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The Factory and Workshop Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 75), under the heading 'Conditions of Employment' introduced two considerable additions to previous legislation: the first is the prohibition on employers to employ women within four weeks after confinement (childbirth); the second the raising the minimum age at which a child can be set to ...
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Temporary and permanent Seat of Government established. An Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States. (Residence Act) Sess. 2, ch. 28 1 Stat. 130: 25: July 20, 1790: Government and Regulation of Seamen in the Merchant Service. An Act for the government and regulation of Seamen in the merchants ...
In the debates on Mundella's bills and the Factory Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 44), it had been noted that years of piece-meal legislation had left factory law in an unsatisfactory and confusing state; [c] the government had spoken of the need to consolidate and extend factory law by a single act replacing all previous legislation, but had not felt itself able to allocate the necessary ...
Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1878 [9] c. 70 — repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 39) Factory and Workshop Act 1878 [9] c. 16 — repealed by Factory and Workshop Act 1901 (1 Edw. 7. c. 22) Fiji Marriage Act 1878 [9] c. 61; Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1878 [15] c. 67 — repealed by Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890 (53 & 54 ...
On February 11, 1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university [15] (the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to the Compromise of 1850 ...
This legislation was further amended by the Factories Act 1844 (the Textile Factory Act), which strengthened the powers of the inspectors and required certified surgeons to examine all workers for physical fitness. A lengthy campaign to limit the working day to ten hours was led by Shaftesbury, and included support from the Anglican Church.
In 1893 a committee of experts, including inspectors of mines and of factories, was appointed by the Home Office to investigate the conditions of labour in open quarries, and the Quarries Act 1894 brought every quarry, as defined in the Factory and Workshop Act 1878, any part of which is more than 20 ft. deep, under certain of the provisions of ...