The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-02-27
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

0sHE PEOPLE OF TIE STATE or NEsAD
i represented in Senate and assembly, "
enact as follows
SEcT1oa Every parent, guardian OF otneI
person in the State Of Nevada, having controi
or charge of child or children between the aees
OF eight and fourteen years, shall De requires =
send such child or children to a public scnooi
for q period of at least sixteen weeks IN eaon
school year at least eight OF which snali Decon-
~secutiye. unless such child or children are e1-
cused from such attendance by the board
School Trustees Of the school district in when
such parents or guardians reside, upon It's peinS
shown to their satisfaction that Inc pOdIIy =
mental condition of such child or cnlldren nan
been such as to prevent his, or their ATTENDANCE
at school or application to study for the PERIOD
required. or that such child or children are
taught in q private school or at nome, III sncn
branches as are usually taught In primary
schools, or have already acquired the ordinaIy
branches of learning taughtin the public schoo':
provided, in case a public school snail not pe
taught for the period Of sixteen weeks, or any
part thereof, during the year, WITHIN Two mites
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 tins
Act.
SRcrroN 2.-It shall be the duty of the Board
of School Trustees of each school district in this
State. on, OF before the first Monday in Septem-
Der in this year, to furnish the principal OF each
public school taught in such district with a list
OF all children resident In the schooi dlstrlct,
between the ages of eight and fourteen years
said list to be taken from the report or the
School Census Marshall. At the beginning OF
each month thereafter it shall be the duty OF
the principal Of each school in such district 10
report to the Board of School Trustees OF SUCH
district the names of all children attending
school during the previous month when II
it shall appear at the expiration OF the lour
school months, to the Board OF Scnool trustees
that any parent, guardian, or other person hav-
ing charge or control of any child or children,
shall have failed to comply with the provisions
Of this Act, the Board shall cause a demand to
be made upon such parent, guardian or other
person for the amount OF the penalty nelnaIter
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 proceedings
/ in the name of the school district, for the recov-
cry of the fine hereinafter provided. before any
Justice Of the Peace in the. township in which
said school district is located or, II there
should be no Justice of the Peace therein, then
before the nearest Justice of the Peace in the
county,
SECTION 3.-Any parent, guardian, or other
person, having control CT charge OF anychild or
children, failing to comply with the provisions
of this Act, shall be liable to a fine OF not less
than $50 nor more than 500 for the first offense,
nor less than 800 nor more than 5000 for the
second and each subsequent ~offense, beside the
costs of collection.
SECTION 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 and children in attendance
upon the public school Of such district, in &C
cordance with the provisions of this Act, are
unable to procure suitable books, stationary, ETC.,
for such child or children, it shall be the duty
of such Board to procure or cause to be procur-
ed, for such child or children, all necessary
books, tationery, 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 provided that
all books, stationery, ETC., purchased under the
provisions of this Act shall be deemed 20 be the
property of the school district, to be under the
care and control of the School Trustees when
not in actual use.
SECTION Sail fines collected under the provis-
ions of this Act, shall be paid into the County
Treasurer on account of the State School Fund.
SECTION ct 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, annually, for a 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 Trus-
tees in each school district shall cause to be
Posted, annually, for q period of two years, in
three public places in their district, notices of
the requirements and penalties of this law.
SECTION This Act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved February Is, 1873.
H. S. HERRICK,
Superintendent of Public Schools,
my23 White Pine County, Nevada.