Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-11
LEGAL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ a 80
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
a NJ ACT

approved February as 1881 DBL.
The People Of the State Of Nevada, Represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows.
Section /. Every parent, guardian, or other
person in the State Of Nevada. having control
and charge Of q 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 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 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 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 psrt thereof. during the year, within two
miles, by the nearest Travelled road, of the rest
dence Of any person within the school district
he or she shall not be liable to the provisions Of
this act.
Sec. . It shall be the duty Of the Board n
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 taIght 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 tho
duty Of the principal OF each shool in snch 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 1t shall appear at the expira.
| tion Of four school months, to the Board Of
| School Trustees, that any parent, guardian, or
| other person having charge 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,
| the penalty hereinafter provided; when, II such
parent, guardian. or other person shall neglect
| or refuse to pay the same within Ave days after
the making of such demand, the Board shall
commerce proceedings, in the name of the
matter provided. before AZ Justice of the Peace
| in the township in which said school district
Is located or, II there shall be no Justice of the
Peace ther.in. 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.
dreD, fatliI & to comply with the provisions Of
this act shall be liable to fine of not less than
nifty dollars. nor more tLan 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 ofense besida
the costs of collection
Sec 4. Whenever it shall appear to the sstiL
| faction Of the Board of School 'ruRtees of any
school district in this State that the parents
guardians or other persons having control and
charge Of any child. or children, in attendants
upon the public school Of said district in accord.
| ance with the provisit nB OF this act are unsNA
to procure suitable books, stationery, etc., fm
such child, or childien. 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 s. 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 g. 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, II any there
b., four consecutive times, annually for pc
Rod Of two years. the expense o! such publics.
tor to he allowed and paid out Of the General
SCHOOL Fund Of the county. The Board Of
school Trustees In each school district shall
canse to be posted. annually, for period o. 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.