Note 122 — Chapter II · Nationalism and Localism in History Legislation, 1860-1900
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Revised Statutes of North Carolina, 1872-3, sec. 59, p. 583. This provided that “no sectarian or political textbooks or influences shall be used in any public school.” In Georgia the law prescribed that “the county board of education shall not be permitted to introduce into the schools any text-book or miscellaneous books of a sectarian or sectional character.” Code of Georgia, 1882, part 1, title XIII, ch. V, par. 1274, p. 270; also Acts of 1872, sec. XXXIII, p. 75; also Laws, 1887, sec. XXIII, p. 74.