d to act
as Clerk in the main office of the Factory Inspector, which shall be
furnished in the Capitol, and set apart for the use of the Factory
Inspector. The Assistant Factory Inspector and Deputy Factory Inspectors
shall make reports to the Factory Inspector from time to time, as may be
required by the Factory Inspector, and the Factory Inspector shall make
an annual report to the Legislature during the month of January of each
year. The Factory Inspector, Assistant Factory Inspector, and each
Deputy Factory Inspector shall have the same powers as a Notary Public
to administer oaths and take affidavits in matters connected with the
enforcement of the provisions of this act.

Sec. 17. The District Attorney of any county of this State is hereby
authorized, upon the request of the Factory Inspector, Assistant Factory
Inspector, or of a Deputy Factory Inspector, or of any other person of
full age, to commence and prosecute to termination before any Recorder,
Police Justice, or court of record, in the name of the people of the
State, actions or proceedings against any person or persons reported to
him to have violated the provisions of this act.

Sec. 18. The words "manufacturing establishment," wherever used in this
act, shall be construed to mean any mill, factory, or workshop, where
one or more persons are employed at labor.

Sec. 19. A copy of this act shall be conspicuously posted and kept posted
in each workroom of every manufacturing establishment in this State.

Sec. 20. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of the
provisions of this act, or who suffers or permits any child to be
employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less
than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for the first offence, and not
more than one hundred dollars for the second offence, or imprisonment
for not more than ten days, and for the third offence a fine of not less
than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not more than thirty days'
imprisonment.

Sec. 21. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of
this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 22. This act shall take effect immediately.

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN PREPARING THIS BOOK.

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United States Census, from 1790 to 1880 inclusive.

Reports of the State Bureaus of Labor Statistics as follows:--

Maine, 1889.
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