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HARVARD LAW REVIEW. VOL. IX. FEBRUARY 25, 1896. . NO. 7. THE ENGLISH STATUTES OF 1895. "CpiFTY statutes are contained in five very thin numbers of the ■*• Law Reports for 1895, but most of them are so special that it is difficult to find any at all likely to interest the readers of this Review. An inexorable mandate has however been issued, and the attempt must be made. The first statute requiring notice is the Shop Hours Act, 1895 (58 Vict. c. 5). The Shop Hours Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 62), § 3, forbade the employment of a young person in a shop for more than seventy-four hours a week, and § 5 imposed a fine for any employment contrary to the Act. § 4 provided that a notice should be kept exhibited by the employer in a conspicuous place referring to the provisions of the Act, and stating the number of hours in the week during which a young person might lawfully be employed, but imposed no penalty for the omission to affix such notice. § 7 provided that all offences under the Act should be pros€- cuted and all fines recovered in hke manner as offences and fines were prosecuted and recovered under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878 ; i. e.^ on summary conviction before a court of summary jurisdiction in manner provided by the summary Jurisdiction Acts. In Hammond v. Pulsford ^ an attempt to enforce § 4 by means of the penalty under § 5, in a case where the actual employment was under seventy-four hours, not unnaturally failed. It was hinted by counsel, and apparently the proposition was adopted by the cur- 1 1895 I Q- B' 223. 58