than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense; and any mine owner or operator or employee of such owner or operator who shall knowingly use, or any mine operator who shall knowingly permit to be used, for illuminating purposes in any mine in this State any impure or adulterated oil, oil that has not been inspected and approved by an inspector, or any oil the use of which is forbidden by this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 2495a. It shall be the duty of an inspector of petroleum prod- Inspection of ucts to inspect and test all oil offered for sale, sold, or used for illumi- oil. nating purposes in coal mines in this State, and for such purpose he may enter upon the premises of any person. If upon test and examination the oil shall meet the requirements made and provided by the State board of health, he shall brand, over his own official signature and date, the barrel or vessel holding the same with the words "Approved for illuminating coal mines.' Should it fail to meet such requirements, he shall brand it over his official signature and date, "Rejected for illuminating coal mines." All inspection shall be made within this State, and paid for by the person for whom the inspection is made at the rate of ten cents per barrel or vessel, which charge shall be a lien on the oil inspected, and be collected by the inspector. Each inspector shall be governed in all things respecting his record, compensation, expenses, and returns to the treasurer of state and secretary of state as provided in sections twenty-five hundred and six and twenty-five hundred and seven of the code. It shall be the duty of the inspector whenever he has good reason to believe that oil is being sold or used in violation of the provisions of this chapter to make complaint to the county attorney of the county in which the offense was committed, who shall forthwith commence proceedings against the offender in any court of competent jurisdiction. All reasonable expenses for analyzing suspected oil shall be paid by the owner of the oil whenever it is found that he is selling or offering to sell impure oil in violation of the provisions of this chapter. Such expenses may be recovered in a civil action, and in criminal proceedings such expenses shall be taxed as part of the costs.

SEC. 2495b. In all mines, where the coal is blasted from the solid, Shot examiners. competent persons shall be employed to examine all shots before they are charged. Said examiners to have the power to prohibit the charging and firing of any shot which, in their judgment, is unsafe. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, said examiners shall give proof of their competency to the State mine inspector of the district in which the mine, where they are employed, is located, and said inspector shall certify to the operator of each mine the persons who have given proof of their competency to act in the capacity of shot examiners. The State mine inspector to have the power to refuse to give permission to any person to act as shot examiner who, in his judgment, is not sufficiently competent; or he may revoke the permission granted, should it appear that a shot examiner is negligent, or careless in the performance of his work.

SEC. 2496. The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to coal Application of mines.

Earnings of married women.

SECTION 3162. A wife may receive the wages for her personal labor, and maintain an action therefor in her own name, and hold the same in her own right, and may prosecute and defend all actions for the preservation and protection of her rights and property, as if unmarried.

law.

Earnings separate property.

Earnings of minors.

minors.

SECTION 3191. Where a contract for the personal services of a minor Payment to has been made with him alone, and the services are afterwards performed, payment therefor made to him, in accordance with the terms of the contract, is a full satisfaction therefor, and the parent or guardian cannot recover a second time.

Limitation of

two years.

Right of action for personal injuries-Limitations.

SECTION 3447. Actions may be brought within the times herein limited, respectively, after their causes accrue, and not afterwards, except when otherwise specially declared:

Stay allowed.
Exception.

Ninety days'

when.

Execution on judgment for wages not to be stayed.

SECTION 3996. On all judgments for the recovery of money, except those rendered on any appeal or writ of error, or in favor of a laborer or mechanic for his wages, * * * there may be a stay of

execution,

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Exemption of wages from execution, etc.

SECTION 4011. The earnings of a debtor who is a resident of the State earningsexempt, and the head of a family for his personal services, or those of his family, at any time within ninety days next preceding the levy, are exempt from liability for debt.

Ninety days' earnings are exempt whether accruing before or after the garnishment. 22 Iowa 137.

The statute is not limited to cases of attachment or execution, but covers all methods of subjecting personal earnings to the claims of creditors. 89 Iowa 322.

Exemption of wages—Unlawful assignment of claims.

SECTION 4018. Whoever, whether as principal, agent or attorney, with intent to deprive a resident in good faith of the State of the benefit of the exemption laws thereof, sends a claim against such resident and belonging to a resident, to another State for action, or causes action to be brought on such claim in another State, or assigns or transfers such claim to a nonresident of the State, with intent that action thereon be brought in the courts of another State, the action in either case being one which might have been brought in this State, and the property or debt sought to be reached by such action being such as might, but for the exemption laws of this State, have been reached by action in the courts of this State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.

Wages preferred-In receiverships.

SECTION 4019. When the property of any company, corporation, firm or person shall be seized upon by any process of any court, or placed in the hands of a receiver, trustee or assignee for the purpose of paying or securing the payment of the debts of such company, corporation, firm or person, the debts owing to employees for labor performed within the ninety days next preceding the seizure or transfer of such property, to an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars to each person, shall be a preferred debt and paid in full, or if there is not sufficient realized from such property to pay the same in full, then, after the payment of costs, ratably out of the fund remaining, but such preference shall be junior and inferior to mechanics' liens for labor in opening and developing coal mines.

This statute gives laborers a lien which takes precedence of a mechanics' lien, even though it antedates the laborers' lien. 110 Iowa 234.

It has preference also over mortgage liens. 97 Fed. Rep. 762.

SEC. 4020. Any employee desiring to enforce his claim for wages, at any time after seizure of the property under execution or writ of attachment and before sale thereof is ordered, shall present to the officer levying on such property or to such receiver, trustee or assignee,

or to the court having custody of such property or from which such process issued, a statement under oath, showing the amount due after allowing all just credits and set-offs, and the kind of work for which such wages are due, and when performed; and unless objection be made thereto as provided in the following section, such claim shall be allowed and paid to the person entitled thereto, after first paying all costs occasioned by the proceeding out of the proceeds of the sale of the property so seized or placed in the hands of a receiver, trustee, or assignee, or court, subject, however, to the provisions of the preceding section.

SEC. 4022. Claims of employees for labor, if not contested, or if allowed after contest, shall have priority over all claims against or liens upon such property, except prior mechanics' liens for labor in opening or developing coal mines as allowed by law.

Seats for female employees.

Wage claims precede liens. Exception.

SECTION 4999. All employers of females in any mercantile or manu- Seats facturing business or occupation shall provide and maintain suitable provided. seats, when practicable, for the use of such female employees, at or beside the counter or workbench where employed, and permit the use thereof by such employees to such extent as the work engaged in may reasonably admit of.

Any neglect or refusal to comply with the provisions of this section by any employer shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars.

Factories and workshops-Inspection, etc.

SECTION 4999a. Every manufacturing establishment, workshop or hotel in which five or more persons are employed, shall be provided with a sufficient number of water-closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, which shall be properly screened and ventilated and kept at all times in a clean condition; and if women or girls are employed in such establishment, the water-closets, earth closets or privies used by them shall have separate approaches and be separate and apart from those used by the men.

Penalty.

to be

Water-closets.

tion.

of children.

mo

Blowers for polishing ma

chines, etc.

SEC. 4999b. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, superintendent Safety applior other person having charge of any manufacturing or other establish- ances. ment where machinery is used, to furnish and supply or cause to be furnished and supplied therein, belt shifters or other safe mechanical contrivances for the purpose of throwing belts on and off pulleys, and, wherever possible, machinery therein shall be provided with loose pulleys; all saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set-screws and machinery of every description therein shall be properly guarded. No Cleaning maperson under sixteen years of age, and no female under eighteen years chinery in of age shall be permitted or directed to clean machinery while in motion. Children under sixteen years of age shall not be permitted Employment to operate or assist in operating dangerous machinery of any kind. .SEC. 4999c. All persons, companies or corporations operating any factory or workshop where emery wheels or emery belts of any description, or tumbling barrels used for rumbling or polishing castings, are used, shall provide the same with blowers and pipes of sufficient capacity, placed in such manner as to protect the person or persons using same from the particles of dust produced or caused thereby, and to carry away said particles of dust arising from or thrown off such wheels, belts or tumbling barrels while in operation, directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle place[d] so as to receive or confine such particles or dust: Provided, however, That grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact, and small emery wheels which are used temporarily for tool grinding, are not included within the provisions of this section, and the shops employing not more than one man at such work may, in the discretion of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, be exempt from the provisions hereof. SEC. 4999d. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the bureau of labor of the State, and the mayor, and chief of police of every city or town, to enforce the provisions of the foregoing sections. Any person, whether acting for himself or for another or for a copartner

Enforcement.

Penalty.

Fire escapes.

Applies to manufactories.

Number of lad

ship, joint stock company or corporation, having charge or management of any manufacturing establishment, workshop or hotel, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of said sections, within ninety days after being notified in writing to do so, by any one of said officers whose duty it may be to enforce the provisions of said sections, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.

SEC. 4999e. The owners, proprietors or lessees of all buildings, structures or enclosures of three or more stories in height, now constructed or hereafter to be erected, shall provide for and equip said buildings and structures with such protection against fire and means of escape from such buildings as shall hereafter be set forth in this bill. SEC. 4999f. The buildings, structures and enclosures contemplated in this act shall be classified as follows:

Sixth. Manufactories, warehouses and buildings of all character [s] of three or more stories in height, not specified in the foregoing sections. SEC. 4999g. * * * Each five thousand (5,000) superficial feet of area ders, etc., re- or fractional part thereof covered by buildings under classification 6, quired. section 2 of this act [sec. 4999f, subsec. 6], shall be provided with at least one above described ladder [of steel or wrought iron construction] and platforms at each story, if not more than twenty (20) persons be employed in the same. If more than twenty (20) persons be employed, then there shall be at least two of the above described ladders, and platforms attached, or one such stairway [of steel or wrought iron construction] and platforms of sufficient size at each story, and if more than forty (40) persons be employed in said building, then there shall be at least two, or such number of the above described outside stairways as the chief of fire department, or the mayor of any city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, may from time to time determine.

Specifications.

Enforcement.

Penalty.

Inspection.

Use of explosive fluids, etc.

Penalty.

SEC. 4999h. It is hereby made the duty of the chief of fire department, or the mayor of each city or town where no such chief of fire department exists, or the chairman of the board of supervisors, in case such building is not within the corporate limits of any city or town, to adopt uniform specifications for fire escapes hereinbefore provided, and keep such specifications on file in their respective offices, and to serve or cause to be served a written notice in behalf of the State of Iowa upon the owner or owners, or their agents or lessees, of buildings within this State not provided with fire escapes in accordance with the provisions of this act, commanding such owner, owners, or agents or either of them, to place or cause to be placed upon said buildings, such fire escape or fire escapes as are provided within this act within sixty days after service of such notice, pursuant to the specifications established. Any such owner, owners or agents, trustees or either of them so served with notice as aforesaid, who shall not within sixty days after the service of said notice upon him or them, place or cause to be placed such fire escape or fire escapes upon such buildings as required by this act and the terms of said notice, shall be subject to a fine not less than fifty ($50) dollars, and not more than one hundred ($100) dollars, and shall be subject to a further fine of twenty-five ($25) dollars for each additional week of neglect to comply with such notice.

SEC. 49991. All fire escapes erected under the provisions of this act shall be subject to inspection and approval or rejection in writing, by the person named in section 4 of this act [sec. 4999h] who has caused such written notice to be served.

SEC. 4999k. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish or operate any dye works, pantorium, or cleaning works, in which gasoline, benzine, naphtha, or other explosive or dangerous fluids are used for the purpose of cleaning or renovating wearing apparel or other fabrics, in any building any part of which is used as a residence or lodging house.

SEC. 49991. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty ($50) nor less than ten ($10) dollars.

Guards on threshing machines.

etc., to be boxed.

SECTION 5025. If any person run any threshing machine in this State Tumbling rods, without having two lengths of tumbling rods next the machine, together with the knuckles or joints and jacks of the tumbling rods safely boxed and secured while the machine is running, he shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for every day or part of day he shall violate this section.

Inspection, etc., of steam boilers.

vided.

SECTION 5026. Any person owning or operating steam boilers in this Steam gauges, State shall provide the same with steam gauge, safety valve and water etc. to be progauge, and keep the same in good order. Any person neglecting so to do shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred Penalty. dollars.

Blacklisting.

SECTION 5027. If any person, agent, company or corporation, after Blacklisting. having discharged any employee from his or its service shall prevent or attempt to prevent, by word or writing of any kind, such discharged employee from obtaining employment with any other person, company or corporation, except by furnishing in writing on request a truthful statement as to the cause of his discharge, such person, agent, company or corporation shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred nor less than one hundred dollars, and shall be liable for all damages sustained by any such person.

Penalty.

Acts of agents.

SEC. 5028. If any railway company or any other company, partnership or corporation shall authorize or allow any of its or their agents to blacklist any discharged employee, or attempt by word or writing or any other means whatever to prevent such discharged employee, or any employee who may have voluntarily left said company's service, from obtaining employment with any other person or company, except as provided for in the preceding section, such company or copartnership shall be liable in treble damages to such employee so prevented Penalty. from obtaining employment.

Sunday labor.

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forbidden.

SECTION 5040. If any person be found on the first day of the week, Sunday labor commonly called Sunday, engaged * in buying or selling property of any kind, or in any labor except that of necessity or charity, he shall be fined not more than five nor less than one dollar, and be imprisoned in the county jail until the fine, with costs of prosecution, shall be paid; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to Act construed. extend to those who conscientiously observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, or to prevent persons traveling or families emigrating from pursuing their journey, or keepers of toll bridges, toll gates and ferrymen from attending the same.

Trade-marks of trade unions.

etc.

SECTION 5049. Every person, or association or union of workingmen Filing labels, or others, that has adopted or shall adopt for their protection any label, trade-mark or form of advertisement, may file the same for record in the office of the secretary of state by leaving two copies, counterparts or facsimiles thereof with the secretary of state. Said secretary shall thereupon deliver to such person, association or union so filing the same a duly attested certificate of the record of the same, for Certificate. which he shall receive a fee of one dollar. Such certificate of record shall in all actions and prosecutions under the following * * sections be sufficient proof of the adoption of such label, trade-mark or form of advertisement, and the right of said person, association or union to adopt the same.

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SEC. 5050. Every person, association or union adopting a label, Enjoining trade-mark or form of advertisement, as specified in the preceding counterfeits, etc. section, may proceed by action to enjoin the manufacture, use, dis