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f / Sftd , That .. the effecJ * of l a bour during sueb hour * Wf +. t yji . Mfff fc ruvtnber of capes , permanent deterioration of the phy * ica | cottyltf ^ on ; the production of disease often wholly irfemediable ; and ! 4 he , portal of entire exclusion ( by reason of excessive fatigue ) from frre meant of obtaining adequate education ' and acquiring useful habits , Of of profiting by those means when afforded . "—p . 30 . ibid .
The grounds for legislative interference in behalf of children , under £ ucli circumstances , appear to be clearly established , and are thus stated : — " 1 . That at the age at which the children in question are put t $ > labour they are not free agents , inasmuch as they are let out to hire ,
and do not receive the wages they earn , but those wages are appropriated by their parents or guardians . 2 . That the labour they per * form is not proportioned , and is not pretended to be proportioned fa > their strength , but is regulated solely by the duration of the labour of adult *; . "—p . 42 . ibid .
The principles by which the Commissioners were guided in their recommendations to the Legislature , are perfectly dfotinct . They ascertained the age under which it is pernu ^ ortn that a child should work at ali ; the age at which tne acrjriisjtiort of a greater degree of bodily strength gives the p 6 wdf * 6 T enduring greater fatigue than a child can bear without injury ;
and the age at which young persons are accustomed to reefcnre their own wages , ana to be treated as free agents ; aud tbgy framed their regulations accordingly , providing against inconvenience to the capitalist , by graduating the full operatkm ^ of the Bill ; so that , although passed in the year 1833 , ali itftpwvisions should not be in actual operation until the spring * or the present year . The Factory Bill , as far as it regarded children , was briefly as follows : —
That no child shall be employed under nine years of age , except in silk mills : that after the 13 th February , 1 S 34 , no child sbultbe employed without previously producing a certificate of age frotn % surgeon : that no child under eleven , and eventually none under thirteen years of age , shall work more thun nine hours in any one dfcy , or more than forty-eight hours in the week , and never in the mgfit . ' '
** Thnt no young person under eighteen years of age shall woA morir than twelve hours in any one day , or more thun sixty-nine hou r * in the week , nor in the night , except under particular circumstances . " That children limited to forty-eight hours work in the week ^ hfttl attend school daily . * " That an hour and a half in the day shall be allowed for the tocftls of all under eighteen .
" That holidays equal to six entire days in the course of the yearslidl be given to all undtjr eighteen . *'—Uep . of L . Homer * Esq . I& 34 % | k 8 * Tlitf public ib by no means aware of the importance of the measure whvcU ww here pwjected * It could oikly hm eflurmdl into effect by having relays of children , eacU » el working : *
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The Factory BUL 4 ££
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/61/
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