Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-07-16
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ ACT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
[Approved February %, 1881

approved February 25 1871
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
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 i'll private school, or at hone 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 a 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
| 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-
| tion of four school months, to the Board of
School Trustees, that any parent. guardian, or
| other person having charge 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, il 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 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
4 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 thar
fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars
for the first offense, nor less than one hundred
dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, fol
the second and each subsequent offense, beside,
the costs of collection
Sec, 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 anC
charge of any child, or children, in attendanc
upon the public school of said district in accord
anee with the provisions of this act are unabl
to procure suitable books, stationery etc, TO
such child, or childien, it shall be the duty o
such Board to procure cause to be procure,
for such child or children, all necessary books
stationery, etc, the same to be paid for out o
the fund of said school district, i'll the same wa,
that other claims against the school district ar
now allowed and paid; provided that all books
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 il
actual use.
Sec 8. All fines collected under the provision
of this act shall be paid into tts County Treas
ury on account of the State school Fund.
Sec G, 1t shall be the duty OF the Count
Superintendent of Public Schools in each count
, in this State to cause this law to be publisher
in sJme newspaper in his county if any ther
be, four consecutive times, annually, for DC
, ton to be allowed and paid out of the (ieners
School Trustees in each school district shal
cause to be posted annually, for a period OF tw
years in three public places in their district nc
tiees of the requirements and penalties of thi
, act.
Sec. I. This act shall take effect and be il
, force from and after its passage. jl5.4t