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work more than twelve hours during each or any day of twenty-
four hours, and shall make no contract or agreement with such

employees, or any of them, providing that they or he shall work
for more than twelve hours during each or any day of twenty-
four hours.

1883, ch. 163.

143. Any corporation which shall in any manner violate any
of the provisions of the preceding section, shall be deemed to
have misused or abused, its corporate powers and franchises, and
the attorney general of the State, upon application in writing,
made by auy citizen of this State, accompanied by sufficient proof
of such violation, shall forthwith, without further authorization,
institute proceedings for the forfeiture of the charter of such cor-
poration, by petition in the name of the State, in the manner
provided by the laws of this State for the enforcement of the for-
feiture of the charter of any corporation which has abused or

misused its corporate powers or franchises.

Ibid.

144. If any corporation, or any officer, agent or servant of

such corporation, or any person or any firm managing or con-

ducting any horse railway in this State, or any agent or servant
of such person or firm, shall do any act in violation of the pro-
visions of section 142, it, he or they shall be deemed to have
been guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof in
a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined one hundred dollars
for each offence .so committed, together with the costs of such
prosecution.

Health—Sale of Cigars and Tobacco to Minors.

1886, ch. 371, sec. 1.

145. It shall not be lawful for any dealer, vendor or other

person or persons, or body corporate, engaged in the manufacture
of cigars, cigarettes or tobacco, or in any occupation in which the
buying or selling of said goods, wares and merchandise shall con-
stitute the whole or any part of his, her, their or its business or

occupation, to sell, barter or give any cigar or cigars, cigarette or

cigarettes, smoking or chewing tobacco, to any minor under the