The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-02-22
SCHOOL LAW.
An Act to Compel Children 10 Attend
school.
Approved February IS, 1878, 70.


children between the ages of eight and
fourteen years, shall be required to send
such child or children to a 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 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 a 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 i'll 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 shbll 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 nc
Justice of the Peace therein, then before
the nearest Justice of the Peace in the
county.
SEC. 3. Any parent, guardian, OF
other person having control or charge o.
any child or children, failing to comply
with the provisions of this Act, shall bt
: liable to fine of not less than fifty dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollars
for the first offense, nor less than on.
.. hundred dollars nor more than two hun.
bred dollars for the second and each sub
sequent oflense, besides the costs of col
lection.
SEGA. Whenever it shall appear to thu
J satisfaction of the Board of School Trus
tees of any school district in this state
that the parents, guardians, or othe
e persons having control or charge of an,
child or children in attendance upon tn
I public school of said district, in accord
t ance with the provisions of this Act, ar
> unable to procure suitable books, sta
- tlonery, etc., for such child or children
0 it shall be the duty of such board to pro
cure, or cause to be procured, for sue
) child or children, all necessary books
stationary, etc., the same to be paid TO
e out of the fund of said school district
: in the same way that other claim
against the school district are now al
= lowed and paid; provided, that all books
q stationery, ETC., purchased under tn
$ provisions Of this Act, shall be deeme
4 to be the property Of the school district
q to be under the care and control of tn
School Trustees when not in actual use
SEC. 5. All fines collected under til
o provisions of this Act shall be paid int
e the county treasury on account Of tn
!, state school fund.
: SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty of tn
County Superintendent of Public School
IN each county i'll this state to cause hi
law to be published in some newspape
in his county, if any there be, four cor
secutive times, annually, for period