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oughly as are otlier brandies for not less than four lessons a week 

 for ten or more weeks in eacli year in all grades below the second 

 year of the high school in all schools under the State control or 

 supported wholly or in part by public money, and also in all 

 schools connected with reformatory institutions. All pupils must 

 continue such study till they have passed satisfactorily the re- 

 quired primary, intermediate, or high school test in the same, 

 according to their respective grades. All regents' examinations 

 in physiology and hygiene shall include a due proportion of ques- 

 tions on the nature of alcoholic drinks, tobacco, and other nar- 

 cotics, and their effects on the human system. The local school 

 authorities shall provide facilities and definite time and place for 

 this branch of the regular course of study. All pupils who can 

 read shall study this subject from suitable text-books, but pupils 

 unable to read shall be instructed in it orally by teachers using 

 text-books adapted for such instruction as a guide and standard, 

 and these text-books shall be graded to the capacities of primary, 

 intermediate, and high school pupils. For students below high- 

 school grade they shall give at least one fifth their space, and for 

 students of high-school grade shall give not less than twenty 

 pages to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other nar- 

 cotics, but pages on this subject in a separate chapter at the end 

 of the book shall not be counted in meeting the minimum, No 

 text-book on physiology not conforming to this act shall be used 

 in the public schools except so long as may be necessary to 

 fulfill the conditions of any contract existing on the passage of 

 this act. 



" 20. In all normal schools, teachers' training classes, and teach- 

 ers' institutes adequate time and attention shall be given to in- 

 struction in the best methods of teaching this branch, and no 

 teacher shall be licensed who has not passed a satisfactory exami- 

 nation in the subject and the best methods of teaching it. No 

 State school money shall be paid for the benefit of any district, 

 city, normal, or other school herein mentioned until the officer or 

 board having jurisdiction and supervision of such school has filed 

 with the ofiicer whose duty it is in each case to disburse the State 

 school money for such school an affidavit made by such ofiicer, or 

 by the president or secretary of such board, that he has made 

 thorough investigation as to the facts, and that to the best of his 

 knowledge, information, and belief all the provisions of this act 

 have been faithfully complied with during the preceding year. 



" Sec. 2. This act shall take effect August first, eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninety-five." 



Thus it comes to pass that Indiana is at last in line with her 

 sister States, and her children shall no longer be ignorant of " sci- 

 entific temperance," if text-books can give them knowledge. And 



