Investigations in case of doubt.

Certificate to be returned.

This certificate belongs to (name of child), and is to be surrendered to (him or her) whenever (he or she) leaves the service of the person or corporation holding the same; but if not claimed by said child within two weeks from such time it shall be returned to the school committee which issued it, or to such person as such committee shall designate.

(Signature of person authorized to approve and sign, with official character or authority.)

(Town or city and date.)

In case it appears to the satisfaction of the school committee, or person authorized to give such certificate, that neither the birth certificate, baptismal certificate, nor passport of such child can be produced, the age and employment certificate may be granted on other evidence satisfactory to the secretary of the state board of education.

All certificates required by this chapter relating to the qualification of children employed in any factory or manufacturing or business establishment coming under the provisions of this chapter shall be kept by the employer at the place where such child is employed, and shall be shown to the factory inspectors provided for by this chapter, or either or any of them, on demand by said inspector or inspectors; and the proprietor or manager of any such factory or manufacturing or business establishment who shall fail to produce or shall refuse to show to any factory inspector any such certificate when demand is made therefor shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.

Whenever any factory inspector shall have reason to doubt the accuracy of any statement made in any such certificate concerning the age or other qualifications of any child employed thereunder, such inspector shall demand such certificate of the employer of such child, and upon receiving the same shall give such employer a receipt therefor. If after investigation such inspector shall find that such certificate should not have been issued to said child under the provisions of this law, then he shall deliver such certificate to the person who issued it, and shall order it to be canceled, and shall forthwith notify the said employer that such child must not be longer employed. Every emBusiness establishment who shall continue to employ such child after or proprietor or manager of any factory or manufacturing or receiving such notice from any factory inspector shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalty imposed by section 12 of this chapter.

Whenever any factory inspector shall have reason to doubt that any child employed in any factory, or manufacturing or business establishment, and not provided with an age and employment certificate, has reached the age of sixteen years, such factory inspector shall make demand on such child's employer that such employer shall either furnish him within ten days a certificate of age issued by the same authority and based on the same evidence required for the issuance of age and employment certificates, or shall cease to employ such child or permit or suffer such child to work in such factory or manufacturing, or business establishment. In case such employer shall fail to deliver such certificate to the factory inspector, within ten days after such demand, and shall thereafter continue to employ such child, or permit or suffer such child to work in such factory or manufacturing or business establishment, such employer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalty imposed by section 12 of this chapter, and proof of the making of such demand and of failure to deliver such certificate shall be prima facie evidence, in any presecution brought for a violation of this provision, that such child is under 16 years of age and is unlawfully employed.

When any child employed under the provisions of this section leaves his or her employment, the person or corporation by whom such child has been employed shall, on demand by said child, deliver to him or her the certificate on the authority of which such child has been employed, unless such certificate has been canceled as herein before provided, or if such certificate is not demanded by such child, shall, within two weeks after said child has left the employment of said person or corporation, send said certificate to the school committee

which issued it, or to such person as the school committee may designate. The school committee of each town, or such person as the school committee may designate to issue the certificate provided for in this section, shall keep on file a copy of each certificate granted, together with the evidence on which such certificate was granted.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, Act takes efA. D. 1910, except as to the requirement respecting the ability of the fect, when. child to read at sight and to write legibly simple sentences in the English

language, which requirement shall take effect on the first day of Janu

ary, A. D. 1911, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved April 1, 1910.

CHAPTER 549.-Inspection of factories and workshops-Elevators.

SECTION 1. Section 16 of chapter 129 of the General Laws [chapter 108, G. L. 1896], entitled "Of protection to life from fire in certain buildings," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

[The amendment consists in the addition of the following provision, following the first sentence of the section:]

Egress from ele

On and after July 1, 1911, any passenger elevator which is not constructed so as to allow egress of persons from such elevator in any posi- vators. tion in which it might be stopped, by accident or otherwise, shall be constructed or arranged so that the roof or the top of such elevator, or a sufficient portion thereof to allow egress of persons therefrom, may be conveniently opened from the inside; and no such elevator shall be thereafter used or operated which shall not be so constructed or arranged.

Approved April 20, 1910.

CHAPTER 576.—Inspection of factories and workshops-Assistant inspectors-Bakeries and confectioneries.

[This chapter amends section 3 of chapter 78 of the General Laws (chap. 68, G. L. 1896) by providing for four inspectors instead of two; and section 4 by increasing the limit of expenses incurred by the inspectors in the performance of their duties from two thousand dollars to two thousand three hundred dollars. Provisions were added in new sections relating to the subject of bakeries, etc., as follows:]

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Section 18. Said chief [factory] inspector, or any assistant factory Duties inspector required by him, shall have charge of the inspection of bak- spectors as to bakeries, confectioneries, and ice cream manufactories, and any premises eries, etc. upon which bread or other products of flour or meal are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, in this State. Said inspector shall have charge of the inspection of cooked and prepared foods and food stuffs displayed or offered for sale in any store, market, restaurant, lunch-cart or lunch-counter, or other place of public display, which are taurants, etc. liable to become detrimental to public health through exposure to and contact with flies, animals, insects, dust, and germs, and he shall have the authority to require that all foods of this description shall be kept in tight wooden or glass cases or cupboards, or under glass, earthen, or tin covers, or in cases or cans, or wrapped in paraffine paper, or protected in such a manner that no dust or animals can come in contact with said foods while thus offered for sale. He is also authorized to require that said foods, when carried through any street, private way, or public place, shall be protected in a similar manner. All candies, confectionery, dried or preserved fruits, dates, figs, cut fruits, cut melons, cracked nuts, or nut meats shall be protected as provided above, when offered for sale, and any such inspector so acting, whether one or more of such inspectors, or whether acting at the same or different times, shall for such purposes be designated as a state inspector of bakeries and foods. Such inspector shall not be pecuniarily interested, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture or sale of any article or commodity used in any business included in the provisions of this act, and shall not give certificates or written opinions to a maker or vender of any such article or commodity.

Bakeries to be inspected.

Sanitary requirements.

Same subject.

Wash rooms, water-closets, etc.

Sec. 19. No person, copartnership, or corporation shall carry on the business of a public bakery, confectionery, or ice cream manufactory, or place where bread or other products of flour or meal are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, until such premises are inspected by said state inspector. If such premises be found to conform to the provisions of this act, said inspector shall issue a certificate to the owner or operator of such bakery, confectionery, or ice cream manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food.

Sec. 20. All buildings or rooms used or occupied as biscuit, bread, macaroni, spaghetti, pie or cake bakeries, ice cream or confectionery manufactories, or where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, shall be drained and plumbed in a manner conducive to the proper and healthful sanitary condition thereof, and shall be constructed with air shafts, windows, or ventilating pipes sufficient to insure adequate and proper ventilation. No cellar, basement, or place which is below the street level shall hereafter be used or occupied for the purposes mentioned in this section: Provided, That the same may be so used or occupied by the present occupant only. Sec. 21. Every room used for the purposes included in this act shall have, if deemed necessary by such inspector, an impermeable floor constructed of cement, or of tiles laid in cement, or of wood or other suitable nonabsorbent material which can be flushed and washed clean with water. Such inspector shall require said premises to be kept at all times in a sanitary condition; he may also require the woodwork of such walls to be well oiled, varnished, or painted. The furniture and utensils shall be so arranged as to be readily cleansed and not prevent the proper cleaning of any part of the room.

The manufactured flour or meal food products shall be kept in dry and airy rooms, so arranged that the floors, shelves, and all other facilities for storing the same can be properly cleaned.

No domestic animals except cats shall be allowed to remain in a room used as a biscuit, bread, pie, or cake bakery, or any room in such bakery where flour or meal products are stored or kept.

Sec. 22. Every such bakery, confectionery, or ice cream manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, shall be provided with a proper wash room and water-closet, or water-closets, apart from the bake-rooms or rooms where the manufacture of such food products is conducted, and they shall be maintained in a sanitary condition; no water-closet, earth closet, privy, or receptacle for garbage shall be within or connect directly with the bake-room of any bakery or room where ice cream or confectionery is manufactured. Operatives, employees, clerks, and all persons who handle the material from which food is prepared, or the finished product, before beginning work, or after visiting toilet or toilets, shall wash their hands and arms thoroughly in clean water. Sleeping in No person shall sleep in a room occupied as a bake-room. Sleeping places for the persons employed in the bakery shall be separate from the rooms where flour or meal food products are manufactured or stored. If the sleeping places are on the same floor where such products are manufactured, stored, or sold, such inspector may inspect and order them put in a proper sanitary condition."

work rooms.

Stables.

Use of tobacco.

Sec. 23. No bakery, confectionery, or ice cream manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, shall be conducted in a room adjoining a stable, unless separated from such stable by a wall or partition without any door or other opening between such stable and such bakery.confectionery, or manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food; and no material used therein shall be kept in a stable.

Sec. 25. Smoking, snuffing, or chewing of tobacco, or spitting on floor in working rooms in such bakery, confectionery, or manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, is strictly forbidden.

Sec. 26. No employer in any bakery, confectionery, or ice cream manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, shall require, permit, or suffer any persons to work, nor shall any person work, in a building, room, basement, cellar, or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution, and transportation of food, who is affected with any venereal disease, small pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, tuberculosis or consumption, bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, leprosy, trachoma, typhoid fever, epidemic dysentery, measles, mumps, German measles, whooping-cough, chicken pox, or any other infectious or contagious disease. Sec. 28. Bakeries, confectioneries, and ice cream manufactories, or places where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, shall be kept at all times in a clean and sanitary condition, and shall be inspected by said inspector at least twice each year. If on inspection said inspector finds any bakery, confectionery, or ice cream manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, to be so unclean, ill-drained, or ill-ventilated as to be unsanitary, he may, after such reasonable time, to be fixed by said inspector, not less than five days, by notice in writing, to be served by affixing the notice on the inside of the main entrance door of said bakery, confectionery, or ice cream manufactory, or place where flour or meal food products are baked or mixed or prepared for baking or for sale as food, order the person found in charge thereof immediately to cease operating it until it be properly cleaned, drained, or ventilated. Sec. 29. Any person who is aggrieved by any order or requirement of said state inspector may appeal therefrom in the same manner in all respects, and with the same rights and liabilities, as provided in section 10 of this chapter.

Sec. 30. Any person who violates any of the provisions of said Violations. sections nineteen to twenty-eight, both inclusive, of this chapter, or who refuses to comply with any lawful requirement of the authority vested with the enforcement of such sections, as provided therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty or more than fifty dollars for a first offense, and for a second offense by a fine of not less than fifty or more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, and for a third offense by a fine of not less than one hundred or more than two hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 31. Such inspector shall be empowered to visit and inspect all Enforcement. parts of stores, bakeries, confectioneries, and storerooms and places where ice cream, flour and meal food products are manufactured, and all stores, markets, restaurants, lunch carts or lunch counters, and other places where food is kept for sale, at any and all reasonable times, and as often as practicable. Such inspector shall promptly enforce the provisions of this act, and shall prosecute all violations of the same before any court of competent jurisdiction in the State. The attorneygeneral shall act as his legal adviser in all matters pertaining to his official duties. He shall cause copies of this act to be printed and kept posted in all bakeries, confectioneries, and manufactories of ice cream, flour and meal food products, and all places where such business is carried on. Any mutilation of such printed matter shall be punished as provided in the preceding section. Such inspector shall not be required to give surety, nor furnish recognizance for costs, in any prosecution or proceeding under this act.

Approved April 29, 1910.

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SOUTH CAROLINA.

ACTS OF 1910.

Registration,

ACT No. 287.-Protection of employees on street railways-Inclosed platforms.

[This chapter amends Acts of 1909, No. 65, by restricting the time limit for compliance with the requirement to inclose the platforms of street cars to sixty days instead of six months as before, and gives to any citizen prosecuting violators of the law one-fourth the penalty recovered. A new section requires "good and sufficient fenders to be attached to the cars and coaches."]

ACT No. 413.-Protection of employees on interurban electric railways—
Inclosed platforms.

SECTION 1. In the construction of this bill the phrases "Street Railroad" or "Street Railway" shall be construed to include all railroads and railways operated by electricity, whose main business consists in the transportation of passengers between different points within the limits of a municipality; and the phrases, "Interurban Railroad" or "Interurban Railway" shall be construed to include all railroads and railways operated by electricity whose main business consists in the transportation of passengers from one municipality to another.

SEC. 2. All interurban railways operating in this State shall affix to their cars or coaches, enclosed vestibules of wood, iron or glass for the protection of motormen and passengers during the months of November, December, January, February, and March: Provided, That the failure of any such company to comply with the provisions of this bill from and after the 1st day of November, A. D., 1910, shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars per day, for each car, to be recovered by any citizen of any county in which such company does business, onefourth thereof to go to the person bringing the suit, to enforce the law, and the remaining three-fourths for the benefit of the county. Approved the 26th day of February, A. D. 1910.

ACT No. 424-Trade marks of trade unions.

[This chapter contains provisions protecting labels and trademarks protection, etc., of labor organizations in terms corresponding to those usually found in other States. See pp. 83-85 of the Twenty-second Annual.]

of labels.

Laundries and washhouses to be inspected.

VIRGINIA.

ACTS OF 1910.

CHAPTER 6.-Inspection and regulation of laundries.

SECTION 1. The boards of health of the respective cities of the State of Virginia (where such cities have such boards of health) shall supervise all laundries or public washhouses within any city of the State of Virginia and shall not permit the employment, by any public laundry or public washhouse, of any person suffering with an infectious or contagious disease; nor allow any person to sleep in such public laundry or public washhouse or in any room adjoining and opening into such public laundry or public washhouse, and every room in such laundry or washhouse that is used for the purpose of washing or drying clothes, shall be properly ventilated and drained and shall be used for no purposes other than that specified. The floors of all rooms used for the purpose of washing clothes shall, if required by the regulations of the focal board of health, be made of cement or other mineral substance, and shall be arranged so as to be easily drained. A public laundry or public washhouse within the meaning of this section shall be any place within any city of the State of Virginia, licensed to conduct a laundry in any of its branches. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor