Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-01-14
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ CT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
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[Approved February Is 1871
The People of the State Of Nevada. represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. 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 9 period Of at least sixteen
weeks in each school year, st 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, 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, 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 the
duty Of the principal Of each shoot 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 school
month; when, II it shall appear at the eXpira-
ton 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 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 herinAter provided; when II suen
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 airy Justice of the Peace
in the township in which said school district
is located or, If there shall be Justice Of the
Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice of
the Peace in the county.
Sec. 8. Any parent, guardian or other person
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 than
fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars
dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, for
| the second and each subsequent ofense, besidse
the costs Of collection.
Sec. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the salts
faction 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 accord
ance with the provisions Of this act, are unable
| to procure suitable books, stationery etc., for
| such child, or ehildien, 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; provided 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 under the care and
| and control Of the School Trustees, when not in
actual use.
Sec. 5. All fines collected under the provisions
| 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 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 thers
| be, four consecutive times, annually, for pc
| Rod of two years, the expense Of such publics
| ton to be allowed and paid out of the Genera
| School Fund Of the county. The Board o.
| School Trustees in each school district shall
| cause to ID posted, annually, for period OF two
years, in three public places in their district no
tees Of the requirements and penalties Of thii
| act
Sec. I. This act shall take effect and be il
force from and after its passage.