Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
An Act to Compel Children to Attend
School.
[Approved February 25, 1878, D. ss.l


The People Of the State of Nevada. Represented
in Senate and Assemblg, do enact as follosos:
SECTION l. Every parent guardian. or other
person in the State Of Nevada, having control
and ,harge of child or children between the
ages Of eight and fourteen years, shall be re-
quired to send such child or chiidrea TO pub
lie school for period Of at least sixteen
weeks in each school year, st 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 chill
dren are tsught in private school, or at home,
in such branches as are usually taught in .
primary school, or have already acquired the
ord nary branches of learning taught in the
public school; provided, in case Q public
school shall not be taught for the period Of
sixteen weeks, or any pert thereof, during the
year, within two miles, by the nearest trav-
eled road, of the residence OF any person
within the school district, he or she shall not
be liable to the provisions Of this Act.
SIC. 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
school IN such district to report to the Board
OF School Trustees Of such district the names
of all children attending school during the
previous school month; when, If 1t shall ap-
pear, at the expiration Of four school months,
to the Boaro 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 Of the penalty herein
after provided; when. If such parent, guard
ian, or other person shall neglect or refuse to
pay the same within five days after the max.
ing of said demand, the Board shall COM
menee proceedings in the name of the school
district for the recovery Of the fine herein.
after provided. before any 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 before the
nearest Justice of the Peace in the county.
Sec. 3. Any parent, guardian. or other per-
son having control or charge of any child or
children, failing to comply with the provts-
ions OF this Act shall be liable to fine Of not
less than fifty dollars nor more than one hun
dred dollars for the first offense, nor less
than one hundred dollars nor more than two
hundred dollars for the second and each SUBJ
SEC. 4. Whenever it shall appear, to the
satisfaction OF the Board of School Trustees Of
any school district in this State, that the
payents. guardians, or other persons having
control Of any child or children in attendance
upon the public school of said district, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this Act. are
un able to procure suitable books, stationery,
ETC., for such child or children, 1t shall be the
duty of such Board to procure. or cause to be
procured, for such child or children, all neces-
sary books, stationery, etc., the same to be
paid out of the Fund of said school district,
in the same way that ether claims against the
school district are now allowed and paid pro-
vided, that all books, stationery. etc. pur-
chased under the provisions of this Act, shall
be deemed to be the property Of the school
district, to be under the care and control Of
the School Trustees when not in actual use.
SEC. 8. All fines collected under the pro-
visions of this Act shall be paid into the
County Treasury 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 10 be
published in some newspaper in his county, II
any there be, four consecutive times. annually,
for q period of two years. the expense Of such
publication to be allowed and paid out Of the
General School Fund of the county. The
Board of School Trustees in each school dis
trict shall cause to be posted annually, for
period Of two years. in three public places IN
their district, notices Of the requirements and
penalties OF this law.
Eureka, Dec. 20, 1884. d30-td