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THE FACTOEV CHILDREN.The following appears in the Gazette of last evening: —FACTORIES' REGULATION ACT,3d and 4th William the Fourth, cap, 103, passed the29th of August, 1833.As all the clauses of the Factories’ Regulation Act are now in full operation the inspectors of factories deem it expedient, in order to remove any doubt as to the employment of children subject to restricted hours of labour, to issue the following notice:—1st. No child under nine years of age can be employed in any cotton, flax, or wool factory Section 7.2d. No child between nine and thirteen years of age can be employed, or even allowed to remain, in such factory without the certificate of a physician or surgeon, countersigned by a magistrate or an inspector of factories, certifying, in the form set forth in the 13th section, the strength and appearance of such child.—Sections 11, 12, and 13.3d, No child between nine and thirteen years of age can he employed in such factory without, producing weekly a schoolmaster’s certificate that the “ child has, for two hours at least, for six out of seven days of the week next preceding, attended his school, excepting in cases of sickness, to be certified in such manner as such inspector may appoint, and in case of any holiday, and in case of absence from any other cause allowed by such inspector, or by any justice of the peace in the absence of the inspector.”—Section 21.4th‘. No child between nine and thirteen years ofwage can be employed, or even allowed to remain, in such factory longer than forty-eight hours in any one week, and not more than nine hours in any one day.— Sections 8 and 24.5th. No child under thirteen years of age can bew Oemployed in any silk-mill more than ten hours in any one day.The above and all other provisions of the Factories Regulation Act, together with all orders and regulations issued by the inspectors in their several districts under the authority of this act, must be strictly observed in the mills and factories subject to the said act.Leonard Horner,Thos. Jones Howell,Rob. J. Saunders, Whitehall, Jan, 22, 1836. Inspectors of Factories.
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London Shipping Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 25, 1836
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