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of the first receipts and earnings of such person, company, or corporation while under his management; but should such receiver not take in sufficient moneys from the receipts and earnings of such person, company, or corporation to pay such employees and laborers, at least once every thirty days, then such receiver shall issue and deliver to each of such employees and laborers, upon demand, a receiver's certificate, showing the amount due such employee or laborer in money, which certificate shall draw interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from the date of its issuance until paid; and such receiver shall thereafter pay such certificates out of the first moneys coming into his hands from the receipts and earnings of the properties under his charge in the order of their issuance.

Wages preferred—In administration.

SECTION 1212. The charges and claims against the estate which

Order of pay

have been presented and allowed, or presented and disallowed, mands.
ment
but subsequently established by judgment or decree within the
first six months after the date of the notice of appointment of
the executor or administrator, shall be paid in the following order,
and those presented and allowed or established in like manner
within each succeeding period of six months thereafter, during
the continuance of the administration, in the same manner:
1. Funeral charges;

2. Taxes of whatever nature due the United States;

3. Expenses of last sickness;

4. Taxes of whatever nature due the State, or any county or other public corporation therein;

5. Debts preferred by the laws of the United States;

6. Debts which, at the death of the deceased, were a lien upon his property, or any right or interest therein, according to the priority of their several liens;

7. Debts due employees of decedent for wages earned within the ninety days immediately preceding the death of the decedent; 8. All other claims against the estate.

Negligence of employees on steamboats, etc.

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SECTION 1776. If any person or persons in control or manage- Negligence endangering ment of a steamboat or other water craft shall willfully or negli- life. gently so conduct or manage said steamboat as to injure or destroy the property of another, thereby endangering human life, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years, or by fine of not less than five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

Protection of employees as voters.

vote.

influence

SECTION 1905. Any person or corporation who directly or indi- Attempting rectly uses any force, violence, or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to to inflict any injury, damage, harm, or loss, or in any other manner practices intimidation upon or against any person in his or its employ, in order to induce or compel such person to refrain from voting at any election, or to vote or to refrain from voting for or against any person or persons, or for or against any proposition submitted to the voters at such election, or to place or cause to be placed, or refrain from placing or causing to be placed, his name upon a registry of votes, or on account of any person having so voted or refrained from voting at such election, or having registered or refrained from registering as a voter; or by abduction, duress, or any forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance whatsoever impedes, prevents, or otherwise interferes with the free exercise of the elective franchise by any such employee; or compels, induces, or prevails upon any voter to give or refrain from giving his vote for or against any particular person or proposition, at any

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election; or, being an employer, pays his employee the salary or wages due him in pay envelopes upon which there is written or printed any political motto, device, or argument containing threats, expressed or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of such employees; or within ninety days of a general election puts or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place where his employees are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard containing any threat, notice, or information that if any particular ticket or candidate is elected or defeated work in his place or establishment will cease in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up or the wages of his employees reduced, or other threats, expressed or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of his or its employee, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 1906. Any person or corporation found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of the preceding section of this act shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and, if a corporation, shall in addition forfeit its charter.

Sunday labor.

SECTION 1968 (as amended by act, page 167, Acts of 1903). If any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, bowling alley, billiard room, or tippling house, for the purpose of labor or traffic, or any place of amusement, on the first day of the week, commonly called "Sunday" or the "Lord's Day," such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not less than $5 nor more than $50: Provided, however, That the above provision shall not apply to theaters, the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery stable keepers, butchers, and bakers; and all circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded in defense, which shall be treated as questions of fact for the jury to determine when the offense is tried by jury.

Intimidation, etc., of employers and employees.

Interference SECTION 1971. If any person shall, by force, threats or intimidawith employ- tion, prevent, or endeavor to prevent, any person employed by ment of labor, another from continuing or performing his work, or from accepting any new work or employment; or if any person shall circulate any false written or printed matter, or be concerned in the circulation of any such matter, to induce others not to buy from or sell to or have dealings with any person, for the purpose or with the intent to prevent such person from employing any person, or to force or compel him to employ or discharge from his employment anyone, or to alter his mode of carrying on his business, or to limit or increase the number of his employees or their rate of wages or time of service, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six nor less than one month, or by fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars.

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The action of the executive committee of a labor union in going to an establishment and directing the members of the union at work there to cease their work under penalty of being dealt with according to the rules of the union, is not, in the absence of acts of intimidation and violence, unlawful under this section. 26 Oreg. 544.

Employment agencies-Seamen.

SECTION 2072. If any person or persons shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any seaman or apprentice, or from any person seeking employment as a seaman or apprentice, or from any person on his behalf, any remuneration whatever for providing him with employment on board any seagoing vessel, he shall for every such offense, on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace or circuit court of this State, be punished by

imprisonment in a county jail for a period not less than ten nor more than one hundred days, or by a fine not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars.

SEC. 2073 (as amended by act, page 238, Acts of 1903). If any person or persons shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any owner or master, or agent of owner or master of a seagoing vessel, any remuneration whatever in excess of a fee of $30 per man for supplying any seaman or apprentice to be entered on board any such seagoing vessel, he shall, for every such offense on conviction thereof, before any justice of peace or circuit court, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than ten or more than one hundred days, or by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000.

Sunday labor-Barbering.

SECTION 2097. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons to carry on the business of barbering on Sunday in Oregon. SEC. 2098. Any person or persons found guilty of violating * [section 2097] shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for five days for the first offense; and by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than twenty-five days, for the second offense, and for each subsequent offense.

This act is constitutional. 69 Pac. Rep. 445.

Protection of employees on street railways-Inclosed platforms.

Excessive

charges.

Barbering.

Penalty.

SECTION 2101. Each corporation, company, and individual own- Platform to be inclosed, ing, managing, or operating any street railway line in the State when. of Oregon shall provide, during the months of November, December, January, February, and March of each year, all cars run or used on its or their respective roads with good, substantial, and sufficient vestibules or weather guards for the reasonable protection of the employees operating passenger cars of such corporation, company, or individual.

Construction

SEC. 2102. The vestibules or weather guards provided for in section 2101 shall be so constructed and so maintained and adjusted of platforms. upon each car during each of the said months as to reasonably protect the employees of such corporation, company, or individual operating said passenger car from the wind, rain, or snow.

SEC. 2103. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be Penalty. deemed a misdemeanor and shall subject the owner or manager of such street railway line to a penalty of one hundred dollars fine for the first offense, and one hundred dollars for each and every subsequent violation thereof, and each car run one day when not so equipped shall constitute a separate violation hereof.

Examination and licensing of barbers.

(Amended form, act, page 27, Acts of 1903.)

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SECTION 3841. It shall be unlawful for any person, not a registered barber within the meaning of this act, to pursue the busi- quired. ness of a barber, or to conduct any barber shop, tonsorial parlor, shaving saloon, etc., for the purpose of shaving, cutting hair, or do[ing] anything in any way pertaining to the occupation of a barber, except as an apprentice, registered as hereinafter provided, under the supervision of a registered barber, without the sanction of the State board of barber examiners of this State. SEC. 3842. The board of examiners heretofore appointed by the Board of examiners. governor of this State shall constitute the State board of barber examiners under this act. Each member of said board shall continue in office for the remainder of the term for which he shall have been appointed, and such board shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to use a common seal, appoint deputies, and

Deputy.

Rules.

Compensation.

such further powers as are herein granted at the expiration of the term of office for which the present members of said board are appointed, or, if any vacancy shall occur in the membership of said board, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointing a person as a member thereof, selected from the competent barbers of this State, whose tenure of office shall be four years. It shall be the duty of each member of said board, hereafter to be appointed as aforesaid, before entering upon the duties of his office, to appear before an officer duly selected to administer oaths in this State, and make an oath to discharge the duties of a member of this board in a faithful and impartial manner. Each member of this board shall be a barber of not less than four years' experience and a resident of this State five years. Members of the board shall meet at such time and place as agreed upon, and shall, at a regular meeting, elect by ballot a president, a treasurer, and a secretary, who shall hold office one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. The president and secretary of said board shall each execute, in the name of the State of Oregon, an undertaking in the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars, conditioned that they will faithfully perform the duties of their office. The treasurer of said board shall execute a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $2,000, in the name of the State of Oregon, for the faithful performance of his duties under this act; said bonds shall be executed by some good and reliable surety company, and the expense of securing said bonds shall be paid out of the funds in the treasury of said board. Said board shall meet and hold examinations, as hereinafter provided for, at least quarterly during each year, in at least four different cities in the State; the board shall have the power to make such by-laws as it may deem necessary not inconsistent with the constitution of this State, or with the provisions of this act, and shall prescribe the qualifications of a barber of this State. The board may also at its discretion appoint a deputy who shall exercise the powers herein granted to said board, and who shall furnish a satisfactory bond to the board for the faithful performance of his duties, and his compensation shall be fixed by said board and paid out of its funds. The secretary of said board shall keep the seal of said board and affix it in all cases where he is required by law; to keep a faithful record of all transactions of said board; to administer oaths, and perform such other duties as may be required of him by said board. Said board shall have the power to adopt reasonable rules and regulations describing the sanitary requirements of a barber shop. It shall be the duty of every proprietor or person operating a barber shop in the State to keep posted in a conspicuous place in his shop, so as to be easily read by all customers, a copy of such rules and regulations. A failure of any such proprietor or person operating any shop to keep such rules so posted, or a failure or neglect on such person's part to obey the requirements of said rules, shall be sufficient ground for the revocation of his certificate; but no certificate shall be revoked without a reasonable opportunity being offered to such proprietor to be heard in his defense. Any member of said board shall have the power to enter and make examination of any barber shop in this State, during the business hours, for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary condition thereof; and any barber shop in which the tools, appliances, and furnishings in use therein are kept in an unclean or unsanitary condition is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and a person so keeping said shop, or in charge thereof in such unclean or unsanitary condition, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and the proprietor shall be subject to prosecution and punishment therefor, and the nuisance may be abated under the general laws of the State of Oregon provided for the abatement of nuisances.

SEC. 3843. Each member of said board shall receive $4 per day for each day actually engaged in the performance of his duties under this act, and shall also receive his actual traveling expenses while performing the duties of his office, and all other necessary

expenses incurred by him while in the exercise of his said duties.
Said expenses of said board shall be paid from the fees received
by the board under the provisions of this act, and no part of the
salary or other expenses of the board shall be paid out of the
State treasury. All moneys received in excess of said expenses
shall be held by the board as a special fund for meeting further
expenses of said board: Provided, That when the amount collected
by said board and in its possession shall exceed the sum of $1,000,
the surplus over and above such amount shall be paid by said
board to the treasurer of the State of Oregon. The board shall Report.
render a semiannual itemized account of the work it has done to
the governor, and render a report of all moneys received and dis-
bursed by them pursuant to this act, and the records of said board
shall at all times be open to the inspection by [of] the public.

Applications.

Barber

SEC. 3844 (as amended by chapter 157, Acts of 1907). No person Qualifications. shall be permitted to pursue the business, art or avocation of a barber within the State of Oregon, nor be entitled to registration as a registered barber in this State, unless he shall have followed the occupation of a barber for at least three years, either as an apprentice or barber, or as apprentice and barber; any person desiring to obtain a certificate under this act shall make application in writing to the State board of barber examiners in the manner prescribed by said board, such application must be yerified by the oath of the applicant; the applicant shall with his application pay to the treasurer of the State board of barber examiners a fee of $5, and shall present himself at the next regular meeting of the board for the examination of applicants, whereupon said board shall proceed to examine such person, and if satisfied that such applicant is qualified to practice the business, art and avocation of a barber, his name shall be entered by the board upon the register kept by them: Provided, That whenever it shall appear that the applicant has acquired his knowledge of schools. the barber business in a barber school or college, the board shall be the judges as to whether or not such barber school or college is properly appointed and conducted so as to give sufficient training in such business; and the State board of barber examiners and each member thereof is hereby authorized at all reasonable times during business hours to visit any and all barber schools or colleges in this State for the purpose of seeing whether or not students in such barber schools or colleges are receiving proper instruction and training, and to see that no provision of the law relating to the pursuit, business, art and avocation of a barber is being violated in any such school or college, and to see that such schools and colleges are conducted and managed in a skillful, cleanly and sanitary way. It shall be the duty of every proprietor, instructor or person in charge of every barber school or college in this State to keep posted in at least two conspicuous places in such barber school or college, so that the same may be seen and read by all students therein, copies of the by-laws of the said State board of barber examiners and the rules and regulations governing barber shops, schools and colleges in the State of Oregon, adopted by the said board and in force in this State: Provided, also, That it shall be in the discretion of the said board to allow the time spent by any person in any barber school or college in this State to apply on the time required to be spent in following the occupation of a barber to entitle a person to registration under the act; and the said board is hereby empowered to adopt and prescribe reasonable rules and regulations governing the equipment and conducting of any barber school or college within the State of Oregon. A neglect or failure of the manager or person in charge of any barber school or college in this State to post and keep posted in at least two conspicuous places in such barber school or college, the by-laws of the State board of barber examiners and the rules and regulations governing barber shops, schools and colleges in the State of Oregon, adopted by said board and in force in this State, shall be sufficient reason for the revocation by said board of the certificate of registration of any regis

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