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Protecting the Boys. The bill introduced by Col. Munro (North Oxford) to amend the municipat act, by which trustees of police villages shall not be cligible for positions on the township Councils, was given its _ second _ reading. Another _ hill which was given its second reading was that fathered by Mr. Pearce (North Hastings), providing an amendment to the assessment act by which every poer-- son carryins on the business of a flour miller in a mill having a capacity of fewer than 190 barrels a day shall pay a business tax on 35 per cent. of the assossed value instead of 89 as at proe-- sent. Other bills given the second reading were : To amend the asscss-- ment act, Mr. Hoylc ; to amend the act respecting landlord and tenant, Mr. Hoyle ; to amend the municipal act, Mr. Pense ; to amend the line fences act, Mr. Hoyle ; to amens the muni-- cipal drainage act, Mr. Bowyer. The Railway and Municipel Board reported the bill respecting the renewal of cortain debentures of the town of Port Hope and the Port Hone har-- Hon. Nelson Monteith diutroduced an act to amend the factories act. At pro. sent the factories act does not place any restrictions on the hours of em-- ployment for boys in factories, though it does restrict the hours during which iemales may work to ten hours a day, or sixty hours a week. It also pro-- vides that one hour a day be allow. «d for the noonday meal, also that they sball not work later than 6.350 v'elock in the evening. The purpose wecond Reading of Bil}s. ud yesterday that the present stipula-- tion was simply the first move ajong the lines indicated by the special com-- mittee. The Minister of Agriculture a'so introduced a bill to amend the factories act, making the regulations unmder which girls and women nuow work applicable to boys from four-- teen to cighteen years of age, which is in accordance with auother finding of the Child Labor Committee. . Though the House was in session only for a brief period several _ other measures were introduced, among thom one by Mr. J. P. Downey {South Weo'lington), aimed to prevent the spread of tuber-- culosis. yOPr. it the --bill introduced in the Legisia-- ture yesterday by Hon. XNailson Mon-- teith, Minister of Agzricultine, becomes law, the age limit for the employment of children in shops wili ke raised 10 iwelve--years. At prosent. this age limit'is toem > ycoars. | The Legislative Committce appeinted last session to look into the question of child labor recommended that the age limit be tourteen years. Mcgarding the cif-- ference between the bill and the rec-- commendations in the matter of age limitations, Hon. Mr. Monteith remarnt-- ud yesterday that the present stipula-- yome of Recommendations of Child Labor Commission Are Followsd Out in New Bills--County Boards of _ Health _ Proposed----Weekiy Sittings of High Court. Amendment to Shoos Act In-- troduced by Minister. PROTECTION TO CHILDREN, Hours of Work for Boys Made Same as for Women. BE THE AGB LIMIT, ARNYC 22, T [_ Mr. C. C. Hodgins, M. P. P. for North !.\liddlpse'.\'. is -- introd:cing _ an act iresprecting the weekly -- High-- Court of _ Justice in Loncdon. Hoereto-- 'f(u'e the business transacted at ltln,> weekly -- court has been oro-- | stricted to certain cases and to cer-- ltain sections of the western part of the | Province. The new act gives litigants | resident in counties adjacent to London !Nh'f right to bring any case before the [ wreekliy sittings at London. A similar ':aot was passed last year regarding the weekly High Court at Ottawa. The ' wording of the.act is as follows:----"Ai nroccedings of any action or matter !whh.'h may be heard and disposed of 'before a dudge in Court or by a Judge in Chambers (not including such pro-- | coodings as may in the first instance be heard and disposed of by the Master in [ Chambers or local Judge) may be heard and detéermined at the weekly sittings of the High Court af Justice of London ' if the solicitors for all partics reside in that portion of the Province of Ontario | composed of the following »counties : ! Essex, Kent, Lambton, Huron, Middie sex, BElgin, Perth and Oxford. This act | shall not come into foree or tak»s effect until so declared by proclamation of the Lecutenant--CGovernor--in--Council." The Middlesex Bar Association is | unanimously in favor of the act. _A bill was introduced /: by.. My. J. |P. Downey providing for the creation iul' County Boards of HMHealth, with re-- presentatives from all municipalities, to |have jurisdiction in tubercular troubles. \The bill further provides for compul-- sory notification in cases of consump-- I tion. _ These county boards are de-- t signed to supply the machinery towards { preventing a spread of the disease, t Mr. Malbafify (Muskokah introduced a measure to amond the assessment act lwith reference to summer botels. These hotels are taxed on a business basis, lthn same as other hotoels doing business Iall the vear round. and relief from this tee which met last session to con-- sider the question of child labor. As the act stands at present children may be employed in canning factories dur-- ing the months of June, July, August, Feoptember and October without restric-- tions as to age or hours of labor. The amendment now being introduced »y the Minister of Agriculture forbids the ~mnployment indoors of children under twelve years of age, and states the hoeurs during which -- children _ under ourteon yoears may be employed. This is another amendment in accordance "with the findings of the committce. taising Age LiAmit. Weekly High Court. The Ministor of Agriculture also in-- troduced a bill to amend the horticul-- tural secieties act, -- Under the pre-- seut law no society can spend more than onc--third of the Provinecia}l grant for any one special thing connected with the-- society. The -- amnendment i;'ails('s this fraction of the grart to a ralf. showing the assignse or a the said Hi!. "Cf" the fireseqtApmendment is to plae Hon. Mr. Monteith's amendoment tc the shops act raises the age limit for the emt; byment of _ children in shops from tuen to tweolve years. The Ministor-- explained after the _ House had adjourned that the committee on ctild labor had recommended that th« "ge limit should have been placed at fourteéeen -- years. However, he con-- sidered the preoesent amendment a con-- xiderable step in advance. is sought. Mr. Pratt (South Norfolk) intro-- duced a hbill to incorporate churtered accountants. ie similar restrictions on the employ-- ment of boys in factories betwooen the ages of fourteen and cighteen. . This is the recommendation of the commit-- hting White Plague, I