Street car employes; protection of from the inclemen weather. -between AN (House Bill No. 88.) CHAPTER 8. ACT making provisions for the protection of street car employes from the inclemencics of the weather. [Passed February 11, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. Approved February 18, 1901.] Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : 1. From and after the first of January in the year of our Lord 1902, it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, or corporation, owning or opercies of the ating a street railway in this State, or for any officer of agent thereof having charge or control of the management of such line of railway, or the cars thereof, operating electric, cable or other cars propelled either by steam, cable or electricity, which require the constant services, care or attention of any person or persons upon the platforms of any such car, to require or permit such services, attention or care, of any of its employes, or any other person or persons, between the first day of November and the first day of April thereafter of each year, unless such person partnership or corporation, its officers or superintending or managing agents, have first provided the platforms of said car or cars with a proper and sufof platform. ficient enclosure constructed of wood, iron and glass, or similar suitable material, sufficient to protect such employes from exposure to the winds and inclemen-proviso as cies of the weather: provided, that such enclosure shall to construc- be constructed so as not to obstruct the vision of the person operating such car, or to endanger or interfere with its safe management by the operator. what dates. -enclosure tion of enclosure. street cars Unlawful for 2. From and after January first in the year of our ot run with- Lord 1902, it shall be unlawful for any person, partout platform nership or corporation, so owning or operating street between railways using steam, electric or cable cars, or any enclosure; what dates. managing officer or agent thereof, to cause or permit to be used upon such line of railway, between said November first and April first of each and every year thereafter, any car or cars upon which the services of any employe, such as specified in section one of this act, is required, unless said car or cars shall be provided with the enclosure required by section one of this act. Violations; payment of of 3. Any person, partnership or corporation, own- how puning, operating, superintending or managing any such ished. line of street railway, or managing or superintending officer or agent thereof, who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of section one or two of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than cne hundred dollars; and in default of payment of the same, imprisonment in the county jail in which such default conviction is had until such fine shall be paid. Each fine: day that any said person or persons, partnership or corporation, cause or permit any of their said em- deemed a ployes to operate such car or cars in violation of the separate provisions of sections one and two of this act, or cause or permit a car or cars to be used or operated in violation of said section two of this act, shall be deemed a separate offence: provided, that the provis-proviso as ions of this act shall not apply to cars used and known cars. as trailing cars. then. -what fence. what certain attorney; violations. of 4. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting Prosecuting attorney of any county in which any such street rail- to prosecute way is situated and operated, upon information given him by any credible person, or upon knowledge that he may possess, that any person, partnership or corporation, has violated any of the provisions of this act, to promptly prosecute such person, members of such partnership or corporation, for such violation. (House Bill No. 255.) CHAPTER 9. AN ACT for districting the State of West Virginia. for representation in the Congress of the United States. [Passed February 11, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. Approved February 18, 1901.] Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : tricted for 1. The number of members to which this State is State disentitled in the House of Representatives of the Con- represengress of the United States, shall be apportioned cations Congress. -first dis-trict. -second district. -third district. -fourth district.. -fifth district. -each dis trict to elect one mem ber. among the several counties of this State, arranged into five districts, and numbered as follows, that is to say: First Congressional District. The counties of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Harrison and Lewis. Second Congressional District. The counties of Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Barbour, Tucker, Randolph, Pendleton, Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson. Third Congressional District. The counties of Kanawha. Fayette, Summers, Monroe, Greenbrier, Nicholas, Clay, Webster, Pocahontas and Upshur. Fourth Congressional District. The counties of Tyler, Pleasants, Wood, Jackson, Roane, Braxton, Gilmer, Calhoun, Wirt, Ritchie and Doddridge. Fifth Congressional District. The counties of Mason, Putnam, Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming, McDowell and Mer cer. And that each of said Congressional Districts shall elect one member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States. Senatorial -districts; re-arrangement of. (House bill No. 235.) CHAPTER 10. AN ACT to apportion the representatives in the Senate and House of Delegates of the State of West Virginia. [Passed February 6, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. Approved February 11, 1901.] Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : 1. That until the Senatorial Districts of the State of West Virginia shall be altered by the Legislature, in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution, -number of the State shall consist of fifteen (15) Senatorial Districts, as follows: -first. --second. The counties of Hancock, Brooke and Ohio shall constitute the First Senatorial District. The counties of Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler shall constitute the Second Senatorial District. The counties of Pleasants, Wood, Wirt and Ritchie-third. shall constitute the Third Senatorial District. The counties of Mason, Jackson and Roane shall consti- -fourth. tute the Fourth Senatorial District. The counties of Cabell, Lincoln and Putnam shall con--fifth. stitute the Fifth Senatorial District. The counties of Wayne, Mingo, McDowell and Wy--sixth. oming shall constitute the Sixth Senatorial District. The counties of Raleigh, Mercer, Summers and-seventh. Monroe shall constitute the Seventh Senatorial Dis trict. The counties of Kanawha, Boone and Logan shall con--eighth. stitute the Eighth Senatorial District. The counties of Fayette, Greenbrier, Nicholas and Clay shall constitute the Ninth Senatorial District. -ninth. The counties of Calhoun, Gilmer, Braxton, Web--tenth. ster and Pocahontas shall constitute the Tenth Senatorial District. The counties of Monongalia, Marion and Taylor shall-eleventh. constitute the Eleventh Senatorial District. The counties of Doddridge, Harrison and Lewis shall―twelfth. constitute the Twelfth Senatorial District. teenth. The counties of Barbour, Upshur, Randolph and thirPendleton shall constitute the Thirteenth Senatorial District. -four The counties of Preston, Tucker, Grant, Hardy and teenth. Mineral shall constitute the Fourteenth Senatorial District. The counties of Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan and-fifteenth. Hampshire shall constitute the Fifteenth Senatorial Dis trict. trict has two ator elect 1902. And each of said districts shall have two (2) Sen-each disators. The Senators elected at the last general elec- senators. tion for the full term of four years, shall continue to -present hold their seats for the term for which they were ators. elected. And each of said Senatorial Districts shall -one senat the next general election to be held on the Tues- ed in each day next after the first Monday in November, nine- district in teen hundred and two, elect one Senator, and bi-ennially thereafter one Senator shall be elected from each of said districts, except as follows: At the said general election to be held in the year nineteen hun--exception dred and two, there shall be elected two the Third District, one of whom shall hold his seat for the term of two years and the other for the term-terms: of four years, to be determined by lot, and bi-ennially mined. thereafter one Senator shall be elected in said Senators in as to 3rd district. how deter -exception as to 7th district. -terms; mined. tion as to district; and at said general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and two there shall be elected two Senators in the Seventh District, one of whom shall hold his seat for the term of two years and the other for the term of four years, to be determined by lot, and bi-ennially thereafter one Senator shall how deter- be elected in said District; and at the said general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and two, there shall shall be elected elected two Senators in the -excep- Eighth District, one of whom shall hold his seat for 8th district. the term of two years and the other for the term of -terms: four years, to be determined by lot, and bi-ennially how deter- thereafter one Senator shall be elected in said district; and there shall be no election for Senator in tion as to the Ninth District until the general election to be 9th district. held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and four, at which timethere shall be elected two Senators in the Ninth District, one of whom shall hold his seat for a term of two years and the other for the term of four years, to be determined by lot, and bi-ennially thereafter one Senator shall be elected in said district. mined. -excep -terms; how determined. House of 2. That until a new apportionment of Delegates shall of how be declared in pursuance of the Constitution, the House many mem-of Delegates shall consist of eighty-six (86) members, posed. which shall be apportioned as follows: bers com -representation by counties in houn, the house apportioned. To the counties of Barbour, Boone, Brooke, CalClay, Doddridge, Grant, Gilmer, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Jefferson, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Mineral, Mingo, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur, Webster, Wirt and Wyoming, one Delegate each. To the counties of Berkeley, Braxton, Greenbrier, Harrison, Jackson, McDowell, Marshall, Mason, Mercer, Monongalia, Preston, Ritchie, Roane, Tyler, Wayne and Wetzel, two Delegates each. To the counties of Cabell, Fayette, Marion and Wood, three Delegates each. To the county of Ohio, four Delegates. To the county of Kanawha, five Delegates. |