FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 443.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, section

one hundred and thirty-nine to one hundred and forty-

one, inclusive, of article twenty-seven of the Code of

Public General Laws, title " Crimes and Punishments,"

sub-title " Health, Hours of Labor of Children."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That sections one hundred and thirty-nine to

Amend-

one hundred and forty one, inclusive, of article twenty-

ment.

seven of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Crimes

and Punishments," sub-title "Health, Hours of Labor of

Children," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-en-

acted so as to read as follows :

139. No child under sixteen ye'ara of age shall be employed

in laboring more than ten hours a day in any manufactur-

Hours of

ing business or factory established in any part of the State,

Labor.

or in any mercantile business in the city of Baltimore.

140. Any person who shall so employ a child or suffer or

Misde-

permit such employment is guilty of a misdemeanor.

meanor

141. The word "suffer or permit," includes every act or

Defini-

omission, whereby it becomes possible for the child to

tion.

engage in such labor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.