The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-03-24
SCHOOL Law.
~ 90 70 "Impel children TO Ate. d
school.
ed February IS, 1873, 70

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 Sehoo
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 OF
children are taught in a private school
or at home, in such branches as are us
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.
SEQ. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
Board of School Trustees of each school
district in this State, on or before the
first Nj inlay 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,
If it sh, i 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,
t guardian, or other person, for the
6 amount of penalty hereafter provided
when, if such parent, guardian, or othel
person shall neglect or refuse to pay the
E same within five days after the making
of said demand, the board shall com
, mence proceedings in the name of tn,
> school district for the recovery of tn
B. fine hereinafter provided, before an.
y Justice of the Peace in the town
IA ship in which said school dis
e trict is located; Or if there shall be N
y Justice of the Peace therein, then befor
. the nearest Justice of the Peace in tn
county.
&c Sec. 3. Any parent guardian, o
ne other person having control or charge @
a, any child or children, failing to compl
- with the provisions of this Act shall b
liable to fine of not less than fifty do
lars nor more than one hundred dollar
u for the first offense, nor less than OF
hundred dollars nor more than two hun
bred dollars for the second and each SUI
:. sequent offense, besides the costs of co
4. lection. ~
nc, ,e SEGA. Whenever it shall appear, to Il
ay satisfaction of the Board of School Tru
he tees of any school district in this stat
nh that the parents, guardians, or 9th
,ty persons having control or charge of al
hi. child or children in attendance upon Il
m. public school Of said district, in accor
to ance with the provisions of this Act, q
] unable to procure suitable books, st
!, tionery, etc., for such child or childre
The it shall be the duty of such board to pr
TO cure, or cause to be procured, for su,
a. child or children, all necessary boob
IS stationary, etc., the same to be paid (
md out of the fund of said school distri,
e.. in the same way that other claiI
No against the school district are now
lowed and paid; provided, that all bool
ian stationery, etc., purchased under t
bS provisions of this Act, shall be deem
ellie to be the property of the school distri,
to be under the care and control OF t
ace School Trustees when not in actual u
ana Sec. 5. All fines collected under t
NJ provisions Of this. shall be paid in
q Of he county treasury on account Of I
r. state school fund.
SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of I
he'd County Superintendent Of Public Soho
ia, each county in this state to cause II
NV, ave aw to be published in some newspaI
in his county, if any there be, four &C
secutive times, annually, for aperioo
. wo years, the expense Of such publ
ton to be allowed and pnid out of
general school fund of the county. !
Board of School Trustees in each sch
As a;,,x;. sh.ll cause To be posted an,