The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-03-04

temporarily under the provisions Ol
this act. the said board of trustees
shall reduce to writing the reasons
for their action. and the time the
said child is excused.
ExcuSabIe Absence.
Section 3. Every parent. guardian
or other person in the State of South
Carolina having charge or control
of a child or children between the
ages of eight and fourteen years shall
cause such child to attend school as
aforesaid: Provided, That occasion
al absence from attendance by said
child, amounting to not more than
four (4) uneXcused absences In four
consecutive weeks, shall not be un-
lawful: Provided, further, That the
superintendent, principal or teacher
in charge of any school may excuse
any child for temporary absence
because of unusual storm, OF bad
weather, sickness or death in the
child's family, unforeseen or un-
avoidabie accident, and such excuse
and reason thereof shall be record
ed by said superintendent, principal
or teacher in charge of the school,
and reported to the trustees as here
matter provided: Provided, further,
That in case of protracted illness of
any child whose attendance is re-
quired under this act, or in case of
quarantine of the home in which the
child resides, upon report of the
health officer or upon satisfactory
evidence to this effect, the trustees
shall excuse from attendance such
child until he is fully restored to
health, or until the expiration OF
their time required by law that he
shall stay out of school after quar-
antine has been raised.
Section 4. Every parent, guard
ian, or other person in the State OF
South Carolina having charge or
control of child between
the ages of fourteen and Six
teen years. who is not actually, reg
ularly and lawfully engaged in some
useful employment or service, or who
cannot read at sight and write legi-
BILE simple sentences in the English
languages. shall cause such child to
attend regularly some public school
as aforesaid.
Penalty for Violation.
Section 5. Any parent, guard
or other person violating the pro-
visions of this act shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction,
shall be liable to a fine of not. less
than two dollars for the first offense,
and not less than five dollars for any
subsequent offence, nor more than
twenty-five dollars in any case; and
upon failure or refusal to pay said
fine said parent, guardian or other
person shall be imprisoned not to
exceed thirty days in the county jail:
Provided, That the fine for any first
offence may, by order of court, upon
the payment of cost, be suspended
and not collected until the same par
ty is convicted of a second offence:
Provided, further. That after the eX-
piration of three days from the SER
vice of the notice by the trustees
each and every day parent, guard
ian or other person shall wilfully and
unlawfully keep such child or chill
dren from school or allow him to re-
main out OF school shall constitute a
separate offence, and shall subject
such person to the penalties herein
after prescribed.
Duties of Board.
= Section 6. The following duties
are hereby devolved upon the board
of trustees of each school district.
They shall take the census Of chill
dren between the ages of six and
twenty-one years. and shall keep the
attendance records of their districts.
1t shall be their duty to take an an
nual school census during the calen-
dar months of July and August, and
to furnish each superintendent, prin-
cipal or teacher in charge of school
with an accurate report of said CEN
sus of the district three days before
the opening of the school, and also
to furnish at the same time copy
of the said school census of each dis
trict to the county superintendent OF
education: Provided, That in case
the school census is not taken as here
in directed it shall be the duty OF
the county board of education so to
do, and to meet the expenses out OF
the funds of the district. The board
of trustees shall serve written or
printed. or partly written and partly