Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-02
COMPULSORY EDUCATION

TuyHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,
IL 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 a 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, i'll 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-
dence Of any person within the school district,
/ he or she Snail not he liable to the provisions
of this Act.
SIC. 2. 1t shall be the duty Of the Board oil
/ 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 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 ii shall be the
duty of the principal of each school in such dis
! trict to report to the Board Of School Trustees
/ of such district the names of children attending
school during the previous SCHOOL, month; VIII II,
if 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
have failed to comply with the provisions Of
this Act the Board shall cause demand to be
made upon such parent, guardian or other per-
son for the amount of the penalty hereinafter
4 provided, when if such parent, guardian or
other person shall neglect or refuse to pay the
same within five days after making such de-
maid, the Board shall commence proceedings
in the name of the school district for the recov-
cry of the fine hereinafter provided, before any
Justice Of the Peace in the township in which
said school district is located or, If there
should be no Justice of the Peace therein, then
before the nearest Justice of the Peace in the
county.
SEC. 3. Any parent guardian or other person
having control or charge of any child or chill.
dren, failing to comply with the provisions OF
, this Act shall be liable to n fine OF not less
than $50 nor more than 800 for the first ofense
nor less than 800 nSr more than 5000 for each
subsequent offense, besides the costs of collec
ton.
! SEC. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the salts
faction Of the Board of Trustees of any school
district in this State that the parents, guardians
or other persons having control and charge OF
any child or children in attendance upon any
} public school OF said district in accordance with
the provisions OF this Act, are unable to procure
D suitable books, stationery, etc, for such child
or children il shall he the duty OF such Board tc
procure or cause to be procured for such child
child or children all necessary books, station
cry, etc, the same to be paid for out of the fund
, OF said school district in the same way that
other claims against the school districts now
- allowed and paid; provided that all books, sta
D tionery, etc, purchased under the provisions Of
this Act shall be deemed to be the property OF
0 the school district, to be under the care and
) control of the School Trustees when not in &c
5 tual use. lFL- .aL
SEC. 8. All fines collected under the provision,
0 Of this Act shall be paid in to the County Treas
0 urer on account OF the State School Fund.
SEC. G. 1t shall be the duty Of the County Su
perintendent of Public Schools in each count,
0 IN this State to cause this law to he published
in some newspaper in his comfy, II any Their,
q be, four consecutive times annually for periot
of two years; the expense OF such publication
to be allowed and paid out OF the General Schoo
Fund of the county. The Board Of Schoo
o Trustees in each school district shall cause t,
% be posted annually, for period OF two years
o in three public places in their districts notice
Of the requirements OF this law.
o SEC. z. This Act shall take effect and be il
force from and after its passage.
Approved February 25, 1873 .y IN l.-.
% #' LOUIS SULTAN,
Superintendent Of Public Schools,
10 aps-4t, -tl Lincoln County, Nevada.