The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27
.roved April 14th, 1899.
CHAPTER 226-s. F. NO. 400.


iren and providing for truant officers
in ungraded schools in school districts
and cities
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. Every parent, guardian or
other person, who resides in any school
district or city. and who has control of
any child or children of or between the
ages of and 16 years, shall send such
child or children to public, parochial or
private school in each year during the
entire time the public schools Of such
district or city are in session.
ProVlced however, that such child or
tendance for the whole or any part of
such period by the school board or board
of education of the school district or city
in which such parent. guardian or per-
son having control resides, upon its being
shown to the satisfaction of such board:
Cd That such parent, guardian or other
person, having control. is not able by rea-
son Of poverty, to clothe such child prop
erly; or (2) That such child's bodily or
mental condition is such as to prevent
his attendance at school or application to
study for the period required: or (3) That
such child is taught at home in such
branches of study as are usually taught
. IN public schools. subject to the same
examination as other pupils OF such dis
trict city; or (D That such child has
required by law; or % That such child
IS actually engaged in some useful occu-
patton, employment or service permit
ted by law.
Sec. >. The school board or board of
education of each such school district or
city may appoint and at pleasure remove
one or more truant officers. whose duty
Il shall be to investigate all cases OF
truancy or non-attendance at schools.
to make complaints, serve notices
and processes, and enforce all laws
and school regulations respecting
truant. incorrigihle and disorderly chill
dren. and the attendance Of children at
schools.
Such truant officer shall have power
without warrant to apprehend and take
is not, as in this act provided, excused
from attendance at school, and he shall
act under the supervision of such board
or when directed by said board under
the supervision of the Superintendent Of
the schools of the district or city for
which they are appointed.
ant officers, they shall receive no fees
but shall receive a fixed salary, to be
determined by the board appointing them
Sec s. Such board of any such school
district or city may establish and main
tain one or more ungraded schools for
the instruction of the following classes
of children in such district or city, who are
of or between the ages of and 16 years
to-wft: Glass l. habitual truants from
any school in which they are enrolled as
pupils; class 2, children who, while In at
tendance at any school, are fncorrigible,
vicious or irumoral in conduct; and class
s. children who habitually wander about
the streets or other PUBLIC places during
school hours without lawful employment,
business or occupation. All such children
shall be deemed juvenile, disorderly per-
sons, and may, by such board of such
school district or city in which they re-
side be assigned to and required and
compelled to attend such ungraded school
a. any department of the graded public
schools of such district or city, as such
board may determine.
Sec l. Any member of such truant or
uugraded school, who renders himself an
unfit subject for retention therein by in
decent or immoral conduct. by gross mis-
behavior or by persistent violation of the
reasonable regulations of such school,
may. upon complaint of any truant officer
DR. the superintendent of schools or other
school officer of the district or city where
in such member resides, and upon due
conviction, be committed by the court
to the state training school at Red Wing,
in said State of Minnesota.
Sec. D. Any parent. guardian or other
person, who shall fail to comply with the
provisions of this act, ana any person
who induces or attempts to induce any
child to absent himself unlawlu,ly .hilH on1 ipoon
Is N session any child absent unlaWlully
from school, is guilty of mlsdemeadnoI
i dollars, or by Imprisonment in the coun-
I " Jail of not more than thirty Gays; OF
both, and all such fines collected snail
: be paid into the county treasury of the
proper county for the benefit and sup
port of the public schools of the district
or city wherein such offense is commit
ted.
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Approved April 18th, 1899.
CHAPTER 227-S. F. NO. 313
} an ACT authorizing the construction of
roads, and providing for the costs there
of
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
State Of Minnesota:
Section l. Whenever fifteen or more
legal voters of any organized township in
shls state, who own real estate in said
! 'snwn, or who occupy real estate in said
4 town under the homestead or pre-emp-
ton laws of the United States, or under
contract from the State of Minnesota,
g shall file with the town clerk a petition
asking for the construction of a perma-
nent hard road upon one or more -estab-