Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-09-30
TEN P1RA ANCE.

OFFICE OF TERRITORIAL CONTROLLER \
And ex-otlicio superintendent OF
Public Instruction
Boise City, Idaho, June 2s, 1886.
To the County Superintendent OF
schools, Trustees of school districts,
and school teachers in Idaho Ter.
ritory.
GENTLEMAN:-Your attention is
hereby called to the following enactment
Of the congress of the United States of
America, approved on the 2o,h day of
May, 1886.
An act to provide for the study of the
nature Of alcoholic drinks and narcotics,
aud of their effects upon the human
system, in connection with the several
divisions of the subject of physiology and
hygiene, by the pupils in the public
schools of the territories and OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, and 10 the Military
and Naval Academies, and Indian and
colored schools in the territories of the
United States.
BE ii enacted By the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States Of America in Compress
assembled, That the nature Of alcoholic
drink and narcotics, and special instruc
tion as to their effects upon the human
system, in connection with the several
divisions Of the subject of physiology
and hygiene, shall be included in the
branches Of study taught in the common
and public schools, aud in the Military
and Naval schools, and shall be studied
and taught as thoroughly and in the
same manner as other like required
branches are in said schools, by the use
of xt.books in the hands OF pupils
where other branches are thus studied in
said schools, and by all pupils in all said
schoos throughout the territories, in the
in the Military and Naval Academies Of
the United States, and in the District OF
Columbia, and in all Indian and colored
schools in the territories of the United
States.
SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of
the proper officers in control of any
school described in the foregoing section
to enforce the provisions of this act. and
any such officer, school director, CON-
mittcc, superintendent, or teacher who
shall refuse or neglect to comply with the
requirements of this act, or shall neglect
or fail to make proper provisions for the
instruct on required and in the manner
specified by the first section of this act,
for all pupils in each and every school
under his jurisdiction, shall be removed
from 1fiice, ard the vacancy filled as 10
other cases.
SEC. }. That no certificate shall be
granted to any person to teach in the
public schools of the District OF Columbia
or territories, after the first day of
January, ammo Domini eighteen hundred
and eighty eight, who has not passed
satisfactory examination in physiology
aud hygiene, with special reference to
the nature and the effect of alcoholic
drinks and other narcotics upon the
human system.
Approved, May 90, 1886.
You are Therefore requested to at once
adopt such text books as may be proper
and necessary to carry out the provisions
of the above law. and to enforce their use
in the schools under your control, as
persclibed thereby Neglect or failure
Oh your part to comply with said law
will be cause for your removal from your
office or position.
Very Respectfully your odcdiept servant.
SILAS w. MOODY,
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Idaho Territory.