Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-15
LEGAL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ a CI'
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO aTTFSn
SCHOOL.
a NJ ACT
Approved February Is 1871

Approved February Is 1881
The People of the State Of Nevada, represe pted
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 8 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 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 al.
tendance by the Board of School Trustees of tn.
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 at home in sucb
branches 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 weeka
| 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 q,
this act.
| Sec. 2 1t shall be the duty Of the Board O,
| 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 a 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 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 school
month; when, If it shall appear at the expirs.
| ton OF four school months, to the Board Of
School Trustees, that any parent, guardian. or
| other person having charge or control of apy
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,
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 such demand. the Board shall
| commence proceedings, in the name of the
school district for the recovery Of the fine here.
| matter provided before ar Justice of the Peace
in 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. 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
nifty dollars, nor more tlan one hundred doAsn
for the first ofense, nor less than one hundred
dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars for
the second and each subsequent offense besidse
the costs Of collection.
Sec. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the salts.
faction of the Board of School rustees of sny
| 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
dnce with the provisiL Ms Of this act, are unable
to procure suitable books, stationery etc. for
such child or childien, 1t 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 3. 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 there
De, -FOUR consecutive times, annually, for pc
rlod OF two years, the expense OF such publica-
tor to be allowed and paid out Of the General
Sckool Fund Of the county. The Board OF
School Trustees in each school district shall
canse to be posted, annually, for a period OF two
years, in three public places in their district no.
tees Of the requirements and penalties of this
act.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after its passage.