Requires children between 7 and 14 years of age in 1st, tend school. CHAPTER 94. AN ACT to secure school attendance of children between the ages of seven and fourteen. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That every parent, guardian or other person in any city of the first, second, third or fourth class, class towns to at- within this Commonwealth, having the control of any child or children between the ages of seven and fourteen years, shall be required to send such child or children, annually, to some public or private school for children for the full term of such school, and that if the attendance be upon a private school, it shall be one full term of which not less than five months: Provided, however, that this act shall not apply in any case where the child is physically or mentally unfit to attend school, or has already acquired the common school branches required by law; such acquisition to be tested and certified in the same manner and at the same time as in the case of county graduates of the common school. "Truant Officer" § 2. In the first week in July each year, the Board created and defined. of Education in each city of the first, second, third and fourth classes, shall appoint one person for each three thousand pupils, or fraction thereof, to serve as truant officer, whose term of office shall be for one year from date of appointment, and whose authority shall be limited to the city where the appointment is made; such person so appointed shall be of strict moral character, and with ability to read and write. Truant officers shall be paid from the school tax levy of such city, at the rate of not less than $1.00 nor more than $2.50 for each school day. § 3. Truant officers shall examine into any case of truancy within the city and shall warn the parent, guardian, or others in charge of the child of the final consequences of truancy if persisted in. When any child between the age of seven and fourteen years is not attending school without lawful excuse and in violation of the provision of this act, the proper truant officer shall notify the parent, guardian or other person in charge, of the fact, and require such person to cause the child to attend some recognized school within five days from the date of the notice, and it shall be the duty of such person so to cause its attendance at some recognized school. Upon failure to do so, the truant officer shall make complaint before a justice of the peace of the county in which such child lives, against the parent, guardian or other person having such child in charge, and, upon conviction, the parent, guardian or other person in charge shall forfeit to the use of the school in the city in which such child resides, a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for the first offense, nor less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the second and every subsequent offense, and cost of suit. § 4. The truant officer shall keep a record of his transactions for the inspection of the school boards of such cities, and suitable blanks shall be provided for his use by the State Superintendent. Duties of said officer. To keep record of his acts. False statement child. § 5. Any person having control of a child who, concerning age of with intent to evade the provisions of this act, shall make a wilfully false statement concerning the age of such child, or the time such child has attended school, shall forfeit for each offense, a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for the use of the public schools for such city. Approved March 22, 1904. Powers of board of 6th class town. CHAPTER 95. AN ACT to amend the first paragraph of subsection 1, of section 3704, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That, paragraph one, of sub-section one, of section 3704, of the Kentucky Statutes, be, and the same is hereby amended, by adding after the word "profession," the last word of said paragraph of sub-section one, the following, viz.: "And also to contract for the supplying the town with water and lights; to purchase, lease or receive such real estate and personal property as may be necessary and proper for municipal purposes, and to control, dispose of and convey the same for the benefit of the said town: Provided, That they shall not have the power to sell or convey any portion of any water front, but may rent such water front for a term of not exceeding twenty years, except the wharf privileges, which shall not be leased or rented for more than one year." When said paragraph of sub-section one, of section 3704, is amended and reenacted will read as follows, viz.: "The Board of Trustees of such town shall have power, to pass ordinances not in conflict with the Constitution or laws of this Commonwealth or of the United States, and to impose and collect license fees and taxes on stock used for breeding purposes, and all franchises, trades, occupations and professions, and also to contract for supplying the town with water and light; to purchase, lease or receive such real es tate and personal property as may be necessary and proper for municipal purposes, and control, dispose of and convey the same for the benefit of the said town: Provided, That they shall not have the power to sell or convey any portion of any water front, but may rent such water front for a term of not exceeding twenty years, except the wharf privileges, which shall not be leased or rented for more than one year." Approved March 25, 1904. CHAPTER 96. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An Act for the government of cities of the first class," approved July 1, 1893. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act entitled "An act for the government of cities of the first class," approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be amended by adding thereto the following section: § 136a. The judge of the Police Court shall have power to appoint and remove at will, a doorkeeper for the Police Court, whose duties shall be to stand at and guard the door of said court, and preserve order and perform such other services as directed by the judge of said court. Said doorkeeper shall receive a salary of fifty dollars per month to be paid monthly out of the city treasury. He is vested with the same. powers as those of a deputy bailiff of the Police Court." Approved March 22, 1904. Doorkeeper of of the 1st class. police court in cities Military post at West Point ceded to U. S. CHAPTER 97. AN ACT ceding to the United States jurisdiction over a site for a camp of instruction and miltary post. WHEREAS, the State of Kentucky, by reason of her central position in the Union, and her superior facilities for furnishing good army horses and for transporting troops and munitions of war, quickly and cheaply to all parts of the Union, is admirably suited for the location of a permanent camp of instruction and military post, now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That in the event of the establishment by the general Government of a permanent camp of instruction and military post in the vicinity of West Point, Kentucky, commonly known as the West Point Site, the State of Kentucky hereby relinquishes and cedes to the United States all the rights and jurisdiction which she now possesses over the land and premises conveyed or to be conveyed to the United States for the purpose of such permanent camp of instruction and military post, and exempt the said premises and all Government property thereon from all taxes and assessments so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States. § 2. There being no law in force now authorizing the purposes set out in the first section of this act, an emergency is therefore declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1904. |