, tmi irr my oity or ~~~O~OIKIML l ohool 

### dlstrlot hxvlq more t&u 

### ana high sobool of the first 01~88 sxld 8ity or indrponduh school 

### dlstriot s&l1 

### adopt from said multlplo list for use ln rrch of s8lA hi@ sohools t-ha sua books ami shall use s&M books so adopted for a period of **not** less than fit0 (5) yosrs.

n8peclflc rules as to the manner of the selection of **books by**  the high school shall **be made**  **by** who **State Textbook**  **f.%mlsslon.**

“The coamisslon, as heroin provided for, shall adopt tsxLbook8 in accordance vlth tireprorlslons of this Act 

### for every public free school in thin 8tet0 **ubd** 80 **prblio** 

### r-0 sohoo~in this 8tato shall uso my tutbook unless sari lms **beon** provlously adopted and approved **by this**  ooiuisslon~ 

### and tJw com**mission** shall **prescribe rules**  under vhlch all Lox\;- books sdopted and approved shall be in\.roduced orgon. L. A. Y0od8 - Page 5

used by or lo thr pub110 solrools or tha &ate. ‘fa the wuat ls many as thraa sultabla texts 

### are sot offand ior 

### adoption on uw one **subjrot,** 

### the aomlsslon UJ srloot iaVer 

### tha thaw (3) text*.



### Wara oontraots sml not k m00t0a b* Y **adoptians mado**  under **this** Aat. AB **uuulod** AOtS 

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1.' 48 corpus

Juris, 0. U78, dofiaes

the tern ‘Jhyslology” u follovsr

“Pbj81010g7. TM 

### s~uaco 0r thr tunctlons or al.1t;he

affrersnt parts uid orgaas of 8nl.uls aad 

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### breach of blologf deal& vlth the prowesses, batl*Itlrs 4nd phanoraaa inaiaaatal to and ohanoterIstla ot ur0 

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### th0 iurrcti08i8 0r thr 0rgw, ti88u0h oells, eta. dur* lire, as distlnot from aa4t vhich 6uls with **thair stmoture.**  Tbs tidal

tha pheaomaaa 0fmantallIfe lra usually n&dad bs outside the or-m SaOm of p481010qt:

Corpus Jurls Qacuadum, Vol. 42, p. 

### 36ir, defines the tern mQgieM’ as follovsl

“qgleno , A noun derived fru the Oreat vord ‘RJgela J a systoa of prlnciphs and niLeD designed for the promotton of hsalth.”

Corpus Jurls, Vol. 19, p. 1015, dsflnes "p4slc~l l ducatlonî

as follovsr 

### '?4sloal

fducatlon - The **term** Inoludes all that relates to the **derelopunt** and care of 

### thsorgurs of smsatlon and at ths **muscular** snd **nervous sysLems.** **’**BOO. 

### L. A. wood8 - PW 6

Artlolo 167Sb-5(o) provider 

### for the dlscontlmzrnce of the State Textbook Conlssion snd the **transfer** 

### 0s 

## it8 duties 

## ma run0~10~ to 

### the 8taLe 

### Boera 0r 

### Educet1on. Tour questioa is aasvored in the aegatlve, The rsglslatw has not 

### suthortsea the 8tate 

### Boml 0r 

### Muoetlon to jnwcbso textbooks on p4sioel l au0rtion.

ItI has l 

### uthorlsed that Board to pur ohuo 

### p4sloloff uml physlologp byglene textbooks.
Yours 

### veq truly 

### ATTORHBY

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