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ages and such other and further actual damages as he may
prove.

Health—Hours of Labor of Children.

1888, art. 27, sec 139. 1874, ch. 3. 1876, ch. 125. 1892, ch. 443.

225. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed
in laboring more than ten hours a day in any manufacturing
business or factory established in any part of the State, or in
any mercantile business in the city of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 140. 1892, ch. 443.

226. Any person who shall so employ a child or suffer or
permit such employment shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Ibid. sec. 141. 1892, ch. 443.

227- The word "suffer or permit," includes every act or
omission whereby it becomes possible for the child to engage
in such labor.

Health—Hours of Labor of Street Car Employes.

Ibid sec. 142. 1886, ch. 163. sec. 1..

228. No horse railway company, incorporated under the
laws of this State, and no officer, agent or servant of such cor-
poration, and no person or firm owning or operating any line
or lines of horse railways within the limits of this State, and
no agent or servant of such firm or firms shall require, permit
or suffer its, his or their conductors or drivers, or any of them,
or any employes in its, his or their service, or under his, its or
their control, to work more than twelve hours during each or
any day of twenty-four hours, and shall make no contract or
agreement with such employes, 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.

Ibid. sec. 143. 1886, ch. 163, sec. 2.

229. 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 any 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 corporation by petition in the name