California enacts law to protect young dancing girls

The California state legislature passed a law to protect any female child under the age of seventeen employed to "dance, promenade or otherwise exhibit herself for hire, drink or gain...." (By Matthew Pinsker)
Source Citation
The General Laws of the State of California: from 1850 to 1864 Inclusive (2 vols., San Francisco, CA: AL Bancroft, 1872), 1: 260.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Education/Culture
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