more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six Penalty. months, or both.

SEC. 2631. The building inspector of each city, the warden of each Enforcement. borough, or the first selectman of each town not having a building inspector, either by himself or by some proper person appointed by him, shall inspect all the above-named buildings at least once each year between April first and October first, and shall see that the provisions of sections * 2629, and 2630 are complied with; and for such purpose he shall have the right to enter any of said buildings in the daytime, between the hours of nine and five o'clock. Said city, borough, or town shall fix and pay the compensation for all such services.

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CHAPTER 158.-Employment of minors in barrooms, etc.

SECTION 2682. No person having a license under the provisions of this title shall employ any minor as bartender, porter, or in any other capacity, in any saloon where spirituous and intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, and upon such employment the county commissioners shall revoke the license of such person. Every person so licensed employing any minor as aforesaid shall be subject to the penalties of section 2712.

CHAPTER 197.-Profit sharing by corporations.

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SECTION 3342. Any corporation organized after May thirty-first, 1886, under any general or special law, may, by its board of directors, dis- authorized. tribute to the persons employed in its service, or to any of them, such portion of the profits of its business as said board may deem just and proper. Any corporation organized on or prior to May thirtyfirst, 1886, may give to its board of directors the power to make such distribution, by a majority vote of all the stockholders at a meeting warned for the purpose.

CHAPTER 213.-Security for wages of employees on railroads.

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SECTION 3696. Every [railroad] company, in making contracts for Company the building of its road, shall require sufficient security from the require security. contractors for the payment for all labor thereafter to be performed in constructing the road by persons in their employ; and the company shall be liable to the laborers employed for labor actually performed on the road, if, within twenty days after the completion of such labor, they shall, in writing, notify its treasurer that they have not been paid by the contractors.

CHAPTER 213.—Safety appliances on railroads—Telltales.

SECTION 3731. Every railroad company shall, if required by the Telltales recommissioners, erect and thereafter maintain suitable bridge guards at quired, when. every bridge over its railroad when the overhead structure is less than eighteen feet in height above the track. Such bridge guards shall be approved by the commissioners, and be erected and adjusted to their satisfaction. Every company refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit fifty dollars to the State for each month of continuance in such refusal or neglect.

CHAPTER 215.-Sunday labor—Railroads.

SECTION 3749. No railroad company shall run any train on any road Sunday trains. operated by it within this State, between sunrise and sunset on Sunday, except from necessity or mercy: Provided, That it may run traing

carrying the United States mail, and such other trains or classes of Mail, etc. trains as may be authorized by the railroad commissioners on application made to them on the ground that the same are required by the public necessity or for the preservation of freight.

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its stations within this State, between sunrise and sunset on Sunday, except from necessity or mercy: Provided, That the commissioners may suspend the operation of this section, so as to permit the handling, the loading, or the unloading of freight by transfer of said freight between steamboats and cars, until eight o'clock in the forenoon, at any depot or station where, upon application made to them, they shall find that the same is required by the public necessity or for the preservation of freight.

SEC. 3751. Every such company which shall violate any provision of sections 3749 or 3750 shall forfeit to the State the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for each violation.

CHAPTER 215.-Safety appliances on railroads.

SECTION 3762. Every company, operating a railroad located wholly or partly in this State, shall cause every freight car built or purchased for use on such railroad to be provided with couplers so arranged as to render unnecessary the presence of any person between the ends of the cars for the purpose of coupling the same.

SEC. 3763. No couplers shall be placed on any such freight car, nor shall any couplers be substituted for any in use, until the same shall have been approved by the commissioners, and such couplers shall be hung at such height above the railroad track as shall be designated by the commissioners.

SEC. 3764. Every railroad company which shall permit a violation of any provision of sections 3762 or 3763 shall forfeit fifty dollars to the State for every such violation.

CHAPTER 215.-Railroads-Brakes and brakemen.

SECTION 3799. Upon every train run, or intended to be run, upon any railroad in this State, at a greater average speed than thirty miles an hour between stations, and including more than two passenger cars, one brakemen shall be kept at the brake of each car; but when the double-action brake is used on any such train, but one brakeman need be kept upon and for every two cars connected with such train. The commissioners may grant permission to any company to reduce the number of brakemen required upon passenger trains, when such company has adopted a system of brakes to be operated by the engineer, which in the opinion of the commissioners will render such number of brakemen unnecessary. The commissioners may revoke such permission when they consider that public safety requires; and on such revocation the company shall place upon its trains the number of brakemen required by law.

CHAPTER 215.-Accidents on railroads.

SECTION 3800. Every railroad company shall, within twenty-four hours after the occurrence of any accident attended with personal injury, give notice of the same to the commissioners in writing, who, upon receiving such notice or upon public rumor of such accident, may repair, or dispatch one of their number, to the scene of said accident, and inquire into the facts and circumstances thereof. The commissioners shall, without charge, furnish any person injured, or the friends of any person killed, any information they may have acquired in relation to such accident, and the names of the persons from whom the same was obtained or by whom the same may be proved.

CHAPTER 217.-Protection of employees on street railways—Inclosed platforms.

SECTION 3869. When the railroad commissioners deem it necessary, in the interests of the public, or of the employees concerned, that the platforms of any or all of the cars operated by any street railway company should be protected by gates or vestibules, or that fenders should be placed upon such cars, said commissioners may order the company operating such cars to inclose the platforms thereon with gates or vestibules, or both, or to place fenders upon such cars, of such kind and

in such manner as they may deem necessary and proper, first giving such company reasonable notice to appear and be heard, and may, after similar notice, modify or revoke any such order. The commissioners shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the inclosing of such platforms and the placing of fenders on such cars; but nothing in this section shall prevent any such company from inclosing its platforms or placing fenders on its cars without such order.

SEC. 3870. Any company operating such car or cars which shall Negligence of neglect or refuse to comply with any order relating to platforms made companies. pursuant to section 3869 shall forfeit to the State twenty-five dollars for each day of such neglect or refusal.

CHAPTER 217.—Sunday labor-Street railways.

SECTION 3875. No law affecting travel, business, or labor on Sunday, or the operation on Sunday of any railroad or railway, shall apply to any railroad company or street railway company so as to prohibit or limit the operation on Sunday of electric cars.

CHAPTER 223.-Cooperative associations.

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SECTION 3992. Seven or more persons, of lawful age, inhabitants of Who may form. this State, may, by written articles of agreement, associate themselves together for the purposes of trade, or for carrying on any lawful mercantile, mechanical, manufacturing, or agricultural business within this State, and when such articles of association shall have been executed, and recorded in the office of the town clerk, in the town in which the business is to be carried on, such persons shall become a corporation, and enjoy all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities set forth in all general laws, in relation to similar corporations, except so far as the same may be limited or enlarged by this chapter.

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SEC. 3993. The objects for which such association is established, and Objects. the place within which its business is to be carried on, shall be distinctly set forth in its articles of agreement, and it shall not do business in any other place or places than those mentioned in its articles. SEC. 3994. The business of the association shall be managed and conducted by a president, a treasurer, and a board of not less than five directors, who shall be styled a board of managers, shall be chosen annually by the stockholders, and shall hold their offices until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. Such association shall have such other officers as it shall prescribe by its by-laws, and the mode of appointment and choice of such officers shall also be prescribed by the by-laws.

SEC. 3995. Any two of the persons associated may call the first Organization. meeting of such association, at such time and place as they may appoint, by notice in any newspaper published in the county in which such association is to be established, at least fifteen days before the time appointed; but such notice may be waived by a writing signed by all of the persons so associated, specifying the time and place for said meeting, and recorded at length upon the records of the association. Such association may make its own by-laws, provided they be not repugnant to the laws of this State, and shall file in the town clerk's office of the town where it transacts its business a copy of all by-laws made by it.

SEC. 3996. The amount of capital stock of such association shall be Stock. fixed by its articles of association at any sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. The association may increase or diminish the amount and number of shares of said stock at any meeting of the stockholders specially called for that purpose, and within five days after the passage of any vote increasing or diminishing the said stock, shall cause such vote to be recorded in the town clerk's office of the town where its business is carried on, but no share shall be issued for less than its par value.

SEC. 3997. When the association shall have organized, it shall be the Statement duty of the board of managers to prepare a statement of the condition be filed. of the association, setting forth the amount of the capital stock, the par value of the shares, the number of shares issued, the names and

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residences of the shareholders, and the number of shares owned by each, which statement shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state and in the office of the town clerk of the town in which the association proposes to do business; and on or before the tenth day of March in each year thereafter, the board of managers shall prepare a like statement of the same facts as they existed on the first day of said March, with a statement of the kind and amount of the property of the association on that day, and of all its debts and liabilities of every kind, and the same shall be filed and recorded in the office of the town clerk of each town in which the association does business, and also in the office of the secretary of state. All the statements provided for in this section shall be signed and sworn to by a majority of the board of managers.

SEC. 3998. No member of any such association shall be entitled to hold or claim any interest therein exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars, nor shall any member be entitled to more than one vote upon any subject.

ŠEC. 3999. No certificate of shares shall be issued to any person until the full amount thereof shall have been paid in cash, and no shareholder shall receive less than the par value of any share when disposing of the same to the board of managers. No person shall be allowed to become a shareholder in such association except by the consent of the managers of the same.

SEC. 4000. If the board of managers shall fail to make any return required by this chapter, or shall make an untrue return, they shall be jointly and severally liable for all debts existing at the date of such return, or at the time when the same should have been made.

SEC. 4001. There shall be such distribution of the profits or earnings of such association among the shareholders as shall be prescribed by the by-laws: Provided, That no distribution shall be declared or paid, until a sum equal to ten per cent of the net profits shall be appropriated for a contingent or sinking fund, and until there shall have been thereby accumulated a sum equal to twenty per cent of such capital stock.

CHAPTER 250.-Inspection of factories, etc.

SECTION 4515. The inspector shall, as often as practicable, examine all buildings and places where machinery is used, and may enter such buildings and places at all proper times for the purposes of inspection. He shall, on or before the first of December in each year, make a report to the governor of the condition, as respects safety to life and health, of the factories, buildings, and places visited by him.

SEC. 4516. All factories and buildings where machinery is used shall be well lighted, ventilated, and kept as clean as the nature of the busSafety appli-iness will permit. The belting, shafting, gearing, machinery, and drums, of all factories and buildings where machinery is used, when so placed as, in the opinion of the inspector, to be dangerous to the persons employed therein while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall, as far as practicable, be securely guarded. No machinery other than steam engines in a factory shall be cleaned while running after notice forbidding the same is given by the inspector to the owners or operators of the factory.

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SEC. 4518. Every person, firm, or corporation using stained, painted, or corrugated glass in factory windows, where the same is injurious to the eyes of the workmen therein, shall remove the same upon the order of the factory inspector.

SEC. 4519. Every person or corporation managing or operating any factory, or owning or controlling the use of any other building where more than five persons are employed, shall provide and keep in good sanitary condition suitable water-closet accommodations for the use of the persons employed.

SEC. 4520. The inspector shall enforce the provisions of this chapter by giving proper orders or notices to the persons or corporations owning, operating, or managing the factories or buildings inspected by him, and shall make complaint to the State's attorneys of all violations of this chapter.

SEC. 4521. Whenever the inspector, on complaint of any person, shall find it necessary, for the preservation of the health of the employees in any manufacturing establishment, factory, or mill in which is carried on the business of buffing, polishing, or grinding metals, or any operations in which an excessive amount of dust is generated, that such dust should be removed from the atmosphere of the rooms or apartments used for that purpose, he shall, in writing, direct the person, or corporation owning, occupying, or carrying on business in such premises, within three months from the date of said order, to introduce and operate such appliances or devices as may be necessary to remove, so far as the nature of the business will permit, such excessive dust or foreign matter: Provided, That such appliances or devices do not restrict or interfere with the aforesaid business or operations.

SEC. 4522 (as amended by chapter 53, Acts of 1903). Every owner, lessee, or occupant of a factory, or building included within the provisions of this chapter, or owning or controlling the use of any room in such building, shall for the violation of any provision of sections 4516, 4517, 4518, 4519, or 4521, or for obstructing or hindering the inspector of factories or his deputies in carrying out the duties imposed on them by law, be fined not more than fifty dollars; but no prosecution shall be brought for any such violation until four weeks after notice has been given by the inspector to such owner, lessee, or occupant of any changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of said sections, and not then, if, in the meantime, such changes have been made in accordance with such notification. Nothing herein shall limit the right of a person injured to bring an action to recover damages.

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SEC. 4523. The orders and notices given by the inspector under this Notices. chapter shall be written or printed, signed by him officially, and may be served by himself or any proper officer or indifferent person, by leaving an attested copy thereof with or at the usual place of abode of the person upon whom service is to be made; and the notice, properly indorsed with the doings of the person or officer serving the same, shall be returned to the office of the town clerk of the town in which is located the factory, building, or business to which such notice appertains, where it shall be kept on file. Such notice, or copies thereof duly certified by the town clerk, shall be prima facie evidence that notice was given as therein appears. Notice to one member of a firm shall be notice to every member thereof, and notice to the president, secretary, or treasurer of a corporation shall be notice to such corporation. The fees for serving such orders and notices, unless served by the inspector, shall be the same as for the service of process in civil actions, and shall be included in the necessary expenses of the inspector. SEC. 4524. Any person, firm, or corporation aggrieved by any order Appeals. of the factory inspector may appeal to the superior court in the county where the person, firm or corporation owns, leases, or occupies the factory or building to which said order relates, within four weeks after notice of such order shall be given. Said appeal shall operate as a supersedeas, shall be made in writing, and shall contain a brief statement of the facts and reasons of appeal and a citation to the inspector to appear before said court, and said court or a judge thereof may direct the time of appearance and the manner of service. Said court may review the doings of the factory inspector, confirm, change, or set them aside, and make such orders in the premises, including orders as to costs, as it may find to be proper and equitable.

SEC. 4527. The inspector shall, as often as practicable, examine all Sweat shops. buildings, apartments, rooms, and places in any tenement or dwelling house used for residential purposes and used in whole or in part by others than the immediate members of the family therein, for the manufacture of artificial flowers, purses, cigars, cigarettes, or any articles of wearing apparel intended for sale.

SEC. 4528. The persons engaged in the manufacture of such goods in Notice of use. such premises, within thirty days after beginning such manufacture. shall notify said inspector of the location of said workrooms, the nature of the work there carried on, and the number of persons therein employed.