The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-03-17
SCHUOL Law.
An Act to Compel Children to Attend
school.
Apo ed February IS, 1878, 70.

| SEC. /. Every parent, guardian OIL
other person in the State of Nevada,
having control and charge of child of
children between the ages of eight and
fourteen years, shall be required to send
such child or children to public schoo
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 tina
the bodily or mental condition of sue
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 o 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, 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 MI nday 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
d names of all children attending schoo
g during the previous school month; when,
ii If it sh, Il appear, at the expiration of
If four school months, to the Board of
o. School Trustees, that any parent, guard
s. ian, or other person having charge or
O. control Of any child or children, shall
o. have failed to comply with the provis-
e. ions of this Act, the board shall cause
70 70 demand to be made upon such parent,
1T 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
he same within five days after the making
of said demand, the board shall COM
an mence proceedings in the name of the
M school district for the recovery Of the
ts' fine hereinafter provided, before any
ny Justice of the Peace in the town
ms ship in which said school dis
ice trict is located; or, if there shall be no
sy Justice of the Peace therein, then before
the nearest Justice of the Peace in the
county.
Ice Sec. 8. Any parent, guardian, o,
me me other person having control or charge OF
"a, any child or children, failing to comply
I've with the provisions of this Act. shall b.
:. liable to fine of not less than fifty dol
lars nor more than one hundred dollar,
~ for the first offense, nor less than on,
hundred dollars nor more than two hun
dred dollars for the second and each sub
:. sequent offense, besides the costs of col
u. lection.
Se' SEGA. Whenever it shall appear, to thu
da! satisfaction Of the Board of School Trus
the tees of any school district in this state
9TH that the parents, guardians, Or o.he
nty persons having control or charge of an,
his child or children in attendance upon tn
ian; public school of said district, in accord
to ance with the provisions of this Act, or
. 8 unable to procure suitable books, sta
IT, tionery, etc., for such child or children
the it shall be the duty of such board to pro
t to cure, or cause to be procured, for sucl
~ child or children, all necessary books
3 40 stationary, etc., the same to be paid TO
and out of the fund of said school district
. .n. in the same way that other claim
No against the school district are now a
w. lowed and paid; provided, that all books
Ian stationery, etc., purchased under tn
bS provisions Of this Act, shall he deeme
ellie to be the property of the school district
to be under the care and control of tn
ace School Trustees when not in actual use
ano SEC. 5. All fines collected under tn
lnr. provisions of this Act shall be paid int
n Of he county treasury on account Of tn
- state school fund.
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty Of til
he'd County Superintendent of Public Schoo
s sPs each county in this state to cause th'
tive aw to be published in some newspap'
80 in his county, if any there be, four col
secutive times, annually, for aperiod
% wo years, the expense Of such public
ton to be allowed and paid out of Il
general school fund Of the county. I'll
Board Of School Trustees in each scho
+. AS district shall cause to be posted ann
ator,