The Arizona sentinel., 1891-01-03
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW.
All Act Go Establish a COnl- puISOry School Law ih and
 for the Territory of A rizOna

y Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:
 SECTION l. Every parent guardian or other per son in the Territory of Arizona having control or charge of q child or children, between the ages of eight to fourteen years, shall be required to send such child children to public school for period of at least twelve weeks in each school year, at least six 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 Dis trct in which parents guardians reside, upon it's being shown to their satisfaction that the bodily mental condition of such child or children has been such to prevent his or her their attendance at school, or application to study for the period re- qured or that such child or children are taught in private school or at home in such branches as are usually taught in primary schools or has already acquired the ordinary branches of learning taught in the public schools; provided in each case public school shall not be taught for the period of twelve 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 she shall not be liable to the provisions of this Act
 SEC ?. It shall be the duty Of the Board of School Trustees of each school district in the Ter ritory, on or hefore the first Monday in September of 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 marshall At the beginning of each school month thereafter it shall be the duty of the principal of each school in ,cb cf fo to t,a of tees of such district the names of all children at tending school during the previous school montk when it shall appear, at the expiration of two school months to the Board of School Trustees that any parent, guardian or any other person having charge control of any child or children, shall have failed to comply with the provisions of this Act the Board shall the clerk of the Board of Trustees to serve notice upon such parents, guar dians other persons; and if within ten days after service of such notice to such parent guardian or other person they shall have failed to furnish the Board of Trustees with good and sufficient reasons for noncompliance with the law the Board shall cause demand to be made upon such parent guar dian other person for the amount of the penalty hereafter provided; when, if such parent, guardian or other person shall neglect refuse to pay the same within ten days after the making of said de- mand, the Board shall commence proceedings in the name of the school district for the recovery of the fine hereinafter provided before any Justice of the Peace in the precinct in which such school district is located; and if there be Justice of the Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice of the Peace in the county.
 SEC. B. 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 guilty of misdemeanor and shall be liable to fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than twenty dollars for the first offense nor less than twenty dollars more thaB fifty GGliaZs for the second and each subsequent ofense besides the costs of collection. SEC. 1. Whenever it shall appear to the satsfac- ton of the Board of Trustees of any school district in this Territory that the parents guardians or other persons having control and charge of any child or children in attendance upon the public school of said district, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, unable to secure suitable books, stationary etc, for such child or children it shall be the duty such Board to procure or cause to be procured for such child or children all necessary books, stationary etc., the same to be paid for out of the funds of said school district ill the way that other claims against the school district are now allowed and paid; Provided, that all books, sta tionary, etc., purchased under the provisions of this act shall be deemed 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 the account of the county school fund.
 SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the County Sup erintendet of Public Schools i'll each county i'll this Territory to cause this law to be published in some newspaper in his county, if there be one, four secutve times annually for two years, the expense of such publication to be allowed and paid out of the general school fund sf the county. The Board of School Trustees in each school district shall to be posted annually, for period of two years, in three public places ill their district notices of the requirements and penalties of this Act.
 SEC. z. To give full force and effect to the pro- visions of this act, principals of schools are allowed, as last resort, to employ corporal punishment; Provided, That in case shall punishment be in hcted within one hour from the commission Of the ofense, and provided further that in no case must kicks or cuffs be employed nor blows direct d to any part of the body susceptible of injury. Ssc S. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after July lst, 1889.
 JOHN Y T. SMITH,
 Speaker of the House. CHAs. R. DRAKE, President of the Council
 Thereby certify that this Bill failed to receive the approval and signature of the Governor prior to the adjournment of the Fifteenth Legislative Assembly on the 21st day of March, 4. D. 1890.
 J. L. B. ALEXANDER,
 Private Secretary of the Governor.
 March 22nd, 1889. 
 HOUSE BILL NO. 5l. An Act to establish Compulsory School Law in .nl for the Territory of Arizona Endorsedl
 This is to certify that the within Bill originated n the House of Representatives and is known as House Bill No. 51.
 F.S. INGALLS,,
 Clerk of the House of Representatives. EndorsedI
 This Bill was received by the Governor ths Fist lay of March, A. D. 18S9
 J. L. B. ALEXANDER
 Private Secretary of the Governor. Endorsed. This bill having remained with the Governor ten lays, Sundays excluded, and the Legislature having been in session during that time, became law the Ind day of April, A. D. 1889.
 \. o. MURPHY,
 Secretary of the Territory s TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,