Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-24
COMPULSORY EDUCATION

yENHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,
4 represented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION /. 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 q 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-
drncc of any person within the school district
he or she shall not be liable to the provisions
Of this Act
SEC. . 1t shall be the duty of the Board Of
School Trustees of each school district In TINS
state on or before the first Monday i'll SeptCm-
Der in each year to furnish The principal of each
, public school taught in such district with list
Of all children, resident in 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 i'll such dis
! trict to report to the Board of School Trustees
4 Of such district the names of children attending
/ school during 'he previous school month; VIII II,
If il shall appear at the expiration of four school
months, to the Board of School Trustees that
1 any parent guardian or other person having
charge or control of any child or children shall
have failed to comply with the provisions OF
this Act the Board shall cause demand to be
n made upon such parent. guardian or other per
O son for the amount of the penalty hereinafter
a provided, when if such parent, guardian OF
a other person shall neglect or refuse to pay the
3 same within five days after making such de
a mand, the Board shall commence proceedings
in the name of the school district for the recov
3 cry Of the fine hereinafter provided, before any
Justice Of the Peace in the township in which
said school district is located; or, if ther,
A should be no Justice of the Peace therein, theI
before the nearest Justice of the Peace in thu
% county.
s SEC, 3. Any parent, guardian or other person
4 having control or charge of any child or chill
< dren, failing to comply with the provisions o
"a this Act, shall be liable to fine of not les
8 than $50 nor more than 500 for the first ofense
nor less than 500 nor more than 5000 for eacl
10 subsequent otiense, besides the costs of collec
10 ton.
"a SEC 4. Whenever it shall appear to the salts
faction Of the Board Of Trustees Of any schoo
district in this State that the parents, guardian
or other persons having control and charge o
IL any child or children in attendance upon an
50 public school of said district in accordance wit
the provisions Of this Act, are unable to procur
50 suitable books, stationery, ETC., for such child
80 or children it shall be the duty of such Board
procure or cause to be procured for such chill
child or children all necessary books, station
30 cry, ETC. the same to be paid for out of the fun
80 of said school district in the same way tina
80 other claims against the school districts are
80 allowed and paid provided, that all books, sta
80 tiOnery, etc, purchased under the provisions 0
this Act shall be deemed to be the property q
80 the school district, to be under the care an
Is control Of the School Trustees when not in nc
Is tual use.
SEC. 3. All fines collected under the provision
20 of this Act shall be paid in to the County Treas
so urer on account of the State School Fund.
SEC. G. 1t shall be the duty of the County 81
perntendent Of Public Schools in each count
50 in this State to cause this law to be publishe
in some newspaper in his county, if any theI
so be, four consecutive times annually for perio
of two years; the expense of such pubcatio
to be allowed and paid out of the General SchoC
Fund OF the county. The Board of Schot
so Trustees in each school district shall cause
80 be posted annually for period Of two year
90 in three public places in their districts motto,
Of the requirements Of this law.
so SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and be
force from and after its passage.
Approved February 20, 1873.
so LOUIS SULTAN,
Superintendent of Public Schools,
80 apS-it Lincoln County, Nevada