Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-06-18
LEGAL.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
a N ACT
TO COMPEL CHILDREN To- ATTEND
SCHOOL.


Approved February 25 1884,
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 q
public school for q period Of at least sixteen
weeks in each school year, ct 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
ct 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 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. 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 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 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 Justice Of the
Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice Of
the Peace in the county.
Sec. g. 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 than
fifty dollars, nor more than 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 offense, besidss
the costs Of collection.
Sec. 4. Whenever II 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 provision Of this act, are unable
to procure suitable books, stationery, ETC., fol
such child. or childien 1t 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 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 AMI
and control of the School Trustees, when not II
actual use.
Sec. s. All fines collected under the provision
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 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 Their
be, four consecutive times, annually, for pr
Rod of two years, the expense Of such publics
tion to be allowed and paid out Of the Geners
School Fund Of the county. The Board @
School Trustees in each school district shal
cause to be posted, annually, for period OF tw
years. in three public places in their district nj
tices OF the requirements and penalties Of thi
act.
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect and be /
force from and after its passage.