Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-07-07
SCHOOL LAW.
AN ACT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
Approved February 25th, 1871
AN ACT

Approved February 25th, 1871
The People Of the State Of Nerqda, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as folIo,os
SECTION l. Every parent, guardian, or
other person in the state of Nevada, having
control and charge Of a child, or children,
between the ages of eight and fourteen years,
shall be required to send such child. or chill
dren, 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 attendance 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, 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 school prorided, 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 residence of any person
within the school district, he or she shall
not be liable to the provisions of this Act.
Sec 2. It shall be the duty of the Board
of School Trustees of each school district IN
THIS STATE, on or before Dfft Npuuay III
September in each year, to furnish the pr1n-
eipal 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 there
| after 1t shall be the duty of the principal OF
| each school in such district to report to the
| Board of School Trustees of such district the
names of all children attending school during
| the previous school month; when, If it shall
| appear at the expiration 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 provi-
| sions of this Act, the Board shall cause de-
mand to be made upon such parent, guardian,
| or other person, for the amount of the penalty
| hereinafter provided; when, if such parent,
| guardian, other person, shall neglect or
refuse to pay the same within five days after
the making of said demand, the Board shall
commence proceedings, in the name OF the
school district, for the recovery of the fine
hereinafter provided, before any Justice of
the Peace in the township i'll 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 i'll the county.
Sec. 8. Any parent guardian, or other per-
son having control or charge of any child, or
children failing to comply with the provi-
sions of this Act shall be liable to fine of
NOT less tnan nifty dollars, nor more tLaIl oHS
hundred dollars, for the first offense, nor less
than one hundred dollars, nor more than two
hundred dollars, for the second and each sub
sequent offense, besides the costs of col
lection.
Sec. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the
satisfaction 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 accordance with the provisions of
this Act, are unable TO procure suitable books,
stationery, etc, for such child or children,
it 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; prouided that all
books, stationery, etc, purchased under the
provisions of this Act shall be deemes to be
the property of the school district, to be IN
der the care and control of the School
Trustees, when not in actual use.
Sec. 5. All fines collected under the pro-
visions of this Act shall be paid into the
County Treasury on account of the State
School Fund
Sec 8. 1t 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 some newspaper in his county, if
any there be, four consecutive times, annu-
ally, for period of two years the expense of
such publication to be allowed and paid out
of the General School Fund of tile county
The Board of School Trustees in each school
district shall cause to be posted, annually.
for period of two years, in three public
places in their district, notices of the re-
quirenents and penalties of this Act.
Sec. I. This Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.