The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-02-23
SCHOOL LAW.
An Act TO Compel Children 10 Attend,
school.
Approved FEBRUARY Is, 1873, 7a.

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SIC. /. Every parent, guardian, 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 children to 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 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 a private school,
or at home, in such branches as are us
ually taught in a 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 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 schoo
during the previous school month; when
5 if it shall appear, at the expiration O
d four school months, to the Board o
e School Trustees, that any parent, guard
!. ian, or other person having charge O.
l. control of any child or children, shall
S have failed to comply with the provis
3 ions of this Act, the board shall caus
r demand to be made upon such parent
II guardian, or other person, for tn
~ amount of penalty hereafter provided
re when, if such parent, guardian, or othe
st person shall neglect OF refuse to pay tb
:, q same within five days after the maxim
t. of said demand, the board shall com
ii mence proceedings in the name of tn
" school district for the recovery of tn
J. fine hereinafter provided, before an
n. Justice of the Peace in the town
st ship in which said school dis
trict is located; or, if there shall be II
Justice of the Peace therein, then befor
ne the nearest Justice Of the Peace in til
county.
&C. SEC. 81 Any parent, guardian, {
as as other person having control or charge
r. any child or children, failing to compl
IS, with the provisions of this Act, shall
liable to fine of not less than fifty dc
lars nor more than one hundred dolla
ice for the first offense, nor less than OF
az hundred dollars nor more than two hui
bred dollars for the second and each su
sequent offense, besides the costs of CO
lection.
III SEGA. Whenever it shall appear, to Il
satisfaction of the Board of School Tru
tees of any school district in this stat
that the parents, guardians, or 9th
. persons having control or charge of al
He child or children in attendance upon t
~ public school of said district, in accor
DIN ance with the provisions of this Act a
ca unable to procure suitable books, ST
Jie' tionery, ETC., for such child or childre
red it shall be the duty of such board to pr
ing cure, or cause to be procured, for SUI
auS child or children, all necessary bool
in stationary, ETC., the same to be paid
mt out of the fund of said school distri
ioi- in the same way that other claii
sur. against the school district are now
r TO lowed and paid; provided, that all bool
n % stationery, etc., purchased under t
feet PROVISIONS OF inns ACT, snali DC ueeIl
ST; to be the property of the school distri
est, IN he under the cave and control of
vey a. I, :
rses ocnOol trustees Wnen not IN actual u