ed the
assembly, the vote being ninety-eight to two; March 10, 1884, Grover
Cleveland, then governor of the State of New York, signed the same, and
it thus became a law of the state. The text of the law is as follows:

AN ACT relating to the Study of Physiology and Hygiene in the Public
Schools.

SECTION I. Provision shall be made by the proper local school
authorities for instructing all pupils in all schools supported by
public money, or under state control, in physiology and hygiene, with
special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and
narcotics upon the human system.

SEC. 2. No certificate shall be granted any person to teach in the
public schools of the State of New York, after the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and eighty-five, who has not passed a satisfactory
examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the
effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human
system.

In 1883 the second petition for a prohibitory constitutional amendment
was presented to the senate and assembly. It was defeated in the house
by a vote of forty-two to fifty-four, and in the senate by a vote of
thirteen to eighteen. Yet these figures show that the prohibition tide
is rising.

In 1886 measures were taken toward securing a law prohibiting the sale
of intoxicants upon fair grounds. Mrs. H. Roscoe Edgett, of Fairport,
the superintendent of the department, was indefatigable in her efforts
to secure the law, but it was not until February 29, 1888, that the
following was enrolled on the statute-books of the state:

It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, have for sale, give away,
or have in his possession for the purpose of selling or giving away, on
the grounds or premises on or in which any state, county, town, or other
agricultural or horticultural fair is being held, any strong or
spirituous liquors, wine, ale, beer, or fermented cider; and it shall
not be lawful for any person to sell or give away strong or spirituous
liquors, wines, ales, beer, or fermented cider at any place within two
hundred yards of the grounds or premises on or in which any state,
county, town, or any other agricultural or horticultural fair is being
held. This act shall not be applicable to the city of New York.

Until 1887 the laws of the state were such that a child ten years old
could consent to her own ruin