Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-01
LEGAL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a M a Cs1'
TO COMPEL CHILDREN TO ATTEND
SCHOOL.
a M AC1
lApproved February rs 1871

lApproved February rs 1871
The People of the State of Nev.da, 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 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 al
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 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 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,
ne or she shall not be liable to the provisions of
| this act.
&c., 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.
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 CenSps 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-
| achOOl ho IN <ha o<
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; whep 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 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 les6than
| nifty dollars. nor more than one hundred dollars
| for the first ofense, nor less than one hundred
dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, for
| the second ana each subsequent ofense, besidse
| 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 provisit ms Of this act sre 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
Tor 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 arc
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 5. 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 8. 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
be, four consecutive times annually for a pc.
Rod of two years, the expense o. such publica.
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
csnse to be posted, annually. for q period OF two
years, in three public places in their district no
tees of the requirements and penalties Of thii
act.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after its passage.