of indebtedness to pay their or its laborers or employees for labor, or otherwise, shall, if demanded, redeem the same in the hands of such laborer, employee, or bona fide holder, in lawful money of the United States: Provided, The same is presented and redemption demanded of such person, firm, company, or corporation using same as aforesaid, at a regular pay day of such person, firm, company or corporation to laborers or employees or if presented and redemption demanded as aforesaid by such laborers, employees or bona fide holders at any time not less than thirty days from the issuance or delivery of such coupon, script [scrip], punch out, store order or other evidences of indebtedness to such employees, laborers or bona fide holder.

Such redemption to be at the face value of the said script [scrip], punch out, coupon, store order or other evidences of indebtedness.

Provided, further, Said face value shall be in cash, the same as its purchasing power in goods, wares and merchandise at the commissary company store, or other repository of such company store [sic], firm, person or corporation aforesaid.

Holder

may

SEC. 2. Any employee, laborer or bona fide holder referred to in Paragraph I of this act upon presentation and demand for re- sue. demption of such script [scrip], coupon, punch out, store order or other evidences of indebtedness aforesaid, and upon refusal of such person, firm, corporation or company to redeem the same in good and lawful money of the United States, may maintain in his, her, or their own name an action before any court of competent jurisdiction against such person, firm, corporation or company, using same as aforesaid, for the recovery of the value of such coupon, script [scrip], punch out, store order or other evidences of indebtedness, as defined in Paragraph I of this act.

ACTS OF 1907.

CHAPTER 13.-Employment of women and minors in saloons.

Employment

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any saloon within the Territory of Arizona to permit any woman or minor, forbidden. either for hire or otherwise, to sing, to recite, to dance, to play on any musical instrument, to give any theatrical or other exhibition, to drink, serve drinks or any other form of refreshment or viands, or to solicit for the purchase of [or] sale thereof; to engage in, or to take part in, any game of chance or amusement, or to loiter in any saloon or in any room or apartment, except the lobby of a legitimate hotel, opening from or into any saloon within the Territory of Arizona.

SEC. 2. Any person who shall violate any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days or more than one hundred and eighty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

CHAPTER 72.-Mine regulations-Signals.

Penalty.

Signals re

SECTION 1. Every person, company, corporation or individual, operating any mine within the Territory of Arizona, gold, silver, quired. copper, lead, coal or any other metal or substance where it is necessary to use signals by means of bell or otherwise, for shafts, inclines, drifts, crosscuts, tunnels and underground workings, shall after the passage of this bill adopt, use and put in force the following system or code of mine bell signals as follows:

1 bell to hoist.

1 bell to stop.

2 bells to lower.

2 slow bells to lower slow.

Rules.

3 bells to hoist slow, men on cage.
3 slow bells to hoist very slow.
2-1 bells 1st station.

2-2 bells 2nd station.
2-3 bells 3d station.
2-4 bells 4th station.
3-1 bells 5th station.
3-2 bells 6th station.
3-3 bells 7th station.
4-1 bells 8th station.
4-2 bells 9th station.
4-3 bells 10th station.
4-4 bells 11th station.
5-1 bells 12th station.
5-2 bells 13th station.
5-3 bells 14th station.
5-4 bells 15th station.
5-5 bells 16th station.
6-1 bells 17th station.

6-2 bells 18th station.

5 bells for blasting.

6 bells, turn on or off steam to pump.

7 bells, accident in shaft; wait for orders.

8 bells, turn on or off air.

Engineer's signal that he is ready to hoist, is to raise the bucket or cage, two feet and lower it again.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of enforcing and properly understanding the above code of signals, the following rules are hereby established:

Rule 1. In giving signals, make strokes on bell at regular intervals. The bar (-) must take the same time as for one (1) stroke of the bell, and no more.

Rule 2. No person must get off or on the bucket or cage while the same is in motion. When men are to be hoisted or lowered give signal for men. Men must then get on the bucket or cage, then give the signal to hoist or lower. Bell cord must be in reach of man on the bucket or cage at stations.

Rule 3. After signal Ready to shoot in shaft," engineer must give signal when he is read [ready] to hoist. Miners must then give the signal "men to be hoisted," and then "spit fuse," get into the bucket, and give signal to hoist.

Rule 4. All timbers, tools, etc., " 'longer than the depth of the bucket," to be hoisted or lowered, must be securely lashed at the upper end to the cable.

Rule 5. The foreman will see that one printed sheet of these signals and rules for each level and one for the engine room are attached to a board not less than twelve (12) inches wide by thirty-six (36) inches long, and securely fasten board up where siguals can be easily read at the places above stated.

Rule 6. The above signals and rules must be obeyed. Any violation will be sufficient grounds for discharging the party or parties so doing. No person, company, corporation, or individuals, operating any mine within the Territory of Arizona, shall be responsible for accidents that may happen to men disobeying the above rules and signals. Said notice and rules shall be signed by the person or superintendent having charge of the mine, who shall designate the name of the corporation or the owner of the mine. Liability for SEC. 3. Any person or company failing to carry out any of the negligence. provisions of this act shall be responsible for all damages arising to or incurred by any person working in said mine during the time of such failure.

CHAPTER 79.-Exemption of wages from execution.

SECTION 20. One-half the earnings of the defendant for his personal services rendered at any time within thirty days next pre

ceding the levy of the execution or attachment shall be exempt when it appears by the affidavit of such defendant, or otherwise, that such earnings are necessary for the use of his family, residing in this Territory, supported in whole or in part by his labor.

ARKANSAS.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 19.—Mine regulations, etc.

SECTION 18. The general assembly by suitable enactments shall Laws to be require such appliances and means to be provided and used as passed. may be necessary to secure as far as possible the lives, health and safety of persons employed in mining and of persons traveling upon railroads and by other public conveyances, and shall provide for enforcing such enactments by adequate pains and penalties.

DIGEST OF 1904.

Wages preferred-In administration.

SECTION 110 (as amended by act No. 438, Acts of 1907). All Order of paydemands against the estate of any deceased person shall be divided

into the following classes: First. Funeral expenses.

Second. Expenses of the last sickness, wages of servants and demands for medicines and medical attendance during the last illness.

ment of demands.

Wages preferred—In insolvency of corporations.

SECTION 949. No preferences shall be allowed among the cred- Preferences. itors of insolvent corporations, except for the wages and salaries

of laborers and employees.

SEC. 950. Any creditor or stockholder of any insolvent corpora- Wages to be tion may institute proceedings in the chancery court for the wind- paid first. ing up of the affairs of such corporations, and upon such application the court shall take charge of all the assets of such corporation and distribute them equally among the creditors after paying the wages and salaries due laborers and employees.

Negligence of employees on steamboats.

Negligence

SECTION 1786. If the captain or any other person having the charge of any steamboat used for the conveyance of passengers, causing death or if the engineer or the person having charge of the boiler of such boat, or any other apparatus for the generation of steam, shall, from ignorance or gross negligence, or for the purpose of excelling any other boat in speed, create or allow to be created such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler or other apparatus in which it shall be generated, or any apparatus or machinery connected therewith, by which bursting or breaking any human being shall be killed, every such captain, engineer or other person shall be deemed guilty of manslaughter.

Hiring armed guards.

State.

SECTION 1966. Any person, officer, company, association or organ- Bringing ization who shall knowingly bring or cause to be brought or aid force Inte in bringing into this State any armed or unarmed police or detective force or other armed or unarmed body of men for the suppression or pretended suppression of any domestic violence, riot or disturbance except called upon by the lawful authority of this

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Liability.

Labor forbidden.

Separate offenses.

Exceptions.

Observance of other day.

Provisos.

Coercion,

etc., by ployers.

Penalty.

State
* *, shall be liable in a civil action to any person
or their legal representatives for any injury, for any and all dam-
ages to such person or to the property of any such individual
through the action of or as the result of the coming or bringing
into the State of such individuals or body of men or of any of
them, whether acting together or separately, in carrying out, or
attempting to carry out, the purpose or purposes for which they
came or were brought into the State.

Sunday labor.

SECTION 2030. Every person who shall, on the Sabbath or Sunday, be found laboring, or shall compel his apprentice or servant to labor or to perform other services than customary household duties, of daily necessity, comfort or charity, on conviction thereof, shall be fined one dollar for each separate offense.

SEC. 2031. Every apprentice or servant compelled to labor on Sunday shall be deemed a separate offense of the master.

SEC. 2032. The provisions of this act shall not apply to steamboats and other vessels navigating the waters of the State, nor to such manufacturing establishments as require to be kept in - continual operation.

SEC. 2033. No person who from religious belief keeps any other day than the first day of the week as the Sabbath shall be required to observe the first day of the week, usually called the Christian Sabbath, and shall not be liable to the penalties enacted against Sabbath breaking: Provided, No store or saloon shall be kept open or business carried on there on the Christian Sabbath: And provided further, No person so observing any other day shall disturb any religious congregation by his avocations or employments. Keeping open a barber shop on Sunday without_performing any labor therein is not a violation of this law. 45 Ark. 347. The prohibition of the operation of railroad trains on Sunday is within the province of the legislature. 107 S. W. 393.

SECTION 2823.

Protection of employees as voters.

*

* No person shall coerce, intimidate or em- unduly influence any elector to vote for or against the nominee of any political party, or for or against any particular question or candidate, by any threat of discharge from employment, *. Any violation of this section shall be deemed a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.

be recovered

writ.

Garnishment of wages of railroad employees.

Judgment to SECTION 3695. Hereafter no garnishment shall be issued by any before issue of court in any cause where the sum demanded is two hundred dollars or less and where the property sought to be reached is wages due to a defendant by any railroad corporation, until after judgment shall have been recovered by plaintiff against defendant in the action.

Company need not swer, when.

SEC. 3696. No railroad corporation shall be required to make an- answer to, nor shall any default or other liability attach because of its failure to so answer any interrogatories propounded to it, in any action against any person to whom it may be indebted on account of wages due for personal services, where a writ of garnishment was issued in advance of the recovery by plaintiff of a personal judgment against the defendant in any action for two hundred dollars or less, and any judgment rendered against any railroad corporation for its said failure or refusal to make answer to any garnishment so issued before the recovery of final judgment in the action between the plaintiff and defendant in the cases mentioned in section 3695 shall be void, and any officer entering such a judgment or who may execute or attempt to execute the same shall be taken and considered a trespasser.

Exemption of wages from garnishment, etc.

Wages

empt.

for

SECTION 3905. The time wages of all laborers and mechanics, not exceeding their wages for sixty days, shall hereafter be exempt sixty days exfrom seizure by garnishment, or other legal process: Provided, Proviso. The defendant in any case shall file with the court from which such process shall issue a sworn statement that said sixty days' wages, claimed to be exempt, is less than the amount exempt to him under the constitution of the State, and that he does not own sufficient other personal property, which, together with the said sixty days' wages would exceed in amount the limits of said constitutional exemption.

This section is constitutional. It does not apply to nonresidents. 52 Ark. 91.

Wages preferred-In receiverships.

SECTION 4057. As soon as the receiver shall have taken the propWages to be erty into his custody, he shall proceed under the direction of the paid first. court, or of the judge, in vacation, to convert the same into money, and upon final hearing the court, after deducting the cost and paying all public taxes, shall order the proceeds to be distributed among the creditors in the order and with the preferences following:

First-The salaries of employees earned within three months, and all laborers' wages shall be paid first.

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CHAPTER 101.-Employment of labor-Contracts, etc.

of State.

SECTION 5020. Contracts made with laborers or employers be- Contracts yond the limits of this State for labor or services to be performed made outside in this State shall be as binding as if entered into within the State.

Contracts to

SEC. 5021. Contracts for services or labor for a longer period be in writing, than one year shall not entitle the parties to the benefits of this when. act, unless in writing signed by the parties, witnessed by two disinterested witnesses, or acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments.

Acknowledg.

SEC. 5022. Such officer shall state in his certificate that he read the contract aloud in the presence and hearing of the laborers. ment. For taking such acknowledgment and making such certificate, he shall be entitled to twenty-five cents: Provided, Not more than three laborers sign one contract; if more than that number, then he shall receive ten cents for each additional laborer who shall sign and acknowledge the same, and five cents per circular mile for traveling to and from the place of acknowledgment. Con- Contracts of tracts of married women, executed as above and approved by their married husbands, shall be binding.

men;

WO

SEC. 5023. The contract of a minor, when approved by the parent of minors. having control of such minor, or, in case there be no parent, when approved by his guardian, or the contract of any minor over fifteen years of age having neither parent or guardian shall be binding: Provided, A contract with such minor shall not be for a longer period than one year.

SEC. 5027. If any employer shall, without good cause, dismiss a laborer prior to the expiration of his contract, unless by agreement, he shall be liable to such laborer for the full amount that would have been due him at the expiration thereof,

Discharge without cause.

tract.

SEC. 5028. If any laborer shall, without good cause, abandon his Abandonemployer before the expiration of his contract, he shall be liable ment of conto such employer for the full amount of any account he may owe him, and shall forfeit to his employer all wages or share of crop due him, or which might become due him from his employer.

SEC. 5030 (as amended by act No. 298, Acts of 1905). If any Interfering person shall interfere with, entice away, knowingly employ, or in- with or enticduce a laborer or renter who has contracted with another person' ing employee.