I Page 7 which the public schools of the district in commencing and stopping work, and the nor shall females Revised Laws of 1905 hours when the time or times allowed for under 16 years of age be employed in any which the child resides are in session. dinner or for other meals begin and end. The capacity were such employment compels them Sec. 2. Children 14 to 16 years.—How employed.—It printed form of such notice shall be furnished to remain standing constantly. Provided, shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child over by the commissioner of labor of the state, that any action brought against an employer in 14 years of age, and under 16 years of age in and the employment of any minor for longer of any child under 16 years of age, on any business or service whatever, during time in any day so stated, account of injuries sustained by the child or between the which the public schools of the district in while so employed, if the employer shall have hours of seven o'clock in the evening and shall be deemed obtained, and kept on file in like manner as which the child resides are in session, unless seven o'clock in the morning, a violation of this section. herein provided for employment certificates the employer procures and keeps accessible to the truant officer of the town or city and an affidavit of the parent or guardian, stating Sec. S. Penalty for Violations.—Whoever to the commissioner of labor, assistant commissioner in substance, that the child is not less employs a child under sixteen years of age, of labor, factory inspectors and than 16 years of age. such employment shall and whoever, having under his control a child not be deemed a violation of this act. Any assistants, an employment certificate as herein under such age, permits such child to be person employing any child in violation of prescribed and a list of all such children employed in violation of section 1, 2, or 7 of employed. On termination of the employment the provisions of this section shall be guilty this act, shall, for such offense, be fined not of a child, such certificate shall be of a gross misdemeanor. more than $50.00 and less than $25.00 nor forthwith surrendered by the employer to the Sec. 11. IS No boy under the age of years whoever continues to employ any child in official who issued the same. shall be employed or permitted to work as a violation of any of said sections of this act Sec. 3. Employment Certificate Issued by messenger for a telegraph or messenger after being notified by truant officer of commissioner School Superintendent.—An employment certificate of labor of the state, shall for company in the distribution, transmission or shall be issued only by the superintendent delivery of goods or messages before 5 o'clock every day thereafter, that such .employment r- of schools, or by someone authorized in the morning or after o'clock in the continues, be fined not less than $5.00 nor by him so to do, or, where there is no superintendent evening of any day and no girl, under the more than $20.00 additional for each day that of schools, by the chairman of the A failure to age of 21 years shall be thus employed at such employment continues. school board or tlie chairman of the board produce to a truant officer or any official of uny time. Any person employing any child of education, or by a person authorized by the labor department, any employment certificate in violation of the provisions of this seetiou such chairman provided, that no superintendent or list required by this act shall be shall be guilty of a mi.kulenie:tnor. of schools, member of the school Sec. 12. Physician's Certificate.—In case prima facie evidence of the illegal employment board or board of education or other person any child appears to be unable to perform of any person whose employment certificate authorized, as aforesaid, shall have authority the labor at which he or she is employed, the is not produced, or whose name is not to issue such certificates for any child then officials of the labor department or truant so listed. Any corporation or employer retaining in or about to enter his own employment or officers, require the employer of such employment certificates in violation shall the employment of a firm or corporation of child to a certificate from a of section 2 of this act shall be fined $10.00. procure reputable which he is a member, officer or employe. Every person authorized to sign the certificate practicing physician duly designated for such Sec. 4. Certificate.—When Issued.-—Evidence the prescribed by section 5 of this act. who purpose by the school board, affirming Necessary.-—The person authorized to physical fitness of the child for such work, knowingly certifies any false statement issue an employment certificate shall not and a child as to whom such certificate can therein shall be fined not more than $50.00. issue such certificate until he has received, Sec. 9. Right of Visitation.—Officials of the not be obtained shall not be employed. Any examined, approved and retained in his possession person refusing to produce the certificate labor department and the truant officers may for the inspection of the public, the herein required upon demand, or who shall visit all factories, mills, workshops, mines, following" papers duly executed: (1) The employ a child when a certificate has been mercantile establishments and all other places school record of such child, properly filled where labor is employed and ascertain procured stating that such child is physically out and signed by the principal of the school whether any minors are employed contrary unable to work, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. which the child Inst attended, ami it' there to the provisions of this act, and they shall Is mo principal, then by the teacher such report any case of such illegal employment Sec. 13. All other acts and parts of acts of inconsistent herewith a«-e hereby repealed. child in said school which shall be furnished to the school superintendent or to the chairman on demand to a child entitled thereto. (2) of the school board or board of education Sec. 14. This act shall take effect and be A duly attested transcript of the births which in force from and after its passage. and to the commissioner of labor of the state. shall be conclusive evidence of the birth of Officials of the labor department and truant Approved June 19, 1912. such child. (3) The affidavit of the parent officers may require that the employment or guardian or custodian of the child, showing1 certificates and lists provided for in this act CHAPTER 9—H. F. NO. 34. the place and date of birth of such child, of minors employed, shall be produced for AN ACT providing for the taxation of railroad but such affidavit shall not be required unless their Complaints for offenses properties, the collection and times iyspection. ihv last mentioned transcript of the certificate under this act may be brought by any official of payment of such tax and repealing acts of birth can not be produced which affidavit of the state labor department, and any one inconsistent therewith. must be taken before the officer issuing the Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State who shall refuse to allow visitation in this employment certificate, who is hereby authorized section provided for, shall be guilty of a of Minnesota: and required to administer such oath and misdemeanor. Section 1. Every railroad company owning shall not demand or receive a fee therefor. or operating any line of railroad situated Sec. 10. Occupations Prohibited to Minor !. Such employment certificate shall not be within, or partly within this state, shall, during —No children, under the age of 1G years, shall issued until such child has personally appeared the year 1913, and annually thereafter, be employed at sewing belts, in any capacity before and been examined by the pay into the treasury of this state, in lieu whatever: nor shall any children adjust any officer issuing the same and until such officer of all taxes and assessments, upon all property belt to any machinery: they shall not oil. or shall, after making an examination, make and within this state, owned or operated for assist in oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery retain for inspection by the public, a statement, railway purposes, by sucli company, including they shall not operate or assist in operating that, in his opinion, the child is 14 equipment, appurtenances, appendages and circular or band saws, wood-shapers, woodjointers, years of age or upwards, and until such franchises thereof, a sum of money equal to planers, and paper or wood-polishing officer shall have received a certificate from a live per cent of the gross earnings derived machinery, emery or polishing wheels reputable practicing- physician duly designated from the operation of such line of railway used for polishing metal, wood-turning or for such purpose by the school board within this state. boring machinery, stamping machines in has reached the normal affirming that the child On or before August 15, 1913, and annually sheet metal and tin ware manufacturing, development of a child of its age, and is thereafter, each such railroad company shall stamping machines in washer and nut factories. in sound health and is physically able to perform make, according to law, a true and just operating corrugating rolls, such as the work which it intends to do. Every return of all such gross earnings for the six arc used in roofing factories, nor shall they such employment certificate shall be signed months ending June 30th next preceding, and be employed in operating any steam boiler, in the presence of the officer issuing the same, the said tax of five per centum thereon shall steam machinery or other steam generating by the child in whose name it is issued, and become due and be payable to the State of apparatus, or as pin boys in any bowling •shall only be issued to children who have Minnesota in manner provided by law, on alleys: they shall not operate or assist in completed the studies taught in the common September 1st, next thereafter. 'operating dough grates or cracker machinery schools of the district in which tliey reside On or before February 15, 1914. and annually of any description wire or iron straightening or, a parochial or private school in which the thereafter, each such railroad company machines nor shall they operate or assist in curriculum is equal to the common schools of operating rolling mill .machines, punches or shall make, according to law. a true and just the district provided, however, that no child shears, washing, grinding or mixing mill or return of all such gross earnings for the six shall be granted such certilicate who is not months ending December 31st next preceding, calendar rolls in rubber manufacturing nor simple sentences in able to read and write shall they operate or assist in operating and said tax of five per centum thereon shall the English language. laundry machinery nor shall they be employed become due and payable to the State of Minnesota Sec. 5. Certificate—Child's Signature Required.—Such in any capacity in preparing any composition in manner provided by law, on March employment certificate shall in which dangerous or poisonous 1st next thereafter and the payment of such state the date and place of birth and acids are used, and they shall not be employed sums at the times hereinbefore set forth shall child, and describe the color of the hair and in any capacity in the manufacture fee in full and in lieu of all other taxes and eyes and height and weight and any distinguishing assessments upon the property and franchises of paints, colors or white lead nor shall they facial marks of such child, and be employed in any capacity whatever in so taxed provided nothing in this act shall that the papers required by the preceding operating or assisting to operate any passenger be construed as modifying any agreement section have been duly examined, approved or freight elevator nor shall they be entered into between any municipality within and retained for inspection by the public and employed in any capacity whatever in the the state and any railroad company relating that the child named in such certificate has manufacture of goods for immoral purposes, to the payment of local taxes or assessments. appeared before the officer signing the certificate or any other employment dangerous to their The lands acquired by public grant shall and been examined. lives or limbs or their health or morals nor be and remain exempt from taxation until Sec. 6. Monthly Report to Commissioner in any theater, concert hall, or place sold or contracted to be sold or conveyed as saloon of Labor.—The superintendent of schools and of amusement provided, provided in the respective acts whereby such that this section chairmen of school boards and of the boards grants were made or recognized. shall not apply to the employment of any of education, shall transmit between the first Sec. 2. The term "the gross earnings derived child as singer or musician In a church, and tenth day of each month to the office of from the operation of such line of school or academy, or in teaching or learning the commission of labor of the state a list of railway within this state," as used in section the science or practice of music, or as a the names of the children to whom certificates 1 of this act is hereby declared and shall musician in any concert, or in a theatrical have been issued. The report shall give the be construed to mean, all earnings on business exhibition with the written consent of the date of issuing the certificate and the date beginning and ending within the state, mayor of the eity or the president of the of expiration the age and sex of the child and a proportion, based upon the proportion council of the village where such concert or the name of the employers and the nature of the mileage within the state to the entire exhibition takes place. Such consent shall of the occupation the child is permitted to mileage over which such business is done, of not be given unless forty-eight hour.s previous and anyone failing to transmit engage in, earnings on all interstate business passing notice of the application therefor shall the list herein provided for, shall be guilty of through, into or out of the state. have been served in writing upon the commissioner a misdemeanor. Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts not inconsistent of labor of the State of Minnesota Sec. 7. Hours of Labor—Posting of Notice herewith, regulating the payment, and upon the secretary of the Minnesota by Employer.—No person under the age of 16 collection, time of payment, enforcement or Child Labor Committee, and a hearing had years shall be employed, or suffered or permitted reports involving the amount of taxes upon thereon if requested, and shall be revocable to work at any gainful occupation cf the gross earnings of railroad companies at the will the authority giving It. Such more than 48 hours in any one week, nor within this state or providing penalties for consent shall specify the name of the child, more than 8 hours in any one day or before the nonpayment of such taxes, are hereby its age, the names and residents of its the hour of 7 o'clock in the morning or after made applicable to this act so far as may parents or guardians, the nnture, kind, duration the hour of 7 o'clock in the evening. Every and number of performances permitted, be, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent employer shall post in a conspicuous place in with the provisions of this act are hereby together with the place and character of the every room where such minors are employed, repealed. exhibition. But no such consent shall be printed notice stating the hours required a of Sec. 4. Upon failure to pay the amount of construed to authorize any violation of them each day of the week, the hours of one, or four of paragraphs three Section 4939, such taxes legally due, upon the respective