had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and the legislature shall provide by law at its first session for the manner in which the right of action in respect thereto shall be enforced.

SEC. 6. There shall be a State geologist, who shall be appointed State by the governor of the State, with the advice and consent of the gist. senate. * * said State geologist shall ex officio perform the duties of inspector of mines until otherwise provided by law.

ARTICLE 10.-Limitation and waiver of right to damages. SECTION 4. No law shall be enacted limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person. Any contract or agreement with any employee waiving any right to recover damages for causing the death or injury of any employee shall be void.

ARTICLE 10.-Cooperative associations.

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SECTION 10. The legislature shall provide by suitable legisla- Incorporation to be provided tion for the organization of mutual and cooperative associations for. or corporations.

ARTICLE 19.-Hours of labor.

SECTION 1. Eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute a lawful day's work in all mines, and on all State and municipal works.

Eight hours a day's labor.

Aliens not to

ARTICLE 19.-Employment of aliens on public works. SECTION 1. No person not a citizen of the United States or who has not declared his intention to become such, shall be employed be employed. upon or in connection with any State, county or municipal works or employment.

SEC. 2. The legislature shall, by appropriate legislation, see that the provisions of the foregoing section are enforced.

ARTICLE 19.—Boards of arbitration.

Enforcement.

Courts to be

SECTION 1. The legislature shall establish courts of arbitration, whose duty it shall be to hear, and determine all differences, and established. controversies between organizations or associations of laborers, and their employers, which shall be submitted to them in such manner as the legislature may provide.

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ARTICLE 19.-Contracts of employees waiving right to damages. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or cor- Contracts poration, to require of its servants or employees as a condition of to damages. their employment, or otherwise, any contract or agreement, whereby such person[,] company or corporation shall be released or discharged from liability or responsibility, on account of personal injuries received by such servants or employees, while in the service of such person, company or corporation, by reason of the negligence of such person, company or corporation, or the agents or employees thereof, and such contracts shall be absolutely null and void.

8. No person shall attempt to influence the vote of any elector Attempting to by means of discharging from em- influence vote.

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TITLE 7.-Miners' hospital.

SECTION 660. The State charitable institution located at Rock Springs, Wyoming, originally known and designated as the Wyoming State Miners' Hospital, shall be known and designated as "The Wyoming General Hospital."

SEC. 661. The object of said hospital shall be to provide sustenance, care and medical and surgical attention for all miners who shall become disabled or incapacitated to labor while working in the mines of the State, and who shall be in need of such sustenance, care or medical or surgical attention, and to such other persons as may be admitted under the laws, rules and regulations established for the government thereof.

SEC. 662. A board of visitors for said hospital, to consist of three persons, shall be appointed by the governor of the State in January of each year. It shall be the duty of the board of visitors to make a personal examination into the state and condition of said hospital and all its affairs twice at least in each year, and to report the result to the governor, suggesting such improvements as they may deem proper, which report shall be submitted to the legislature at its next session. Such board of visitors shall receive no compensation for their services.

SEC. 663. It shall be the duty of the board of charities and reform to establish a schedule of charges for care and treatment of patients which all persons treated at said hospital shall be required to pay, except in cases where such person or persons shall be adjudged a subject of charity under such rules as said board may adopt, for the government of said institution: Provided, however, Said board shall have power, and is hereby empowered to establish a schedule of charges so that members of any society, or any class of individuals may, by the payment of an annual sum, be entitled to the benefits of care, and treatment at said institute [institution], and any person who shall comply with the requirements of this section, and the rules of the board, adopted in conformity to the provisions of this section, shall be entitled to the benefits of said institution.

SEC. 664. All revenues derived from the said hospital and all moneys received for the care of patients therein, shall be turned over to the State treasurer, and shall become a part of the fund known as the "State Hospital Maintenance Fund," and all such sums shall be and the same are hereby appropriated and shall be used for the payment of the salaries and wages of officers and employees of the Wyoming General Hospital, and to pay other expenses incurred in the conduct, maintenance and support of the said hospital and for the care of patients therein.

TITLE 13.—Hours of labor on public roads.

SECTION 1943. any person liable to pay such poll or road tax, may work out the said tax under the direction of the supervisor of the district or other proper officer in an incorporated town or city, where such person resides, and he shall be allowed for such work the sum of two dollars for each day's work of eight hours. *

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TITLE 16.—Employment of children,

SECTION 2289. It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years to exhibit, use or employ, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give away, let out or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person, in or for the vocation or occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, dancing, rope or wire walking, begging or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acrobat, in any place whatsoever; or as an actor or performer in any concert hall or room where intoxicating liquors are sold or given away, or in any variety theater,

or for any illegal, obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever; or for or in any business exhibition or vocation, injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure or encourage such child to engage therein. Nothing in this section contained shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or at any respectable entertainment, or the teaching or learning the science or practice of music. It shall be unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or have in custody any child, under the age, and for the purposes prohibited in this section.

children in

SEC. 2295. Any person who shall take, receive, hire or employ, Employment either in his or her own behalf, or as the agent, servant or em- of women and ployee of any person, persons, association of persons, copartner- mines. ship, company, corporation, any boy or male child under the age of fourteen years, or any woman or girl of any age, or shall allow or permit the said persons to be in or about any coal, iron or other dangerous mine, or underground works or dangerous place whatsoever in this State, for the purpose of employment therein or thereabouts, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months: Provided, Proviso. however, That the provisions of this section shall not affect or apply to the employment of a boy or female of suitable age in an office, or in the performance of clerical work at such mine, colliery or place.

TITLE 17.-Wages preferred-In assignments.

SECTION 2482. No assignment for the benefit of creditors shall Wages to be give any preference of one debt or class of debts over any other paid first. debt or class of debts, and any such provision in any assignment for the benefit of creditors shall be null and void; save and except that in all cases of assignment under this chapter, the wages of employees of the assignor for the period of three months prior to the date of assignment shall be and constitute preferred claims over all and singular other claims against such estate, and shall be first paid out of the assets of the estate of the assignor.

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TITLE 17.-Exemption of wages-Unlawful assignment of claims.

SECTION 2516. It is hereby declared unlawful for any creditor Assignments or other holder of any evidence of debt, book account, or claim to evade exof any name or nature against any laborer, servant, clerk, or emptions. other employee of any corporation, firm or individual in this State for the purpose below stated, to sell, assign, transfer, or by any means dispose of any such claim, book account, bill or debt of any name or nature whatever, to any person or persons, firm, corporation or institution, or to institute elsewhere than in this State, or prosecute any suit or action for any such claim or debt against any such laborer, servant, clerk or employee, by any process seeking to seize, attach or garnishee the wages of such person or persons earned within sixty days prior to the commencement of such proceedings for the purpose of avoiding the effect of the laws of the State of Wyoming concerning exemptions.

SEC. 2517. It is hereby declared unlawful for any person or persons to aid, assist, abet, or counsel a violation of the foregoing section for any purpose whatever.

SEC. 2518. In any proceeding, civil or criminal, growing out of a breach of the provisions of this chapter, proof of the institution of a suit or service of garnishment summons by any persons, firm or individual in any court of any State or Territory other than this State, to seize by process of garnishment or otherwise any of the wages of such persons as defined in sections two thousand five hundred and sixteen and two thousand five hundred and seventeen shall be deemed prima facie evidence of

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an invasion of the laws of the State of Wyoming, and a breach of the provisions of this chapter on the part of the creditor or resident in Wyoming causing the same to be done.

SEC. 2519. Any person, firm, company or corporation, or business institution guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to the party so injured for the amount of the debt sold, assigned, transferred, garnished, or sued upon, with all costs and expenses, and a reasonable attorney's fee to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State, and shail further be liable by prosecution to punishment by a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution.

TITLE 17.-Contracts for labor-Alien labor.

SECTION 2520. No contract made for labor or services with any alien or foreigner previous to the time that such alien or foreigner may come into the State shall be enforced within this State for any period after six months from the date of such contract.

SEC. 2521. Any alien or foreigner who shall hereafter perform labor or services for any person or persons, company or corporation within this State, shall be entitled to recover from such person or persons, company or corporation, a reasonable compensation for such labor or services, notwithstanding such person or persons, company or corporation may have paid any other party or parties for the same; and in actions for the price of such labor or services, no defense shall be admitted to the effect that the defendant or defendants had contracted with other parties who had, or pretended to have, power or authority to hire out the labor or services of such party or parties, or to receive the pay or price for such labor or services.

TITLE 17.-Contracts of employees waiving right to damages. SECTION 2522. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or waiving right corporation to require of its servants or employees, as a condito damages. tion of their employment or otherwise, any contract or agree ment whereby such person, company or corporation shall be released or discharged from liability or responsibility on account of personal injuries received by such servants or employees while in service of such person, company or corporation, by reason of the negligence of such person, company or corporation, or the agents or employees thereof, and such contracts shall be absolutely null and void.

Discharging

TITLE 17.-Protection of employees as candidates for political

office.

SECTION 2523. Any company, corporation or individual, who employees for shall discharge or cause to leave his or her or their employ, tempocandidacy. rarily or permanently, any person or persons because they have been nominated as a candidate for any position of honor, trust or emolument, to be voted for at any election held in pursuance of the laws of this State; or any person, or agent or officer of any company or corporation who shall cause or attempt to cause any person or persons nominated as candidates at any election, to withdraw or refrain from accepting such nomination by threatening loss of employment, business or patronage, if they accept such candidacy, or shall make it a condition of employment, business or patronage that such candidacy shall not be accepted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

Adoption of trade-mark.

TITLE 17.-Trade-marks of trade unions, etc.

SECTION 2526. Any person, association or union may adopt a label, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement not previously owned or adopted by any other person, association or union, and

may file the same for record in the office of the secretary of state, by leaving two copies, counterparts or facsimiles thereof, with said secretary; and shall file therewith a certificate specifying the name or names of the person, association or union so filing such label, trade-mark, stamp, or form of advertisement, his or its residence, location or place of business, the class of merchandise and the particular description of goods comprised in such class to which it has been or is intended to be appropriated, and the length of time, if any, during which it has been in use. Such certificates shall be accompanied by a written declaration, verified under oath by the person or some officer of the association or union by whom it is filed, to the effect that the party so filing such label, trademark, stamp or form of advertisement, has a right to the use of the same, and that no other person, firm, association, union or corporation has the right to such use, either in the identical form or in any such near resemblance thereto as may be calculated to deceive and that the facsimiles, copies or counterparts filed therewith are true and correct. There shall be paid for such filing the fee of five dollars. Said secretary shall deliver to such person, association or union so filing the same, a duly attested certificate Certificate. of the record of the same, for which he shall receive the fee of five dollars. Such certificate of record shall, in all suits and prosecutions under this chapter, be sufficient proof of the adoption of such label, stamp, trade-mark or form of advertisement. No label, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement shall be recorded that would reasonably be mistaken for a label, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement already on record.

SEC. 2527. The secretary of state is authorized to make rules and regulations, and prescribe forms for the filing of labels, trademarks and forms of advertisement under the provisions of this chapter.

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Enjoining counterfeiting,

SEC. 2528. The owner of any such label, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement recorded as provided in section two thou- etc. sand five hundred and twenty-six may proceed, by suit, to enjoin the manufacture, use or sale of any such counterfeits or imitations, and all courts having jurisdiction thereof shall grant injunctions to restrain such manufacture, use or sale, and shall award the complainant in such suit such damages resulting from such wrongful manufacture, use or sale as may by said court be deemed just and reasonable, and shall require the defendant to pay to such person, association or union the profits derived from such wrongful manufacture, use or sale; and such court may also order that all such counterfeits or imitations in the possession or under the control of any defendant in such case, be delivered to an officer of the court, or to the complainant, to be destroyed. In all cases where such association or union is not incorporated, suits under this chapter may be commenced and prosecuted by an officer of such association or union, on behalf of and for the use of such association or union, and every member of such association or union shall be liable for costs in any such proceedings.

Counterfeit

SEC. 2529. Every person who, without authority from the owner of the label, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement recorded ing, etc. as aforesaid, shall make or use any counterfeit or imitation of such label, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement, knowing the same to be counterfeit or imitation, and every person who, without authority from such owner, shall affix, impress or use such label, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement upon any goods shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both.

SEC. 2530. Every person who shall sell goods upon which such Using counlabel, trade-mark, stamp or form of advertisement recorded as afore- terfeit. said, or any counterfeits or imitations thereof, shall be unlawfully impressed, affixed or used, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, unless such person shall show that at the time such goods came into his possession