The delegates, members, and friends, of Buncombe County Sunday School Association, in convention assembled in the City of Asheville, this November 15-16, 1912, and representing Fourteen Thousand attendants, in One Hundred and Fifty-one schools, of whom more than One Thousand are voters and men of influence,

Do hereby respectfully petition the Governor-elect of our own State of North Carolina, the Honorable Locke Craig, our fellow citizen, to include in his first message to the Legislature of the State, an urgent recommendation that laws be passed as follows:

1. Forbidding the employment of child labor under sixteen years of age, at night, by any manufactory, mine, or other business for profit.

2. Forbidding the employment of women or girls, at night, in any manufactory, or business, other than as nurse.

3. Fixing the penalty for either of the above offenses as imprisonment.

4. Providing for inspection by State Officers against such offenses.

5. Directing compulsory education of youths between the ages of six and sixteen, in part along industrial lines; and providing for State and County Bonds to be issued to meet the expenses of such educational plans.

And they do hereby respectfully request both the Senator elect and the Representatives elect from Buncombe County to use their best endeavors to secure the passage of laws on these points substantially in accordance herewith.

A true copy of the resolution as passed unanimously.