Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-04-01
AN ACT
To Compel Children to Attend School.
Approved February 25. 1851

Approved February %. 1881
The people of the State of Nevada, represent
ed in the 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 a child. or children, between
the ages OF eight and fourteen years. shall be
required to send such a child, or children to a
public school for period of at least sixteen
weeks in each ehool year, at least eight
weeks of which shall be consecutive. unless
such child n children are excused from such
ate ndabce by the Board Of School Trustees
of the school districtin 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 chill
dren are taught in private school or at
home, in such branches as are usually taught
in primary school, or have already acquirr
the ordinary branches of learning taught in
the public schools; PROVIDED, In public
school shall not be taught tor period of six
teen weeks, or any part thereof, during the
yea, 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. II shall be the duty of the Board of
School Trustees of each school district in this
State, on or before the first Monday in Sep
TENDER of each year, to furnish the Principal
of each public school taught in such district,
with a list of all children, resident in the
school district, between the ages of eight and
fourtJ en- years said list TO be taken from the
report of the School Census Marshal At the
beginning of each school month thereafter ii
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 M nth; when, il it shall ap-
pear 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 childrt n,
shall have failed to comply with the provls-
ions of this Act, the Board shall cause demand
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 pers shall neg
lect or refuse to pay the sams
within FIVE days after the making of ssid
demand, the Board shall commence proceed
ings in the name of the school district, for
the recovery of the fine hereinafter provided.
before any Justice of the Peace in the town
ship 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 provis-
ions of this Act shall be liable to fine of not
less than fifty dollars nor more than one hun
dred dollars for first offsnse, nor less than one
hundred dollars nor more than two hundred
dollars for the second and each subsequent
offense, besides the cost of collection.
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 dis
trict III accordance with the provisions of this
Act are unable to procure suitable books sta
tionery, 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 chill
dren, 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 al
lowe and paid; PROVIDED, that all books, sta
tiontry, 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 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 Coun
ty Treasury on account of the State School
Fund.
SEC. g. 1t shall be the duty of the County
Superintendent of Pubic 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 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 dis
trict shall cause 20 be posted, annually, for a
period of two years, in three public places in
their district, notice of the requirements and
penalties of this law.
SEC T. 1'his act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
G. ID. MCDUFFIE,
County Superintendent of Public Schools.