Chap. 132.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1497 of the code of
Virginia prescribing the subjects to be taught in the public free schools.

Approved January 24, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and ninety-seven of the code of Vi Irginia, prescribing
the subjects to be taught in the public free schools in the state, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows

$1497. What to be taught in the schools, —In ev ery public free school
shall be taught orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar,
geography, physiology and hygiene, history of the United States, and
history of Virginia. In the teaching of physiology and hygiene approved
text-books shall be used, plainly setting forth the effeets of alcohol and
other narcotics on the human svstem, and such effeets shall be as fully
and thoroughly taught as other branches of said last-named subjects.
No other subjects than those specified in this section shall be intro-
duced except as allowed by special regulations to be devised by the board
of education; but the superintendent of pubhe instruction is hereby
authorized to make arrangements for the gradual introduction of civil
government and drawing.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.