No person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed or suffered or permitted to work at any gainful occupation more than fifty-four (54) hours in any one week, nor more than nine (9) hours in any one day; nor before the hour of six o’clock in the morning nor after the hour of nine o’clock in the evening.

[(44-1304) 1907, p. 248, sec. 4; reen. R.C., sec. 1469; reen. 1911, ch. 159, sec. 169, p. 483; reen. C.L. 38:283; C.S., sec. 1027; I.C.A., sec. 43-804.]