ve power, in
rooms or places in a factory in which operatives are employed, or
through which they have to pass, shall be protected by iron screens, or
by suitable partitions during all the time when such doors are open, and
while such machinery is in motion, under a penalty of fifty dollars, to
be paid by the owner of such machinery, or the employer of such
operatives, for each day during which the same shall be so unprotected.

SEC. 11.--This act shall be printed and kept hung in a conspicuous place
in every factory, by the owner, agent, overseer, or person occupying
such factory, under a penalty of ten dollars for each day's neglect.

SEC 12.--All suits for penalties under this act shall be brought within
ninety days after commission of the offense, and may be brought by the
Inspector of Factory Children, by the District-Attorney of the county,
by the School Commissioners, by the Trustees of Public Schools, or the
Commissioners of Charities, before any Justice of the Peace, or in any
Justice's Court, or any Court of Record; and one-half of all penalties
recovered shall be paid to the school fund of the county, and one-half
to the informer.

SEC. 13.--The Governor of this State shall hereafter appoint a State
officer, to be known as the Inspector of Factory Children, to hold
office for four years, unless sooner removed for neglect of duty, who
shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars a year and traveling
expenses, not exceeding one thousand dollars, whose duty it shall be to
examine the different factories in this State, and to aid in the
enforcement of this law, and to report annually to the Legislature the
number, the ages, character of occupation, and educational privileges of
children engaged in manufacturing labor in the different counties of the
State, with suggestions as to the Improvement of their condition.

CHAPTER XXX.

THE ORGANIZATION OF CHARITIES.

The power of every charity and effort at moral reform is in the spirit
of the man directing or founding it. If he enter it mechanically, as he
would take a trade or profession, simply because it falls in his way, or
because of its salary or position, he cannot possibly succeed in it.
There are some things which the laws of trade do not touch. There are
services of love which seek no pecuniary reward, and whose virtue, when
first entered upon, is that the soul is poured out in them without
refere