CHAP. 248.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to reg-
ulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments
where females and children under fourteen vears off ave are emploved
as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, so as to embrace work-shops,
and mercantile establishments.

Approved March 14, 1932.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled) an@Meololée regulate the hoursof lahar 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:

2. No female and no child under fourteen years of age shall
work as an operative in any factory, workshop, mercantile or in
any manufacturing establishment in this State more than ten
hours in any one day of twenty-four hours. All 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, mercantile, or in any manufacturing establishment 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 em-
ployment of persons as operatives in any factory, workshop,
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,
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, however, that nothing in this act
shall be construed to apply to females whose full time is employed
as book-keepers, stenographers, cashiers, or office assistants, nor
apply to persons employed in factories, engaged exclusively in
packing fruits or vegetables between July first and November
first of each year. Provided, that nothing contained in this act
shall apply to merchantile establishments in towns of less than
two thousand inhabitants or in country districts, nor in mercan-
tile establishments on Saturdays.