levied, collected and paid in the same manner as other city charges

are audited, levied, collected and paid.

SEC. 13. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, Penalty. or any of the rules and regulations of the board of examiners as approved by the board of health of any city in this State regulating the plumbing and drainage work connected therewith of such city, shall upon conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100 and the cost of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

sewer

connections.

SEC. 14. After the passage of this act the commissioner or the License to board of public works of any city, or the officer or officers acting in make a like capacity in any of the cities of this State, and having charge of the sewers and water mains, shall not issue a license to any one to connect with the sewers or with the water mains of such cities, unless such person has obtained and shall produce a certificate of registration, which is then in force, from the board of health of such city.

SEC. 15. This act shall not apply to cities containing less than Application of law. fifteen thousand inhabitants.

ACTS OF 1903.

ACT No. 87.-Inspection of factories-Duty to make improvements.

ments.

to

SECTION 1. Whenever fire escapes, elevator protection or re- Owner pairs, water-closets and other permanent improvements to build- make improveings are ordered by factory or deputy factory inspectors under the provisions of act one hundred thirteen, session laws of nineteen hundred one, said improvements shall be made by the owner of the building or premises where such improvements are ordered: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with any contract between owner and tenant whereby the tenant agrees to make such improvements when ordered by factory or deputy factory inspectors.

Proviso.

Tenant

may

SEC. 2. Whenever the owner of any building or premises, as mentioned in section one of this act, is a nonresident of this State, deduct cost. the tenant shall make such improvements and may deduct the cost thereof from the amount of rent for use of said premises.

ACT No. 106.-Employment of labor-Contracts involving removal from home locality.

SECTION 1. Any person, company or corporation, or any agent, Contracts to or officer thereof who shall induce another person, by promise of be in writing. wages or other valuable consideration, to agree to work for the person, company or corporation in whose behalf the offer of inducements is made, at a point away from his or her home locality, shall specify in writing the terms and conditions under which the said work is to be performed, the rate of wages and how, when and where said wages are agreed to be paid, and may furnish a copy of such statement of agreement to the person so induced by the promises therein to agree to work for the person, company or corporation offering such inducements: Provided, That it shall be Children. unlawful for any person to make a tender of inducement to go away from the home locality to work, to any child under sixteen years of age unless the written consent of the parents of such child has been first obtained, as well as the consent of the truant officer or county agent of the board of corrections and charities for the locality where said child belongs; and in case such consent is obtained and the child goes abroad under the influence of the inducements so offered, such child under sixteen years of age shall be safely returned to its home at any time when its parents shall request, in writing, such return. Any person or any agent or officer of any corporation who shall, in offering inducements to any person to work for hire at any place apart from his or her

Fraudulent acceptance advances.

home locality, misrepresent any of the conditions of such employment as mentioned above, shall be liable to pay to the person injured by such misrepresentation, the full amount of the damage sustained and shall be further liable to the penalties provided in section three of this act.

SEC. 2. Every person, who, with intent to defraud, shall accept of or receive transportation provided by or at the instance or expense of his employer, from any point in this State to or in the direction of the place where he has contracted to perform labor for, or render services to such employer, or who shall knowingly, and with intent to defraud, accept or receive the benefit of any other pecuniary advancements made by or at the instance and cost of his employer, under an agreement on the part of such person to perform labor or render services in repayment of the cost of such transportation or of such other benefits, shall be deemed Misdemeanor. and adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor if he shall neglect or refuse to render services or perform labor of an equal value to the full amount paid for such transportation or other benefits, or shall neglect or refuse to pay such employer in money the amount paid therefor. The value of the services to be rendered, or labor to be performed shall be determined by the price agreed to be paid therefor by such employer under his contract with the employee. The failure or refusal of any such employee to perform such labor or to render such services in accordance with his contract, or to pay in money the amount paid for such transportation or other benefits, shall be prima facie evidence of his intent to defraud.

Penalty.

SEC. 3. Every person found guilty of violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or by imprisonment of not less than ten nor more than sixty days.

MINNESOTA.

GENERAL STATUTES OF 1894.

CHAPTER 1.-Protection of employees as voters-Time to vote, etc. Half holiday SECTION 12. * ** and the forenoon of each day on which on election a general election is held shall be a compulsory half holiday, and day. all employees of every kind whatever shall be allowed the whole of said forenoon for the purpose of voting.

Same subject.

SEC. 114. Any person entitled to vote at any general election in this State shall, on the day of such election, be entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed for the whole of the forenoon or from the opening of the polls until twelve o'clock noon, and such voter shall not, because of so absenting himself, be liable to any penalty, nor shall any deduction be made on account of such absence from his usual salary or wages; but such person shall on so absenting himself proceed at once to the polling place wherein he is entitled to vote, and having so voted, return at once to his employment, otherwise he Applicat i on shall not be entitled to such salary or wages. Application for for leave of ab- such leave of absence shall be made prior to the day of election;

sence.

Refusal, at tempts to influence, etc.

and, if not so made then, such person may make-application on the morning of election day, in which event he shall be allowed, between the hour of twelve o'clock noon and an hour one hour before the hour for closing the polls, for the purpose of voting, one full hour,. and in addition thereto one-half of an hour for each mile that he may be distant from said polling place, and said employer may specify the hours during which said employee may absent himself as aforesaid. Any person or corporation, or officer or member thereof, who shall refuse to an employee the privilege hereby conferred, or shall subject an employee to a penalty or deduction of wages because of the exercise of such privilege, or who shall, in any manner, attempt to influence or control such voter as to how he shall vote, by offering any reward or by threatening his dis

charge from employment or otherwise intimidating him from a full and free exercise of his right to vote, or shall, directly or indirectly, violate the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 6.-Commissioner of statistics-Duties.

Collection of

SECTION 404. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of statistics annually to collect and compile, from official and any other statistics. reliable source, the statistics of the State of Minnesota pertaining to its agriculture, manufactures and population, including statistics relating to all departments of labor in the State, especially in its relation to the commercial, industrial, social and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industry of the State, including all useful facts which he may be able to gather, bearing upon the material and social interests of the State, and tending to afford, at home and abroad, a correct knowledge of resources and progress.

SEC. 408. The said commissioner of statistics shall, during the month of January in each year, make a written report to the governor, giving in a concise and available form the results of his labors, which shall be communicated by the governor to the legislature, and be printed, distributed and bound with the executive documents, as provided by law.

CHAPTER 6.-Bureau of labor.

Report.

Duties.

SECTION 469. A commissioner of labor, appointed by the gov- Bureau to be ernor, and an assistant commissioner and a factory inspector, ap- composed, how. pointed by the commissioner, shall constitute a bureau of labor. The present commissioner of labor statistics shall act as commissioner of labor until the expiration of his term of office in January, 1895. At that time and thereafter biennially, on the first Monday in January, the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a suitable person to act as commissioner of labor, with headquarters at the capitol, who shall hold his office until his successor has been appointed and qualified. SEC. 470. It shall be the duty of the officers and employees of the said bureau to cause to be enforced all laws regulating the employment of children, minors and women; all laws established for the protection of the health, lives and limbs of operators in workshops and factories, on railroads and in other places, and all laws enacted for the protection of the working classes, including chapter two hundred and five of the General Laws of 1885 [secs. 1455 to 1458], chapters ten and sixteen of the General Laws of 1889 [secs. 2244 to 2246], chapter seventeen of the General Laws of 1891 [secs. 6965 and 6966], laws declaring it a misdemeanor on the part of employers to require as a condition of employment the surrender of any right of citizenship, laws regulating and prescribing the qualifications of persons in trades and handicrafts, and similar laws now in force or hereafter to be enacted. It shall also be the duty of the officers and employees of the bureau to collect, assort, arrange and present, in biennial reports, to the legislature, on or before the first Monday in January, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the State; to the subjects of cooperation, strikes or other labor difficulties; to trade unions and other labor organizations and their effect upon labor and capital; and to such other matters relating to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, moral and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes, and the permanent prosperity of the respective industries of the State as the bureau may be able to gather. In its biennial reports the bureau shall also give an account of all proceedings of its officers and employees which have been taken in accordance with the provisions of this act or of any of the other acts herein referred to, including a statement of all violations of law which have been observed, and the proceedings under the same, and shall

Information to be furnished.

join with such account such remarks, suggestions and recommendations as the commissioner may deem necessary.

SEC. 471. It shall be the duty of every owner, operator or manager of every factory, .workshop, mine or other establishment where labor is employed, to make to the bureau, upon blanks furnished by said bureau, such reports and returns as the said bureau may require for the purpose of compiling such labor statistics as are authorized by this act, and the owner or business manager shall make such reports and returns within the time prescribed therefor by the commissioner of labor, and shall certify to the correctness Information of the same. In the reports of said bureau no use shall be made confidential. of names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by this section, such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs, and any officer, agent or employee of said bureau violating this provision shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than one year.

Powers.

SEC. 472. The commissioner, or any officer of the bureau of labor, shall have the power to issue subpoenas, administer oaths and take testimony in all matters relating to the duties herein required by said bureau, such testimony to be taken in some suitable place in the vicinity to which testimony is applicable. Witnesses subpœnaed and testifying before any officer of the said bureau shall be paid the same fees as witnesses before a district court, such payments to be made from the contingent fund of the bureau. Witnesses re- Any person duly subpœnaed under the provisions of this section, fusing to tes- who shall willfully neglect or refuse to attend or testify at the tify.

Proviso.

Access to factories, etc.

Definitions.

Reports to be preserved.

Additional inspectors.

time and place named in the subpoena, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, may be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days; Provided, however, That no witness shall be compelled to go outside the county in which he resides to testify.

SEC. 473. The commissioner of labor or any officer or employee of the bureau of labor shall have power to enter any factory or mill, workshop, or public or private works when the same is open, or in operation, for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics such as are contemplated by this act, and to examine into the methods of protection from danger to employees and the sanitary condition in and around such buildings and places and make a record thereof, and any owner or occupant of said factory or mill, workshop, or public or private works, or his agent or agents, who shall refuse to allow an officer or employee of the said bureau to so enter, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed ninety days. The expressions" factory or mill,” “workshop,” and “public or private works" used in this act shall have the same meanings defined for them, respectively, in an act entitled "An act providing for the protection of employees," approved March 30, 1893 [secs. 2248 to 2264].

SEC. 474. No report or return made to the said bureau in accordance with the provisions of this act, and no schedule, record or document gathered or returned by its officers or employees, shall be destroyed within two years of the receipt or collection thereof, such reports, schedules and documents being declared public documents. At the expiration of the period of two years above referred to in this section, all records, schedules and papers accumulating in the said bureau that may be considered of no value by the commissioner may be destroyed: Provided, The authority of the governor and the senate be first obtained for such destruction.

SEC. 475. In addition to the assistant commissioner and the factory inspector, provided by section one of this act [sec. 469], the commissioner of labor shall appoint two deputies and two assistant factory inspectors, one of whom shall act as inspector of railways. He may also employ such other assistants and incur such

other expense, not exceeding three thousand dollars a year, as may be necessary in the discharge of the official duties of said bureau; such other assistants shall be paid for the services rendered such compensation as the commissioner of labor may deem proper, but no such assistant shall be paid more than four dollars per day in addition to necessary traveling expenses.

Biennial re

SEC. 476. The biennial reports of the bureau of labor, provided for by section two of this act [sec. 470], shall be printed in the same ports. manner and under the same regulations as the reports of the executive officers of the State: Provided, That not less than one thousand nor more than three thousand copies of the report shall be distributed, as the judgment of the commissioner may deem best. The blanks and other stationery required by the bureau of labor, in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be furnished by the secretary of the State and paid for from the printing fund of the State.

Compensa

SEC. 477. The compensation of said bureau shall be two thousand five hundred dollars annual salary for the commissioner, fif- tion. teen hundred dollars annual salary for the assistant commissioner, twelve hundred dollars annual salary for the factory inspector, and one thousand dollars annual salary each for the two deputies and the two assistant factory inspectors, and a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum shall be allowed for the necessary traveling and incidental expenses of the bureau: Provided, That only those persons who possess a practical knowledge of and experience in the work and duties required of them under the provisions of this and other acts shall be appointed factory inspectors.

CHAPTER 6.—Inspection of steam boilers-Examination of engineers.

Proviso.

Board of in

SECTION 480 (as amended by chapter 131, Acts of 1903). Within sixty (60) days after the passage of this act, and biennially there- spectors. after, there shall be appointed by the governor a board of fiftythree (53) inspectors, one (1) of whom shall reside in each senatorial district, except as hereinafter provided, whose duty it shall be to inspect all steam boilers in use within the State, not subject to inspection under the laws of the United States and not hereafter excepted, and to examine and grant certificates of license to steam engineers entrusted with the care and management of steam boilers: Provided, however, The provisions of this act shall not apply to heating plants in private residences. And provided further, That when there is more than one senatorial district within any one county in this State, in such counties there shall be but one boiler inspector for each of such counties. Said inspectors shall examine and license all masters and pilots on inland waters of the State, and such examination shall be conducted, as near as may be, pursuant to the rules and regulations provided by the laws of the United States for the examination of masters and pilots. Said inspectors shall hold their respective offices for two (2) years from February first (1st), respectively, and. until their successors are appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the governor. Said inspectors shall anually on or before the thirty-first (31st) day of January, render a report to the secretary of state, and to the legislature, Reports. showing a detailed statement of the number of inspections made, licenses issued, and the amount of fees received therefor, also showing the amount of disbursements of their offices.

Qualifica

SEC. 481. No person shall be eligible to hold the office of inspector of boilers who has not had at least ten years of actual tions. experience in operating steam engines and steam boilers, or who is directly or indirectly interested in the manufacture or sale of boilers or steam machinery, or any patented article required to be used, or that is in general use in the construction of steam engines or boilers, or who is not of good moral character, and suitably qualified by experience in the construction of steam boilers so as to