Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-29
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ ACT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
a NJ a II

approved February %, 1891
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 q child or children, between the |
ages Of eight and fourteen years, shall be re-
quired 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 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 acquired the ordinary
branches OF learning taught in the public
school; provided, in case public school shall
not be taught for the 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 ta1ght 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
tiou of four school months, to the Board OF
| School Trustees, that any parent, guardian oi
| other person having charge or control Of any
child, or children, shall have failed to comply
| with the provisions of this act, the Board shal
cause demand to be made upon such parent
guardian, or other person, for the amount oi
tine penalty herinsfter provided; when, if sucl
| parent, guardian, or other person shall neglect
or refuse to pay the same within five days aftei
the making of such demand, the Board shal
commence proceedings, in the name of the
school district for the recovery Of the fine here
matter provided, before ary Justice of the Peac,
in the township in which said school district
is located; or If there shall be no Justice Of tn,
Peace therein. then before the nearest Justice Of
| the Peace in the county.
Sec. 8. 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 fine Of not less thar
|
for the first offense nor less than one hundred
dollars. nor more than two hundred dollars, fol
the second and each subsequent otfense, beside,
the costs OF collection.
Sec. 4 Whenever 1t 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 ant
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 it shall be the duty Of
such Board to procure or cause to be procured
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 are
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 III
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. 1t shall be the duty Of the County
Superintendent of Public Schools in each county
J in this State to cause this law to be published
in sUme newspaper in his county. If any there
be, four consecutive times, annually, for pc
riod of two years. the expense Of such publica
ton to be allowed and paid out of the Genera
, Sckool Fund of the county. The Board O.
School Trustees in each school district shal
canse to be posted, annually, for period o. two
years. in three public places in their district, no
tices Of the requirements and penalties OF TIM
act.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be ii
force from and after its passage. jl5.it