The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-02-03
TO CHANGE EDUCATION ACT.

Proposed Amendment Affecting En-
ployment Of Young Children, Etc.
4 bill has been introduced into the
Connecticut house, Of representatives
by Hon. Jerome A. Downs, of Betha-
ny, entitled IAN Act Concerning the
Education and Employment of Chill
dren." The bill provides that existing
public acts regarding education shall
be amended so as to insert the words,
land the principles of government in
the subjects specified to be taught in
the public schools.
1t further requires that all parents
and guardians shall instruct or cause
them to be instructed in the duties of
citizenship and the principles OF gov
eminent. ....z
In the section, providing that chill
drenmay leave school to go to work at
the age of fourteen Jpn procuring a
certificate. shall be amended so that
the children shall be examined in the
duties of citizenship and the princi-
pies of government, as a condition of
exemption from the requirement of at
tending school until sixteen, and as a
requisite of obtaining the certificate.
The proposed act further requires
| that every person or corporation en-
ploying a child under sixteen years of
age in any mechanical, mercantile or
manufacturing establishment shall OBJ
tain a certificate showing that the
child is over fourteen years of age, and
has been examined in the duties of
citizenship and the principles of gov
eminent, and has received under the
authority of the state board of educa-
/ ton certificate of proficiency therein.
| Such certificate shall be signed by the
registrar of births, marriages and
deaths or by the town clerk of the
town where there is a public record of
the birth of the child, or by a teacher
of the school which the child last at.
tended, or by the person having Gus
tody of the register of said school If
the child was not born in the United
States, and has not attended school in
this state, one Of the parents or the
guardian of the child shall have the
date of the birth Of the child recorded
by the registrar Of births, marriages
and deaths, or by the town clerk
i where such parent or guardian resides,
Every employer or other person hav-
ing control of any establishment OF
premises where children under sixteen
years of age are employed, who shall
neglect to keep on file the certificate
described in this section, or to show
the same with list of the names OF
such children so employed, to the sec
rotary or an agent Of the state board
Of education, or to an agent of the
board of school visitors, town schoo
committee or board of education, as the
case may be. of the town in which the
establishment or premises are located
when demanded during the usual bus.
mess hours, shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars The fee fol
recording the birth Of a child shall bt
fifteen cents, to be paid by the paren
or guardian Of the child. For a Ger.
tficate of the record the fee shall b
fifteen cents. ~ x&
i The state board of education shall
provide annually for an examination il
!, the duties Of citizenship and the prin
u ciples Of government Of such persons
between the ages OF fourteen ana six
4 teen years Of age as shall desire TIL,
same, and shall grant a certificate D
judgment show a fair knowledge there
in.
/. The provisions Of this act in so far as
they effect the employment of children
shall not take effect till July is, 1906.