Note 26 — Chapter I · The Period of Beginnings

Laws of Nebraska, 1855, par. 61, p. 220; ibid., 1858, p. 292; ibid., 1872, p. 55; ibid., 1881, sec. 5, pp. 359, 366; ibid., 1885, sec. 5, p. 327. The same subjects as in 1881 in Laws, 1901, ch. 66, p. 448; ibid., 1903, ch. 135, p. 559. Also Consolidated Statutes, 1891, ch. 44, 3624, p. 792; ibid., 1903, 5542, sec. 5. In 1891, there is a distinction made in the grades of certificates, requiring civil government and United States history in all but the lowest grade, Revised Statutes, 1913, ch. 71, art. XIII, 6857, sec. 158, p. 1913, 6859, sec. 160, p. 1914. In 1881 United States history and civics were added to the prescribed subjects for a second grade certificate, and for a professional state certificate general history, political economy, civil government and American history were required. In the forty years intervening between 1881 and 1921, there is no change in the prerequisites for county certificates, state certificates, and the additional certificates of more recent origin—city certificates—so far as the social studies are concerned, with the exception of the dropping of political economy from the required list by 1919. Laws of Nebraska, 1919, 1921, ch. 70, sec. 2, p. 262.