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ARTICLE ONE.
All citizens having reached the age of twelve, will be obligated to learn a trade or profession capable of procuring, for those who exercise them, the means of their survival.

II. Fathers, mothers, guardians & other persons who have children in their care, will be held responsible for not implementing this present law, on whatever part concerns them, at the risk of having a reputation as being bad citizens.

III. Fathers & mothers who, by their notoriously known poverty, will be unable to pay the costs of their children’s education, will present themselves before the local government where they reside, who will pay for them, with the cost being reimbursed to them via the product of supplementary monies or via fixed taxes on the rich.

IV. The acts of these apprenticeships, including the commitment undertaken between the pupil & he who commits to teaching, will be collected by local officials of the municipality where the instructor lives; the aforementioned officials will keep a register or list which will detail the names & ages of the youth who engage in apprenticeships, & provide a copy, at the end of each year, to the director of their administrative district.

V. Children of farmers, & in general those who work in agriculture, are not included in the provision of the present law.

VI. The present law will be enacted in all the regions of the Republic in the month of its promulgation, & municipalities will be obligated to ensure its prompt & complete enactment.

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Call Number Case FRC 17158

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