Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-08
LEGAL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a NJ AK q
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
a NJ ACT
Approved February rs 1881

TApproved February rs 1881
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 q child or children between the
ages of eight and fourteen years, shall be re.
quired to send such child, or children, to a
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 a 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 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, 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 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 amountG
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 il there shall be no Justice of tina
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, falling to comply with the provisions Of
this act, shall be liable to fine Of not less than
| fifty dollars, nor more tLan one hundred dollars
| for the first offense, nor less than one hundred
| the second and each subsequent otfense, 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 ATTENDANCE
upon the public school OF said district in accord
ance with the provisit 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 a De-
Rod of two years, the expense OF such publics.
tior to be 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 OF two
years, in three public places in their district no.
tices of the requirements and penalties of thin
act.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.