Handwritten extract from the Bendigo Advertiser 3/1/1874. Regulation in force from 1st January 1874. Regulation states the minimum age of boys working at the mines, no female of any age can be employed underground, the maximum hours under 18's worked, no person under 18 to be in charge of any steam engine, boiler or mechanical power and no person in charge of steam machinery to be employed more than eight hours in any one day as an ordinary day's work.document, gold, mining reports, regulation of mines statute 1873, bendigo advertiser 3/1/1874