Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-08
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ ACT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.

approved February 25, 1881
The People of the State of Nevada, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. Every parent, guardian, or other |
person in the State of Nevada. having control |
and charge Of . child, or children, between the |
ayes Of eight and fourteen years, shall be re-
quired to send such child, or children, to q
public school for period Of at least sixteen
weeks in each school year, ut least eight weeks
OF which shall be consecutive, unless such
child, or children. are excused from such at
tendance 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, ire
taught In private school, or at home. In such
branches as are usually taught in primary
schools. or have already scquired the ordinary
branches of learning taught in the public
school; provided, in case public school shall
not be taught tor the period uf 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. HftE TsE.a 1-- y
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 Ia light 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 shool in such dis
| trict to report to the Board of School Trustees
of such district the names of all children at
tending school during the previous school
month; when, If it shall appear at the expira-
tion OF four school months, to the Board OF
school Trustees, that any parent. guardian, OF
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, OF other person. for the amount OF
the penalty herinafter provided; when, II such
parent guardian, or other person shall neglect
or refuse to pay the same within five days aftei
the making of such demand, the Board shall
commence proceedings, in the name of the
school district. for the recovery Of the fine here
matter provided, before III Justice OF the Peace
In the township in whieh said school district
is located or, if there shall be no Justice OF The
Peace ther sin then before the nearest Justice Of
the Peace in the county atI
Sec. s. Any parent, guardian or other person
having coptrol or charge Of any child, or chill
dren. failing to comply with the provisions Of
this act, shall be liable to fine Of not less thar
nifty dollars, nor more tLan one hundred dollars
for the first offense. nor less than one hundred
dollars noI more than two hundred dollars, fol
the second and each subsequent offense, besidei
the costs OF collection.
Sec Whenever it shall appear to the salts
faction Of the Board of School rustees 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 the public school Of said district. IN accord
ance with the provisions of this act, are unable
to procure suitable books, stationery. etc., fol
such child, or childien, il shall be the duty Of
such Board to procure or cause to be procured
for such child, or children, all necessary books
stationery, 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 district ART
now allowed and paid; provided that all books
stationery, 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
and control of the school Trustees. when not II
actual use.
Sec s. All fines collected under the provisions
of this act shall be paid into the County Treas
ury on account Of the State School Fund.
Sec g.. It shall be the duty Of the County
Superintendent OF Public Schools in each county
} in this State to cause this law to be published
. | in y me Newspaper in his county, II any there
e b. four consecutive times. annually. for pc
| riod of two years, the expense Os such publica
, tion to be allowed and paid out of the Genera
Q \ Sckool Fund Of the county. The Board o.
r school Trustees In each school district shal
d cause to be posted annually, for peri d o. two
0 years. in three public places in their district, no
tees Of the requirements and penalties OF thii
: | set.
! Sec. I. This act shall take effect and be II
force from and after its passage. t6'As