Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-24
TINE COMPULSORY SCHOOL
LAW.

W AAVP0A A6O VVAR.
PEELED to Attend, Unless Incapa.
citated rom Doing So-The Pen.
alties Incurred by q Violation Of
the Act.
SECTION 1. Every parent, guard
ian, or other person in the State of
Nevada having control and charge of
child, or children between the ages
OF eight and fourteen years, shall be
required to send such child, or chill
dren 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 attendance 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 10 prevent his, or
her, or their attendance at school, or
application to study, for the period
required, or that such child or chill
dren are 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 schools; provided, in case a
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 residence 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 September
in each year, to furnish the principal
of each public school taught in such
district, with list of the children in
said 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 school in such district to report
to the Board of School Trustees of
such district the names OF all chill
dren attending school during the
pre- vious school month; when, if it
shall appear, at the expiration Of
four school months, to the Board of
School Trustees, that any parent, guar
dian, 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 of the penalty herein
after provided; when, if such parent,
guardian, or other person, shall leg
lect or refuse to pay the sa.le within
five days after making said demand,
the Board shall commence proceed
ings, in the name of the school dis
trict, for the recovery of the fine
hereinafter provided, before any
Justice of the Peace in the township
in which said school district is loca-
ted; or, if there shall be no Justice of
the Peace therein, then before the
nearest Justice of the Peace in the
county.
SECTION 8. Any parent, guardian,
or other person having charge or
control of any child, or children,
failing to comply with the provis-
ions of this Act, shall be liable to a
fine of not less than fifty dollars, or
more than one hundred dollars, for
the first offense, nor more than two
hundred dollars for the second and
each subsequent offense, besides the
costs of collection. |I
SECTION 4. Whenever it shall APP
pear to the satisfaction of the Board
of School Trustees of any school
district in this State that the parents,
guardians, or other persons, having
control of any child, or children, in
attendance upon the public school of
said district, in accordance with the
provisions of this Act, are unable to
procure suitable books, stationery,
etc., for such child, or children, it
shall be the duty Of such Board to