Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-01
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ ACr
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
a NJ ACr

lApproved February %, 1873
The People of the State of Nevada, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact rs follows:
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 re-
quired to send such child, or children, to a
public school for a 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 ut 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, it shall be tht
| 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 schoo
month; when, If it shall appear at the expira
| tion OF four school months, to the Board o
| School Trustees. that any parent guardian, OF
other person having charge or control OF an,
child, or children, shall have failed to compl!
| with the provisions of this act, the Board shall
cause demand to be made upon such parent
guardian, or other person, for the amount o
| the penalty herinafter provided; when if suci
parent, guardian, or other person shall neglec
or refuse to pay the same within five days afte
the making of such demand, the Board shal
commence proceedings, in the name of til
school district for the recovery OF the fine here
matter provided, before ary Justice of the Peac
in the township in which said school distric
is located or, if there shall be no Justice OF tn
Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice o
the Peace in the county.
Sec. 3. Any parent. guardian or other persol
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
fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars
for the first ohense. nor less than one hundre
uOildIs, LoI iuOTt tlidH TWO HuDurcu uOllhrS, 10
the second and each subsequent ofiense, 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 an
charge of any child, or children, in attendanc
upon the public scheOl Of said district in accord
ance with the provisions of this act, are unabl
to procure suitable books, stationery, etc., fo
such child, or childien, it shall be the duty G
such Board to procure or 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, in 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 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 count
in this State to cause this law to be publisne
in sUme newspaper in his county, If any ther
be, four consecutive times, annually. for pc
riod Of two years, the expense OF such publica
tion to be allowed and paid out Of the Genera
Sckool Fund Of the county. The Board O
School Trustees in each school district shal
cause to be posted, annually, for period o; tw
years. in three public places in their district, nc
tices Of the requirements and penalties of thi
act.
Sec. T. This act shall take effect and be il
force from and after its passage. tl5-4t