nish to the said inspector or his deputy or deputies the means, information, or opportunity necessary for making any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry of or relating to any coal mine in this State as herein provided for, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars at the discretion of the court trying said offender. Every state inspector of coal mines in this State and his deputy or deputies is and are hereby empowered to act as police officers and deputy sheriffs, with full powers to arrest and detain any person found violating any provision of this section, or of any of the coal mining laws of this State, or any part thereof, or who shall be engaged in any attempt to violate such law or laws, or against whom there is found any evidence of a previous violation thereof. Approved February 19th, 1909. CHAPTER 106.-Mine regulations-Sprinkling dusty places. Enforcement. Dust to be re SECTION 1. The owner, lessee or agent or operator of any coal Sprinkling. mine whether shaft, slope or drift, shall sprinkle with water at least twice a week all dry and dusty places within said coal mines, and all accumulations of dust shall be loaded up and taken outside of the said mines at least once each month while such moved. mine is in operation: Provided, That all accumulations of slack, machine slack, track cleanings and other waste materials incident to coal mining shall be considered as dust within the meaning of this act. SEC. 2. Any person or persons, or association of persons, or corporations or agent, operator, lessee or owner of any coal mine in this State who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense. Approved February 27th, 1909. Violations. CHAPTER 120.-Assignments of wages. Employer to SECTION 1. No assignment of, or order for, wages to be earned in the future to secure a loan of less than two hundred dollars, accept. shall be valid against an employer of the person making said assignment or order until 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 clerk of the city or town where the party making said assignment or order resides, if a resident of this State, or in which he is employed, if not a resident of the Commonwealth. SEC. 2. No such 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 is attached thereto. SEC. 3. National banks and all banking institutions which are under the supervision of the bank examiner shall be exempt from the provisions of this act. Approved February 27th, 1909. CHAPTER 122.-Inspectors of coal mines-Appointment. SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 23 of the Session Laws of Wyoming of 1903 [shall] be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: Wife to join. Exemptions. Governor to Section 1. The governor shall nominate and by and with the consent of the senate appoint two state inspectors of coal mines, appoint. who shall hold their respective offices for terms of two years and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. They shall each have a thorough knowledge of practical mining and mining engineering, neither of whom shall be an employee, owner or part tions. Qualifica etc. owner in any coal mine or coal mining company in the State. Said inspectors shall not be less than thirty (30) years of age, citizens of the United States, and qualified electors of this State, of good repute and temperate habits. The state inspectors of coal mines shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars ($2,000) and actual traveling expenses when in the discharge of their duties, and shall keep their respective offices at some convenient point within the district for which they may be appointed. To procure Said inspectors are hereby authorized to procure such instruInstruments, ments, chemical tests and stationery, and to incur such expense of communication from time to time as may be necessary to the discharge of their duties: Provided, That such expenses shall not exceed the contingent fund provided for that office, at the cost of the State, subject to the approval of the governor of the State, which shall be paid out of the state treasury upon accounts duly certified by him, audited by the state auditor. All instruments, plans, books, memoranda, notes and other property, pertaining to the offices hereby created, shall be the property of the State and shall be delivered by each inspector to his successor in office, and said inspector shall be allowed all expenses necessarily incurred in enforcing the provisions of this chapter, in the courts of this State when such expenses are certified to be correct by the courts before which the proceedings were heard. Bonds. Reports. Repeal. SEC. 2. Section 3 of chapter 23 of the Session Laws of Wyoming of 1903 [shall] be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: Section 3. Said inspectors of coal mines shall each, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, give bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) to the State of Wyoming with sufficient sureties which bonds shall be conditioned on the faithful discharge of their duties. Each of said inspectors shall devote the whole of his time to the duties of his office. It shall be the duty of each inspector to examine the coal mines within his dis trict not less frequently than once during every three months, and more often if conditions require special examination for the protection of life and property. It shall be the further duty of each inspector to make a detailed report of each examination in writing and to file the same in the office of the governor within one week after making such examination. And each of said inspectors shall make up a general annual written report in detail showing the number of times each mine has been inspected during the year, and file the same in the office of the governor not later than December 1st of ach [each] year; it shall be the further duty of each of said inspectors to faithfully execute the provisions of this act, and cause its provisions to be observed and strictly carried out. SEC. 3. Section 9 of chapter 23 of the Session Laws of 1903 be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved February 27th, 1909. UNITED STATES. ACTS OF 1908-9-SIXTIETH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION. SECTION 1. Section two of an act entitled "An act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace," approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, [shall] be amended so as to read as follows: [The amendment consists in making the trustees of the establishment members of the "industrial peace committee," in addition to the nine appointees provided for in the original act. In the third section, the requirement of an annual conference is stricken out, leaving all meetings to be held as the committee may deem advisable, retaining, however, the provision as to holding conferences in case of great industrial crises.] CHAPTER 179.-Compensation for injuries to certain employees of the United States-Isthmian Canal. may grant SECTION 1. Nothing contained in the act approved May thirtieth, Commission nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "An act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it com- sence. pensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment," [chapter 236, Acts of 1907-8], shall prevent the Isthmian Canal Commission, under rules to be fixed by the commission, from granting to its injured employees, whether engaged in a hazardous employment or otherwise, leave of absence with pay for time necessarily lost as a result of injuries received in the course of employment, not exceeding in the aggregate thirty days per annum: Provided, however, That compensation paid to such injured employees under such regulations shall be deducted from any compensation which such employees may be entitled to receive under the terms of the act. Approved, February 24, 1909. CHAPTER 244.-Inspection of steam boilers. SECTION 1. Section forty-four hundred and thirty-four, Revised Statutes of the United States, * * * [shall] be amended so that the section as amended shall read as follows: [The amendment consists in substituting thirty-eight one-hundredths of an inch for thirty one-hundredths for the approved maximum thickness of shell of externally fired boilers on steam vessels navigating the rivers designated. Boilers already in use may be continued in service though not conforming to the requirement of a distance of three inches between the shell and the internal flues.] CHAPTER 299.-Rates of wages of employees in the Government The Public Printer may hereafter, in his discretion, pay printer Rate per linotype operators and printer monotype keyboard operators at a hour. rate not exceeding sixty cents per hour: Provided, That when the Sunday laexigencies of the service require that work be performed on Sun- bor. day the Public Printer may, in his discretion, pay to employees, not receiving annual salaries, not exceeding fifty per centum in addition to the regular rate paid for such work. Approved, March 4, 1909. CHAPTER 321.-Enticement of employees in arsenals or armories. tract. SECTION 43. Whoever shall procure or entice any artificer or Inducing vioworkman retained or employed in any arsenal or armory, to lation of condepart from the same during the continuance of his engagement, or to avoid or break his contract with the United States; or whoever, after due notice of the engagement of such workman or artificer, during the continuance of such engagement, shall retain, hire, or in any wise employ, harbor, or conceal such artificer or workman, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both. Approved, March 4, 1909. CHAPTER 321.-Kidnaping to service-Peonage. Seizing for SECTION 268. Whoever kidnaps or carries away any other person, with the intent that such other person be sold into involuntary slavery. servitude, or held as a slave; or who entices, persuades, or induces any other person to go on board any vessel or to any other place with the intent that he may be made or held as a slave, or sent out of the country to be so made or held; or who in any way Peonage. knowingly aids in causing any other person to be held, sold, or carried away to be held or sold as a slave, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. SEC. 269. Whoever holds, arrests, returns, or causes to be held, arrested, or returned, or in any manner aids in the arrest or return of any person to a condition of peonage, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Obstructing SEC. 270. Whoever obstructs, or attempts to obstruct, or in any enforcement of way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of the section last preceding, shall be liable to the penalties therein prescribed. act. son. Importing SEC. 271. Whoever shall knowingly and willfully bring into the kidnaped per- United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, any person inveigled or forcibly kidnaped in any other country, with intent to hold such person so inveigled or kidnaped in confinement or to any involuntary servitude; or whoever shall knowingly and willfully sell, or cause to be sold, into any condition of involuntary servitude, any other person for any term whatever; or whoever shall knowingly and willfully hold to involuntary servitude any person so brought or sold, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than five years. Approved, March 4, 1909. Tax levied. Exceptions. ACTS OF 1909-SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. exempt. SECTION 38. Every corporation, joint-stock company or association, organized for profit and having a capital stock represented by shares, and every insurance company, now or hereafter organized under the laws of the United States or of any State or Territory of the United States or under the Acts of Congress applicable to Alaska or the District of Columbia, or now or hereafter organized under the laws of any foreign country and engaged in business in any State or Territory of the United States or in Alaska or in the District of Columbia, shall be subject to pay annually a special excise tax with respect to the carrying on or doing business by such corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, * * * Provided, however, That nothing in this section contained shall apply to labor, organizations, Approved August 5, 1909. * * * CUMULATIVE INDEX OF LABOR LAWS AND DECISIONS RELAT- [This index covers the Twenty-second Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, which is a com- |