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EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS.

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Hours of Labor for Females. 51. Number of hours females may work; intervals of rest; Alle- gany County; canneries. 52. Employers to post law.

53. Inspectors and assistant inspect- ors of female labor. 54-55. Inspectors may enter factories, etc. ; reports ; penalties.

Employment of Minors.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 4.

4. No child under 14 year of age shall be employed, permitted or
suffered to work in, about or in connection with any mill, factory,
workshop, mechanical establishment, tenement house manufactory or
workshop, office building, restaurant, bakery, barber shop, hotel, apart-
ment house, bootblack stand or establishment, public stable, garage,
laundry, or as a driver, or in any brick or lumber yard, or in the con-
struction or repair of buildings, or 'as a messenger for telegraph, tele-
phone, or messenger companies.

For a declaration which alleged that the plaintiff, a boy eleven years of
age, was employed in violation of the act of 1912, chapter 731, and for a
case involving the liability of a master for injuries to children of tender
years and his exoneration when the injury is due to an independent cause,
see Coughlin v. Blaul, 120 Md. 31.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 5.

5. No child under 12 years of age shall be employed, permitted or
suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any canning or pack-
ing establishment mercantile establishment, store, office, boarding house,
place of amusement, club or in the distribution, transmission or sale of
merchandise.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 6.

6. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to em-
ploy, permit or suffer to work for hire or remuneration any child under
fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever during any
of the hours when the public schools of the district in which said child
resides are in session, unless said child shall have previously fulfilled
during the current school year such requirements as to school attend-
ance as now or may hereafter be prescribed by law.

1912, oh. 731, sec. 7.

7. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, per-
mitted or suffered to work at any of the following occupations, or in
any of the following positions: Adjusting any belt to any machinery;
sewing or lacing machine belts in any workshop or factory; oiling,
wiping or cleaning machinery or assisting therein; operating or assist-
ing in operating any of the following machines: Circular or band saws,
wood shapers, wood jointers, planers, sandpaper or wood-polishing
machinery, wood-turning or boring machinery, picker machines or