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 of the law of Italy that you may believe to have been disclosed by the evidence. He must be found guilty, if at all, for a violation of the laws of the United States that you have heard read. The law of Italy has been admitted in evidence as bearing upon the question of inveiglement, and solely for the purpose of showing the character of the act to which the consent of these children was obtained in Italy.

"The law of Italy provides as follows: 'Section 1. Any person who shall entrust, or, under whatever pretence, shall commit, to natives or strangers, other persons of either sex, under the age of 18 years, though his or her own children or pupils, and any native or stranger who shall receive them, with the intent to employ them in the kingdom, in whatever manner, or under whatever denomination, in the practice of wandering professions, as * * *, witches, charlatans, errant players or singers, rope-dancers, guessers, fortune-tellers, animal exposers, beggars, and similar wanderers, shall be punished with imprisonment from one to three months, and fined from 51 to 250 lire.

"'Section 3. Any one who shall trust or deliver in the kingdom, or take abroad, in order to trust or deliver to natives or strangers abroad, persons under 18 years of age, however his or her own children or pupils, and any native or stranger who shall receive such persons in order to take, trust or deliver them abroad, for the purpose to employ them, in whatever way, and under whatever denomination, in the practice of wandering professions, as shown in section 1, shall be punished with imprisonment from six months to one year, and fined from 100 to 500 lire.'

"You will observe that the arrangement to which the assent of these children was procured in Italy was unlawful, provided the children were intended to be employed in a wandering profession, such as errant players, or beggars, or similar wanderers. It has been contended here that these children were not intended to be employed as wanderers, in violation of the law of Italy, because the evidence is that they were to be employed to play the harp or be musicians in Chicago. But, gentlemen, a child of 11 or 13 years of age may be a