The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-05-07
SCHOOL LAW.
An Aos TO 'mpsl Children 10 attend
school
ed february IS, 1878, 10.


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 Schoo
Trustees of the school district in which
such parents or guardians reside, upon
its being shown to their satisfaction tia
the bodily or mental condition of sue
child on, 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 primary school, or have
already acquired the ordinary branches
of learning taut ht 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 an
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,
II II shat 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 proyis-
! ions of this Act, the board shall cause
i demand to be made upon such parent.
+ guardian, or other person, for the
9 amount OF penalty hereafter provided
I when, if such parent, guardian, or other
:; person shall neglect Or refuse to pay the
b same within five days after the making
I OF said demand, the board shall com.
9 mence proceedings in the name of the
T school district for the recovery of the
4 me hereinafter provided, before any
= Justice OF the Peace in the town
n ship in which said school dis
4 trict is located; or, if there shall be no
: Justice of the Peace therein, then before
o the nearest Justice of the Peace in the
y county.
n SEC. 3. Any parent, guardian, or
It other person having control or charge of
any child or children, failing to comply
Ii with the provisions OF this Act, shall be
r liable to fine of not less than fifty dol
3 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 sub
sequent offense, besides the costs of col
"a lection.
d SEGA. Whenever it shall appear, to the
rs satisfaction of the Board of School TINS.
t. tees of any school district in this state
that the parents, guardians, or othe,
sc persons having control or charge of any
IN child or children in attendance upon the
a. 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
t 1t shall be 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 TO,
IL IL out of the fund of said school district
n IN the same way that other claimi
or against the school district are now al
" lowed and paid; provided, that all books
"a stationery, ETC., purchased under thu
Of provisions of this Act, shall be deemed
q to be the property Of the school district
10 | In ba undar tho oara on1 oo,trol &c Al,
,e School Trustees when not in actual use
10 Sec. 8. All fines collected under tn,
10 provisions of this Act shall be paid int,
0. he county treasury on account of tn,
~ state school fund.
ne SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty of til,
n County Superintendent of Public School
~ n each county in this state to cause thi,
aw to be published in some newspaper
lg in his county, if any there be, four con
" secutive times, annually, for aperiod o
wo years, the expense Of such publica
81 ton to be allowed and paid out of tn
=, general school fund of the county. Tn
Board of School Trustees in each schoo
W district shall cause to be posted annu
ally, for period of two years, in tire
an public places in their district, notices @
nv the requirements anc penalties Of thi
or law.
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