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title: "20 U.S.C. § 113"
description: "Teachers’ certificates dependent on passing examination on effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics"
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title_number: 20
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# 20 U.S.C. § 113 - Teachers’ certificates dependent on passing examination on effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics

## Text

No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of the District of Columbia or Territories who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the nature and the effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics upon the human system.

(May 20, 1886, ch. 362, § 3, 24 Stat. 69.)