Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-05-18
LEGAL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ ACT

a NJ "A C1
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
approved February IS 1881
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
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 re-
quired TO send such child, or children, to q
public school for q 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 IT.
tendance by the Board Of School Trustees Of ths
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, 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-.
|
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, 1t 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 this names of all children at
tending school during the previous school
month"; when, If 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 amountp,
the penalty hereinafter provided; when, II 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
ia located; or, IL 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,
: for the first offense, nor less than one hundred
: dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, for
the second and each subsequent ofiense, besidse
the costs Of collection.
Sec. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the salts
faction Of the Board Of School 'rustees Of any
school district in this State that the parents
guardians or other persons having control and
charge of any child, or children, In attendanc.
upon the public school Of said district, in accord
ance with the provisions Of this act, are unabl,
to procure suitable books, stationery. etc., 'fo
such child, or childien, it shall be the duty O
such Board to procure or cause to be procuret
for such child, or children. all necessary books
stationery, ETC., the same to be paid forout o
the fund Of said school district, in the same wa
that other claims against the school district ar
d, now allowed and paid; provided that all books
. stationery, etc., purchased under the provision
= Of this act shall be deemed to be the propert
Of the school district, to be under the care an
and control Of the School Trustees, when not Il
d actual use.
Sec. 8. All fines collected under the provision
a. Of this act shall be paid into the County Tresi
= ury on account Of the State School Fund
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty Of the Count
in this State to cause this law to be publishe
in some newspaper in his county, If any theI
be, four consecutive times, annually, for q p,
Rod Of two years, the expense Of such publici
tion to be allowed and paid out Of the Generl
School Fund Of the county. The Board
School Trustees in each school district sha
cause TO be posted, annually, for period OF tw
years. in three public places in their district, nj
tees Of the requirements and penalties Of tn
act.
Sec. T. This act shall take effect and be
force from and after Its passage.