The Agricultural Children Act, 1873, and the Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867

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Excerpt from The Agricultural Children Act, 1873, and the Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867: With Introduction and NotesThe session of 1873 marks a new era in that depart ment of legislation which has reference to the indus trial operations of the country. Numerous as have been the enactments popularly known as the Factory Acts, they have hitherto been limited to places which, with more or less propriety, are called factories or workshops, or, at any rate, are places within walls, 850 and comparatively under cover.Now, how, ever the range of this kind of legislation has been considerably extended, and the statute 36 37 Vict. C. 67, the short title of which is the Agri cultural Children Act, supplements the Agri cultural Gangs Act, 1867, and brings under full statutory control children employed 1n the execution of various kinds of agricultural work. The Act, and the kindred one named above, may be considered as resulting jointly f101zn the increased attention given bf late years to questions of public health and molality on the one hand, and to education on the other. Indeed, the preamble of the Act of 1873 explicitly states that the Act has been passed with a view to the better education of children engaged in agricultural pursuits.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.