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the governor. It shall have power to adopt reasonable rules and regulations, prescribing the sanitary requirements of a barber shop subject to the approval of the board of health of the city of Wilmington, and to cause the rules and regulations so approved to be printed in suitable form and to transmit a copy thereof to the proprietor of each barber shop in the said city of Wilmington. It shall be the duty of every proprietor or person operating a barber shop in said city to keep posted in a conspicuous place in his shop, so as to be easily read by his customers, a copy of such rules and regulations. A failure of any such proprietor to keep such rules so posted or to observe the requirements thereof, shall be sufficient ground for the revocation of his license, but no license shall be revoked without a reasonable opportunity being offered to Inspection. such proprietor to be heard in his defense. Any member of said board shall have power to enter and make any reasonable examination of any barber shop in said city during business hours, for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary conditions thereof. Any barber shop in which tools, appliances and furnishings in use therein are kept in an unclean and unsanitary condition so as to endanger health is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the proprietor thereof shall be subject to prosecution and punishment therefor.

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SEC. 3. Said board shall meet at least three times in each year in the said city of Wilmington to conduct an examination of persons desiring to follow the business or occupation of barbers, and shall give at least ten days previous notice of the time and place of such meeting in at least two of the daily newspapers of the Isaid city of Wilmington.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage and within sixty days thereafter it shall be the duty of every person who at the time of the passage of this act shall have been engaged for the period of two years or more, either as a journeyman or proprietor, in the business or occupation of a barber in said city of Wilmington, to cause his or her name and residence or place of business to be registered with said board of examiners. The statement of every such person so registering shall be verified under oath before a notary public of this State, and shall set forth his or her name and residence or place of business and the length of time he or she has acted or served as barber. Every person who shall be so registered with said board as a barber, shall pay to the treasurer of said board the sum of two Certificates. dollars and shall be entitled to receive from said board a certificate as a barber, and shall pay annually the sum of one dollar for a renewal of said certificate.

Fee.

Examination SEC. 5. Any person not within the provisions of section 4, or not of applicants. registering thereunder, desiring to obtain a certificate of registration under this act shall make application to said board thereof, and shall pay to the treasurer of said board an examination fee of five (5) dollars, 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 being satisfied that he is above the age of nineteen years, of good moral character, free from contagious diseases, that he has either studied the trade for at least three years as an apprentice under a qualified and practicing barber; or has practiced the trade in another State for at least two years, and is possessed of the requisite skill in said trade to properly perform all the duties thereof, including his ability in the preparation of tools, shaving, hair cutting, and all the duties and services incident thereto, his name shall be entered by the board in the register hereinafter provided for, and a certificate of registration shall be issued to him authorizing him to practice said trade in said city of Wilmington, which said certificate shall be good for one year. All persons who shall have passed a successful examination before said board shall be entitled to receive from said board a certificate thereafter annually upon the payment of a fee of one dollar.

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SEC. 6. Each member of said board shall receive a compensation Compensaof five dollars per day for actual services, which compensation shall be paid out of the moneys in the hands of the treasurer of said board: Provided, That said compensation shall in no event be paid out of the State treasury.

SEC. 7. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from serving as an apprentice to said trade under a barber authorized to practice the same under this act: Provided, That in no barber shop in said city of Wilmington shall there be more than one apprentice to one barber authorized under this act to practice said occupation.

An apprentice within the meaning of this act is anyone who has entered into the employment of a qualified barber for a fixed term in order to learn the trade or art of barbering. Every apprentice in the said city of Wilmington in order to avail himself of the provisions of this act must file with the secretary of said board a statement in writing showing the name and place of business of his employer, the date of the commencement of employment with him, and his full name and age, and shall pay into the treasury of said board a fee of fifty (50) cents.

Apprentices.

Form, etc., of

SEC. 8. Said board shall furnish to each person to whom a certificate of registration is issued a card or insignia good for the certificate. year for which the same is issued, bearing the signatures of its president and secretary, certifying that the holder thereof is entitled to practice the occupation of barber in said city, and the year for which it is issued printed in large figures; and it shall be the duty of the holder of such card or insignia to post the same and any renewal thereof in a conspicuous place in front of his working chair, where it may be readily seen by all persons whom he may serve.

SEC. 9. Said board shall keep a register in which shall be entered the names of all persons to whom certificates are issued under this act and said register shall be at all times open to public inspection.

SEC. 10. To shave or trim the beard or cut the hair of any person for hire or reward received by the person performing such service or any other person shall be construed as practicing the occupation of barber within the meaning of this act.

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SEC. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person to follow the occupation of a barber without the certificate of said board of exam- quired. iners: Provided further, That all persons making application (f) or examination under the provisions of this act shall be allowed to practice the occupation of barbering until the next regular meeting of said board.

SEC. 13. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace residing in the said city of Wilmington or by the municipal court of the city of Wilmington shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, and any convicted person who shall refuse or neglect to pay such fine may be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine is paid, not exceeding, however, twenty days.

ACTS OF 1903.

CHAPTER 394.-Wages preferred-In insolvency.

Penalty.

Wages to be

SECTION 57. Whenever any corporation, formed under the provisions of this [general corporation] act, shall become insolvent, the paid first. employees doing labor or service of whatever character in the regular employ of such corporation, shall have a lien upon the assets thereof for the amount of the wages due to them, not exceeding two months' wages respectively, which shall be paid prior to any other debt or debts of said corporation; but the word "employees" shall not be construed to include any of the officers of such corporation.

Air brakes to be provided.

Penalty.

Eight hours a day's work.

Contracts.

rates of wages.

CHAPTER 394.-Safety appliances on railroads.

SECTION 95. No regular or other passenger train on any railroad constructed under this [general corporation] act shall be run without an air brake, or some equally effective appliance for controlling the speed of trains, which may be applied by the engineer to each car composing the train, and which shall at all times be kept in good condition and ready for use at the discretion of the engineer.

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SEC. 96. Any corporation failing to comply with or violating or permitting any of its employees or agents to violate any of the provisions of sections 95 of this act as amended, shall in addition to subjecting itself to any damages that may be caused by such failure or violation be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined for failure or violation, not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

CHAPTER 410.-Hours of labor on public works-City of

Wilmington.

SECTION 1. Eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work for all classes of employees employed by the municipal corporation of the city of Wilmington.

SEC. 2. Each contract to which the municipal corporation of the city of Wilmington is a party which may involve the employment of laborers, workmen or mechanics shall contain a stipulation that no laborer, workman or mechanic in the employ of the municipal corporation of the city of Wilmington, contractor, subcontractor, or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract shall be required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property. Prevailing SEC. 3. The wages to be paid for a legal day's work as hereinbefore defined to all classes of such laborers, workmen or mechanics upon all such public work or upon any material to be used upon or in connection therewith shall not be less than the prevailing rate for a day's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality in the State where such public work, on, about or in connection with which such labor is performed in its final or completed form is to be situated, erected or used. Each such contract hereafter made shall contain a stipulation that each such laborer, workman or mechanic employed by such contractor, subcontractor or other person on, about or upon such public work shall receive such wages as hereinbefore provided. Each contract for such public work hereafter made shall contain a provision that the same shall be void and of no effect unless the person or corporation making or performing the same shall comply with the provisions of this act; and no such person or corporation shall be entitled to receive any sum nor shall any officer, agent or employee of the municipal corporation of the city of Wilmington pay the same or authorize its payment from the funds under his charge or control to any such person or corporation for work done upon any contract which in its form or manner of performance violates the provisions of this act.

Violations.

SEC. 4. Any officer, agent or employee of the municipal corporation, of the city of Wilmington, having a duty to act in the premises, who violates, evades, or knowingly permits the violation of [or] evasion of any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and shall be suspended or removed by the authority having the power to appoint or remove such officer, agent or employee, otherwise by the governor. Any citizen of this State may maintain proceedings for the suspension or removal of such officer, agent or employee or may maintain an action for the purpose of securing the cancellation or avoidance of any public contract which by its terms or manner of performance violates this act or for the purpose of preventing any officer,

agent or employee of such municipal corporation from paying or authorizing the payment of any public money for work done thereupon.

SEC. 5. This act shall not apply to the policemen, park guards, watchmen, or special officers of any kind.

ACTS OF 1905.

CHAPTER 123.-Employment of children.

SECTION 1. From and after the first day of July one thousand nine hundred and five, no child or minor under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any factory, workshop or establishment where the manufacture of any goods whatever is carried on.

Exceptions.

Age limit.

SEC. 2. From and after the first day of July one thousand fine School athundred and five no child between the ages of fourteen and six- tendance. teen years shall be employed in any factory, workshop or establishment where the manufacture of any kind of goods whatever is carried on, unless such child shall have attended, within twelve months immediately preceding such employment some public, day or night school, or some well recognized school; such attendance to be for five days or evenings every week during a period of at least twelve consecutive weeks which may be divided into two terms of six consecutive weeks, so far as the arrangement of school terms will permit, and unless such child, or his parents or guardians, shall have presented to the manufacturer or other employer seeking to employ such child a certificate giving the names of parents or guardian, the name and number of the school attended, and the number of weeks in attendance such certificate to be signed by the teacher or teachers of such child: Provided, That in case the age of the child be not known, such teacher shall certify that the age given is the true age, to the best of his or her knowledge or belief.

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SEC. 3. No child or children under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any factory, workshop or establishment where the bor. manufacture of any kind of goods is carried on for a longer period than nine hours a day or fifty-four hours a week: And further provided, That every such child so employed shall be entitled to not less than thirty minutes for mealtime at noon, and every employer shall post in a conspicuous place, where such minor children are employed a printed notice, stating that the maximum work hours required in any one week shall not exceed fifty-four hours. The governor shall immediately after the passage of this bill, appoint by and with the advice and consent of the senate some suitable person, who shall be a resident and citizen of this State, who shall be designated and known by the official title of "Factory and Workshop Inspector," and who shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per year, payable in equal quarterly installments of two hundred and fifty dollars, and who shall hold office for the term of two years; the said inspector shall be empowered to visit and inspect at all reasonable hours and as often as practicable all factories, workshop's [workshops] and other establishments in this State, where the manufacture or sale of any kind of goods is carried on, and it shall be the duty of the said inspector to enforce the provisions of this act and to prosecute all violations of the same as hereinafter provided, and he shall have the power to demand a certificate of physical fitness from some regularly licensed physician of the State or county in which such establishment is located in the case of a child under sixteen years of age, who may seem physically unable to perform the labor at which such child may be employed, and the said inspector shall have power to prohibit the employment of any such child under the age of sixteen years, who shall be unable to obtain such certificate.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of every person or corporation employing a child or children under the provisions of this act to keep

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a register, in which shall be recorded the name, age, day of birth and place of residence of every child under the age of sixteen years so employed by such person or corporation, and it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to employ any minor under the age of sixteen years unless there is furnished to said person or corporation a sworn statement made by the parent or guardian of such minor, stating the name, date and place of birth of such minor.

SEC. 5. Every person, or the officer or officers of any corporation violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every such offense.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of such factory or workshop inspector appointed under the provisions of this act to inspect the sanitary conditions of any factory workshop or other establishment, wherein minors are employed in accordance with the provisions of this act and to make report in writing of his findings to the governor, to the board of health of the city of Wilmington and the State board of health quarterly, or more frequently if he shall Ideem it necessary. Canneries, SEC. 7. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any person or corporation engaged in the canning or preserving of fruits, vegetables or provisions or in the carrying on of any agricultural business "or to any person or persons, firm or corporation, engaged in the manufacture of fruit and berry baskets."

SEC. 8. In every case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the inspector appointed under the provisions of this act, that any child or children under the age of sixteen years is a means of support and maintenance of a widowed mother that in every such case, the inspector may in his discretion issue a certificate to such child or children authorizing their employment, any provisions of this act to the contrary notwithstanding.

ACTS OF 1907.

CHAPTER 116.—Board of immigration-Contract laborers.

SECTION 3. The duties of said [immigration] commissioners shall be:

First. To contract with and appoint an agent or agents in Europe and elsewhere and subject to the methods as their judgment may direct, invite and encourage immigration to this State. Also to contract, in the name of the State, with laborers in foreign countries for the purpose of bringing said laborers to this State for agricultural purposes.

DISTRICT OF ALASKA.

ACTS OF U. S. CONGRESS, 1898-99.

CHAPTER 429.-TITLE 1.-Sunday labor.

Sunday labor, SECTION 141. If any person shall keep open any store, shop, etc., forbidden. grocery, ball alley, billiard room, or tippling house, for 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 Exceptions. than five nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That the above provision shall not apply to the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery-stable keepers, barbers, 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.