Copies of law to be sent to offenders.

Penalty for interrupting school.

School board must prosecute offenders.

after notice to the school board of the
district in which such child is required
to attend school, the state superintendent
of public instruction may order such
child to attend another school in the same
district if such school is available; may
order such child to attend school in an-
other district, in which case the district
in which such child resides shall pay to
the district in which such child attends
school tuition not to exceed the average
cost per child of instruction for the regu-
larly employed teachers and the cost of
text-books, supplies and apparatus for
such time as such attendance shall con-
tinue; may permit such child to with-
draw from school attendance for such
time as he may deem necessary or proper;
or make such other order or orders with
respect to the attendance of such child
at school as in his judgment the circum-
stances require.

The school board of every district shall P. S. 93:16.
cause a copy of the two preceding sec-
tions to be sent to every person who they
have reason to believe does not comply
with the requirements of section 1 of
this chapter.

Any person, not a scholar, who shall P. S. 93:17. wilfully interrupt or disturb any school shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

It shall be the duty of the school board P. S. 93:18. to prosecute offenders for violations of the provisions of this chapter. If they neglect to perform this duty they shall forfeit twenty dollars for each neglect,

for the use of the district, to be re-
covered in the name of the district by
the selectmen of the town. All neces-
sary expenses incurred in such proceed-
ings shall be paid by the district.

No prosecution under this chapter shall P. S. 93:19.
be sustained unless begun within one
year after the offense is committed.

enacted by 62,

No certificate as provided in the fore- P. S. 93:20, going sections shall be issued for attend laws 1895. ance at any private school, unless such school shall have previously been ap proved by the school board of the district in which it is situated as furnishing instruction in the English language in all the studies required by law equal to that given in the public schools of said district, and unless the record of attendance shall be kept in the form required of the public schools, and he open to the inspection of the school board of the district at all times.

1901.

Upon petition of five per cent. of the 112:1, laws legal voters of any city or town having more than five thousand inhabitants, according to the latest United States census, said city or town shall establish and maintain, in addition to the schools required by law to be maintained therein. evening schools for the instruction of persons over fourteen years of age in such branches of learning and art as the school board shall deem expedient.

1911, amended

No child under the age of fourteen 162:1, laws of shall be employed, or permitted or suf 224:1, laws of fered to work, in, about, or in connec- 1913. tion with, any mill, factory, workshop,

quarry, mercantile establishment, tene

1911.

ment house manufactory or workshop, store, business office, telegraph or telephone office, restaurant, bakery, hotel, barbershop, apartment house, bootblack stand or parlor, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages. No child under the age of sixteen shall 162:2, laws of be employed, or permitted or suffered to work, in any establishment named in above section during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides, unless he can read understandingly and write legibly simple sentences in the English language; provided, however, that if any child shall have reached the age of fourteen and shall have attended an Englishtaught school regularly for not less than three years and shall then be deemed by the superintendent of schools, or other person authorized to grant employment certificates, to be mentally incapable of learning to read and write legibly the English language in the regular schools, the case may be referred to the state superintendent of public instruction, who after investigation either by himself or by his agent, may issue a permit authorizing the employment of such child even though such child may be unable to read understandingly and write legibly simple sentences in the English language.

1911.

Whenever requested by the superin- 162:3, laws of tendent of public instruction, the State Board of Health shall cause to be made

an inspection of any factory or other

Hours of labor.

place in which children under the age of sixteen are employed, and may require the discharge of any child or children found employed therein who by reason of physical condition, of unsanitary conditions of employment, or of development below the normal development of children of that age, cannot in their - judgment continue to be employed without undue risk to health.

1911.

No boy under ten and no girl under 162:4, laws of sixteen years of age shall sell or expose or offer for sale newspapers, magazines. periodicals or other merchandise in any street or public place. No child shall work as a bootblack in any street or public place unless he is over ten years of age.

No person under the age of eighteen 162:5, laws of years shall be employed or permitted to 1911. work as a messenger for a telegraph, telephone, or messenger company in the distribution, transmission, or delivery of goods or messages before five o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening of any day.

No boy under the age of sixteen years, 162:6, laws of and no girl under the age of eighteen 224:6, laws of 1911, amended years, shall be employed, or permitted 1913. or suffered to work, at any gainful occupation, other than domestic service or work on a farm, more than fifty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eleven hours in any one day; nor before the hour of half past six o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening, except that minors sixteen years of age or over may

Certificates.

work in retail stores and telephone ex-
changes until ten o'clock in the evening.
And boys fourteen years or over may
deliver newspaper routes after five o'clock
in the morning, and boys twelve years
old or over may deliver newspaper routes
between four and eight o'clock in the
morning. evening

No child under sixteen years of age 162:7, laws of
shall be employed, or permitted or suf- 1911.
fered to work, in, about, or in connec-
tion with, any place or establishment
named in section 1, unless the person,
firm, or corporation employing such child,
procures and keeps on file, and accessible
to any truant officer, or other authorized
inspector, an employment certificate as
hereinafter prescribed.

On the termination of the employment 162:8, laws of of a child whose employment certificate 1911.

is on file, such certificate shall be kept

by the employer and surrendered to any
authorized inspector on demand.

1911.

An employment certificate shall be 162:9, laws of issued only by the superintendent of schools, or where there is no superintendent, by a person authorized by the school board, provided, however, that no person authorized as aforesaid shall have authority to issue such certificate for any child then in or about to enter such person's own employment, or the employment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member, officer or employee: in the city of Manchester the provisions of chapter 205 of the Session Laws of 1905 shall remain in force, but the person