Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-03
EDUCATIONAL.
G. D. DELDRN, EDITOR.

~ y. tO1sAOAN, Editor.
Supt. Belden was last week visiting
schools IN Lyle and Nevada.
The State Teachers Institute for Mower
county will commence Monday, April 9th.
One Of our district schools was closed
last Friday On account OF the incompe-
tency of the teacher.
The schools in Leroy village arc pros
pering. The enrolment this term is as
follows: High School. Mr.. F. H. Fisk,
teacher, 81. Grammar, Mrs. Fisk, AZ.
intermediate, Miss Hayes, 40. Primary,
Miss Minnie Hunt, 43. Total, 1871.
The attention of parents and of school
officers is directed to the following COM
pulsory school law which is now in force
in this state:
SECT1oN1. That every parent, guardian
or other person in the State of Minnesota,
having control of any child or children
between the ages of eight and sixteen
years, shall lie required to send such child
or children to public school or private
school, taught by competent instructor,
for period of at least twelve Q2) weeks
in each year, at least six (6 weeks of
which time shall be consecutive, unless
such child or children are excused from
such attendance by the board of the
school district or the board Of education
OF the city or independent school district
in which such parent, guardian or person
having control resides, upon its being
shown to their satisfaction that such
parent or guardian was not able,
by reason of poverty to clothe
such child properly, or that such
child's bodily or mental condition has
been such as to prevent his attendanc at
school or application to study for the
period required. or that such child or
children are taught at home in such
branches OF study aSare usually taught
IN the public schools, subject to the same
examination as other pupils of the dis
trlct or city in which the child resides, or
that he has already acquired the ordinary
branches required by law, or that there is
no school taught within two (2) miles by
the nearest travelled road.
SEC.2. Any parent, guardian or other
person failing to comply with the provis-
ions Of this act, shall, upon conviction,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
fined in a sum not less than ten nor more
then twenty five dollars for the first Of
Tense, nor less than twenty-five nor more
TINA fifty dollars for the second and every
subsequent offense. Said action shall be
prosecuted IN the name of the State of
Minnesota, before any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, and all fines so collected
shall be paid into the county treasury of
the proper county Tor the support of COM
mon schools.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of any
school. director or president Of the board
Of education to inquire into all cases of
neglect of the duty prescribed in this act,
and ascertain from the person neglecting
the reason, if any, therefor and shall
forthwith proceed to secure the prose-
cution of any offense occurring under
this act; and any director or president
neglecting to secure such prosecution for
such offense within ten days after a
written notice has been served on him
by any taxpayer in said district or city,
unless the person SO complained of shall
be excused by the district or city board
or board of education, for reason herein
before stated, shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and liable to fine of not
less then twenty nor more than fifty dol
lars. which fine shall be prosecuted for
and in the name of the State of Min
nesota; and such fine, when COL
lected, shall be paid into the county
treasury, as in section two of this act.
SEC. 4. That upon the trial of any Of
Tense as charged herein. if, upon such
trial, it shall be determined that such pro-
secution was malicious, then the cost in
such case shall be adjudged against the
complainant and collected as fines in
other cases.
SEC s. This act shall take effect and
be in force frem and after it's passage.
Approved March 5, 1885,