Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-27
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
VNHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,
II represented in Senate and Assembly, do

TNHE 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 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 i'll
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 shall not be liable to the provisions
Of this Act.
SEC, .. It 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 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 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
provided, when If such parent, guardian OF
other person shall neglect or refuse to pay the
same within five days after making such de.
mand, the Board shall commence proceedings
in the name of the school district for tho 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 tlt
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 fine of not lesi
than $50 nor more than 500 for the first offense
nor less than 500 nor more than 5000 for eacl
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 schoo
district in this State that the parents, guardians
or other persons having control and charge o.
any child children in attendance upon any
public school of said district in accordance witt
the provisions Of this Act, are unable to procur,
suitable books, stationery, etc. for such child
or children it shall be the duty of such Board Il
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 are now
allowed and paid; provided, that all books, sta.
tionery, etc, purchased under the provisions OF
this Act shall be deemed to be the property Of
the school district, to be under the care and
control Of the School Trustees when not in &C
tual use
SEC. 5. All fines collected under the provisions
OF this Act shall be paid in to the County Treas
urcr on account of the State School Fund
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty of the County Su
perintendent of Public Schools in each county
in this State to cause this law to be published
in some newspaper in his county, if any there
J 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
Trustees in each school district shall cause tC
J be posted annually, for period of two years
in three public places in their districts notices
of the requirements of this law.
J SEC. Z. This Act shall take effect and be il
force from and after its passage.
Approved February 25, 1873.
, LOUIS SULTAN
Superintendent of Public Schools,
J apS-4t Lincoln County, Nevada.