Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-22
COMPULSORY EDUCATION

vuVHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, |
IL represented i'll Senate and Assembly, 40
enact as follows:
SECTION /. 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 apublic 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, ill 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 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 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
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have failed to comply with the provisions o
this Act. the Board shall cause demand to b
made upon such parent, guardian or other per
son for the amount Of the penalty hereinafte
provided, when if such parent, guardian o.
other person shall neglect or refuse to pay tn
same within five days after making such de
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 whcl
said school district is located; or, il ther
should be no Justice of the Peace therein, the
before the nearest Justice Of the Peace in til
county.
SEC. 3. Any parent guardian or other perso
having control or charge Of any child or chi
dren, failing to comply with the provisions
this Act, shall be liable to fine of not les
than $50 nor more than 500 for the first otfcns'
nor less than 500 nor more than 5000 for eac
subsequent ofense, besides the costs of collie
ton.
SEC. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the sat
faction of the Board of Trustees of any schot
district in this State that the parents, guardian
or other persons having control and charge
any child or children in attendance upon al
public school Of said district in accordance wit
the provisions Of this Act, are unable to procul
suitable books, stationery, ETC., for such chill
or children 1T shall be the duty of such Board
procure or cause to be procured for such Chi
= child or children all necessary books, STATIC
cry etc, the same to be paid for out Of the fur
of said school district in the same way tn
other claims against the school districts are no
allowed and paid; provided, that all books, st
tionery, ETC., purchased under the provisions
q this Act shall be deemed to be the property
the school district, to be under the care al
control of the School Trustees when not in a
tual use.
SEC. 8. All fines collected under the provision
OF this Act shall be paid in to the County Urea
urer on account of the State School Fund.
SEC. g. 1t shall be the duty Of the County S
perintendent of Public Schools in each coun
in this State to cause this law to be publish,
in some newspaper in his county, if any the
be, four consecutive times annually for periC
Of two years; the expense of such publicatit
to be allowed and paid out of the General Soho
Fund Of the county. The Board of Soho
Trustees in each school district shall cause
be posted annually, for period Of two year
in three public places in their districts motto
of the requirements of this law.
SEC. Z. This Act shall take effect and be
force from and after its passage.
Approved February Is, 1873.
LOUIS SULTAN,
Superintendent of Public Schools,
apS-4t Lincoln County, Nevada.