Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27
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AN Ai"r for the protection of children within
the State IF Minnesota. -..r'
fBe it enacted by the Legislature Of the State Of
. M,nns-'ota:
Section l. Any person having the care, GUS
tody Or control of any child under the age of
fourteen years. who shall exhibit, use or en-
pl"y for the purposes hereinafter named, or
who Shall IN any manner or under any pretense
sell. apprentice, give away or let out or other.
wise dispose of any such child to any person in
or for the vocation, occupation, service
or purpose of begging, or as gymnast,
cconsorsionist rider or acrobat, in any
obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibi-
ton or practice whatever; or for or in any bust
mesa, exhibition or vocation Injurious to the
health or dangerous to the life or limb of such
child, or who shall cause, procure or encourage
any such child to engage therein shall be guilty
OF a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine of not less than
fifty (5O) nor more than two hundred and fifty
dollars ($250) or by imprisonment in the State
prison or county Jail for term not exceeding
two years, or by both such fine and imprison-
meut. Nothing in this section contained shall
apply to or affect the employment or use of any
ench child as singer or musician in any
church, school or academy, or the teaching or
learning the science or practice of music; nor
the employment of any child as musician at
any concert or entertainment.
Sec. 2. Every person who shall take, receive,
hire, employ, use, exhibit Or have in custody
any child under the age and for any of the pur-
poses mentioned in the preceding section shall
be guilty of like offense and be punished by
, like punishment as therein provided.
Sec. s. When, upon examination before any
court or magistrate it shall appear that any
child within the age previously mentioned in
this act was engaged or used for, or in any bust
ness or exhibition vocation or purpose desig-
mated and "a mentioned in this act; and when,
upon the conviction of any person having the
custody of . child of criminal assault upon
It, the court or magistrate before whom such
conviction is had shall deem it desirable for
tho welfare of such child that the person go
convicted should be deprived of its custody
thereafter, such court or magistrate may COM
init such child to an orphan asylum, charitable
pr other institution, or make such other dispo-
Sition thereof as now is or hereinafter may be
provided by Law in cases of vagrant, truant,
disordefly, pauper o, destitute children.
Sec. 4. Whoever shall wilfully cause or per-
NIT any child to suffer, or who shall inflict
thereon unjustifable physical pain or mental
eutering; and whoever, having the care or GUS
kody Of any child, shall wilfully cause or per-
NIT the life of such child to be endangered or
phall wilfuDy cause or permit such child to be
placed in such situation that its life may be
Endangered, or its health shall be likely to be
injured, shall be guilty of misdemeanor and
pm conviction thereof shall be punished by
6ne of not less than ten (10) nor more than
one hundred dollars (3lO0), and shall be CON-
mitted to the county Jail until such fine is
paid, not exceeding ninety (9O) days.
! Bee. 5. All fines, penalties and forfeitures
imposed and collected il any county in this
State under 10 provisions of this act, of
every act passed relating to or affecting chill
tren, in every where the prosecution was
Instituted or conducted by the Minnesota So
NIotHy fovt ka DfG TO Ar:,~
Of any of ita branches, shall enure to such So
oiety, in aid of the purposes for which it was
Incorporated
Sec. G. This act shall take effect immedi-
sicily.
ArrxSved February 18, 1879.