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Review of the Practical Tourist. 



The cupidity of English manufacturers requiring more hours of 

 labor from their workmen and especially from children than humanity 

 could sanction, attracted the attention of Parliament, and induced it, 

 in 1831, to establish the following hours of labor in mills for manu- 

 facturing silk, cotton, wool, flax, &;c. 



" No person under twenty one years of age, shall be allowed to 

 work in the night — that is, between half past eight o'clock in the 

 evening, and half past five A. M. 



" No person, under the age of eighteen years, shall be employed 

 more than twelve hours per day, and nine hours on Saturday, (ex- 

 cepting in fulling mills and in finishing woolen cloths,) equal to sixty 

 nine hours per week. 



Manchester, 



■( Louviers. 



t New York. 



§ Pittsburgh. 



