Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1903-12-10
CcmpuS ~ School Law
EnasCt2d In 1903

Be it enacted by the Legislative AS
sembly Of the Territory of New
Mexico:
Section l. Thst section 1865, original
school statute of 1891, as it appears in
the Compiled Laws of 1897, is berebv
amended tn read as follows. viz: sT'hat
the school directors or board of anv
school district, town or city in this
territory are hereby empowered and re-
quired to compel parents, guardians or
other persons having the control. care
or direction of children, when such
children do not attend some private or
denominational school, to send such
children under their control TO the
public school for at least three months
in each year, except that children re-
terred to in this act shall be not less
thsn seven nor more than fourteen
years of age, OF of such physical disa-
billty as t. unfit them for school duties
which disability shall he certified to by
some regular practieing physician"
Sec. 2. Any parent, guardian or other
person having the control OF children
and who shall fail or refuse to send
such children to school as required by
his act, after the clerk OF the school
district or the clerk Of any town or city
school board shall have given public
nOtipa containing tho ,,,h...- Q 80,
act, written or printed in both English
and Spanish; by posting same IN some
conspicuous place at three seperete
points within the district, or publishing
the same in some newspaper within the
district, shall he punished upon con-
viction thereof by fine of not less than
five dollars (S5O0 nor more than
twent7-6ve dollOrs (S25OO), or by i'm.
prisoDment for no. more than ten days
in any county Jail: Provided, that il
such parent or guardian is not able, by
reason of poverty, to buy books for any
such child, 1t shall be the duty of the
school board of any town, district OF
city, upon the facts being shown 10
the satisfaction OF a majority thereof
to purchase, through the county super.
intendent or through the district, town
or city uperintendent, if there be one
the necessary books for the use of said
child or children, which books shall b,
ioaHed to said INDECENT pupil during
the school term, yet shall remain the
property of the distric under the care
aud custody of the district clerk: Pro
vided further, that a sum not exceeding
fifty dollaas $4,000 may be expended
in any 9istrict in any one year for sup
plying INDECENT children with sucf
necessary books, to be paid for out O
the school fund OF such district, by
warrants drawn as in other cases; and
Provided, also, that there is no schoo
taught within two miles of the place o
residence of said child by the neares
established road.
Sec 3. County superintendent ar
hereby vested with general supervisor
powers in this matter and shall requir
directors to comply with the provision
of the preceding sections; and it sha
be the duty of the presiding judge o
the district courts to give, at eac
session of the court, the substance o
this law as special charge to thei
respective grand juries, and it is mad
the duty Of the district attorneys t
give particular heed to the prosecute
of causes growing out of violations O
this act; and all fines so collected 70
the violation of this act shall be pai
into the county treasury and placed t
the credit of the school district in whic
the offense occurs.
All laws and parts of lsws in conflic
herewith are hereby repealed; and thi
act shall take effect and be in force il
p thiray days after its passage ar
: approval by the governor.
The above is the Compulsory Schoc
Law and the school board IS compelle
TO enforce the same.
Red River School Board
r. W. Penn, Chairman.
b. j Young, Secretary,
F. @. Stevens