PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1221

zines or periodicals in any street or public place, provided that
nothing herein shall be construed to forbid the serving of news-
papers on a regular route by boys under said age, provided
said service shall not be made during the hours when the public
schools of said city are in session.

27. No boy under fourteen years of age and no girl under
sixteen years of age shall in any city having a population of
20,000 or over be employed or permitted or suffered to work at
any time as a bootblack or in any other trade or occupation per-
formed in any street or public place, or in the distribution of
hand bills or circulars, or any other articles except newspapers,
magazines and periodicals as herein provided.

28. No boy under sixteen years of age shall have authority
in his discretion in any city having a population of 20,000 or
over distribute, sell, expose or offer for sale in any street or
public place any newspapers, magazines or periodicals or work
in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section 27,
unless he complies with all of the legal requirements concern-
ing school attendance and unless a permit and badge as herein-
after provided shall have been issued to him by the officer
authorized to issue employment permits under this act, upon
the application in person of the parent, guardian or custodian
of the child desiring such permit and badge, or in case said
child has no parent, guardian or custodian, then upon the appli-
cation of his next friend, being an adult.

29. Such permit and badge shall not be issued until the
officer issuing, the same shall have received, examined, approved
and filed the following papers, duly executed, viz:

(1) Evidence that such boy is of the age required by section
26 or 27, as the case may be. Such evidence of age shall consist
of the proof of age required for the issuing of an employment
certificate as specified in section 13, sub-division (3) of this
article.

(2) The written statement of the principal or chief executive
officer of the school which the child is attending, stating that
such child is an attendant at such school with the grade such
child shall have attained. After having received, examined and
placed on file such papers, the officer shall have authority in his
discretion to issue to the child a permit and badge; provided,
that in the cage of a boy between the ages of fourteen and six-
teen having an employment certificate, such certificate shall be
accepted by the officer issuing such permit and badge in lieu of
any other requirements. The officer issuing such permits and
badges shall keep a complete list of all children to whom permits
and badges have been issued as herein provided.