Sec. 20. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of the provisions of this act, or who suffers or permits any child to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for the first offence, and not more than one hundred dollars for the second offence, or imprisonment for not more than ten days, and for the third offence a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not more than thirty days' imprisonment. Sec. 21. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 22. This act shall take effect immediately. AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN PREPARING THIS BOOK. * * * * * United States Census, from 1790 to 1880 inclusive. Reports of the State Bureaus of Labor Statistics as follows:-- Maine, 1889. Massachusetts, 1870 to 1889 inclusive. Connecticut, 1881. Rhode Island, 1889. New York, 1885. New Jersey, 1885, 1886, and 1889. Iowa, 1887 and 1889. Kansas, 1889. Wisconsin, 1883-84 and 1887. Colorado, 1889. Minnesota, 1889. California, 1888. Nebraska, 1887-90. Michigan, 1892. Reports of the Factory Inspectors for various States. Working Women in Large Cities: Report of the United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1889. The Labor Movement in America. By Richard T. Ely. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. The Wages Question: A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class. By Francis A. Walker. Henry Holt & Co., New York. The Labor Problem. Edited by W.E. Barnes. Harper & Brothers, New York. On Labor. By W.T. Thornton. Macmillan & Co., London, 1869. Profit-Sharing between Employer and Employed. By N.P. Gilman. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Sharing the Profits. By Mary Whiton Calkins, A.M. Ginn & Co., Boston. Artisans and Machinery. By P. Gaskell. London, 1836. Condition of the Laboring Classes in England. By F. Engel. Leipzig and New York. Ansichten der Volkswirthschaft aus dem geschicht. Standpunkte. By Wilhelm Roscher. Various Reports of Commissioners appointed to inquire into the working of the Factory Acts in England. Le Travail des Femmes au XIX. Siecle. By Paul Leroy-Beaulieu. Paris, 1870. London Labor and the London Poor. By Henry Mayhew. Charles Griffen & Co., London. The Industrial Revolution. By Arnold Toynbee. London. The Philosophy of Wealth. By John B. Clark. Ginn & Co., Boston. Economic Writings of Emil de Lavelaye. Lalor's Cyclopedia of Political Science. Various Treatises on Political Economy. Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Senior, Cairnes, Ely, Perry, Walker, etc. Prisoners of Poverty. By Helen Campbell. Roberts Bros., Boston. Applied Christianity. By Washington Gladden. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., Boston. Life and Work of the Earl of Shaftesbury, London. Read for Factory Inspection and Legislation. Problems of To-Day. By Richard T. Ely. T.Y. Crowell & Co., New York.