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tribute, sell, expose or offer for sale newspapers, magazines, or period-
icals in any street or public place, provided that nothing herein shall
be construed to forbid the serving of newspapers on a regular route by
boys under said age and provided said service shall not be made during
the hours when the public schools of said City are in session.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 27.

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 performed 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 pro-
vided.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 28.

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 news-
papers, magazines or periodicals or work in any of the trades or occu-
pations mentioned in section 27, unless he complies with all of the
legal requirements concerning school attendance and unless a permit
and badge as hereinafter provided shall have been issued to him by
the officer authorized to issue employment permits under this sub-title,
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 application of his next
friend, being an adult.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 29.

29. Such permit and badge shall not be issued until the officer issu-
ing the same shall have received, examined, approved and filed the fol-
lowing 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 per-
mit and badge; provided, that in the case of a boy between the ages of
fourteen and sixteen 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.