Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-05
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
Hold Meeting
WILL RIGIDLH ENFORCE COM
PULSORY EDUCATION
LAW.

Oh ocnoOl trustees was neld yeSter-
day afternoon, President w w.
Booth in the chair; present, James
J. McQuillan, Gilbert C. Ross.
The salaries of the teachers and
other monthly bills were audited and
checks signed for the same. 1t was
decided to give Principal Schoer and
Miss Pohl separate class rooms, this
to be effected by building a solid
partition in the large room now oc-
cupied by both. 1t was also decided
to put running water into the schools
and to make connections with the
sewer. Bids will be received for the
work at once.
1t came to the attention of the
trustees that there are great num-
Der of children who are not attend
ing school, and 1t was decided to
rigidly enforce the law of compul-
sorry education, which is as follows:
Section Every parent, guard
ian or other person in the State or
Nevada, having control or charge of
a child or children, between the ages
of eight and fourteen years, shall be
required to send such child or chill
dren to public school for a 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
School Trustees of the school dis
trict in which such parents or guar
dams reside, upon its being shown
to their satisfaction that the bodily
or mental condition of such child or
children has been such, as to prevent
his or her or their attendance at
school, or application to study for
the period required, or that such
| child or children are taught in a
private school or at home, in such
branches as are usually taught in
primary schools, or have already ac-
CURED the ordinary branches of
learning taught in the public schools;
provided, in case public school shall
not be taught for the period of six
teen weeks, or any part thereof, dur
ing the year, within two miles, by the
| nearest travelled road, of the resi-
dence of any person within the school
district, he or she shall not be liable
to the provisions of this Act.
Section 2.-It shall be the duty of
the Board of School Trustees of each
school district in the State, on or be-
fore 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, be-
tween 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
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of School Trustees of such district,
the names of all children attending
school during the previous school
month; when. If it shall appear at
| the expiration of four school months.
to the Board of School Trustees, that
any parent, guardian, or other per-
son having charge or control of any
child or children, shall have failed
to comply with the provisions of this
Act, the Board shall cause demand
to be made upon such parent, guar
dian, or other person, for the amount
of the penalty hereinafter provided;
when, if such parent, guardian or
other person shall neglect or refuse
to pay the same within five days
after the making of said demand, the
Board shall commence proceedings,
in the name of the school district,
for the recovery of the fine herein
after provided, before any Justice of
the Peace in the township in which
SAID scnool district is located; or, IL
there shall be no Justice of the
Peace therein, then before the near
est Justice of the Peace in the
county.
Section 3.-Any parent or guar
dian or other person having control
or charge of any child or children.
failing to comply with the provisions
OF this Act, shall be liable to fine
of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars for
the first offense, nor less than one
hundred dollars. nor more than two
hundred dollars for the second and
each subsequent offense, besides the
cost of collection.