1919_private laws_164_2
CHAPTER 163 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF COMPULSORY EDU- _ CATION IN THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM, FOR THE FULL SESSION OF CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EACH YEAR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That every parent, guardian or other person in the city of Winston-Salem having charge or control of a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years shall cause such child to attend regularly some day school (public, private or parochial), in which at least the six common school branches of reading, spelling writing, arithmetic, English and geography are taught in daily session of not less than four hours per school day, for nine school months in each calendar year, or for the full session of the public schools of the city of Winston-Salem; or shall provide such child at home or elsewhere with such regular daily instruction during the usual school hours as shall be in the judgment of the court substantially equivalent in kind and amount to the instruction given the children of like age in the public schools of said city: Provided, that occasional absence from such attendance by any child between the ages of eight and fourteen years not amounting to more than two unexcused absences in four consecutive weeks shall not be unlawful.