Employers' register.

earned, by the person to whom such information is furnished, through the medium of the employment regarding which such information or assistance is given, during the first month of such employment: Provided, That said value of said commission shall not be in excess of eight per cent of the amount actually prospectively to be earned in such employment when it is mutually understood by the agent and person in this section mentioned, at the time when said information or assistance is furnished, that said employment is to be for a period of less than one month.

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SEC. 11. Each employment agent duly licensed under this act shall enter upon a register to be kept for that purpose, and to be known as an employers' register," every order received from any corporation, company or individual desiring the service of any persons seeking work or employment, the name and address of the corporation, company or individual, for whom such order was received, the number of persons wanted, the nature of the work or employment, the town or city, street and number, if any, where such work or employment is to be furnished, and the wages to be paid.

Applicants' SEC. 12. Each employment agent in the State of Utah shall register. keep a register, to be known as "labor applicants' register," which shall show the name of each person to whom information or assistance is furnished, and as is described in section 1 hereof; and the amount of the commission received in each such case therefor; the name of each person who, having received and paid for, as herein contemplated, information or assistance such as is described in section 1 hereof, fails to secure the employment regarding which such information or assistance is furnished, together with the reason why said employment was not by said person secured, and the name of each person to whom return is made, in accordance with the provisions of section 9 hereof, of any money or other consideration such as is in said section named, together with the amount of said money, or the value of said consideration, thus returned. The registers required by section 11 of this act and by this section shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of any peace official of any municipality or county in this State.

Contracts to

SEC. 13. Every person securing information or intelligence from be in duplicate. an employment agent in reference to hiring or engagement to work for others, as provided in section 1 of this act, shall be furnished a written copy in duplicate of the terms of such hire or engagement by said employment agent, showing amount of commissions or fees paid such employment agent, kind of service to be performed, rate of wages or compensation, length of time, if definite, and if indefinite, it should be so stated, of such service, with full name and address of the person or persons, firm or corporation authorizing the hire of such person; one of the aforesaid copies to be delivered to the person or persons, firm or corporation for whom the labor is to be performed, and the other to be retained by the person furnished with information or intelligence, as aforesaid; and the agent issuing the above described written copy of the conditions of service or employment shall make and keep, in a book provided for the purpose, a third copy of the same; and any person engaged in the business of keeping an employment office, such as is contemplated by this act, who shall fail to observe the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 16 of this act: Provided, That it shall be lawful to keep the register required by section 12 of this act, and the receipt required by this section, in the same book and on one and the same form, if desired. Dividing fees.

Office in saloons.

SEC. 14. Any emlpoyment [employment] agent sending out help to contractors or other employers of help, and dividing the fees herein allowed with subcontractors and employers of help, or their foreman or anyone in their employ, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 16 of this act.

SEC. 15. It shall be unlawful for any employment agent in the State of Utah to conduct the business of an employment or

intelligence office in, or in connection with, any place where in toxicating liquors are sold or dispensed.

SEC. 16. If any person, persons, firm, corporation, or associa-, Giving false information, tion, or his, its, or their agent or employees engage in the busi- etc. ness of employment or intelligence agent or broker, duly licensed, as provided in this act, shall give any false information or shall make any misstatement or shall make any false promises concerning any work or employment or occupation, or shall fail to keep the registers as are prescribed in sections 11 and 12 of this act, or shall willfully make any false entries in such register, or shall violate any other provisions of this act, for which violation penalties are not hereinbefore provided, shall, upon conviction thereof, for each and every offense, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), and in the discretion of the trial judge, the license under which such person, persons, firm, corporation or association has or have been permitted to conduct the business of any employment or intelligence office, shall be forfeited.

SEC. 17. All claims or suits brought in any court against any employment or intelligence agent, may be brought in the name of the party injured upon the bond deposited with the city, town or county treasurer by said employment or intelligence agent, as proIvided in section 4, and may be transferred, as other claims, for damage in civil suits; the amount of damages claimed by the plaintiff, not the penalty named in the bond, shall be the test of the jurisdiction of the court in which the action is brought.

SEC. 18. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to require any religious or charitable association which may assist in procuring situations or employment for persons seeking the same, to obtain a license so to do under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 19. The keeper of an employment or intelligence office shall cause two copies of sections 7 to 10 inclusive and sections 13 to 16 inclusive of this act, printed in type of sufficient size to be legible and easily read, to be conspicuously posted in each room used or occupied for the purpose of such employment or intelligence office.

Approved March 2d, 1909.

CHAPTER 52.-Foremen, etc., accepting fees for furnishing em

ployment.

Suits.

Exemptions.

Law to

posted.

be

Accepting

SECTION 1. Any superintendent, foreman, assistant, boss, or any other person, or persons, who shall receive or solicit, or cause to fees prohibited. be received or solicited, any sum of money or other valuable consideration, from any person for or on account of the employment, or the continuing of the employment of such person, or of any one else, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Approved March 11th, 1909.

CHAPTER 80.-Citizens to be preferred for employment on public

works.

SECTION 1. In employing workmen in or on the construction of Who to be public works by the State, county, or municipality or by persons preferred. contracting with the State, county, or municipality, preference shall be given citizens of the United States, or those having declared their intentions of becoming citizens. In each contract for the construction of public works the provisions shall be inserted to the effect that if the provisions of this section are not complied with the contract shall be void.

Approved March 22d, 1909.

VERMONT.

ACTS OF 1908.

ACT No. 44-Employment of children-General provisions.

SECTION 1. Section 1044 of the Public Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

[The amendment consists in authorizing the district superintendent of schools, in case of district supervision, and the chairman of the prudential committee, in case of an incorporated district, to issue the certificate permitting employment, in addition to town superintendents of schools. Section 1045, relative to enforcement, is correspondingly amended.]

ACT No. 104.-Safety appliances on railroads—Power brakes.

SECTION 4. Section 4495 of the Public Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 4495. All railroad passenger trains shall be provided with brakes operated from the engine by the engineer. Approved December 18, 1908.

ACT No. 116.-Accidents on railroads, etc.

SECTION 7. The superintendent or manager of any line or plant, subject to supervision under this act, [relative to public service corporations, etc.,] shall immediately after its occurrence notify said [public service] commission in writing of any accident within this State upon such line or plant resulting in loss of life, or injury to any person which shall incapacitate him from engaging in his usual vocations. Said commission shall inquire into the cause of every such accident, and if, in its judgment, a public investigation is necessary, it shall fix a time and place of holding the same, and thereupon proceed as provided in section 4609 of the Public Statutes relating to investigation of accidents upon railroads.

Approved January 20, 1909.

VIRGINIA.

Unauthorized

ACTS OF 1908.

CHAPTER 54.-Labor organizations, etc.—Unlawful use of buttons or other insignia.

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SECTION 1. Any person who shall willfully wear any insignia or wearing of button of any association, society, or trade's union, or use the same badges. to obtain aid or assistance, within this State, unless he shall be entitled to use or wear the same under the constitution and bylaws, rules and regulations and [of] such organizations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars, and in default of payment committed to jail for a period of not to exceed sixty days. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Sunday labor prohibited.

Approved February 20, 1098 [1908].

CHAPTER 180.-Sunday labor.

SECTION 1. Section thirty-seven hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March second, nineteen hundred and four, shall be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3799. If a person on the Sabbath day be found laboring at any trade or calling, or employ his apprentices or servants in

labor or other business, except in household or other work of necessity or charity, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars for each offense. Every day any person or servant or apprentice is so employed shall constitute a distinct offense and the court in which or the justice by whom any judgment of conviction is rendered may require of the person so convicted a recognizance in a penalty of not less than one hundred or more than five thousand dollars, with or without security, conditioned that such person shall be of good behavior, and especially to refrain from a repetition of such offense, for a period not exceeding twelve months.

Approved March 11, 1908.

CHAPTER 228.—Inspection of factories—Respiratory shields.

furnished at

SECTION 1. Every owner or agent of a peanut cleaning estab- Shields to be lishment operated for the purpose of cleaning peanuts, and every cost. owner or agent operating a cotton factory in this Commonwealth [shall] be, and the same are hereby required to furnish each employee or operative employed in any such peanut cleaning establishment or cotton factory, who may wish to use the same, a suitable sponge shield to protect such operative or employee from inhaling the dust and floating particles in the air while employed in such peanut cleaning establishment or cotton factory. Said shield to be supplied by the owner or agent of said peanut cleaning establishment or cotton factory at actual cost and to be paid for by each operative or employee.

SEC. 2. Any owner or agent of said peanut cleaning establish- Violations. ment or cotton factory who shall fail to provide such shield upon application after a reasonable time shall be subject to a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars, and every day's failure to comply with such request shall constitute a separate offense.

Approved March 12, 1908.

CHAPTER 301.--Employment of children-Age limit.

Orphans, etc.

SECTION 1. On and after March first, nineteen hundred and Age limit. nine, no child under the age of thirteen years, and on and after March first, nineteen hundred and ten, no child under the age of fourteen years, shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, or mine in this Commonwealth: Provided, This act shall not exclude any child over the age of twelve, who is an orphan, or who for any other reason is dependent on its own labor for support, nor any child or children whose parent or parents are invalids, and solely dependent upon the labor of such child or children for support; in either of which cases a certificate shall be obtained from the circuit court of the county, or corporation court of the city, or the judge thereof in vacation, or from the mayor of the city or town, or a justice of the peace of the magisterial district, as the case may be, in which such child or children reside, setting forth the fact that a necessity exists, and authorizing the employment of said child or children, and a copy of such permit shall be forwarded to the commissioner of labor within ten days from the granting thereof, by the clerk of the court in which, or the officer by whom such permit was granted.

Certificate.

Any owner, superintendent, overseer, foreman or manager, who Violations. shall knowingly employ or permit any child to be employed contrary to the provisions of this act, in any factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, or mine, with which he is connected, and any parent or guardian, who allows any such employment of his child or ward, shall upon conviction of such offense, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars: Provided, That as to fruit and vegetable canneries, and as to

Repeal.

stores in the country and in towns of less than two thousand population, and country workshops not in the suburbs of a city, the law shall remain as if this act had not been passed. But nothing in this act shall prevent a parent from working his or her child in any factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, or mine, or other place owned or operated by said parent.

Any employment contrary to the provisions of this act shall be prima facie evidence of guilt, both as to the employer and the parent or guardian of the child so employed.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts that are or may be in conflict with the operation of this act on and after March the first, nineteen hundred and nine, are to that extent hereby repealed, said repeal to take effect as of March the first, nineteen hundred and nine.

Approved March 13, 1908.

WASHINGTON.

ACTS OF 1909.

CHAPTER 31.-Railroads-Construction and equipment of cabooses. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or company operating any railroad or railway in this State to require or permit the use of any caboose cars, unless said caboose cars shall be at least twenty-four feet in length, exclusive of platforms, and shall be provided with a door in each end thereof, and with suitable water-closets, cupolas, platforms, guard rails, grab irons and steps for the safety of persons in alighting or getting on said caboose cars and said caboose cars shall be equipped with at least two four-wheel trucks and an operative hand brake on each end: Provided, however, That this act shall not apply to logging railways upon which passengers are not regularly carried for hire. SEC. 2. Any person, corporation or company operating any railroad or railway in this State, violating any of the provisions of sec. 1 of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500), nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), for each offense.

SEC. 3. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after the first day of January, 1910: Provided, That caboose cars not conforming to the above requirements may be operated on branch lines not exceeding 100 miles in length, and on work trains, until January 1, 1911.

Approved March 2, 1909.

CHAPTER 32.-Assignments of wages.

SECTION 1. No assignment of, or order for, wages to be earned in the future to secure a loan of less than three hundred dollars, shall be valid against an employer of the person making said assignment or order unless said assignment or order is accepted in writing by the employer, and said assignment or order, and the acceptance of the same, have been filed and recorded with the county auditor of the county where the party making said assignment or order resides, if a resident of the State, or in which he is employed, if not a resident of the State.

SEC. 2. No assignment of, or order for, wages to be earned in the future shall be valid, when made by a married man, unless the written consent of his wife to the making of such assignment or order is attached thereto.

Approved March 2, 1909.

CHAPTER 55.-Mine regulations—Safety lamps.

SECTION 1. In every working of a coal mine approaching any place where there is likely to be an accumulation of explosive gases, or in any working where there is imminent danger from