Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-28
COMPULSORY EDUCATION

NNHE 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 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
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 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 shall not be liable to the provisions
of this Act
SEC Q. 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 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 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 IN vii ha visip ~
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 or
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 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 tn,
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 o.
this Act, shall be liable to a fine Of not les,
than $50 nor more than 800 for the first offense
nor less than 500 nor more than $500 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 or children in attendance upon an,
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 chill,
child or children all necessary books, station
cry, etc, the same to be paid for out of the funt
of said school district in the same way tina
other claims against the school districts are nov
allowed and paid; provided that all books, sta
tionery, etc, purchased under the provisions o
this Act shall be deemed to be the property o
the school district, to be under the care ant
control of the School Trustees when not in &C
tual use.
Sec. 5. All fines collected under the provision
of this Act shall be paid in to the County Treas
urer on account of the State School Fund.
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty Of the County Su
perintendent of Public Schools in each count,
in some newspaper in his county il any Their
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 t.
be posted annually, for a period Of two years
in three public places in their districts notice
Of the requirements of this law.
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,
aps-4t Lincoln County, Nevada.