The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-04-06
SCHOOL LAW.
An Act 10 CoInl'el Children to Attend
school.
Approved February Is. 1878, 10.

SEC. |. Every parent, guardian, or |
other person in the State of Nevada, |
having control and charge of a child or
children between the ages of eight and |
| fourteen years, shall be required to send
such child or children to public school
for u 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 to
prevent his, her, or their attendance at
school, or application to study, for the
period required, or that such child or
children are taught in private school,
or at home, in such branches as are u.s.
ually taught in primary school, or have
already acquired the ordinary branches
of learning taught in the public school;
provided, i'll 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 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 all children, resident in the school
district, between the ages Of ei hit and
fourteen Years; said list to BE- taken
from the report of the School Census
Marshal. At the beginning OF each
school month theleafter it shall ne the
duty of the principal of each school in
such district to report to the Board OF
i, Schoo' Trustees of such district the
names OF all children attending school
during the previous school month; when
If it shall appear, at the expiration o.
y four school months, to the Board OF
School Trustees, that any parent, guard
ian, or other person having charge OF
control of any child or children, shall
have failed to comply with the provis
! ions Of this Act, the board shall caus,
= demand to be made upon such parent
guardian, or other person, for tn
amount of penalty hereafter provided
when if such parent, guardian, or othe
person shall neglect or refuse to pay th
same within five days after the making
of said demand, the board shall com
st mence proceedings in the name of tn
oil school district for the recovery of tn
fine hereinafter provided, before an
y Justice of the Peace in the town
ship in which said school dis
av trict is located; or, il there shall be n
is Justice of the Peace therein, then befor
ed the nearest Justice of the Peace in tn
county. -.....-
! Sec. 3. Any parent, guardian, c
- other person having control or charge {
any child or children, failing to compl
with the provisions of this Act, shall /
liable to fine of not less than fifty do
49, lars nor more than one hundred dollal
for the first offense, nor less than on
IL hundred dollars nor more than two hur
bred dollars for the second and each sui
sequent offense, besides the costs Of CO
lection.
!; SEGA. Whenever it shall appear, to til
/. a. satisfaction of the Board of School Tru
led tees of any school district in this stat,
nn. that the parents, guardians, or otht
m9 persons having control or charge of an
an. child or children in attendance upon til
in. public school of said district, in accort
ny ance with the provisions OF this Act OIL
les. unable to procure suitable books, ST
tionery, etc., for such child or childrel
1 an 1t shall be the duty Of such board to pr
Nj cure, or cause to be procured, for sue
ost child or children, all necessary book
t tSs stationary, etc., the same to be paid fl
ars out of the fund of said school distric
LIST in the same way that other CLAIM
xed against the school district are now q
set. lowed and paid; provided, that all book
600 stationery, etc., purchased under Il
. Al prov;a;o,.s NJ thia NJ sholl l,a doorn.
N.
rse, " oe tne property VI tne SCHOOL olstrie
U. to be under the care and control of Il
ION School Trustees when not in actual us
,as: SEC. 5. All fines collected under Il
provisions Of this Act shall be paid in
the county treasury on account of Il