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Calico Print Works Bill -- Print Works Regulation Act https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D3VbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA23-IA25&lpg=PA23-IA25&dq=calico+print+works+act&source=bl&ots=2X_EqKQiY7&sig=qMgBU3bQS5kTmk7TriqNJQr2Dpo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDmtGRhsTPAhUsLsAKHdLIAvkQ6AEIUzAJ#v=onepage&q=calico%20print%20works%20act&f=false

public general act 1845 Printing dyeing bleaching calendaring Calico fabric Cotton, linen, or Woollen fabric Young persons -- fewer hours for morals, health, education AND women -- prohibition of night time hours 1 Oct 1846 No child under 8 employed in print works 8hr/day prohibited when working >3 days/wk; >12hr/day prohibited when working ≤3 days/wk and if working >8hr one day, cannot work >8 hour on a consecutive day; saturday, no work after 4pm employment assumed by presence <13 male, or female, not employed between 10PM-6AM or 9PM and 5AM have, enjoy and exercise or are required or empowered to exercise their authority under the Factory Acts with regard to print works competency to be witnesses in an action abstract of act posted in an accessible location in all print works factory owner may deduct school fees from wage of child, not exeeding 1/12th of weekly wages penalty for employment in contravention of this act; liability for parents, people obstructing factory inspectors, and those who make or plan to make fake certificates affirming the education of the child. penalty increases with each time the offence is recorded, up to 3 times, with each employee employed in contravention of the law counting as a separate instance

legislative history http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1845/apr/02/calico-print-works#S3V0078P0_18450402_HOC_22

‘Ballad of Spittlefields, or the Weavers Complaint Against the Calico Madams’, sold on a penny broadsheet, summed up the textile weavers case against calicoes: In the Ages of Old, We Traded for Gold, Our merchants were thriving and Wealthy: We had silks for our Store, Warm Wool for our Poor, And Drugs for the Sick and Unhealthy: And Drugs for the Sick and Unhealthy. But now we bring Home The Froth and the Scum To Dress up the Trapes like a gay-Dame: And Ev’ry She Clown Gets a Pye-spotted gown, And sets up for a Callicoe Madam. O! tawdery Callico Madam... Here they Stamp ‘em and print ‘em, And Spot ‘em and Paint ‘em, And the Callico Printers Brocade ‘em; Hey cost little pay, And are tawdery gay, Only fit for a Draggle-tail madam. O! this tawdery Callico Madam. Ev’ry Jilt of the Town Gets a Callico Gown; Our own Manufack’s out of Fashion: No Country of Wool Was ever so dull, ‘Tis a test of the Brains of the Nation: O! the test of the brains of the Nation. To neglect heir own Works, Employ pagans and turks, And let foreign Trump’ry o’er spread ‘em: Shut up their own Door, And starve their own Poor, For a tawdery Callico Madam. O! this Tatterdemalion Madam. Were there ever such Fools! Who despising the Rules, For the common Improvement of Nations: Tye up the Poor’s Hands, And search foreign lands, For their Magpie ridiculous Fashions. For their Magpie ridiculous Fashions. They’re so Callico-wise, Their own Growth they despise, And without an inquiry,“Who made ‘em?” Cloath the Rich and the Poor, The Chaste and the Whore, And the Beggar’s a Callico Madam. O! this Draggle-tailed Callico Madam. Nay, who would lament it, Or strive to prevent it, If the Prince of Iniquity had ‘em: Or if, for a bride, They were heartily ty’d O some Pocky Damn’d Callico Madam. O some Pocky Damn’d Callico Madam