Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-07-09
SCHOOL LAW.
AN ACT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.

The People of the State Of Nerada represented
in Senate and assembly, do enact asfotlorcs'
SECTION 1. 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 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 a 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. 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
September in each year, to furnish the prin-
cipal 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, it 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 1t shall
appear, at the expiration of four school
months, to the Board of school Trustees, tina.
any parent, guardian, or other person hayiIs.
charge or control of any child, or children,
shall have failed to comply with the proyi-
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, or 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 i'll 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 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 than fifty dollars, nor more than one
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 snd 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
1t shall be the duty of such Board to procure
or cause to be procured, for such child. OF
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; preceded 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 IN
der the care and control of the School
Trustees, wnen 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 g. 1t shall be the duty of the County
Superintendent of Public Schools in each
county i'll this State to cause this law to be
published III SOME newspaper IN las 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 the 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-
quirements and penalties of this Act
Dec. I. This Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.