nal Code is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following subdivision:

7. No child, actually or apparently under sixteen years of age, shall
smoke or in any way use any cigar, cigarette, or tobacco in any form
whatsoever, in any public street, place, or resort. A violation of this
subdivision shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding ten dollars and not less than two dollars for each offense.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of September,
eighteen hundred and ninety.

In 1891 an effort was made to introduce the English system of barmaids
into the saloons of New York City. This no sooner became known to the
members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union than an effort was
made to secure a law prohibiting the movement. This was effected by the
passage of the following act, April 25, 1892:

AN ACT forbidding the hiring of Barmaids.

_The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows_:

SECTION I. No female shall be hired as barmaid, or to compound or
dispense intoxicating beverages in any place where the same are sold or
offered for sale.

SEC. 2. A person who hires, or causes to be hired, any female as
barmaid, or to compound or dispense intoxicating beverages in any place
where the same are sold or offered for sale, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Thus, at its very inception, legislative enactment prevented the
introduction into this state of a most demoralizing phase of the saloon
business.

In the same year and month a law forbidding the opening of the New York
State exhibit at the Columbian Exhibition was passed, thus placing New
York State on record as favoring the sanctity of the Sabbath.

AN ACT in relation to the Exhibit of the State of New York at the
World's Columbian Exhibition....

The exhibit of the State of New York at such exhibition shall not be
open to the public on Sunday, and the general managers herein provided
for shall take such steps as may be necessary to carry this provision
into effect.

The following protests were presented to the legislature, receiving such
consideration that the subjects had no hearing:

AGAINST THE ENACTMENT OF A LAW LICENSING VICE.

_To the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York_:

WHEREAS, It has come to our knowledge that a bill