Safety appliances on railroads-Locomotive headlights.

(Page 333.)

SECTION 1. Every railroad corporation operating a railroad or a part Headlights reof one in this State, shall on or before the first day of January, 1911, quired. equip each of its locomotives, (except locomotives used exclusively in yard service,) with a headlight of such construction, and with sufficient candle power to render plainly visible at a distance of not less than Standard. three hundred and fifty feet in advance of such engine, whistling posts, land marks, and other warning signs, and it shall be unlawful, after such date for any such railroad to use a locomotive, (except locomotives used exclusively in yard service) upon any part of its road lying within this State, that is not equipped with a headlight of such construction and candle power as will enable the engineer, to see whistling posts, land marks and other warning signs at a distance of not less than three hundred and fifty feet in advance of the engine: Provided, That not less than thirty per cent of all the locomotives hereinbefore required to be provided with such headlights shall be so equipped on or before September 1, 1910.

SEC. 2. The state railroad commission shall from time to time inspect Enforcement. or cause to be inspected the headlights of all locomotives found in use on any railroad in this State. On discovering any defective headlight the commission shall report the fact to the superintendent or other officer having charge of the road on which it is found, and the railroad corporation receiving such notice, shall thereupon cause such defective headlight to be immediately repaired, and if so ordered by the railroad commission shall put the locomotive containing such defective headlight out of service until repaired and put in good working order.

SEC. 3. Any railroad corporation using or permitting to be used on its Violations. line in this State a locomotive, in violation of any provision of this act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the prosecuting attorney in the common pleas court of the county having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation occurred. Upon duly verified information being given him of such violation such prosecuting attorney shall bring such suits. The railroad commission shall give the proper prosecuting attorney information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge.

Approved May 20, 1910.

Examination and licensing of steam engineers.

(Page 361.)

SECTION 1. Sections 1040, 1046, 1047, 1048, 1050 and 1056 of the General Code [shall] be amended so as to read as follows:

Section 1040. The chief examiner of steam engineers shall divide the Examiners. State into ten districts. With the approval of the governor he shall appoint an assistant chief examiner and ten district examiners of steam engineers: Provided, however, That not more than five of the said district examiners so appointed shall be members of the same political party, each of whom shall be a competent and practical steam engineer, and shall serve for a term of three years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Upon the resignation, removal or death of the chief examiner, assistant chief examiner, or a district examiner, the vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term in the manner provided for the original appointment.

quired.

Sec. 1047. No person shall operate a stationary steam boiler or engine License reof more than thirty horse power without obtaining a license to do so as provided in this chapter. A horse power as used in this section shall mean twelve square feet of boiler heating surface. No owner or user

Application.

or agent of an owner or user of any such steam boiler or engine shall permit it to be operated unless it is directly in charge of a duly licensed engineer.

Sec. 1048. Each person who desires to act as a steam engineer shall make application to the district examiner of steam engineers for a Examination. license, upon a blank furnished him, and shall pass an examination in the construction and operation of steam boilers, steam engines and steam pumps, and in the subject of hydraulics. The examination shall be conducted under the rules and regulations adopted by the chief examiner which shall be uniform throughout the State. The district examiners, assistant chief examiner and chief examiner may administer all oaths or affirmations to any applicant whenever the same is made necessary by the rules and regulations adopted by the chief

Renewals.

Committee

be appointed.

ties.

examiner.

Sec. 1050. Upon application, the person to whom a license is issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to a renewal thereof annually, unless the district examiner for a cause named in the preceding section and upon notice and hearing shall refuse such renewal.

Filed in the office of the secretary of state May 24, 1910.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Commission on cost of living.

(Page 440.)

to A joint select committee [shall] be appointed, consisting of two members of the senate of opposite political party faith, to be named by the president of the senate, and two members of the house of representatives, of opposite political party faith, to be named by the speaker Powers and du- of the house, with full power and authority to investigate the purchase, storage, barter, sale and traffic by persons, firms, associations and corporations of and in food products, food commodities and articles, and food supplies; to investigate any and all agreements, understandings and arrangements of, between and among persons, firms and corporations, or combination of the same, with respect to the purchase, storage, barter, sale, traffic or other dealing in such products, commodities, articles and supplies and affecting or tending to affect the prices or transportation of such products, commodities, articles and supplies; and, generally, to investigate the cause or causes of advances in the prices and the present prices of such products, commodities, articles and supplies.

Report.

Said committee shall have the power to compel the production before it of any books, records, papers, letters and any other written or printed evidence of any character, which in the judgment of the committee or a majority thereof pertains to any matter or thing under investigation and wherever found, and to examine the same; and also to compel the attendance of witnesses and require them to testify. Said committee may hold its meetings in any place designated by it in the State of Ohio and shall have all the powers conferred upon legislative committees by chapter three (3) title (2) of the Revised Statutes of Ohio and by other laws of the State.

Said committee * * * shall make written report of its findings, with a full transcript of the testimony taken by it, to the general assembly at its present session; and therewith shall report any recommendations for additional legislation which may seem desirable.

The expense incurred by said committee shall be paid upon proper voucher signed by the chairman thereof.

Adopted January 19, 1910.

OKLAHOMA.

ACTS OF 1910, EXTRA SESSION.

CHAPTER 7.- Mine regulations-Coal to be weighed before screening.

[This chapter amends an act of 1907-8 (Act, p. 521, Art. II, sec. 3), by inserting the word "accurately" in the clause directing all coal to be weighed, and also by directing that it shall be so weighed "before being screened or placed in railroad cars."]

CHAPTER 11.-Bonds of employees of common carriers.

SECTION 1. No common carrier authorized to do business in this Employees to State, when requiring of an employee that he give it a bond or under- have free choice. taking of any nature whatever, shall require such employee to have such bond or undertaking executed as surety by any particular person, company, corporation, association, or firm, or by any one or more of any number of such persons, companies, corporations, associations or firms named by such common carrier; and no such common carrier shall reject any such bond or undertaking for any reason other than the financial insufficiency of such bond or undertaking.

residents of State.

SEC. 2. No common carrier authorized to do business in this State, Sureties to be when requiring of any employee that he give it a bond or undertaking of any nature whatsoever, shall require as surety thereon any person not a resident of this State; nor shall any such common carrier accept as such surety any company, corporation or association, unless the same is a corporation duly organized under the laws of Oklahoma, or who shall have designated an agent residing within this State upon whom service of legal process against it may be had, as provided by law for foreign corporations doing business in this State, and shall also have in this State a general office where it shall require that every such bond or undertaking shall be approved, if approved, and canceled if canceled, and where a complete record thereof shall be kept.

SEC. 3. Every bond or undertaking of any nature whatsoever given Term to be defiby an employee of any common carrier authorized to do business in nite. this State, shall be made to cover a definite term; and no such bond or undertaking shall be canceled without the consent of all parties thereto, except for a breach of one or more of the conditions thereof. Any such employee who shall have given any such bond or undertaking, shall, upon breach of any of the conditions thereof by the other party or parties thereto, have the power to cancel the same by giving the surety or sureties thereon and the common carrier for the benefit Cancellation. of whom the same shall have been made at least ten days' notice in writing, setting out in full the reasons for canceling the same, said notice to be signed by such employee and sworn to by him in this State before any officer authorized to administer oaths. Any such notice to a company, corporation or association may be served by leaving the same with any person upon whom service of legal process upon such company, corporation or association may be had. Any surety on any such bond or undertaking shall upon the breach of any of the conditions thereof by the common carrier employee for whom the same shall have been made, have power to cancel the same by giving such employee at least ten days' notice in writing, setting out in full the reasons for canceling the same, the said notice to be signed by an agent or manager of such surety, then a resident of this State and then authorized to approve or disapprove similar bonds or undertakings for such surety, and to be sworn to by the person signing the same in this State before an officer authorized to administer oaths: Provided, That nothing herein shall affect any right of action accruing to any person upon the breach of a contract.

SEC. 4. Any officer, agent, or representative of any company, cor- Violations. poration, association or firm, or any other person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), and by imprisonment

in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than one (1) year. Any bond, contract or undertaking made in violation of the provisions of this act shall be void.

Approved February 17, 1910.

CHAPTER 14.-Suits for wages—Sending claims outside the State. SECTION 1. Whosoever, whether principal, agent or attorney, sends or causes to be sent to persons, companies or corporations out of the State of Oklahoma, any claim for debt to be collected by proceedings in attachment, garnishment, or other mense process, or which is thereafter attempted to be collected, when the creditor, debtor and person or corporation owing for the earnings intended to be reached by such proceedings in attachment or garnishment, are each and all within the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Oklahoma, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be fined for each and every claim so sent in a sum of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), nor less than five hundred dollars ($500.00).

SEC. 2. Whosoever, directly or indirectly, assigns or transfers any claim or debt against a citizen of Oklahoma for the purpose of having the same collected by proceedings in attachment, garnishment or other process, or which is thereafter attempted to be so collected out of the wages or personal earnings of the debtor, in courts outside of the State of Oklahoma, when the creditor, the debtor, and the person or corporation owing the money intended to be reached by the proceedings in attachment or garnishment, are all within the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Oklahoma, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), nor less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment in the county jail of not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than one (1) year, or both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 3. Any person, firm or corporation who violates any of the provisions of the foregoing sections shall become liable to the debtor aggrieved by such action, or to his assigns, in a sum equal to the amount of the account claimed against such debtor, together with an amount equal to any actual expense, including attorney's fees, which such debtor may have been subjected to in obtaining judgment under the provisions of this section. The right of action granted under this section may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction by proceedings as in civil actions.

Approved February 18, 1910.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

ACTS OF 1909.

ACT No. 1956.-Wages as preferred claims-In insolvency.

SECTION 50. The following shall be preferred claims which shall be paid in the order named:

(a) Legal expenses, and expenses incurred in the administration of the insolvent's estate for the common interest of the creditors, when properly authorized and approved by the court;

(b) Necessary funeral expenses of the debtor, or of his wife, og children who are under their parental authority and have no property of their own, when approved by the court;

(c) Debts, taxes, and assessments due to the Insular Government; (d) Debts, taxes, and assessments due to any province or provinces of the Philippine Islands;

(e) Debts, taxes, and assessments due to any municipality or municipalities of the Philippine Islands;

(f) Debts for personal services rendered the insolvent by clerks, laborers, or domestic servants during the sixty days immediately preceding the commencement of proceedings in insolvency, not to exceed two hundred pesos for each claimant.

All other creditors shall be paid pro rata.
Enacted May 20, 1909.

PORTO RICO.

ACTS OF 1910.

No. 33.-Provisions in case of accident—Cane mills.

SECTION 1. Owners of sugar centrales located at a distance of over four kilometers from a township are hereby directed to keep during the grinding season, a dispensary and a physician or minor surgeon who shall remain in the centrale during working hours, in order to urgently lend assistance to persons in cases of accidents to them. Approved March 10, 1910.

RHODE ISLAND.

ACTS OF 1910.

CHAPTER 533.-Employment of children-General provisions.

Resident phy

sician.

SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 78 of the General Laws, 1909, entitled .“Of Factory Inspection," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed Age limit. or permitted or suffered to work in any factory, manufacturing or business establishment within this State, and no child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any factory or manufacturing or business establishment within this State between

the hours of eight o'clock in the afternoon of any day and six o'clock in Night work. the forenoon of the following day. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any factory or manufacturing or business establishment unless said child shall present to the person or corporation employing him or her an age and employment certificate, given by or under the direction of the school committee of the city or town in which said child resides. Such cer- Certificates. tificate shall state (a) the name of said child, (b) the date and place of birth of said child, (c) the height, color of eyes and hair, and complexion of said child, (d) the name and place of residence of the person having control of said child, and such certificate shall certify (1) that said child has completed fourteen years of age, (2) that said child is able to read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, and (3) that there is reason to believe that said child is healthy and physically able to perform the work which he or she intends to do. The statements contained in such certificate in regard to the name, date and place of birth of said child, shall be substantiated by a duly attested copy of the birth certificate, baptismal certificate, or passport of such child. All such certificates issued on or after the first day of January, A. D., 1911, shall be uniform throughout the State, and in the following form, or such substantially similar form as may be approved by the secretary of the state board of education:

AGE AND EMPLOYMENT CERTIFICATE.

This certifies that I am the (father, mother, guardian, or custodian) and have control of (name of child), whose signature appears below, and that (he or she) was born at (name of town or city), in the county and State (or country) of, on the (day) of (month), A. D. and is now (number of years and months) old.

of

(Signature of child.) (Signature of person having control of said child and his or her residence.)

(Town or city and date.)

I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of (name of child); whose height is (feet and inches); eyes are (color); hair is (color), and complexion is (fair or dark).

I certify that said (name of child) is able to read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, and that I have reason to believe that said (name of child) has completed fourteen years of age, is of the age therein certified, and is healthy and physically able to perform the work which (he or she) intends to do.