Middletown transcript., 1907-05-11

the requirements of this Act within thre,
school days then and thereafter to avoic
the imposition of such penalty. The
mailing OF such notice to the usual address
OF offending party shall be deemed suffi'
cient under this Act. But after such
notice has been given, if the sa he child
is absent from school three days or their
eouivaIent III time during the remaining
period Of compulsory attendance, without
excuse as provided by Section l of this
Act, the parent, guardian or person in
parental relation, shall be liable to prose
cntion under this Act without further
notice The fines provided for by this
Act, shall, when collected, be paid over
by the officers collecting the same, to the
treasurer or clerk OF the school committee
or board of the respective districts for the
use of the school district in which such
person convicted resides, to be applied
and accounted for by such treasurers or
clerk in the same way as other moneys
raised for school purposes; such fines shall
be collected by process of law similar to
the collection of other fines.
Section 8. Boards of education and
school committees may, in all districts,
employ one or more persons to be known
as attendance officers" whose duty shall
be, in addition to the duties provided
elsewhere in this Act, to look after, ap-
prehend and arrest without warrant,
truants and others who fail to atten d
school in accordance with the provisions
of this Act. When an attendance officer
arrests or apprehends any truapt or
other person, as herein set forth, he shall
have power Immediately to place him or
her in the school in which he or she is or
shoa Id be enrolled, or at the expense of
the parent, guardian or person in parent
al relation, in such private school as pro-
vided by Section I,of this Act, ,as the par
entail relation may select. And in case
the parent, guardian or person in paren-
tai relation shall refuse or neglect i'm
mediately to select such school, the school
commissioners or secretary for school
commissioners shall have full power to
designate the school in which the
child shall be placed. The per-
sons serving as such attendance
officers, shall be entitled to such compensa-
tion as shall be fixed by the Boards ap-
pointing them, and such compensation
may be paid out of the school funds.
But the gums paid for such services must
be approved by the Superintendent of
Schools of the County. In case no truant
officer be appointed, the secretary or clerk
of the local school commissioner shall
serve as such officer
Commissioners of any school district or
districts or of two or more districts
jointly, may establish special schools for
children who are habitual truants or who
are insubordinate or disorderly during
their attendance upon instruction IN the
public schools, and may provide for the
proper care, maintenance and instruction
of such children in such schools for such
period of time as the Board may pre-
scribe. But before the pupil shall be
placed in such special school, the parent,
guardian or person in parental relation
shall have opportunity to be heard.
All truancy and incorrigibility shall be
deemed disorderly conduct, and in case
no special school, as herein prescribed |
has been established, the County Super
intendent of Schools, or secretary or
offc r, as the County Super
shall designate, shall proceed
a gainst such truant or incorrigible pupils |
as disorderly person before justice OF
the peace, magistrate or alderman, and |
upon conviction, the pupil may be SEN
fenced for definite time to the Ferris
Reform School. The State Treasurer
shall pay to the authorities of the said |
school, the sum of forty cents per day, |
from money not otherwise appropriated, |
for each day such pupil is confined in
said institution.
Sec. 4 1t shall be the duty of the assessor
when making each assessment of property |
For taxation for school purposes, when
not notified and directed to the contrary
by the school commissioners, to make in
a substantial book, provided by the
County Superintendent of Schools at the
expense of the State for that purpose, a
and correct list of all children
the ages of seven and fourteen