Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-07-15
NEW TODAY.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ 40
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
Approved February IS, 1878.

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 fer o 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. 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. 1t shall be the
| duty of the principal OF each shool in such dis
| trct 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-
| ton 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 person, 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
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 AIRY Justice of the Peace
In the township in which said school district
is located or, If there shall be no Justice Of the
Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice Of
| the Peace in the 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 less than
| nifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars,
Tor the first offense, nor less than one hundred
| dollars, MOI more than two hundred dollars, for
the second and each subsequent offenss. besides
Sec. 4 Whenever it shall appear to the salts
faction Of the Board Of school trustees 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, for
| such child or childien, 1t 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 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 IN
actual use.
Sec s. All fines collected under the provision.
OF this act shall be paid into the County Treas
ury on account Of the State School Fund.
Sec 6. 1t shall be the duty of the Count,
Superintendent OF Public Schools in each COUNTY
In this State to cause this law to be published
in s0me newspaper in his county, if any Their,
be, four consecutive times, annually for a pc
rod of two years, the expense OF such publica
ton to be allowed and paid out of the Genera
School Fund OF the county. The Board O
School Trustees in each school district shal
cause to be posted, annually. for a period o. tw,
years. in three public places in their district. no
tees Of the requirements and penalties of thi.
| act
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after its passage. jl5-4t