Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-11-01
LEGAL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
"A M "A CT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.

TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
tApproved February % 1871
The People Of the State of Nevada, represented
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 a 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
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 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. 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 ia light 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 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 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,
the penalty hereinafter provided; when, II sucD
parent, guardian, or other person shall neglect
or refuse to pay the same within i've 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 airy 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 efoce the 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
|
fifty dollars, nor more til .n one hundred dollars,
| for the first offense, por less than one hundred
| dollars, noI more than two hundred dollars foI
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 and
charge of any child, or children, in attendance
upon the public school of said district in accord.
| ance with the provisiC ms Of this act, are unable
to procure suitable books, stationery ETC., for
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. 6. 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
be, four consecutive times, annually for Pc
Rod 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
cause to be posted, annually, for period OF two
years, in three public places in their district no.
tices of the requirements and penalties of this
act
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.