CHAPTER 80.-Mine regulations-Payment to be made for slack mined.

SECTION 1. Section two thousand four hundred and ninety (2490) of the code be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word "slack" in the twentyeighth line of said section.

Approved March 23, 1900.

CHAPTER 81.-Payment of wages of coal miners.

SECTION 1. Section two thousand four hundred and ninety (2490) of the code [shall] be amended by striking out the period at the end of the word "semi-monthly" in line thirty-seven and inserting in lieu thereof a comma, and by adding after said word "semi-monthly" in said line thirty-seven the following, to wit: "By paying for those earned during the first fifteen days of each month not later than the first Saturday after the twentieth of said month, and for those earned after the fifteenth of each month not later than the first Saturday after the fifth of the succeeding month." Approved March 29, 1900.

CHAPTER 82.-Examination, etc., of mine foremen, pit bosses, and hoisting engineers. SECTION 1. From and after January 1st, 1901, it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge, or attempt to discharge, any of the duties of mine foreman, pit boss, or hoisting engineer at any coal mine, whose daily output is in excess of twenty-five tons, unless he shall hold a certificate of competency for such position as provided in this act. But in case of the discharge, resignation, or disability of any person lawfully performing such duties the owner, agent, operator, or managing officer of said mine shall have a reasonable time within which to secure the services of a certificated person to take the place of the one so discharged, resigned, or disabled; and during such time a competent and capable person, whether certificated as provided in this act or not, may be temporarily employed to perform such services.

SEC. 2. Any person may secure the certificate of competency herein provided for by appearing before the board created by section twenty-four hundred and seventynine (2479) of the code for the examination of State mine inspectors, and submitting to such examination as to his qualifications, or producing such evidence of service, as required by this act.

SEC. 3. The board of examiners referred to in the last preceding section shall meet at such times and places, shall adopt such rules, conditions, and regulations, and shall prescribe and conduct such examinations as shall be most efficient to give effect to the spirit and intent of this act. The members of said board shall each receive the sum of five dollars per day for every day actually employed in the discharge of the duties imposed herein, together with their actual expenses incurred in the performance of such duties, which expenses shall be itemized and verified as provided by section 2480 of the code, but they shall not be allowed compensation for more than seventy days in any one year.

SEC. 4. The certificate of competency herein provided shall be issued (1) to any person who shall satisfactorily pass such examination, written or oral, as may be prescribed by said board; (2) to any person who shall produce satisfactory evidence that he has, for a period of four years immediately preceding the examination, continuously and capably performed the duties of mine foreman, pit boss, or hoisting engineer as the case may be.

SEC. 5. Every person applying for a certificate under this act shall pay to said examining board a fee of two dollars, and every successful applicant shall pay to said board an additional fee of two dollars; all of said fees to be accounted for and covered into the State treasury. Each certificate issued under this act shall be recorded in the office of the examining board, and shall show the name, age, residence, and years of experience of the person to whom it was issued.

SEC. 6. No owner, agent, operator, or managing officer of any coal mine to which this act applies shall employ any mine foreman, pit boss, or hoisting engineer who does not hold the certificate herein contemplated. And any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Approved March 23, 1900.

CHAPTER 138.-Convict labor-State penitentiaries.

SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful except to complete existing contracts made by the board of control to manufacture for sale any pearl buttons or butter tubs in the penitentiaries of this State, and it shall be the duty of the board of control and wardens

of said penitentiaries to enforce the provisions of this act, and to prohibit the manufacture of pearl buttons or butter tubs, in whole or in part, by the inmates confined in said penitentiaries.

SEC. 2. This act shall not alter or impair the conditions of any contract actually made and entered into by and between any contractor and the board of control, which shall have been made prior to the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force on and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Des Moines Leader, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa.

Approved April 7, 1900.

KENTUCKY.

ACTS OF 1900.

CHAPTER 12.-Protection of employees as voters.

SECTION 3. Any corporation chartered under the laws of this State, or authorized to do business therein, which shall, through any officer, attorney, agent or employee, or otherwise, directly or indirectly, influence or attempt to influence by bribe, favor, promise, inducement, threat or otherwise, the vote or suffrage of any employee or servant of such corporation against or in favor of any candidate, platform or principles or issue in any election held under the laws of the Commonwealth, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for each offense, and its charter, or authority to do business in this State, shall, upon such conviction, be repealed, revoked, annulled and held for naught.

Approved March 17, 1900.

LOUISIANA.

ACTS OF 1900.

ACT No. 55.-Seats for female employees, time for lunch, etc.

SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation doing business in the State of Louisiana, where female labor or female clerks are employed, not to maintain seats, chairs or benches which shall be so placed as to be accessible to said employees, for their use during the times when said employees are not actually engaged in the attention to their duties as employees of such firm, person or corporation.

SEC. 2. Hereafter all persons, firms or corporations doing business at retail in the State of Louisiana where female labor or female clerks are employed, shall be required to give every employee each day, between the hours of ten (10) a. m. and three (3) p. m. not less than thirty (30) minutes for lunch or recreation.

SEC. 3. Whoever shall be found guilty of evading or disobeying any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon arrest and conviction therefor shall be fined in a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), and in default of the payment thereof shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a period not less than five (5) days nor more than six (6) months.

SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts contrary to or in conflict herewith shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved July 5, 1900.

ACT No. 66.—Sunday labor—Barber shops.

SECTION 1. The municipal authorities of any incorporated city or town in this State having a population not exceeding fifty thousand shall have power and authority to regulate or prohibit the opening and closing of barber shops within their corporate limits on Sunday.

SEC. 2. Said cities and towns shall have authority to punish by penal ordinance violations of their ordinances passed in pursuance of this act.

SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved July 6, 1900.

ACT No. 70.-Convict labor.

SECTION 1. All persons sentenced to the penitentiary shall be confined in the State penitentiary, at Baton Rouge, on State farms, on quarter boats or other suitable quarters.

SEC. 2. The control and management of the penitentiary and convicts shall be vested in a board, styled "The Board of Control of the State Penitentiary." *

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SEC. 10. The board of control, on its organization, may with the approval of the governor, purchase or lease a tract or tracts of land on such terms and conditions as the governor may approve, and after due advertisement, * * for the establish

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SEC. 11. The buildings to be erected by the board of control, or quarter boats or other quarters shall be of the most modern and sanitary kind on plans approved by the governor, and shall be constructed, as far as possible, with convict labor. *

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SEC. 14. The board of control is hereby authorized to contract for building by the convicts, of public levees, public roads or other public works, or for stopping crevasses within the State of Louisiana, and to bid for the construction of the same or for work in connection therewith, the same as a private contractor; and when such work is to be paid for by the parishes, the cities, towns, villages, or the levee boards of the State the board of control shall be exempt from giving bond, and State board engineers, so far as practicable, shall on any levee work whether for construction or repair of levees employ the State convicts, by contract and agreement, with the board of control of the penitentiary, and the price of said labor, shall be paid to the board of control out of the general engineer fund. * * and all laws or

SEC. 19. This act shall take effect on promulgation, parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved July 6, 1900.

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ACT No. 79.-Bureau of labor statistics.

SECTION 1. The governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint some suitable person who shall be designated "Commissioner of Statistics of Labor," with headquarters at the capital at Baton Rouge, and who shall hold his office for the term of four (4) years.

SEC. 2. The duties of such commissioner shall be to collect, assort, systematize and present in annual reports to the governor and to be by him biennially transmitted to the legislature within 10 days after the convening thereof every 2 years statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the State; especially in relation to the commercial, industrial, social and sanitary condition of workingmen and to the productive industries of the State.

SEC. 3. Said commissioner shall also have power to send for persons and papers, to examine witnesses under oath, to take depositions, to cause them to be taken by others by law authorized to take depositions; and said commissioner, may depute any uninterested person to serve subpoenas upon witnesses who shall be summoned in the same manner, and paid the same fees as allowed by district courts, but for this purpose persons are not required to leave the parish in which they reside nor to answer questions respecting their private affairs.

SEC. 4. The commissioner shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, shall employ a clerk at a salary of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per annum, and shall be allowed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for all necessary expenses attendant upon the proper exercise of the duties of his office, all of which amounts shall be payable monthly out of a general fund upon the warrant of the said commissioner.

SEC. 5. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed.
Approved July 9, 1900.

ACT No. 89.-Civil service law-Laborers, etc., exempt-New Orleans.

SECTION 1. There shall be a board of civil service commissioners for the city of New Orleans; *

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SEC. 3. Said commissioners shall, as soon after their appointment as possible, classify, with reference to the examinations hereinafter provided for, all offices and places of employment in said city, except only such offices and places to which appointment or election is otherwise expressly provided for by law, and except such offices and places as are exempted from the provisions and operations of this act.

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SEC. 29. The following persons shall be entirely exempt from the provisions and operations of this act:

Fourth. Street laborers, street bridge carpenters, drivers, watchmen, porters and janitors, except as to physical ability to perform the duties of the position to which they seek appointment.

Approved July 10, 1900.

MASSACHUSETTS.

ACTS OF 1900.

CHAPTER 171.-Boston-Establishment of industrial or trade school.

SECTION 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to establish and maintain, or to contribute to the establishment and maintenance of, an institution for giving practical instruction in industrial occupations and in the arts and sciences allied therewith. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 23, 1900.

CHAPTER 191.-Exemption from attachment― Wages—Trustee process.

SECTION 1. Section thirty of chapter one hundred and eighty-three of the Public Statutes is hereby amended * * * so as to read as follows: Section 30. When wages for the personal labor and services of a defendant are attached for a debt or demand other than for necessaries furnished to him or to his family, there shall be reserved in the hands of the trustee a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, which shall be exempt from such attachment; and when such wages are attached on a demand for such necessaries, there shall be so reserved a sum not exceeding ten dollars, provided the writ contains a statement showing the demand to be for such necessaries; otherwise in such cases there shall be so reserved a sum not exceeding twenty dollars. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred.

Approved April 3, 1900.

CHAPTER 201.-Examination, licensing, etc., of stationery engineers and firemen.

SECTION 1. Section four of chapter three hundred and sixty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "other," in the seventeenth line, and inserting in the place thereof the following:-but no person shall be examined for a special license for a particular plant unless a written request for such examination, signed by the owner or user of said plant, is filed with the application- * * *

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 4, 1900.

CHAPTER 223.—Safety appliances on railroads-Platform gates on cars.

SECTION 1. On and after the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and one every drawing-room or sleeping car, passenger, baggage, mail and express car, owned or regularly used on any railroad in this Commonwealth, shall be provided at each end thereof with platform gates of a pattern approved by the board of railroad commissioners.

SEC. 2. Any railroad corporation running, hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its road any car in violation of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered in an action of tort, to the use of the Commonwealth, by the attorney-general or the district attorney for the district in which such violation occurred.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and one.

Approved April 12, 1900.

CHAPTER 269.--Convict labor.

SECTION 1. The public institutions named in chapter three hundred and thirty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being “An act to provide for the employment of prisoners in making goods for the use of the prisons and other

public institutions," shall include every institution of the Commonwealth or of any county which is established, maintained, or supported wholly or in part by the appropriation of public moneys.

SEC. 2. The provisions of said chapter three hundred and thirty-four are hereby extended and applied to the public institutions of any city having a population of forty thousand inhabitants according to the census of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five; and the principal officer of any institution supported by the appropriation of public moneys in any city included under the terms of this act shall make requisition for any articles that can be furnished by the labor of prisoners, in the same manner in which principal officers of State and county institutions are now required to make requisition under said chapter.

Approved April 26, 1900.

CHAPTER 282.-Bonds not to be required of employees by certain corporations.

SECTION 1. No corporation engaged in carrying passengers or in transporting freight for hire shall require or receive from any person employed or about to be employed by it any bond or other security, either with or without surety or sureties, for the purpose of indemnifying such corporation against loss or damage to persons or property resulting from any act or neglect of any employee or person about to become an employee of such corporation; but this act shall not apply to bonds for the proper accounting of money or other property belonging to any such corporation.

SEC. 2. Any violation of the provisions of this act by any such corporation or by any person in its behalf shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for the first offense, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for a second offense. Approved May 2, 1900.

CHAPTER 298.-Workingmen's trains.

SECTION 1. Upon the filing with the board of railroad commissioners of a petition for workingmen's trains to be run by any specified railroad company whose line terminates in the city of Boston such trains shall be furnished by the company in such number, not less than two each way, as the said board may order. Such trains shall arrive at Boston between six and half past seven in the morning and between six and half past seven in the evening, every week day, and shall depart between the same hours. For such trains the company, for distances not exceeding fifteen miles, shall furnish season tickets at a rate not exceeding three dollars per mile per year, and quarterly and weekly tickets at a rate not exceeding one dollar per mile per quarter. All such tickets shall be good once a day, each way, for six days in the week. For such trains the company may provide special cars.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred.

Approved May 4, 1900.

CHAPTER 335.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 1. Section twenty-four of chapter four hundred and eighty-one of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four is hereby amended by inserting after the word "stairways," in the twenty-third line, the words:-or by such other way or device as the owner shall elect, provided the same shall be approved in writing by said inspector, *

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SEC. 2. Section eighty-two of chapter four hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as set out in section one of chapter three hundred and ten of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended by striking out the words "a flight of stairs," in the twenty-ninth and thirtieth lines, Approved May 23, 1900.

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CHAPTER 357.-Hours of labor for workmen, etc., employed by cities or towns. Section three of chapter three hundred and forty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in place thereof the following:-Section 3. This act [eighthour law] shall take effect in any city or town upon its acceptance by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon by ballot at any annual election thereof, and it shall be submitted for such acceptance upon the petition of one hundred or more registered voters of any city, or of twenty-five or more registered voters of any town, filed with the city or town clerk thirty days or more before any annual election. Approved May 31, 1900.