Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-01-21
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
AN ACT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.

SCHOOL.
Approved February Is 1871
The People Of the State Of Nevada, represented
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 70 send such child, or children, TO
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 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 condlfion
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 q private school, or at home. in such
branches as are usually taught in primary
schools. or have already acquired the ordinary
branches of learning tsught 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 It 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 Marshall 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 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 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
is located or, II there shall be no Justice Of the
! Peace therein, then beforelhe nearest Justice of
| the Peace in the county.
Sec. 3. 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 thar
| fifty dollars nor II ore than one hundred dollars
| for the first ofense, nor less than one hundred
| dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, fol
| the second and each subsequent offense, besidst
| 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 ani
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., TO
! such child. or childien, it shall be the duty o
| 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 o
| the fund of said school district, in the same wa
| that other claims against the school district ar
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
actual use.
Sec 5. All fines collected under the provision
Of this act shall Re paid into the County Treas
ury on account Of the State School Fund.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be the duty Of the Count
Superintendent of Public Schools in each count
in this State to cause this law to be publishe
in some newspaper in his county, If any ther
riod of two years, the expense OF such public.
ton to be allowed and paid out Of the Geners
School Fund of the county. The Board c
School Trustees in each school district sha
cause to be posted, annually, for period OF tw
years, in three public places in their district nc
tees of the requirements and penalties of thi
act
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be i
force from and after its passage.