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Great Britain.

THE

FACTORY ACTS,

COMPRISING THE STATUTES

42 G. 3, c. 73; 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 103; 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 1; 7 & 8 V. c. 15;
9 & 10 V. c. 40; 10 & 11 V. c. 29;

13 & 14 V. c. 54; 16 & 17 V. c. 104; 19 & 20 V. c. 38;

WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE SCHEDULES;

ALSO

NOTES AND A FULL REFERENCE TO CASES;

TOGETHER WITH

A Copious Ender.

BY THOMAS TAPPING, Esq.

OF THE

MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
Author of Treatises on The Writ of Mandamus.-The High Peak Mineral
Customs.-The Derbyshire Mining Customs.-The 2nd Edition of
Manlove's Rhymed Chronicle of the Wirksworth Lead Mines.-
A Prize Essay on the Cost Book Principle in its relation
with Mining, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON:

SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE,
Law Printers and Publishers.

LONDON: PRINTED BY SHAW AND 80N8, FETTER LANE.

ADVERTISEMENT.

HAVING been requested to add to my Edition of the Factory Acts the lately passed Act of the 19 & 20 Vict. c. 38, I have done so, together with a few Notes, which, it is hoped, will be found useful in understanding the complex subject of Factory Legislation. I have also added reliable Notes of the Cases of Casswell v. Worth, post, p. 110c; and Doel v. Sheppard, post, p. 110 d; Cases which may well be considered as leading Cases in Factory Law.

The Report of the Inspectors of Factories to the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, for the half-year ending the 30th of April, 1856, p. 4, records the following lamentable fact:-"The reports of "accidents arising from machinery during the past (6 half-year, show an increase over the previous one of "79 accidents, which include three additional deaths; "and the circumstances under which several of the "deaths and mutilations took place, leave no room to "doubt that they would have been prevented had "either of the fencing precautions, recommended by "your predecessor and by yourself, been adopted."

Much unnecessary warmth of feeling has been displayed by persons who have endeavoured to show that certain statements made in the Preface to this Work were not founded in truth; such statements were, however, based on the Inspectors' Report for the half-year ending 30th April, 1855. But even if misstatements had occurred, they might have been refuted or dealt with in a calm, mild manner, and not by a recourse to the inelegant and vituperative language with which certain pamphlets on Factory Legislation abound. For the future, it is hoped that all acrimonious feeling will be laid aside, and that all parties, whether for or against the present policy of the Government, will cordially unite to protect and ameliorate the condition of the Factory operatives, whose lives and limbs are undoubtedly often ruthlessly sacrificed by, and are at all times in great and fearful danger from unfenced machinery.

9, INNER TEMPLE-LANE,

31st July, 1856.

T. T.

PREFACE.

THIS Volume of Factory Acts, containing the present Statute Law of Factories (a), is published in order to meet the demand that has arisen for a work embracing not only the last Acts of Parliament upon the subject, but also all the Cases of authority that have been decided on such Acts.

In the preparation of the work great care has been taken that the text should be correct, and that the arrangement and references should be such as shall enable every one, whether lawyer or not, consulting its pages to ascertain what the law of Factories now is-a task not a little difficult, inasmuch as the Statute Law of Factories is contained in no fewer than eight separate Acts of Parliament, each one (except the first) having, to a large extent, either modified or repealed its preceding Acts.

(a) Since the publication of Mr. Lumley's Factory Acts, no less than four Acts of Parliament have passed, whereby the law, as contained in that learned gentleman's work, has to a large extent been either modified or repealed.

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