...question whether the stringent law (Pub. Stats., chap. 48) which prescribes that no child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any "manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment" unless he shall have attended school for at least twenty weeks preceding such employment, be not too...

...363, § 18. This last chapter was also repealed by chapter 649, Id., which provides (section 5) that no child under 10 years of age shall be employed in...that the public schools of the town or city In which the child may reside are in session. In this case, the child being 11 years of age, theemploymentwas...

...eighteen hundred and eighty-three is amended so as to read as follows : — Section 1. No child under ten years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in this Commonwealth ; and no child under twelve years of age shall be so employed at any time during...

...received three months' schooling during the preceding year. " Massachusetts. — No child under ten years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment in the Commonwealth. No child under fourteen years of age shall be so employed, except during the vacations...

...person may make. Act does not apply to farm labor or service by the year, month, or week. RHODE ISLAND. No child under 10 years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment; parent or guardian permitting employment being liable to a fine up to...

...taught in tho public schools. For every neglect of euch duty a tine not exceeding §20 is imposed. No child under 10 years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment of the State, and no child under 14 years of age shall be so em1 Seh. Laws,...

...the employment of children in manufacturing and other establishments provide that no child under ten years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in the State, and.no child under twelve years of age shall be employed at any time during the days...

...preceding such employment. The same act provided that, after May 1, 1880, " — no child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, while the public schools in the city or town where such child lives are in session, unless such child...

...day such apprentice shall be so concealed, harbored or employed. MASSACHUSETTS. 1. No child under ten years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in this commonwealth: and any parent or guardian who permits such employment shall for such offence...

...reasonable demand, shall be fined twentj dollars. CHAPTER 649. — Employment of children. • SECTION 5. No child under 10 years of age shall be employed...establishment, or by any telegraph or telephone company in this stat ;. during the time that the public schools of the torn or city in which said child may reside...