Note 52 — Chapter II · Nationalism and Localism in History Legislation, 1860-1900
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Revised Statutes of Montana, 1879, sec. 1119, p. 646, prescribed United States history. Laws of Montana, 1871-72, p. 630; Revised Statutes, 1879, sec. 1128, p. 648; again on statute books, Laws, 1874, sec. 41, p. 132; Compiled Statutes, 1887, sec. 1900, p. 1187; Revised Code, 1907 (see act of March 11, 1895); Laws, 1913, ch. VI, 802, pt. 4, p. 245, for prescribing teaching of patriotism. This law was carried by Montana on her statute books for fifty years. In Washington it passed through a similar experience, being found in the Code of 1910. See Remington and Ballinger’s Code, 1910, sec. 4550, Vol. II, p. 490.