Wages to be paid in cash.

Act construed.

Rents, etc.

Bank notes.

Violation.

ACTS OF 1892.

CHAPTER 445.-Payment of wages-Garrett County.

SECTION 1. Every corporation engaged in mining or manufacturing or operating a railroad in Garrett County, and employing ten or more hands, shall pay its employees the full amount of their wages in legal tender money of the United States; and any contract by or on behalf of any such corporation for the payment of the whole or any part of such wages in any other manner than herein provided, shall be and is hereby declared illegal, null and void; and every such employee shall be entitled to recover from any such corporation employing him the whole or so much of the wages earned by him as shall not have been actually paid to him in legal tender money of the United States, without set-off or deduction of his demand for or in respect of any account or claim whatever.

SEC. 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any such corporation from demising to any of its employees the whole or any part of any tenement in said county of any rent thereon reserved or from contracting for or advancing money to supply him with medicine or medical attendance needed for himself or family, or smithing or fuel, and deducting from the wages of any such employee for and in respect of such rent, medicine, medical attendance, smithing or fuel or money advanced as aforesaid.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the payment in whole or in part of the wages of any such employee, in the notes of any bank payable to bearer on demand that shall be current at par in this State at the time of such payment but all payments made in such notes with consent of such employee shall be as valid and effective as if made in legal tender money of the United States.

SEC. 4. Any corporation before mentioned which shall directly or indirectly enter into any contract, or make any payment hereby declared illegal, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction thereof in any court or [of] competent jurisdiction, shall for the first offense be fined one hundred dollars, and for each succeeding offense not less than five hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars.

ACTS OF 1894.

CHAPTER 202.-Factories and workshops-Ventilating apparatus-Carroll
County.

Ventilating SECTION 1. Every person or corporation owning or controlling any fans, etc., in mills mill for grinding flint or any other kind of stone by the cylinder or for grinding stone. dry process, in Carroll County, shall be required to furnish and equip said mill with the most improved fans, ventilators and other appliances for the removal from said mill, of the dust made therein by conducting said business, and to provide for the use of each person employed in said mill, the most approved apparatus for the protection of said person so employed, from inhaling said dust, and to keep in repair and renew said apparatus from time to time as may be necessary, free of cost to said person so employed; and any such person or corporation failing to comply with the requirements of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars for each and every offense.

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SEC. 2. Every person employed in any such mill for grinding flint or other stone, as specified in the preceding section, shall use and wear the apparatus provided for his protection as above specified, during the entire time he is at work in any part of said mill where there is any dust, and any such person so employed, who shall fail to comply with this requirement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars for each and every offense.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the constable of said county, at least twice in every year, to inspect all such mills which may be located within the districts for which the said constables are appointed, respectively, and to report to the next grand jury for said county any violations of any of the requirements of this act which they may discover or which may come to their knowledge.

ACTS OF 1896.

CHAPTER 133.-Payment of wages—Coal mines.

SECTION 1. All corporations incorporated under the laws of Mary- Semimonthly land, hereafter engaged in mining and shipping coal in Allegany pay day. County, are hereby required to pay each and all their employees their wages earned in said employment semimonthly; that is to say, all wages earned on and before the 15th of each month shall be paid not later than upon the 25th day of said month; and all wages earned from the 16th to the end of each month, shall be paid not later than the 10th day of the succeeding month, unless said 25th day or 10th day of any month shall fall on Sunday or a legal holiday, in which case the time for payment shall be extended to the next day.

SEC. 2. Any such corporation, willfully refusing to make said pay- Penalty. ments of wages at the times hereinbefore specified, or willfully withholding said wages from said employees beyond said times, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $300, in the discretion of the court.

ACTS OF 1898.

CHAPTER 491.-Examination and licensing of horseshoers-Baltimore.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice horse- Certificates reshoeing in the city of Baltimore or in the twelfth district of Baltimore quired. County, unless such person has obtained a certificate and has been duly registered as hereinafter provided.

Board of ex

SEC. 2. A "board of examiners for horseshoers" is hereby created, which shall consist of five member[s], one of whom shall be doing aminers. business as veterinarian only, two master horseshoers and two journeymen horseshoers, all doing business in Baltimore city, whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said board shall be appointed by the governor, and the term for which they shall hold office shall be four years, except that the members of said board to be first appointed under this act shall be designated by the governor to serve one for two years, two for three years, and two for four years, and unless removed by the governor, until their successors are duly appointed. Any vacancy in said board, for any cause, shall be filled by the governor. SEC. 3. Said board shall meet in the month of May next after the Organization. passage of this act, and organize by the election of a president and secretary, and thereafter shall hold regular meetings in the months of May and November in every year, and such special meetings for the examination of persons desiring to practice horseshoeing as occasion may require; they shall pass such by-laws and prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions

of this act; and said board shall, at its first meet, prescribe and clearly Certificate. define the qualifications and tests necessary to obtain a certificate as master or journeyman horseshoer. Printed copies of such requirements shall be furnished to all persons desiring to pass an examination for said certificate, and any person who shall on examination be found by a majority of said board to possess the said requirements so prescribed, shall be granted a certificate to that effect on the payment to said board of a fee of two dollars; and all proceedings of said board shall be open to public inspection.

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nation.

SEC. 4. Any person who has practiced as a master or journeyman Certificate horseshoer in the city of Baltimore or the twelfth district of Baltimore without examiCounty, for three years prior to the passage of this act, who will file an affidavit to that effect with said board, shall be entitled to a certificate without an examination, on the payment of a fee of twenty-five cents to said board; or anyone who has a certificate from any duly constituted examining board of the State of Maryland, or of any other State, that he is a competent master or journeyman horseshoer, on filing and registering said certificate or a copy thereof with said board, shall be entitled to a certificate from said board without examination, on payment of a fee of two dollars; but, after the passage of this act, Fee.

Register.

Penalty.

Company stores forbidden.

Trader's license.

Damages.

Restraint in trading.

Penalty.

no person who has not served an apprenticeship at horseshoeing for a period of three years shall be entitled to an examination for said certificate.

SEC. 5. All certificates issued by said board shall be signed by its officers and bear its seal; and the secretary of said board shall keep a book, in which all certificates so issued and the names of the persons to whom the same shall have been issued shall be duly registered, and a transcript from said book of registration, certified by the secretary, with the seal of the board, shall be evidence in any court in the State, and said secretary shall furnish to anyone a copy of his certificate on payment of the sum of one dollar.

SEC. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon the conviction thereof in any court having criminal jurisdiction, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or be confined in the Baltimore City Jail or Baltimore County Jail, not more than one month, in the discretion of the court. All fines received under this act shall be paid into the common school fund of the city of Baltimore, or of Baltimore County, if the offense shall have been committed in said county. The provisions of this act shall not interfere with the right of the owners of horses to have them shod at their own shops.

CHAPTER 493.-Company stores-Allegany County.

SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any railroad or mining corporation, doing business in Allegany County, nor for the president, vice president, manager, superintendent, any director or other officer of such corporation, to own or have any interest in any general store or merchandise business in Allegany County, in which goods, wares and merchandise are sold, nor to conduct or carry on any such business, or have any interest in the profits of the same in Allegany County, nor to sell or barter any goods, wares or merchandise in such county.

SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for the clerk of the circuit court for Allegany County to issue a trader's license to any corporation or person or persons to sell goods, wares and merchandise, unless he shall first administer to the party applying therefor an oath that no railroad or mining company, or president, manager, superintendent, or any director, or other officer of such corporation, has any interest directly or indirectly in such store or business, or the profits thereof, purposed to be carried on under said license.

SEC. 3. Any store or business conducted in Allegany County by railroad or mining corporation, or private individuals engaged in railroading or mining, in which goods, wares or merchandise are sold to the employees of the owners of such store or business in part payment of their wages as such employees, shall be subject to a suit at law for damages by the employees purchasing such goods, and be liable to the said employees in a sum of money equal to the amount paid for such goods, wares or merchandise bought by such employees.

SEC. 4. Any such mining corporation who, through its stockholders, officers, [or] by any rule or regulation of its business, shall make any contract with the keepers or owners of any other store whereby the employees of such corporation shall be obliged to trade with such keeper or owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to damages payable to said employee to the extent of the amount of goods purchased from such store; proof of such a contract between the mining corporation and the storekeeper shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such store is under control of such mining corporation and in violation of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 5. Any corporation or person who shall violate any of the provisions of this law, which is hereby declared to be a law to prevent employers from controlling the trade of their employees, or coercing and directing them to any certain store, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and the license of such corporation, person or persons, shall be suppressed.

MASSACHUSETTS.

REVISED LAWS OF 1902.

CHAPTER 6.-Security for wages of employees on public works-Contractors'

bonds.

SECTION 77. Officers or agents who contract in behalf of the Com- Bonds required. monwealth for the construction or repair of public buildings or other public work shall obtain sufficient security, by bond or otherwise, for payment by the contractor and subcontractors for labor performed or furnished and for materials used in such construction or repair; but Claims to be in order to obtain the benefit of such security, the claimant shall file filed within sixty days. with such officers or agents, a sworn statement of his claims, within sixty days after the completion of the work.

CHAPTER 11.-Time to vote to be allowed employees.

Two hours allowed.

SECTION 5 (as amended by chapter 384, Acts of 1902). No person entitled to vote at an election shall, upon the day of any such election, be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, except such as may lawfully conduct its business on Sunday, Exceptions. during the period of two hours after the opening of the polls in the voting precinct or town in which he is entitled to vote.

SEC. 413. An owner, superintendent or overseer in any manufactur- Penalty. ing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, except such as may lawfully conduct its business on Sunday, who employs or permits to be employed therein any person entitled to vote at a State election, during the period of two hours after the opening of the polls in the voting precinct or town in which such person is entitled to vote, if he shall make application for leave of absence during such period, shall be punished by fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

CHAPTER 11.-Protection of employees as voters.

SECTION 414. Whoever, by threatening to discharge a person from Making threats. his employment or to reduce his wages, or by promising to give him etc. employment at higher wages, attempts to influence a voter to give or to withhold his vote at an election, or whoever, because of the giving or withholding of a vote at an election, discharges a person from his employment or reduces his wages, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year.

CHAPTER 19.-Civil service-Labor service.

SECTION 2. * * * They [the civil service commissioners] may Registrar of laappoint a registrar of labor, who shall, under their direction, supervise bor to be apthe administration of civil service rules applicable to the public labor pointed. service of the Commonwealth or of any city thereof. *

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SEC. 12. Every application shall state under oath the full name, resi- Statements of dence and post-office address, citizenship, age, place of birth, health applicants. and physical capacity, right of preference as a veteran, previous employment in the public service, business or employment and residence for the previous five years, and education of the applicant, and such other information as may reasonably be required relative to his fitness for the public service.

Applicants for positions in the labor service of the Commonwealth Registry of laor of the cities thereof shall, to the number of five hundred, be al- borers. lowed to register on the first Monday of February, May, August and November in each year, at the places appointed therefor.

SEC. 13. No question in any examination shall relate to, and no ap- Scope of exampointment to a position or selection for employment shall be affected ination. by, political or religious opinions or affiliations. Examinations shall be practical and shall relate to matters which will fairly test the capacity and fitness of the applicants. The examination of applicants

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for employment as laborers shall relate to their capacity for labor and habits of sobriety and industry and to the necessities of themselves and their families.

SEC. 36. This chapter shall be in force in any town of more than twelve thousand inhabitants when accepted by it. So much of this chapter and the rules established under it as relate to the employment of laborers, designated as the "Labor service," shall not be in force in any city of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants until the city council, with the approval of the mayor, accepts the same.

CHAPTER 20.-Half holidays for employees on public works—Counties.

SECTION 26. They [the county commissioners] may allow one half holiday in each week without loss of pay to county employees, including therein laborers, mechanics and all other classes of workmen, during such portions of the year as they may determine.

CHAPTER 25.-Liability of towns, etc., for wages of employees on public works.

SECTION 57. A person to whom a debt is due for labor which has contractor may been performed in constructing a building, sewer or drain, or water works or other public works, owned by a city or town, under a contract with any person having authority from or rightfully acting for such city or town in furnishing such labor, shall have a right of action against such city or town to recover such debt if, within thirty days after he ceases to perform such labor, he files in the clerk's office of the city or town against which he claims such right of action a written statement, under oath, of the amount of the debt so due to him, and the names of the persons for whom and by whose employment the labor was performed, and if, within sixty days after he ceases to perform such labor, he commences such action. Such right of action shall not be lost by reason of a mistake in stating the amount due; but the claimant shall not recover as damages a larger amount than is named Law does not in said statement as due to him, with interest. No person who has extend to sub-contracted to furnish labor other than his own in such construction shall have such right of action.

Limitation.

contractors.

Employees of cities.

Children

fourteen.

be

This act is constitutional. 175 Mass. 201.

A public highway is not a public work owned by a city within the meaning of this statute. 173 Mass. 408.

CHAPTER 25.-Half holiday for employees on public works-Towns. SECTION 99. The selectmen may provide that the employees of their town, including laborers, mechanics and all other classes of workmen employed by the town, shall be allowed one half holiday in each week without loss of pay during such portion of the year as the selectmen determine.

CHAPTER 26.--Half holidays for employees on public works—Cities.

SECTION 22. The city council of a city may provide that the employees of such city, including laborers, mechanics and all other classes of workmen employed by said city, shall be allowed one half holiday in each week, without loss of pay, during such portion of the year as the city council determines.

CHAPTER 44.-Employment of children unlawfully absent from school. SECTION 1. Every child between seven and fourteen years of age tween seven and shall attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides during the entire time the public day schools are in session, subject to such exceptions as to children, places of attendance and schools as are provided for in section three of chapter forty-two and sections * *Whoever induces or

Employment of three, five and six of this chapter.

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unlawful ab- attempts to induce a child to absent himself unlawfully from school, or employs or harbors a child who, while school is in session, is absent unlawfully from school shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.