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Page 49 - A failure to produce to a truant officer or inspector of factories the certificate required by the provisions of this act shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of the child whose certificate is not produced. SEC. 10. The expressions "factory
Page 46 - The superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, the school committee, or teachers acting under authority of said superintendent or committee, may excuse cases of necessary absence. The attendance of a child upon a public day school shall not be required if he has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the school committee...
Page 52 - ... are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the school committee and to the chief of the district police or the inspector of factories for the district. The inspectors of factories, and the truant officers when...
Page 46 - Every person having the custody and control of a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, or of a child under the age of sixteen years who cannot read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, residing in a school district in which a public school is annually taught, shall cause such child to attend the public school all the time such school is in session, unless...
Page 39 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 44 - Sec. 2. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any...
Page 45 - No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed as aforesaid during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides without...
Page 53 - ... certificates of all children under sixteen shall be produced for their inspection ; and any such officer, or any inspector of factories, may bring a prosecution against a person or corporation employing any such child otherwise than as aforesaid, during the hours when the public schools are in session, contrary to the provisions of this act, if such employment still continues one week after written notice from such officer or inspector that such prosecution will be brought or if more than...
Page 47 - Any parent, guardian, or custodian who permits to be employed any minor under his control in violation of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty dollars for the use of the evening schools of such town or city.
Page 48 - SECT. 17. Truant officers shall, under the direction of the school board, enforce the laws and regulations relating to truants and children between the ages of six and sixteen years not attending school and without any regular and lawful occupation.