sale and disposition of the manufactured product. Approved June 24, 1907.

No. 291. Convict Labor.

Authorizes the payment to prisoners engaged in manufacturing in the State prisons such sum quarterly for the time such prisoners may work, in addition to the task fixed in the prison rules, as shall in any quarter of the year not exceed in the aggregate, for all the prisoners engaged in any particular plant, one-tenth of the profits realized upon actual collection upon the sale of the product of that plant. Approved June 27, 1907.

Joint Resolution No. 5. Convict Labor.

Provides for the submission to referendum vote of an amendment to the State constitution, striking out Art. 18, § 3, which section provides that "No mechanical trade shall hereafter be taught to convicts in the State prison of this State except for the manufacture of those articles of which the chief supply for home consumption is imported from other States or countries." [The above amendment was ratified and approved by the people at the April election, 1907.]

Minnesota.

Chap. 299. Employment of Children. Sec. 1. No child under 14 shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any time, in, or in connection with, any factory, mill or workshop, or in or about any mine; and no person, firm, or corporation shall employ such child in any business or service whatever during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which such child resides are in session.

Sec. 2. No person, firm, or corporation shall employ any child over 14 and under 16 in any business or service whatever, during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which such child resides are in session, unless the employer procures and keeps accessible to the truant officers of the town or city and to the Commissioner of Labor, his assistant, and the factory inspectors and assistants, employment certificates for such children (prescribed in later sections) and a list of all such children employed. This section further provides for the furnishing of such certificates for the inspec

tion of certain persons authorized to inspect them.

Sec. 3. Imposes on the superintendent of schools the duty of issuing such certificates.

Secs. 4, 5, 6, and 7. Relate to the issuance and the contents of such certificates and to the school records and reports which the superintendent of schools is required to furnish in connection with the issuance of employment certificates.

Sec. 8. No person under 16 shall be employed, suffered, or permitted to work at any gainful occupation more than 60 hours a week, or more than 10 hours a day or between 7 P.M. and 7 A.M., except that on Saturday and for 10 days prior to Christmas such person may be employed until 10 P.M., but not longer in any day or week than the hours aforesaid. Each employer is required to post a notice stating the hours of employment in his establishment.

Sec. 9. Provides various penalties for violations of the several provisions above.

Sec. 10. Authorizes officials of the labor department and the truant officers to visit all factories, mills, workshops, mines, mercantile establishments, and all other places where labor is employed to ascertain whether any minors are employed in violation of this act, and requires such officers to report all such violations to the proper school authority and to the Commissioner of Labor.

Sec. 11. No child under 16 shall be employed in certain specified occupations involving the use of dangerous machinery; as a pin boy in a bowling alley; in preparing compositions containing dangerous or poisonous acids; in the manufacture of paints, colors, or white lead; in operating any passenger or freight elevator; in the manufacture of goods for immoral purposes; in any other employment that may be considered dangerous to life or limb, or where the health may be injured or morals depraved; or in any theatre, concert hall, or place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold. No female under 16 shall be employed in any capacity where such employment compels her to remain standing constantly. In any action brought against an employer on account of injuries sustained, while employed, by a child under 16, such employment shall not be deemed a violation of this act by the employer, if he shall have properly

obtained and filed an affidavit of the parent or guardian stating that the child is not less than 16 years of age. Any person employing any child in violation of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

Sec. 12. In any case where a child appears to be unable to perform the labor required of it, a physician's certificate, certifying the child's physical fitness to perform such labor, may be required before such child may be permitted to work in such employment. A violation of this section by parent, guardian, or employer constitutes a gross misdemeanor.

Sec. 13. Repeals Rev. Laws, 1905, §§ 1804-1811, and all other conflicting acts, etc.

Approved April 22, 1907.

Chap. 356.

Bureau of Labor, Industries, and Commerce.

Repeals Rev. Laws, 1905, §§ 1789-1797, and creates a new "Bureau of Labor, Industries, and Commerce;" defines terms in law relating to the new bureau; charges bureau with the enforcement of the laws relating to minors, women, health and safety of employees, qualifications of tradesmen, compulsory education, gathering statistics of labor, etc.; requires employers of labor to make reports called for by the bureau; provides for appeal to district courts from orders of the bureau and for hearings thereon; requires the bureau to enforce the local ordinances for protection of employees; directs the bureau to report to the Legislature at regular sessions, and authorizes it to issue special reports or bulletins on matters of public welfare, etc.; provides penalty for disclosing name of person supplying information; fixes salaries of the officers of the bureau. Approved April 23, 1907.

detract from the general well-being of the women so employed at any such places.” Her recommendations as to new laws that may be necessary for the advancement of the interests of women laborers shall be reported by the Commissioner of Labor to the next Legislature. Approved April 25, 1907.

Chap. 58. Suit for Injury of Child. Amends Rev. Laws, 1905, § 4060, which authorized a parent or guardian to sue for injury to a child or ward, by adding a clause thereto, requiring such parent to file a bond before receiving money or property in settlement or compromise of any such action for damages, and requiring such settlement to be approved by a judge of the court in which such action is pending. Approved March 23, 1907.

Chap. 253. Hours of Labor of Railroad Employees.

No employee engaged in or connected with the movement of any rolling stock, engine, or train on any railroad shall be required or permitted to remain on duty more than 16 consecutive hours, or to perform any further service, after having been on duty for 16 consecutive hours, without having had at least eight hours of rest, or to be on duty at any time more than 16 hours in 24 consecutive hours, except that these provisions shall not apply to work performed in the protection of life or property in cases of accident, wreck, or other unavoidable casualty, or to the time necessary for trainmen to reach a resting place when an accident, wreck, washout, snow blockade, or other unavoidable cause has delayed their train. A penalty is provided and the State railroad and warehouse commission, upon receiving complaint, is required to make a full investigation of such violation and to prosecute such violation through the attorneygeneral. Other persons are not thereby prevented from also beginning the prosecution for such violation. Approved April 19, 1907.

Chap. 202. Safety of Railway Employees. Requires railway companies to equip freight cars with automatic couplers and suitable grab irons or hand holds and forbids the use of cars not so equipped; provides penalty. Approved April 15, 1907.

Chap. 276. Safety Devices on Railroads. Authorizes the railroad and warehouse commission whenever, in its judgment, it is necessary for the public safety, to require the establishment, at all railroad crossings, junctions, and drawbridges in the State, of interlocking devices or such other safety devices as may be necessary for the protection and safety of the traveling public, and also authorizes the commission to require any railroad company on any part of its line or lines operated in the State to install and operate a "block signal system or any other device or appliance that in its judgment will best promote the public safety; imposes penalty on railroad companies for neglecting to comply with the orders of the commission that may be issued in accordance with this act. Approved April 22, 1907.

Chap. 290. Reporting Accidents by Railroad Companies.

Amends Laws, 1905, c. 122, §§ 1, 2, requiring railroad companies to report to the railroad and warehouse commission all wrecks and casualties wherein any person is injured or killed. Approved April 22, 1907.

Chap. 396. Flagmen on Railways. Amends Gen. Laws, 1905, c. 280, by adding an additional section providing for the employment of extra flagmen where construction or repair work is being done on railroads, or where other conditions render their employment advisable in order to safeguard the public. Approved April 24, 1907.

Chap. 455. Inspection of Canneries. Requires the Dairy and Food Commissioner to cause all canning factories to be inspected at least once each year and to publish report regarding the conditions observed. Approved April 25, 1907.

Chap. 180. Free Employment Offices. Directs the Commissioner of Labor to organize and establish a free public employment office in each city having 50,000 or more inhabitants and to appoint a superintendent for each bureau, at a salary of $1,200 a year; fixes duties of such superintendent; provides that applications for employment or employees shall be void after 30 days; appropriates $10,000, or as

much less as may be necessary, to carry out these provisions; repeals all conflicting acts, etc. Approved April 13, 1907.

Chap. 200. Costs in Actions for Labor.

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Amends Rev. Laws, 1905, § 4339, by inserting the words which are printed in italics. "Whenever any person having employed another to perform any labor or service, shall neglect or refuse for 30 days after the same is due and payment demanded to pay the agreed price, or the reasonable value if there be no agreement, and the shall be recovered by action, there shall be allowed to the plaintiff, and included in his judgment, in addition to his disbursements (allowed by law) five dollars costs if the judgment be recovered in a justice court and a like sum if the judgment be recovered in a municipal court where no statutory costs are now allowed in such municipal court in such action and double costs in all other actions wherein costs are recoverable or on appeal." The last clause in italics was substituted for the following clause in the original section, "if recovered in any other court or on appeal." Approved April 15, 1907.

Chap. 24. Relief and Pensions for Members of Fire Departments.

Creates a fund and provides for the disbursement thereof for pensions and relief by firemen's relief associations, in cities having a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants. Approved February 28, 1907.

Chap. 331. Pensions for Firemen. Amends Rev. Laws, 1905, § 1655, relating to the payment of pensions and relief by firemen's relief associations, by adding a clause providing that no payments of such nature shall be subject to judgment, garnishment, execution, or other legal process, and that no person entitled to such payment shall have the right to assign the same, nor shall such association have authority to recognize any assignment or pay over any sum which has been assigned. Approved April 23, 1907.

Chap. 388. Accident Insurance.

Amends Rev. Laws, 1905, § 1597, subd. 5 (which specifies the kind of business which insurance companies may transact), by inserting the words which are printed

in italics. "To insure against loss or damage by the sickness, bodily injury, or death by accident, of the assured or of any other person employed by or for whom the assured is responsible." Approved April 24, 1907.

Chap. 263. Employment of Discharged Soldiers, etc.

Provides that in every public department and upon all public works in the State, and in the counties, cities, and towns thereof, honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines from the army and navy of the United States in the Civil War, who are citizens and residents of the State, shall be entitled to preference in appointments, employment, and promotion over other persons of equal qualifications and regulates the removal of such veterans, etc. Approved April 19, 1907.

Chap. 49. Convict Labor.

Authorizes and empowers the State board of control of State institutions to establish, equip, maintain, and operate, at the State prison at Stillwater, a factory for the manufacture of rakes, mowers, harvesters, and binders, and for that purpose to employ such number of prisoners and skilled laborers as in their judgment may be necessary; authorizes said board to sell the product of such factory; repeals all conflicting acts, etc. Approved March 16, 1907.

Chap. 71. Convict Labor.

Amends Rev. Laws, 1905, § 5449 (which provided that in the State Prison and the State Reformatory the number of prisoners employed in a single industry should not exceed 10 per cent of the total number of persons engaged in such industry in the State, except in the manufacture of binding twine and materials for the use of State and municipal institutions) by further providing that it should not apply to the number of prisoners employed in the manufacture, at the State Prison, of binding twine, binders, mowers and rakes, or in any new industry not now carried on in the State, or in the manufacture of brushes at the State Reformatory. Approved March 28, 1907.

Missouri.

S. B. 8. Employment of Children. Sec. 1. No child under 14 shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any gainful occupation in any theatre, concert hall, or in or about any place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold, or in any manufacturing establishment, laundry, bowling alley, freight elevator, factory or workshop, or in any store or mercantile establishment in which more than 10 persons are employed, or in the transmission or distribution of messages or merchandise. These provisions shall apply only in cities of 10,000 or more inhabitants.

Sec. 2. No person under 16 shall be employed, etc., at any gainful occupation in any theatre, concert hall, or place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold, or in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, passenger or freight elevator, factory or work

shop, or in any messenger or express service, or at any boot-blacking establishment more than 54 hours a week, or more than nine hours a day, or between 7 P.M. and 7 A.M. Printed notices stating hours of work, etc., for such minors shall be posted in such establishments. These provisions apply only in cities of 10,000 or more inhabitants.

Sec. 3. Persons, firms, corporations, etc., are forbidden to employ minors over 14 and under 16 in any manufacturing or mercantile establishment, store, office, hotel, laundry, bowling alley, theatre, concert hall, or place of amusement, factory or workshop, or as messenger or driver therefor, unless a register is kept recording the name, age, and place of residence of such minors and unless there is first produced and placed on file in such place of employment an age certificate as provided in § 7.

Sec. 4. Persons, firms, corporations, etc., employing five or more children under 16 and over 14 years of age in any mercantile institution, store, office, laundry, hotel, manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, shall post and keep posted, in a conspicuous place in every room in which such help is employed, a list containing the name, age, and place of residence of every person under 16 employed in such room.

Sec. 5. No child under 16 and over 14 years of age shall be employed in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theatre, concert hall, or place of amusement, factory or workshop, passenger or freight elevator, or in any messenger or express service, or as a messenger or driver therefor, unless there is first produced and placed on file in such place of employment, and accessible to the State factory inspector or his assistant, an age certificate as provided for in § 7. A certificate of physical fitness to perform such work may be required in certain cases.

Sec. 6. Provides for the issuance of age certificates by the factory inspector, his assistants, or by justices of the peace in counties where the inspector has no permanent office, and makes other regulations regarding such certificates.

Sec. 7. Prescribes form of age certificate and method of supplying information required, etc.

Sec. 8. Requires the State inspector of factories or his assistants to visit all places where minors may be employed and authorizes such inspectors to demand that the certificates above provided for be produced.

Sec. 9. Children under 16 shall not be employed in any employment that may be considered dangerous to their lives or limbs, or where their health may be injured or morals depraved, or in any theatre, concert hall, or place of amusement wherein intoxicating liquors are sold.

Sec. 10. The presence of any person under 16 in any manufacturing establishment, factory, or workshop snall constitute prima facie evidence of his or her employment therein.

Sec. 11. Requires the State factory inspector to enforce the provisions of this act and provides for prosecution of all violations.

Sec. 12. Provides penalties for certain specified violations of the act.

Sec. 13. Repeals all conflicting acts, etc. Approved March 20, 1907.

H. B. 530. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Amends Rev. St., 1899, c. 161, by providing that the Bureau shall be known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics" instead of the "Bureau of Labor Statistics and Inspection of Factories, Mines and Workshops," and relieves the Bureau of the duties of inspection of factories, warehouses, workshops, foundries, machine shops, and other manufacturing establishments. New sections relate to the printing of reports, etc., and to the collection of information and the furnishing of suitable blanks therefor to managers of public service corporations, county, city, and township officers, and to the officers of prisons, penal and reformatory institutions. Approved March 19, 1907.

Com. Sub. H. B. 508. Barbers' Board of Examiners.

Amends Rev. St., 1899, c. 78, §§ 5042, 5045, 5047, by providing that all barber schools or colleges shall have not less than one teacher or instructor for every 10 students, and that permits to conduct a barber school or college shall be issued by and may be revoked by the Board. Such permits must be kept prominently displayed at such school or college. The Board shall have the right to pass upon