California Legislature, An Act To Protect Female Children, March 17, 1860

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    The General Laws of the State of California: from 1850 to 1864 Inclusive (2 vols., San Francisco, CA: AL Bancroft, 1872), 1: 260.

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    An Act to protect female children under the age of seventeen years.
    Approved March 17, 1860,

    SECTION 1. Every person who shall cause, or procure, or employ, any female child, under the age of seventeen years, to dance, promenade, or otherwise exhibit herself for hire, drink, or gain, in any drinking saloon, dance cellar, ball-room, public garden, public highway, or in any place whatsoever (theaters excepted), where two or more persons are assembled together, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months...and every female child under the age of seventeen years so dancing, promenading, or exhibiting herself, as herein aforesaid, shall be likewise deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding one month, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

    SECTION 2. Every person who shall cause, or procure, or employ, any female child under the age of seventeen years, to play for hire, drink, or gain, upon any accordion, cymbal, hurdy-gurdy, tamborino, or any other musical instrument, in any drinking saloon, ball-room, dance cellar, public garden, or any public highway, or common street, in a city, on a ship, steamboat, or railroad car, or in any place whatsoever, where two or more persons are assembled together, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, Girls playing for or by both such fine and imprisonment ; and any female child, under the age of seventeen years, so playing, upon any accordion, cymbal, hurdy-gurdy, tamborine, or any other musical instrument whatsoever, as herein aforesaid, shall be likewise deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one month, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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