planned and managed as to insure as great safety as is consistent with the nature of the business, and if the facts required in such statement are fully set out therein, and found to be true, then the Certificates. chief inspector of workshops and factories shall grant a certificate approving the plans and location of such factory, storehouse or magazine as set forth in such statement. Term of certificate. SEC. 3. Such certificate shall remain good and in force from the date of issue, except when otherwise ordered for cause by the chief inspector of workshops and factories, and such certificate will become void and a new statement and certificate shall be required of such person, partnership or corporation whenever any change is made in the manufacturing, handling or storing of such explosives as to the location of any factory, storehouse or magazine, or as to the kind or character of explosives manufactured, handled or stored, or whenever the number of men employed or the amount of explosives manufactured, handled or stored becomes greater than the number or amount designated in the last statement made to the chief inspector of workshops and factories. SEC. 4. No person, partnership or corporation shall manufacture gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite, nyalite, jovite, dynalite, fulminates, nitroglycerin, nitro explosive compounds, chlorate of potash explosive compounds, picric acid explosive compounds, or any other explosive substance, or store a quantity of the same exceeding one hundred (100) pounds, within the limits of any municipal corporation, or within sixty (60) rods of any factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment, occupied dwelling, church, schoolhouse, or building in which people are accustomed to assemble, or manufacture the same within ten (10) rods of any adjoining property not owned or leased by such person, partnership or corporation: Provided, That the distance at which such explosives may be stored with relation to the factories, workshops and other buildings owned and used solely for the purpose of manufacturing such explosives, as a part of a manufacturing plant shall not be governed by the above provision as to distance but shall be determined and regulated by the chief inspector of workshops and factories upon inspection of the district inspector of explosives. No person, partnership or corporation shall manufacture such explosives or store exceeding one hundred pounds of the same without giving bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) in each county in which such explosives are manufactured or stored, with good and sufficient surety, to the county commissioners of such county with such surety or sureties as shall be approved by the judge of the probate or common pleas court of such county, conditioned for the payment of all damages that may be caused to persons or property by reason of any explosion of any of said substances, or without filing with the chief inspector of workshops and factories a sworn statement that such bond has been approved and filed. SEC. 5. No person, partnership or corporation shall transport or carry any of such explosives in any vehicle, railroad car, water craft or other conveyance upon which any passenger for hire is at the same time being conveyed, or in any vehicle, railroad car, water craft or other conveyance, upon two sides and the rear of which there shall not be printed or placarded in plain and distinct letters the words "Explosives-Dangerous," or carry any of such explosives in any box, keg, can or package upon which is not clearly written or printed the words “ Explosives-Dangerous," together with the name of the explosive substance contained therein. SEC. 6. Whoever, either as principal, or servant, agent or officer of such person, partnership or corporation, violates any provisions of this act, or manufactures, handles or stores any of such explosives at any time without having first filed such bond and statement, or without having at such time a valid certificate from the chief inspector of workshops and factories, obtained as provided in section 1 [2] of this act, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars. SEC. 7. Nothing in this act shall be held to apply to persons, partnerships or corporations who store not to exceed twentyfive (25) pounds of gunpowder or blasting powder in any one place at one time, nor to the manufacturing or storing of drugs. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the chief inspector of workshops and factories and the district inspector of explosives to enforce the provisions of this act. Approved April 27, 1908. Commission on mine regulations. Exemption. Enforcement. (Page 321.) SECTION 1. The governor shall appoint a commission of seven citizens of the State of Ohio, three of whom shall be practical miners or operatives in coal mines, three of whom shall be owners or operators of coal mines, and one who shall be agreeable to the first six appointed, who shall constitute a commission to recommend such changes in the laws as may be necessary or advisable for the regulation of coal mines in the State of Ohio and for the protection of the health and lives of operatives in such mines; and in case a vacancy shall occur in said commission the governor is authorized to fill the same. SEC. 2. Such commission shall inquire into the conditions surrounding the operation and conduct of coal mines in the various districts of the State of Ohio, with the view of ascertaining what provisions of law would best promote and protect the health and safety of the miners and operatives therein and the mutual interests of the miners and operatives; and for this purpose it shall hear representatives of the miners and operatives in such mines and the owners and operators of such mines,[;] such commission may employ an expert mining engineer and electrician at a salary not to exceed ten ($10) dollars per day, and shall invite the fullest and clearest presentation of the views of all persons interested in the operation of coal mines in this State, and shall have authority to send for persons and papers and may personally investigate the conditions surrounding coal mines in the various districts of this State. SEC. 3. Such commission shall be organized by the election of proper officers, and shall make its report to the governor for transmission to the general assembly as soon as it shall have completed the investigations herein provided for, together with its recommendations of changes in and additions to the existing laws, with the bill or bills submitted for enactment, and its reason therefor. use. SEC. 4. The commission shall meet in the office of the chief in spector of mines and shall provide necessary stationery for its It may employ a stenographer, who shall act as secretary and whose services shall be paid for out of the money hereby appropriated; and the commission shall have free access to the rolls, books and records in all departments of the State. The commissioners shall each receive the sum of five dollars per day for the time actually employed in the work of the commission, together with actual expenses incurred while traveling to and attending meetings or while engaged in the work of the commission. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the same, be and it is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid upon the duly authenticated requisition of the commission accompanied by vouchers showing the purposes for which drawn, when approved by the governor. Approved May 9, 1908. Appoint ment. Duties. Report. Meetings. Compe n sa tion. Insulation of wires. Shields for machines. Violations. Districts and examiners. Two hours to be allowed. Mine regulations-Electric wires-Mining machines. (Page 335.) SECTION 1. After three months from the passage of this act, in all mines in this State, where electricity is, or hereafter shall be used, as a part of the system, power, or means of mining and producing the coal from any of said mines, the owner or operator of every such mine shall cause all wires conducting electricity in and about said mines, to be carefully and thoroughly insulated or protected in a safe manner as may be authorized by the state mine inspector, or his deputy, so that persons or animals coming in contact therewith will not be injured thereby: Provided, however, That trolley wires or other wires not capable of insulation shall be guarded by being placed at least three (3) inches deep within a groove or in such other manner as may be authorized by the state mine inspector, or his deputy, whose duty it will be, upon the written request of any mine owner, operator or person employed in such mine, to investigate all such wires that may be incapable of insulation and determine upon any proper method of guarding said wires other than by means of the aforesaid groove. And said inspector shall thereupon issue a certificate to the owner or owners of said mine, setting forth the method to be employed in the guarding of said wires, and keep a record of the same; thereupon within thirty (30) days from date of the certificate, it shall be the duty of the mine owner or operator, to guard such noninsulated wires in the manner required in said certificate. SEC. 2. In all mines where mining machines are used, each of said machines shall be equipped and provided with a sufficient shield as may be authorized by the state mine inspector, or his deputy for the protection of those employed in or about the use and operation thereof; and said shield shall be kept in use constantly, while said machine is under operation. SEC. 3. Any corporation or person violating the provisions of section one of this act shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars; and for the violation of section two of this act not more than one hundred dollars. Approved May 9, 1908. Examination and licensing of steam engineers. (Page 478.) [This act amends certain sections of the law on this subject (sections 4364-89m, 4364-89n, 4364-89p, Bates' Annotated Statutes), by dividing the State into ten instead of eight inspection districts, providing for the appointment of an assistant chief examiner and ten district examiners instead of eight district examiners only, as previously. The office force and salaries are also increased.] OKLAHOMA. ACTS OF 1907-8. Time to vote to be allowed employees-Protection as voters. (Page 316.) ARTICLE VII. SECTION 8. Every corporation, firm, association or individual who, on election day, has an elector employed or in his service, and every foreman, superintendent or other person in charge of employees shall grant each of said employees two hours of time during the period when the election is open in which to vote, and if such employee be in the county or at such distance from the voting place that more than two hours are required in which to attend such elections, then he shall be allowed a sufficient time in which to cast his ballot, and such corporation, firm, or association, individual, foreman, superintendent or other person in charge of such laborers, shall select the hours which such employees are to be allowed in which to attend such elections, and shall notify each of the employees which hours they are to have in which to vote, and any corporation, firm or association, individual, foreman, or superintendent who fails to so notify such employees as herein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for each elector whom they failed to so notify, and any individual with such electors employed, or foreman or superintendent, who fails to so notify such employee, shall in addition to said fine, be, upon conviction, imprisoned in the county jail not less than two nor more than six months. SEC. 10. Any corporation, whether chartered under the laws of Influencing this State, or of a foreign State, and which has been permitted vote. to do business herein, which, through its officials, employees, agents, attorneys, representatives or some other person or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, influences or attempts to influence, by bribe, favor, promise, inducement, threat, intimidation, importuning or beseeching to control the vote of any employee or other person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, and the person or persons so acting for such corporation in the violation of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail not less than sixty nor more than one hundred and twenty days. o f SEC. 11. When any official, agent, attorney, or employee of a Acts corporation has been shown to have violated the provisions of agents of corporations. sections 9 and 10 of this article, it shall be presumed that he was acting for such corporation, and the burden shall be upon the accused corporation to show that such official, agent, attorney or employee was not acting for it or with its sanction. Approved May 29, 1908. Fire escapes on factories. (Page 427.) SECTION 1. * * all building[s] more than two stories in height, used for manufacturing purposes, * * shall have required. Fire escapes * * * at least one fire escape for every thirty persons for which work- * SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department Enforcement. in all cities and towns to visit all public buildings, hotels, lodging houses and buildings described in section one hereof, and which have and maintain fire escapes, at least once every three months, and to investigate whether the provisions of this act are duly observed, and to report all violations of the same to the city or prosecuting attorney for prosecution. In cities or towns not haying a chief of fire department, it shall be the duty of the marshal to perform the duties imposed by this section. Approved April 28, 1908. Commissioner of labor-State board of arbitration and conciliation-Employment offices-Inspection of factories, etc. (Page 499.) ARTICLE I. SECTION 1. The duties and scope of the commissioner of labor Commissioner is to carry into effect all laws in relation to labor, passed by the of labor. legislature, in regard to the transportation, mechanical and manu Duties, Board of conelliation and arbitration. Action by board. facturing industries in the State: to Fireprise the wok of free Te NEC. 2. The commissioner of Labor is hereby authorized to ap point an assistant at a salary of fifteen hundred ($120m dollars per annum payable monthly, who shall act as Lis depety if by reason of sickness, absence, or for other cause, the conuissiez of labor is temporarily unable to perform the duties of Lis cice. and said assistant shall perform the duties of the oïce of commissioner of labor until such disability ceases, and said assistant shall act as secretary of the board of arbitration and consiliation, and it shall also be his duty, under the direction of the commissioner of labor, to collect, assort, systemize and compile statistical details and information relating to all departments of labor in the State, especially in its relations to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industries of the State. He is also authorized to appoint one stenographer at a salary of nine hundred ($900) dollars per annum, payable monthly. ARTICLE II. SECTION 1. The governor shall, upon his own motion, appoint two farmers and one employer, and upon recommendation of the commissioner of labor, shall appoint one employer and two employees, as hereinafter specified, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and the six persons so appointed shall constitute and be styled a State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation." If a vacaney should occur at any time on said board, the governor or the commissioner shall appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy as in the first instance. Except the farmers, said appointments shall be made from the employers and employees who shall have been, for at least three years preceding said appointment, engaged as employer or employee in the mining, transportation, mechanical or manufacturing industries of the State. Each member of said board shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, be sworn to a faithful discharge of the same. The board shall at once organize at the call of the commissioner of labor who, by virtue of his office, is chairman, and they shall, as soon as possible, establish rules and procedure for the government thereof. The assistant commissioner of labor shall be secretary of said board. SEC. 2. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the state board of arbitration and conciliation that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened in the State, involving an employer and his employees, if he is employing not less than twenty-five persons, It shall become the duty of said board to put itself in communication, as soon as may be possible, with such employers or employees, and endeavor to persuade them to submit the matter in dispute to the said board. Mayor, etc., SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the mayor of any city, and the to give notice. justice of the peace of any municipal township, whenever a strike or lockout, involving more than twenty-five persons, shall be threatened or has actually occurred within or near such city, or in such municipal township, to immediately communicate the fact |