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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1916)
Compulsory Attendance Bill An Act to require school attendance of children for a minimum period, and to provide for enforcement of the same, and for other purposes. Section l. ]> it onaotcT »r 'he General A -embly of tin S'ato of *ovgia. that every parent, sruarJian. or oth r person l avin ' charge and control of a chiM between tin* aim* of ei rhf and f nr •' who is not exempted or csensed a- hereinafter r vi.lr-d. dr.ll cause the said child to I)e enrolled in and to ntt n 1 co: rinuonsy for f ur months of each year in a public school of the district or of the oitv or town in which the child resides; which p> :iod of attendance shall coni tnence at the beginning of the fir-t to mi of said sliool in the year. Snell attendance at a public school shall not be required where the child attends for the same period some other school giving instruction in the ordinary branches of English education, or has completed the fourth grade of school work as prescribed bv the Shite B aird of Hi u cation, or where, because of poverty, the services of the child arc necessary for the support of a parent or other persons standing in parental relation to the child are arable to ptov: !e the necessary books and clothing for attending school, and the same arc not oth. r wise provided, or where the mental or physical condition of the child renders such attendance impracticable or inexpedient, or where the child resides more than three miles from the school house by the near est traveled route, or where, for other good reasons (the sufficiency of which shall be determined bv the board of education of the county or of the city or town in which the child resides) the said board excuses the child from such attendance, such boards being authorized to take into consideration the seasons for agricultural labor and the need for such labor, in exercising their discretion as to the time for which children in farming districts shall be excused. Provided, that no guardian stall be compelled to send such child or children tb school out of any other than the funds belonging to said ward or wards Tem porary absence of any child enrolled as a pupil may be excused by the principal or teacher in charge of the school, because of had weather, sickness, death in the child’s family, or other reasonable cause. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That any parent, guardian or other person who has charge and control of of a child between the ages afore said, and who willfully fails to comply with the foregoing require ments shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof slm 11 be punished bv a fine not to exceed ten dollars for the first offense and not to exceed twenty dollars for each subsequent offense, said fines to include all costs ; but the court trying the case may. in its discre tion. suspend enforcement of the punishment, if the child be imme diately placed in attendance at a school as aforesaid, and may finally .remit the same if such attendance has continued regularly for the num ber af menths hereinbefore prescribed for attendance. School attend ance may be proved by an attested certificate of ilie principal or teach •er in charge of the school. No person shall be prosecuted b r xi. tion of the foregoing requirem oits unless the b mod of education of the c >anty or municipality in which the person accused of such violati< n resides shall have caused to be serve 1 upon the accused, at least ten dtvs bef re such prosecution, a written notice cf the charge with the name of the child to \. bom it refers Any pers >n so notified, not pre viously convicted of vi Button of this Act as to the child referred to in said notice, may prevent prosecution on the charge set out therein, by giving, at any time before such pres, cation is instituted, a bond in the penal sum of fifty dollars payable v the ordinary of the county, with security to be approved by the. ordinary, codaitioued that the said per son shall thenceforth faithfully comply with the requirements of ti i> .Act as to sai l child. Each day’s willful failure of a parent, guardian, or other person in charge and control of a child as aforesaid, after the ■expiration of ten days from such notice, to cause the child to attend school, when such attendance is r quired by this Act, shall constitute a separate offense. In prosecutions under this Act the exemptions and excuses herein provided for -diall he matters of defense to be ■e.-bablished by the accused, and need not be negatived in the indict ment or accusation. Sec. 3. .Bh it further enacted That it shall be the duty cf the .county and municipal board of educati on to investigate as to attend •itnee and non-attendance of children required by t-his Act to attend the •sell >ols under their supervision, and it snail also be. their duly to iuoti. tute or cause to he ir.su ted. pro -cut: ns g-im-d persons violating this Act. It shall be the duty of the principal or teacher in charge of any public school in wi.ich pupils between the ages of eight and four teen are instructed, to keep an accurate rec ..id of the attendance of such pupils, and at the end of each month to make a written report of same to the boa-d of education h iving sup rvision of the school, and .to note therein excused absences and the reasons therefor. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That all fiu> s imposed hereunder and all sums required to be paid as penalties und*r bonds given under this Act, shall, after payment of the costs of pros scuti »a and of recov ery thereof, be paid into the county treasury and become a part of the school fund of the county. Sc. (>. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Act shall become operative on the first day of January, in the year nine teen hundred and seventeen. Sec. li. Be it further enacte:, That, it sh .11 be the duty of the hoard of education of each county. »t .east f< ur we ks before the first da v of January following the adoption of tbi« Act, to ettuse this Act to be published in the newspaper ot the count.. if there be one and to cause copies of this Act to be posted at- the court bouse of the county atr.d at the public schools thereof. S"C. 7 Be it iurtiiei enacted, That'all laws and parrs of laws in .conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1 1 ♦>. N E. HAtIRIS, Governor, Cotton Selling .at 25 Cents Bred and gro.vn by L. L. Phil -I'. a, lotis staple cotton 1 inch and a quarter, strong weed, veil fruited, line staple. I have irown it 3 years, pin on my own private gin. Pure and clean seed :or sale at $3.00 bushel. Said in IcDonough at highest price, 25c pound on date sold, to Mr. John )upree. L. L. PHILLIPS, K. ,i. SKDONOI G!!. CA. 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