he law seem to be that it provides for no minimum of age
in which a child may be employed in a factory, and does not limit the
number of hours of labor per week for children in manufacturing
establishments. Neither of these limitations is necessary in regard to
farm-labor.

The agent for executing the law in Connecticut, Mr. H. M. Cleaveland,
seems to have acted with great wisdom, and to have secured the hearty
co-operation of the manufacturers. "Three-fourths of the manufacturers
of the State," he says, "of almost everything, from a needle up to a
locomotive, were visited, and pledged themselves to a written
agreement," that they would employ no children under fourteen years of
age, except those with certificates from the local school-officers of
actual school attendance for at least three months.

This fact alone reflects the greatest credit on this intelligent class.
And we are not surprised that they are quoted as saying, "We do not dare
to permit the children within and around our mills to grow up without
some education. Better for us to pay the school expenses ourselves than
have the children in ignorance."

Many of the Connecticut manufacturers have already, at their own
expense, provided means of education for the children they are
employing; and large numbers have agreed to a division of the children
in their employ into alternate gangs--of whom one is in school while the
other is in the factory.

The following act was drawn up by Mr. C. E. Whitehead, counsel and
trustee of the Children's Aid Society, and presented to the New York
Legislature of 1872. It has not yet passed:--

AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF FACTORY CHILDREN.

SECTION 1.--No child under the age of ten years shall be employed for
hire in any manufactory or mechanical shop, or at any manufacturing work
within this State; and no child under the age of twelve years shall be
so employed unless such child can intelligibly read, under a penalty of
five dollars for every day during any part of which any such child shall
be so employed, to be paid by the employer. Any parent, guardian, or
other person authorizing such employment, or making a false return of
the age of a child, with a view to such employment, shall be liable to a
penalty of twenty dollars.

SEC. 2.--No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in
any manufactory, or in any mechanical or manufacturing shop, or at any
manufacturing work within the State, for m