WORK—HOURS OF, IN FACTORIES 3623

Employment of Minors.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 4. 1912, sec. 4. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 4. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 4.

4. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed, permitted
or suffered to work in, about, or in connection with any mill, factory, work-
shop, mechanical establishment, tenement house, manufactory or workshop,
office building, restaurant, bakery, barber shop, hotel, apartment house,
bootblack stand or establishment, public stable, garage, laundry, or as a
driver or in any brick or lumber yard, or in the construction or repair of
buildings, or as a messenger for telegraph, telephone or messenger com-
panies, or in any mercantile establishment, store, office, boarding house,
place of amusement, club or in the distribution, transmission or sale of
merchandise.

This and succeeding sections referred to in construing art. 101, secs. 14, 44 and 60—
see notes to sec. 44. Tilghman v. Conway, 150 Md. 531.

This section cited in holding ordinance of Baltimore to extent that it prohibited
operation of laundries during first six hours of Monday, void. Spann v. Gaither, 152
Md. 9.

As to wages of minors, see art. 72A, sec. 2.

For a declaration which alleged that plaintiff, a boy eleven years of age, was em-
ployed in violation of act of 1912, ch. 731, and for a case involving liability of a master
for injuries to children of tender years and his exoneration when injury is due to an
independent cause, see Coughlin v. Blaul, 120 Md. 31.

This section (as it stood in the Code of 1904) held constitutional. Mt. Vernon Co.
v. Frankford Co., 111 Md. 563.

As to the attendance at school of children between eight and fourteen years of age,
see art. 77, sec. 212.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, sec. 5. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 5. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 5.

1918, ch. 495, sec. 5.

5. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed, permitted
or suffered to work in, about or in connection with any canning or packing
establishment.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, sec. 6. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 6.

6. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ,
permit or suffer to work for hire or remuneration any child under fourteen
years of age in any business or service whatever during any of the hours
when the public schools of the district in which said child resides are in
session, unless said child shall have previously fulfilled during the current
school year such requirements as to school attendance as now or may here-
after be prescribed by law.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, sec. 7. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 7. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 7.

7. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted,
or suffered to work at any of the following occupations, or in any of the
following positions: Adjusting any belt to any machinery; sewing or lacing
machine belts in any workshop or factory; oiling, wiping or cleaning ma-
chinery or assisting therein; operating or assisting in operating any of
the following machines: Circular or band saw, crosscut saws, slashers, or
other cutting machines; wood shapers, wood jointers, planers, sandpaper
or wood-polishing machinery, wood turning or boring machinery, picker
machines or machines used in picking wool, cotton, hair or any other
material, carding machines, paper-lace machines, leather-burnishing ma-

¹ Sec. 3 of act of 1918, ch. 495, repeals all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with said
act of 1918.