ore than sixty hours in one
week, or after four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, or on New-year's-day,
or on Christmas-day, or on the Fourth of July, or on the Twenty-second
of February, or on Thanksgiving-day, under a penalty of ten dollars for
each offense.

SEC. 3.--No child between the ages of ten and sixteen years shall be
employed in any manufactory or workshop, or at any manufacturing work
within this State, during more than nine months in any one year, unless
during such year he shall have attended school as in this section
hereinafter provided, nor shall such child be employed at all unless
such child shall have attended a public day-school during three full
months of the twelve months next preceding such employment, and shall
deliver to its employer a written certificate of such attendance, signed
by the teacher; the certificate to be kept by the employer as
hereinafter provided, under a penalty of fifty dollars. _Provided_ that
regular tuition of three hours per day in a private day-school or public
night-school, during a term of six months, shall be deemed equivalent to
three months' attendance at a public day-school, kept in accordance with
the customary hours of tuition. And provided that the child shall have
lived within the State during the preceding six months. And provided
that where there are more than one child between the ages of twelve and
sixteen years in one family, and the commissioners or overseers of the
poor shall certify in writing that the labor of such children is
essential to the maintenance of the family, such schooling may be
substituted during the first year of their employment by having the
children attend the public schools during alternate months of such
current year, until the full three months' schooling for each child
shall have been had, or by having the children attend continuously a
private day-school or public night-school three hours a day until the
full six months' schooling for each child shall have been had.

SEC. 4--Every manufacturer, owner of mills, agent, overseer, contractor,
or other person, who shall employ operatives under sixteen years of age,
or on whose promises such operatives shall be employed, shall cause to
be kept on the premises a register, which shall contain, in consecutive
columns: (1st), the date when each operative commenced his or her
engagement; (2d), the name and surname of the operative; (3d), his or
her place of nativity; (4th), his or her reside