Chap. 158.—An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regu-
late the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments
where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed
as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, as amended by an act approved
March 14, 1912, so as to embrace mercantile establishments on Satur-
days, and laundries, and adding an independent section thereto prohib-
iting the employment of males under twenty-one years of age, and fe
males in places where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, bought,
sold, packed, or shipped. (S. B. 149.)

Approved March 20, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and
manufacturing establishments where females and children under
fourteen years of age are employed as operatives, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

1. No female and no child under fourteen years of age shall
work as an operative in any factory,. workshop, laundry, mercan-
tile, or in any manufacturing establishment in this State more
than ten hours in any one day of twenty-four hours. AI] contracts
made or to be made for the employment of any female or of any
child under fourteen years of age, as an operative in any factory,
workshop, laundry, mercantile, or in any manufacturing establish-
ment to work more than ten hours in any one day of twenty-four
hours, are and shall be void.

Any person having the authority to contract for the employ-
ment of persons as operatives in any factory, workshop, laundry,
mercantile, or in any manufacturing establishment, who shall
engage or contract with any female or any child under fourteen
years of age to work as an operative in such factory, workshop,
laundry, mercantile, or in any manufacturing establishment during
more than ten hours in any one day of twenty-four hours shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not less than five nor more
than twenty dollars; provided, that nothing contained in sections
ene and two of this act shall apply to mercantile establishments in
towns of less than two thousand inhabitants or to country stores.

3. No male under twenty-one years of age and no female shall
be employed in any capacity in any place, except in hotels, where
intoxicating liquors are manufactured, bought, sold, packed, or
shipped, except mercantile establishments in the country. Any
person having authority to contract for the employment of persons
in any place except in hotels where intoxicating liquors are manu-
factured, bought, sold, packed, or shipped, who shall engage or
contract with, any male under twenty-one years of age, or any
female, to work in any capacity in any place except in hotels where
intoxicating liquors are manufactured, bought, sold, packed, or
shipped, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall
bookkeeper, stenographer, cashier, or office assistant, nor shall the
provisions of this act apply to canning factories and fish packing
establishments located in the country sections.