1911_public local laws_407_7
CHAPTER 406 AN ACT TO SECURE COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN THE BISCOE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, MONTGOM- ERY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That any parent, guardian or person having control of a child between the ages of seven and fifteen years who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be warned as aforesaid, as soon as possible after the beginning of the school term of said district of each year and also at any time thereafter when such violation shall be discovered by the attendance officer herein provided for, to place and keep such child in regular attendance at some day school within three days of the service of such written or printed notice of warning, and upon failure to comply with this act after a lapse of three days from the date of service of said notice of warning, said parent, guardian or person having charge or control of said child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than two days and not more than thirty days: Provided, that said sentence of fine or imprisonment may be suspended and finally remitted by the court, with or without the payment of costs, at the discretion of the court, if the said child be immediately placed and kept in regular attendance in some day school as aforesaid, and such fact of regular attendance shall be subsequently proven to the satisfaction of said court by a properly attested certificate of attendance from the superintendent or teacher of said day school: Provided, further, that every day any parent, guardian or other person shall willfully and unlawfully keep such child from school after the expiration of three days from the service of such notice on such parent, guardian or other person having control of said child shall constitute a new and separate offense and shall subject such parent, guardian. or other person having control of such child to the penalties herein prescribed.