Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-07-23
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
"A NJ Act
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
[Approved February %, 1881

laPPToNeu feoruary 20 1851
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
ages OF eight and fourteen years, shall be re-
quired to send such child, or children, to a
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
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 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 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-
pci IL eacu year W Ine principal OF ehcn
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 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-
n fnlIH onhn n1 h., - e
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 herinafter 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 ary Justice of the Peace
in the township in which said school district
is located; or. If there shall be Justice of the
Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice o.
| the Peace in the county.
Sec. 3. Any parent, guardian or other persoi
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 thai
| nifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars
| for the first offense, nor less than one hundre
dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars 70
the second and each subsequent offense, beside
| the costs of collection.
| Sec. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the salts
| faction Of the Board of School 'rustees of an
school district in this State that the parents
| guardians or other persons having control an
| charge of any child, or children, in attendanc
upon the public school of said district in accort
ance with the provisions of this act, are unabl
to procure suitable books, stationery. ETC., fc
such child or childien, it shall be the duty {
| such Board to procure cause to be procure
for such child, or children, all necessary book
| stationery, etc., the same to be paid for out {
the fund of said school district, in the same wa
that other claims against the school district ar
now allowed and paid provided that all book
| stationery, etc, purchased under the provision
of this act shall be deemed to be the propert
of the school district, to be under the care an
and control of the School Trustees, when not /
actual use.
. Sec 8. All fines collected under the provision
of this act shall be paid into the County Trea
ury on account of the State School Fund.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be the duty of the Count
Superintendent OF Public Schools in each count
in this State to cause this law to be publsne
| in sOme newspaper in his county, if any thel
be, four consecutive times, annually, for p
riod of two years, the expense os such public
tion to be allowed and paid out of the Generi
School Fund of the county. The Board
School Trustees in each school district sha
cause to be posted, annually, for period OF tw
years, in three public places in their district, N,
tices OF the requirements and penalties of tn
act.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be
force from and after its passage. jl5-4t