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the Act it is a course which, I anticipate, it will be found expedient
to adopt. Pending the confirmation of the bye-laws,
certain powers of the repealed Acts were to be continued in
force for a period of twelve months, i.e., to the end of 1892,
such period to be extended at the discretion of the Local
Government Board for a further period of not more than six
months, which will expire at the end of June in the present
year, by which time it is to be presumed that the bye-laws
will have been confirmed and become operative.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS.
The Home Secretary issued, late in the year, an Order
under the Factory and Workshop Acts, requiring lists to be
kept by manufacturers, &c., of outworkers in the following businesses,
viz.: (a) The manufacture of articles of wearing apparel.
(b) Cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work.
(c) The manufacture of electro-plate; and (d) The manufacture
of files. The Order, made under section 65 of the Act of
1878, and section 27 of the Act of 1891, requires "the occupier
of every factory and workshop, and every
contractor employed by any such occupier in any of the
businesses mentioned to keep lists showing the
names of all persons directly employed by him, either as
workman or as contractor, in the said business, outside the
factory or workshop, and the places where they are employed."
Such lists are to be open to inspection by any Factory
Inspector, or by any officer of a Sanitary Authority.
The Local Government Board, in communicating the
Order to the Sanitary Authorities, stated, in a circular letter,
that the Secretary of State "considers it of great importance
that all practicable means should be taken to make known the
Order to all those who have to comply with it, or are affected
thereby." He was, moreover, anxious "that the Sanitary Authorities
should give full publicity to the Order in their districts,
and follow it up by active steps for the inspection of the