Section 155 of the Industrial Code shall contain the following clauses.

--Where reference is made in this Act to common law, const.i.tutional or legislative enactments are to be understood.

The Central Court of the State of the Bund shall make known what courts in each State of the Bund are to be understood by the expressions: higher court of administration, lower court of administration, borough court, local court, lower court, police court, local police court, and what unions are to be understood by the expression, wider communal unions.

--For such businesses as are subject to Imperial and State administration, the powers and obligations conferred upon the police courts, and higher and lower courts of administration, by ---- 105_b_ (2), 105_c_ (2), 105_e_, 105_f_, 115_a_, 120_d_, 134_e_, 134_f_, 134_g_, 138 (1), 138_a_, 139, 139_b_, may be transferred to special courts appointed for the administration of such businesses.

_Article IX._

The date on which the provisions of ---- 41_a_, 55_a_, 105_a_ to 105_f_, 105_h_, 105_i_ and 154 (3) shall come into force, shall be determined by Imperial decree with consent of the Bundesrath. Until such time the legal provisions. .h.i.therto obtaining shall remain in force.

The provisions of ---- 120 and 150, 4 shall come into force on Oct. 1, 1891.

--The rest of this Act shall come into force on April 1, 1892.

--The legal provisions. .h.i.therto obtaining shall remain in force until April 1, 1894, in the case of such children from 12 to 14 years of age, and young persons between 14 and 16 years of age, as were employed, previous to the proclamation of this Act, in factories or in the Industrial establishments specified in ---- 154 (2) to (4), and 154_a_.

--In the case of businesses in which, previous to the proclamation of this Act, women workers over 16 years of age, were employed in night work, the Central Provincial Court may empower the further employment in night work of such women workers, in the same numbers as. .h.i.therto, until April 1, 1894, at the latest, if in consequence of suspension of night work, the continuation of the business to its former extent would involve an alteration which could not be made sooner without disproportionate expense. Night work shall not exceed in duration 10 hours in the 24, and in every s.h.i.+ft intervals must be granted of an aggregate duration of at least one hour. Day and night s.h.i.+fts must alternate weekly.

Delivered under our Imperial hand and seal.

Given at Kiel, on board my yacht _Meteor_, June 1, 1891.

WILLIAM.

VON CAPRIVI.

Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.