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SCOTLAND.Factories’ Regulation Act.—The inspector, Leonard Horner, Esq., has been in Glasgow for the last ten days in the execution of his duties. Having had reason to suspect that, in the cotton spinning mill of Messrs. Dixon and Co., at Finnieston, children were employed all night, he went there last week, accompanied by Mr. James, the superintendent of factories, who acts under his direction, between nine and ten o’clock at night, when he found several children of 13 and 14 years of age at work in the mill, and who stated that they had been working there for a considerable time from half-past seven at night to six in the morning. The factory act empowers the inspector to convict at once upon view; he did not, however, act upon that power, but instructed the public prosecutor to institute legal proceedings against the offending parties. He was induced to direct this prosecution, not only to show that the law shall not be thus grossly violated with impunity, but in justice to those mill owners who strictly observe what the statute enjoins. Messrs. Dixon and Co. had, moreover, been repeatedly warned against this infringement of the act. The case caine on to be tried on Thursday in the Justice of Peace Court, when Messrs. Dixon admitted the complaint, and were lined in the mitigated penalty of 10/. and costs.— Glasgow paper*
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London Old England
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 21, 1835
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