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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 ...
The Constitution of Texas is the foundation of the government of Texas and vests the legislative power of the state in the Texas Legislature. The Texas Constitution is subject only to the sovereignty of the people of Texas as well as the Constitution of the United States, although this is disputed. Article I of the Constitution of Texas ...
The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that establishes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of Texas. The current document was adopted on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas history (including the Mexican constitution).
13th Texas Legislature: 1873 14th Texas Legislature: 1874 Texas Constitution of 1876 [citation needed] 15th Texas Legislature: 1876 16th Texas Legislature: 1879 17th Texas Legislature: 1881 18th Texas Legislature: 1883 19th Texas Legislature: 1885 20th Texas Legislature: 1887 21st Texas Legislature: 1889 22nd Texas Legislature: 1891 23rd Texas ...
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 ...
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.