due to this state for percentage allowed to this state by the United States, on the sales made by the United States of public lands which are situated and sold in this state; and for the purposes aforesaid, said State Superintendent is made the agent of this state. Treasurer school fund. 1364. SEC. 2. Upon receiving any money as contemplated Money to be in section one herein, the State Superintendent of Public In-paid to State struction shall, after furnishing a statement thereof to the State and placed in Controller, pay the same over to the State Treasurer, taking his receipt for the same in duplicate, one of which he shall deliver to the State Controller. All money received by virtue of this Act shall be placed in the school fund, and used as other school funds, until required by law for purposes of internal improvement; provided, whenever an Act of Congress shall have been passed authorizing the diversion of such moneys from the purposes of internal improvements to common school purposes, the same shall thereafter become a part of the permanent school fund of this state. An Act to provide for the safe keeping of the securities of the state school fund. Approved February 21, 1871, 66. be custodian. 1365. SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this Act, Treasurer to the State Treasurer shall be the legal custodian of all state and national securities in which the moneys of the state (irreducible) school fund of the State of Nevada, are or may hereafter be invested, and for their safe keeping he shall be liable on his official bond. over. 1366. SEC. 2. The State Board of Education shall imme- Securities to be passed diately pass over to the State Treasurer all moneys and securities now in their custody, taking from him duplicate receipts therefor; one of which they shall file with the Controller of State, who shall thereupon charge the same to the State Treasurer. 1367. SEC. 3. When due (after procuring the Controller's Payment of warrant for the amount thereof), the State Treasurer shall, in the presence of the State Board of Education, or a majority of the same, cut off and pay the coupon on such state securities as may be in said fund, and place the moneys so paid in the general (distributing) school fund of the state, and keep a correct account thereof on his books. coupons. 1368. SEC. 4. It is hereby made the duty of the State Quarterly Controller, quarterly, to notify the State Board of Education of notice of the amount of money in the state school fund; and whenever there shall be a sum in said fund sufficient for investment, said Investment board shall direct the State Treasurer to negotiate for invest- of fund. ment of the same in United States securities, or in bonds of this state, at the lowest purchasable rates, and the board shall then draw their order upon the State Controller in favor of the State Treasurer for the amount to be invested. Said Controller shall thereupon draw his warrant as directed, and the State Treasurer shall complete the purchase of the securities negotiated for by him in pursuance of this Act. All children ages of eight An Act to compel children to attend school. Approved February 25, 1873, 89. 1369. SECTION 1. Every parent, guardian, or other person between the in the State of Nevada, having control and charge of a child and fourteen or children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall attend school. be required to send such child or children to a public school for years to Board of tees to furnish list. principal. 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 district in which such parents or guardians 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, 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 a primary school, or have already acquired the ordinary branches of learning taught in the public school; provided, in case a public school shall not be taught for the period of sixteen weeks, or any part thereof, during the year, within two miles, by the nearest traveled road, of the residence of any person within the school district, he or she shall not be liable to the provisions of this Act. 1370. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of School School Trus- Trustees of each school district in this state, on or before the first Monday in September in each year, to furnish the principal of each public school taught in such district with a list of all children, resident in the school district, between the ages of eight and fourteen years; said list to be taken from the report Report of the 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 such district to report to the Board 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 person 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, guardian, or other person, for the amount of the penalty hereinafter provided; when, Board to make demand on parents. penalty. 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 Action for the school district for the recovery of the fine hereinafter provided, before any Justice of the Peace in the township in which said school district is located; or, if there shall be no Justice of the Peace therein, then before the nearest Justice of the Peace in the county. non-com 1371. SEC. 3. Any parent, guardian, or other person hav- Penalty for ing control or charge of any child or children, failing to compliance with ply with the provisions of this Act, shall be liable to a fine of this Act. 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 costs of collection. furnish certain cases. 1372. SEC. 4. Whenever it shall appear, to the satisfaction Board School of the Board of School Trustees of any school district in this Trustees to state, that the parents, guardians, or other persons having con- books, etc., in trol and charge of any child or children in attendance upon the public school of said district, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, are unable to procure suitable books, stationery, etc., for such child or children, it shall be the duty of such board to procure, or cause to be procured, for such child or children, all necessary books, stationery, etc., the same to be paid for out of the fund of said school district, in the same way that other claims against the school district are now allowed and paid; provided, that all books, stationery, etc., purchased under the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed to be the property of the school district, to be under the care and control of the School Trustees when not in actual use. 1373. SEC. 5. All fines collected under the provisions of Fines, how this Act shall be paid into the county treasury on account of disposed of. the state school fund. perinten Act. 1374. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the County Superin- County Sutendent of Public Schools in each county in this state to cause dents to this law to be published in some newspaper in his county, if publish this any there be, four consecutive times, annually, for a period of two years, the expense of such publication to be allowed and paid out of the general school fund of the county. The Board Notice to be of School Trustees in each school district shall cause to be posted. posted annually, for a period of two years, in three public places in their district, notices of the requirements and penalties of this law. CHAPTER XI. STATE INSTITUTIONS. State univer- Provisos. SECTION. 1375. State university, location, control, and management. 1384. Providing for election of Board of Regents, term of office and duties. 1389. Powers and duties of Board of Regents of state university. 1390. Providing for territorial prison. 1392. Providing for erection of state prison. 1397. Providing for government of state prison. 1420. Supplemental to preceding Act. 1423. Såme. 1425. Concerning escaped prisoners and recapture of same. 1427. Relative to discharged prisoners. 1428. Relative to convict labor. 1429. Concerning pardons and commutations. 1437. Providing for release of certain prisoners in state prison. 1439. Erection of asylum and taking care of insane. 1457. Relative to care of insane. 1460. Transportation of indigent insane and convicts. 1463. Transportation of insane conviets. 1465. Government and maintenance of state orphans' home. 1491. Lieutenant-Governor State Librarian, office hours. An Act to locate the state university, and to provide for the control and maintenance of the same. Approved March 7, 1873, 166. 1375. SECTION 1. The state university, as described in section four of article eleven of the constitution of this state, is hereby located at the town of Reno, Washoe county, State of Nevada; provided, that the Central Pacific Railroad Company shall deed and convey to Elko county, State of Nevada, the premises now occupied and used as such university at the town of Elko, Nevada; and, further provided, that the Board of Commissioners of Washoe county shall pay into the treasury of Elko county the sum of twenty thousand dollars, as required by law authorizing Washoe county to issue certain bonds for such purpose, and that no removal of the university shall take place until such payment is made. 1376. (Sec. 2.) Upon the payment by the citizens or County Commissioners of said Washoe county to the Board of $5,000 to be con structed. Regents of said university, within six months after the passage Payment of of this Act, of five thousand dollars, to be applied to the con- Board of struction of suitable buildings for said university at Reno, the Regents. Board of Regents are hereby authorized and directed to purchase a suitable site in or adjacent to said Reno, of not less Site to be than ten acres in extent, for the construction of buildings for purchased. the use of said university, and within six months after the payment of said five thousand dollars, to construct, or cause to be constructed, on said site, buildings suitable for the preparatory Buildings to department of said university, calculated to accommodate at least one hundred pupils, at an estimated cost of not more than twenty thousand dollars.-As amended, Stats. 1885, 75. 1377. SEC. 2. The Board of Regents shall employ at least one duly qualified teacher, at an annual salary not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars. Said teacher shall serve as principal of the preparatory department of the university, and said Regents are hereby authorized to draw their order upon the State Controller quarterly for the payment of his salary, Salary, how and the Controller shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer, who shall pay the same out of any moneys to the credit of the contingent university fund hereinafter to be created. At least one teacher to be employed. paid. $10,000 appro priated. 1378. (Sec. 4.) The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby The sum of appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated to enable the Board of Regents to purchase said site and construct and finish said building, and furnish the same where necessary; and the same is hereby appropriated and set apart for said purposes, and the five thousand dollars so paid said Regents, as contemplated by section two of this Act, shall be used and applied by said Regents in common with said ten thousand dollars and to the same purposes.--As amended, Stats. 1885, 76. 80 Regents to university. 1379. SEC. 3. The Board of Regents shall have entire Board of control and management of the affairs of the institution hereby manage and established. They shall, by and with the advice of the princi- control pal, arrange a course of study to be pursued in said institution, and shall designate the text books to be employed. They shall Terms of determine and publish throughout the state the terms of admis- admission to sion to said institution; provided, that the course of study shall be such a's is appropriate to an academic or preparatory department, that tuition shall be free, and that none shall be excluded on account of sex, race, or color. be published. 1380. SEC. 4. Immediate selection and sale of the seventy- Sale of land. two sections of land granted this state by Act of Congress, approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the establishment and maintenance of a university, is hereby ordered. The moneys arising from the sale of said lands shall be and constitute a fund to be known as the irreducible university fund. Irreducible Whenever there shall be a sum in said fund sufficient for invest-university ment, the Board of Regents shall direct the State Treasurer to negotiate for investment of the same in United States securities, or in bonds of this state, at the lowest purchasable rates, and fund created. |