JOINT RESOLUTIONS

Assented to by the General Assembly of Maryland, at a

Session begun on the Fourth day of January,

1888, and ended on the Second day

of April, 1888.

	No. I. Senate joint resolution requiring the bureau of Industrial Statistics and Information to col- lect facts respecting female and child labor. WHEREAS there is a great increase of female
	and child labor employed in the several manu- facturing industries of the state; and, whereas, it is important that such labor should be carefully supervised and protected by law; and, whereas, no reliable facts have heretofore been collected respecting this special class of industrial work- ers — Se it resolved by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That the chief of the bureau of. industrial	Preamble.
	statistics and information be and he is hereby instructed to make a careful, full and complete examination of the actual condition of such labor in the state, including the number, sex, ages, nationalities, wages, sanitary condition of places of employment and educational standard, and to report the full result of said investigation, together with such recommendations as he may think proper, to the next general assembly of this state.	Make exami- nation and re- port.

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