Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-25
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
1H,HE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,
representcd in senate and Assembly. do

rENiE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,
II represented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION l. Every parent, guardian or other
person in the State Of Nevada, having control or
charge of child or children between the ages
Of eight and fourteen years shall be required
to send such child or children to public school
for period OF at least sixteen weeks in each
school year, at least eight weeks Of which shall
be consecutive, unless such child or children
are excused from such attendance by the Board
Of School Trustees of the school district in
which such parents or guardians reside, upon
its being shown to their satisfaction that the
bodily or mental condition of such child or
children has been such as to prevent his, her or
their attendance at school or application to
study for the period required, or that such child
or children are taught in private school or at
home in such branches as are usually taught in
primary schools, or have already acquired the
ordinary branches Of learning taught in the
public schools; provided, in case public school
shall not be taught for period of sixteen weeks
or any part thereof, during the year, within two
miles by the nearest travelled road of the resi-
dcnco Of any person within the school district,
he or she shall not be liable to the provisions
Of this Act.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be the duty OF the Board Of
school Trustees Of each school district in this
State, on or before the first Monday in Septem-
Der in each year, to furnish The principal of each
public school taught in such district with list
of all children, resident i'll the school district,
between the ages Of eight and fourteen years;
said list to be taken from the report of the
School Census Marshal. At the beginning Of
each school month thereafter it shall be the
duty Of the principal of each school in such dis
triCt 10 report to the Board Of School Trustees
Of such district the names of children attending
school during the previous school month; VIII n,
il it shall appear, at the expiration of four school
months, to the Board of School Trustees that
, any parent, guardian or other person having
charge or control Of any child or children shall
failed I ppmnly With the prpyisiOns OF
this Act, the Board shall cause demand to BE-
} made upon such parent, guardian or other per
B son for the amount Of the penalty hereinafter
D provided, when if such parent. guardian OIL
d other person shall neglect or refuse to pay tn,
1 same within five days after making such de
b mand, the Board shall commence proceeding
in the name of the school district for the recov
cry Of the fine hereinafter provided, before an,
Justice Of the Peace in the township in which
said school district is located; or, il Their
n should be no Justice of the Peace therein, thel
before the nearest Justice of the Peace in tn
O county.
1 SEC. 3. Any parent, guardian or other persol
; having control or charge of any child or chill
/ dren falling to comply with the provisions q
0 this Act, shall be liable to fine of not les
! than $50 more than 500 for the first oftenst
nor less than 800 nor more than 5000 for eac
o subsequent ofIcnse, besides the costs of collct
o ton.
q SEC 4. Whenever it shall appear to the sati'
faction 0f the Board of Trustees Of any schoC
district III THIS state That the parents, guardian
or other persons having control and charge
& any child or children in attendance upon an
10 public school of said district in accordance wit
the provisions Of this Act are unable to procul
10 suitable books stationery, etc, for such chilt
10 or children, 1T shall be the duty of such Board
procure or cause to be procured for such chill
child or children all necessary books, station
10 cry, etc the to be paid for out of the fun
10 of said school district in the same way ths
10 other claims against the school districts are no.
10 allowed and paid; provided, that all books, SIT
10 tionery. etc, purchased under the provisions
this Act shall be deemed to be the property
10 the school district, to be under the an
Is control Of the School Trustees when not in a.
Is tual use,
SEC. s. All fines collected under the provision
~ of this Act shall be paid in to the County Urea
80 urer on account of the State School Fund.
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty of the County S.
perintendent of Public Schools in each count
30 in this State to cause this law to be publisht
in some newspaper in his county, il any the
30 be, four consecutive times annually for periC
of two years; the expense of such publieati6
to be allowed and paid out of the General Soho
Fund of the county. The Board of Soho
80 be posted annually, for period of two year
80 in three public places in their districts motto
Of the requirements Of this law.
30 SEC Z. This Act shall take effect and be
force from and after its passage.
Approved February %, 1878.
50 LOUIS SULTAN,
Superintendent of Public Schools,
80 aps-lt Lincoln County, Nevada.