The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-02-16
SCHOOL law.
An Act to Compel Children to Attend
school.

| Approved February 20, 1878, ~.
SEC. l. 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 u.s.
ually taught in a primary school, or have
already acquired the ordinary branches
of learning taught in the public school;
provided, in 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. II 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 school
during the previous school month; when,
if it shall appear, at the expiration of
four school months, to the Board of
School Trustees, that ANY parent, guard
ian, or other person having charge or
control of any child or children, shall
have failed to comply with the provis.
ions of this Act, the board shall cause
demand to be made upon such parent,
guardian, or other person, for the
amount of penalty hereafter provided;
when, if such parent, guardian, or other
person shall neglect or refuse to pay the
same within five days after the making
of said demand, the board shall COM
mence proceedings in the name of the
school district for the recovery of the
fine hereinafter provided, before any
Justice OF the Peace in the town.
ship in which said school dis
trict 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 person having control or charge of
any child or children, failing to comply
with the provisions of this Act, shall be
liable to Il fine of not less than fifty dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollars
for the first offense, nor less than one
hundred dollars nor more than two hun
bred dollars for the second and each SUBJ
sequent offmse, besides the costs of coll
lection.
! SEc.4. Whenever it shall appear, to the
satisfaction of the Board of School Tns-
tees of any school district in this state,
that the parents, guardians, or other
persons having control or charge of any
child or children in attendance upon the
public school Of said district, in accord
ance with the provisions OF this Act, are
unable to procure suitable books, sta.
tionery, ETC., for such child or children,
it shall I've the duty of such board to pro-
cure, or cause to be procured, for such
child or children, all necessary books,
stationary, etc., the same to be paid for
out of the fund of said school district,
in the same way that other claims
against the school district are now al
lowed and paid; provided, that all books,
stationery, etc., purchased 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. 5. All fines collected under the
provisions Of this Act shall be paid into
the county treasury on account OF the