The Green Forest tribune., 1909-08-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Full Text of Educational Act
 Passed by the Legislature
The following is the full text of the compulsory educational law passed by the late legislature

 or other person in the State of Arkan- ! sas, having charge and control of any | child between the ages of eight and sixteen years, shall cause such child to attend regularly some day school, pub lie, private, parochial or parish, not | less than one-half of the entire time the | public school said child attends is in session, during any one year, or shall | provide such child at home with such | regular daily instruction during the usual hours as shall be, in the judgment of court or school board having compe- tent jurisdiction, substantially equiva lent to at least the instructions given the children of like age and advance ment at the day school in the locality in which said child resides.
 Provided, That every parent, guar dian or other person ill the State of Arkansas, having charge and control of any child between the ages of sixteen and twenty years, who is not actively and regularly and lawfully engaged in some useful employment or service, shall cause said child to attend schools hereinbefore provided for children from eight to sixteen years.
 SEC. 3. Any child between the ages aforesaid may be excused temporarily from complying with the provisions of this Act, in whole or in part, ii it be shown to court of competent jurisdic tion, or school board Of said district, that said parent or guardian, or person having charge or control of said child, is not able, through extreme destitu tion, to provide proper clothing for said child, or that said child is mental ly or physically incapacitated to attend school for the whole period required, or any part thereof, or taat there is no public school taught within two and one-h half miles of the residence of said child, by the nearest tra veled road, or that the labor of said child is absolutely necessary for the support of the family, or that said child has completed common school course, including seven | grades, and has certificate of same from the school said child attended, If any child, or children, are unable to attend school, as hereinbefore required, by not being able to procure books, on satisfactory proof of same, the respec- tive school board shall purchase said books out of the general school fund of said district.
 SEC. B. The board having charge of public school in a city or district shall
 appoint, for period of one year, one or more attendance officers to enforce the provisions of this Act. The fees of said attendance officers shall be the same as that of peace officers for simi- lar service, and said fees shall be paid from the public school funds of the city or district. The attendance officers, shall st rye written or printed notices upon the parents or guardians, or | persons who have charge and control of any child or children as foresaid who violate the provision of this Act, and shall, when reasonable doubt exists as to the age of any child, require prop erly attested birth certificate or an a ff- davit stating such child's age, the date of birth and physical characteristics; and shall have the right to visit and enter any office or factory or business house employing children, as afore- said; and the right to require proper ly attested certificate of attendance of any child or children at such day school; and power to arrest, without warrant, all truants and con- attendants as aforesaid and place them in some public school. unless the parents, guardians or persons in charge and control of said children, respectively,
 
 day school as aforesaid. Such attend ance officer shall serve the legal notices and subpoenas of the court, without further fee or compensations than that paid by the board as aforesaid, and he shall carry into effect such other regu- lations as may lawfully be required by the board appointing him.
 SEC. 4. The board, having charge of the public schools of any city or dis trict having 10000 or more population by the last census, may establish and maintain from the public schools in such city or district, or any school board may, at it's discretion, purchase land and maintain such school, either within or without their own school dis trict, for children who are between the ages of eight and sixteen years, and | who are either habitual truants from any day school in which they are en- rolled as pupils, or who, while in at tendance at any school, are incorrigi- ble, vicious or immoral, or who habitu- | ally wander or loiter about the woods or public places without lawful employ ment, and such children shall be deem- ed juvenile, disorderly persons. and maybe by said board, through it's off cers, assigned to, and required and compelled to attend such truant or parental school, or any department of the graded schools, as such school board or court may dire ct.
 SEC. 5. Any parent or guardian, or | person having charge and control of any child between the ages of eight and sixteen years, violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall be warned | as aforesaid, as soon as possible after the beginning of the public school term of the city. town or district in which such child resides, and also at any time | thereafter by the atte ldance officer here in provided for, or by the clerk of dis trict where no attendance officer is pro- vided for, to place and keep said child in regular at some day school, within ten days from the service of the said written or printed notice of warning, and upon failure to comply with this Act, after the lapse of ten days from the date of the service of said notice of warning, said parent, guardian or per- son having charge or control of said child shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay fine of not less than ten dollars, and not more than twenty five dollars.
 Provided, That such fine may be sus- pended and finally remitted by the court trying the case, with or without payment of cost, at discretion of the court, if the said child be immediately placed in regular attendance in some day school as aforesaid, and if such fact of regular attendance is proven subsequently, to the satisfaction of said court by attested certificate of at