The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-13

shall arrest without warrant a child
who. under the provisions of this act is
required to attend school, sutch child
being then being truant from in
structiOn at the school which he or
she is lawfully required. shall forth
with deliver child so arrested either
to the custody of a person in parental
relation to the child or to the teacher
from whom the child is then a truant
or. in case of habitual and incOrrigible
truants, shall bring him or her before
justice of the peace. The justice OF
the peace shall, if he be convinced
that the child so arrested is an habit
ual truant or that the child is guilty
of wilful and continued disobedience
laws, or that the conduct of the
child is pernicious and injurious to the
school, bind the child over to the SUI
perior court with view to his commit
ment to the state reform school o,
other school for incOrrigibles.
Section s. 1t shall be the duty Of the
district clerk, or secretary, at the be-
ginning of each school year, to pro
vide the teacher with a copy of the
last census of school children taken in
his school district: Provided, that il
there be principal or city superin
tendent in such district, the clerk OF
secretary shall make such census re
port to him. and it shall be the duty
of every teacher to report to the prop
err truant officer, all cases of truancy
Or incOrrigibility in his or her school
Immediately after the Offense or of
lenses shall have been committed:
Provided further, that if there be a
principal the report shall be made to
him and by him transmitted to the
truant officer And provided further
that if there be city superintendent
port to said city superintendent, who
shall transmit such report to the prop
err truant officer of his district.
Section Z. In cases arising under
courts and superior courts in the state
of Washington shall have concurrent
Jurisdiction.
Section s. The county attorney shall
act as attorney for the complainant in
all court proceeding relating to the
compulsory attendance of children as
required by this act.
Section g. The county superintend-
ent shall on Or before the 18th day of
August. 1907, by printed circular or
otherwise, call the attention of all
school district officers to the provisions
of this act, and to the penalties pre-
scribed for the violation of it's pro-
visions and he or she shall require the
clerk of every school district to make
a report annually hereafter to him or
her, verified by affidavit, stating wheth
er or not the provisions of this act
have been faithfully complied with in
his district. Such reports shall be
made upon blanks to be furnished by
the superintendent of public instruc-
ton and shall be transmitted to the
county superintendent at the time the
district clerk is required to make his
annual report to the county superin-
tendent. Any district clerk VINO shall
make false report relating to the
enforcement of the provisions of this
act shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction in a
court of competent jurisdiction shall
be fined not less than twenty-five dol
lars nor more than one hundred dol
lars; and any district clerk who shall
refuse or neglect to make the report
required by this section, shall be per-
sonally liable to his district for any
loss which it may sustain because of
such neglect or refusal to report.
School May Lose Much Money.
Section 10. If the clerk OF any
school district shall fail to make the
report required by the provisions of
section nine 90 of this act, or If he
shall report that the provisions of
this act have not been faithfully COM
piled with, or if the county superin-
tendent shall personally know that
the provisions of this act have not been
complied with in good faith in any
school district, it shall be the. duty of
the county superintendent to withhold
during the next succeeding year and
until such district shall have complied
with the provisions Of this act in good
faith, twenty five per cent Of all state
school funds to which such district
would have been entitled had it COM
piled with the provisions of this act
in good faith He shall report the facts
to the county treasurer, who shall re-
turn the money so withheld to the
state treasurer. and be by him return
ed to the current school fund Of the
state.
Section IL. Any superintendent
teacher. or attendance officer. who
shall fail or refuse to perform the du-
ties prescribed by this act shall be
deemed guilty of a miSdemeanOr ana