Penalty for failure to comply with order. surrounded with proper safeguards for preventing accident or injury to those employed at or near them, shall notify the owners, proprietors or agents of such shops or factories, or report the same to the chief inspector, who shall notify, in writing, the owners, proprietors or agents of such shops or factories by mailing such notification to the last known address of such owners, proprietors or agents to make the alterations or additions necessary without delay; provided, however, that for such of the alterations and additions ordered as may be of such nature as to make it impossible to comply with immediately, the chief inspector may grant from fifteen (15) to thirty (30) days' time from date of first notification to such owners, proprietors or agents, in which to make such alterations and additions, and if such alterations are not made within the limit of time granted, such owners, proprietors or agents so notified, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred (500) dollars, and not less than fifty (50) dollars, and ten (10) dollars additional for each day after such conviction, until such alterations and additions necessary have been made, which fine shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which conviction is had. The district inspectors Record of exshall make a record of all examinations of shops and fac-amination. tories in their respective districts, showing the date when made, the condition in which such shops and factories are found, and what changes were ordered, the number of shops and factories in their respective districts, the number of men, women and children employed in each shop or factory, together with all such other facts and information of public interest, concerning the condition of such shops and factories, as they may think useful and proper, which record shall be filed in the office of the chief inspector every week, and so much thereof as may be of public interest to be included in his annual report. The chief inspector shall issue such instructions, make such rules and regulations for the government of the district inspectors not inconsistent with the powers and duties vested in them by law, as shall secure uniformity of action and proceedings throughout the different districts. The salary of the chief inspector shall be two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, and the district inspectors, one thousand dollars ($1,000) each per annum, which salaries and all necessary traveling expenses incurred by said inspectors in the discharge of their official duties, shall be paid out of the treasury of the state, from any fund therein not otherwise appropriated, on the warrant of the auditor, on the presentation to him of the proper vouchers. Instructions, lations for government of dis rules and regu trict inspectors. Salaries and exspectors. penses of in SECTION 2. That said supplementary section 2573c, Repeals. as amended and passed April 25, 1893, be and the same is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect on and after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 3, 1898. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. 256 Appropriation for general assembly, etc. [House Bill No. 353.] AN ACT To make sundry appropriations. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there is hereby appropriated from any money in the treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund, and not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars for salaries and mileage of members, per diem of clerks, sergeant-at-arms and other officers and employes of the general assembly; two thousand ($2,000) dollars for contingent expenses of the house; fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars for contingent expenses of the senate, and two thousand ($2,000) dollars for expenses of legislative committees. Legislative Canal Commission. Compensation of members..... For salary of canal commissioners from No- Tennessee Centennial Commission. Expenses of the commission incurred in accord- Board of Public Works. David Banker, for injury to land caused by $2,176 36 750 00 $5,000 00 ... $1,680 00 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force dam levee from and after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. Passed March 3, 1898. 26G [House Bill No. 76.] AN ACT To amend section 110 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 110 of the Revised Statutes Notaries public: of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: commission. Sec. 110. The governor may appoint and commission Appointment. as notaries public as many persons, of the age of twentyone years or over, who are citizens of this state, residing in the several counties for which they are appointed, as he may deem necessary; and the governor shall have the Revocation of authority to revoke any commission issued to any notary upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence of official misconduct or incapacity; but before making any such ap- Certificate of judge. pointment, each applicant shall produce to the governor a certificate from a judge of the common pleas court, circuit court, or supreme court, that the applicant is of good moral character, a citizen of the county in which he resides, and possessed of sufficient qualifications and ability to discharge the duties of the office of notary public; but no such judge shall issue such certificate until he is satisfied from his personal knowledge that such applicant possesses the qualifications necessary to a proper discharge of the duties of such office, and in case of a want of such kuowledge, then not Examination of until such applicant has passed an examination showing that he possesses such knowledge, under such rules and regulations as such judge shall prescribe. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 3, 1898. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. applicant. [House Bill No. 38.] AN ACT To provide for the weighing of coal before screening. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the following sections be enacted Mines: supplementary to section 295, Revised Statutes of Ohio: fore weighing. Sec. 295a. It shall be unlawful for any mine owner, Unlawful to lessee or operator of coal mines in this state, employing free cong miners at bushel or ton rates, or other quantity, to pass the output of coal mined by said miners over any screen or other device which shall take any part from the value thereof, before the same shall have been weighed and duly credited to the employe sending the same to the surface, and Provisions apply to" loaders." Penalty. accounted for at the legal rate of weights fixed by laws of Ohio. Sec. 2956. The provisions of this act shall also apply to the class of workers, engaged in mines wherein the mining is done by machinery, known as loaders; whenever the workmen are under contract to load by the bushel, ton or any quantity, the settlement of which is had by weight, the output shall be weighed in accordance with the provisions of this act. Sec. 295c. Any mine owner, lessee or operator of coal mines in this state, neglecting or refusing to comply with the conditions required to be performed by sections 295a and 2956, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding six hundred ($600) dollars, nor less than three hundred ($300) dollars, at the discretion of the court. : SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after six months after its passage. HARRY C. MASON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed March 9, 1898. ASAHEL W. JONES, President of the Senate. 28G Penalty against having control. [House Bill No. 10.] AN ACT To amend sections 2572 and 25726 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended and passed April 27, 1896 (O. L., vol. 92, pp. 408 and 409.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Public halls,etc.: the State of Ohio, That sections 2572 and 2572b of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 2572. Whoever, being the owner or having conowner or person trol as an officer, agent, or otherwise, of any opera house, hall, theater, church, school house, college, academy, seminary, infirmary, sanitarium, children's home, hospital, medical institute, asylum, or other building used for the assemblage or betterment of people, in a municipal corporation, county or township in the state of Ohio, permits it to be used when any door affording exit therefrom is locked or barred, or opens inwardly; when the place is not provided with ample means for the safe and speedy egress of the persons who may be there assembled; when sufficient water and proper means to apply it, or other efficient means are not provided on each floor to extinguish any fire which may occur therein; or when the certificate provided for in section twenty-five hundred and sixty-nine or section twenty-five hundred and seventy, which certificate shall also apply to buildings mentioned in section twenty-five hundred and seventy-two, as the case may be, has not been issued, or is not in full force, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not more than five hundred (500) dollars, nor less than nity (50) dollars, and ten (10) dollars additional for each day or night such building is permitted to be used after such conviction is had and until such changes, alterations or additions have been made sufficient to warrant the issuing of certificate by the chief inspector of workshops and factories; and such Fines for benefit fines and costs shall be recovered in the name and for the of city or county. use of the municipal corporation, if such building is located within the corporate limits, if not then for the use of the county in which located and suit is brought; and it shall be the duty of the mayor, with the aid of the police, or the prosecuting attorney, with the aid of the sheriff, if such building is not located within a municipal corporation, to see that the provisions of this act are strictly enforced. Duty of mayor or prosecuting attorney. tions to be made. Sec. 2572b. It shall be the duty of the chief inspector when inspecof workshops and factories, or his district inspectors, to make inspections of such buildings as are provided for in sections 2568, 2569 and 2572 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as often as he may deem necessary, or upon the written demand of the agent or owner of such structure, or upon the written request of five or more citizens of the municipal corporation, county or township wherein such structure is located, and the chief inspector or district inspectors shall have access to all such buildings at any time it may be deemed necessary to inspect same. Inspector to buildings. have access to SECTION 2. That said sections 2572 and 2572b of the Repeals, etc. Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended and passed April 27, 1896, be and the same is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. To amend section 1 of an act amended and passed March 6, 1891 (O. L., vol. 88, pp. 87, 88), and section 2, passed April 16, 1885 (O. L., vol. 82, p. 132), entitled “An act for the preservation of the health of female employes." factories: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section 1 of an act entitled "An act Shops and for the preservation of the health of females," amended and passed March 6, 1891, and section 2 of the same act, passed April 16, 1885, be so amended as to read as follows: |