Coercion

as

of not less than twenty-five days or more than five months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

CHAPTER 124.-Coercion of employees in trading, etc.

SECTION 1. Any person or persons, employer, company, corporato trading or tion or association, or the managing agent of any person or persons, boarding. employer, company, corporation or association, doing or conducting business in this State, who by coercion, intimidation, threats or undue influence, compels or induces his or her employees to trade at any particular store, or board at any particular boarding house, in this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty (50) dollars nor more than two hundred (200) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county Jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than one hundred (100) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PUBLIC STATUTES OF 1891.

CHAPTER 92.-Employment of children-School attendance.

SECTION 17 (as amended by chapter 70, Acts of 1899). Truant officers shall, under the direction of the school board, enforce the laws and regulations relating to truants and children between the ages of eight and sixteen years not attending school and without any regular and lawful occupation, and the laws relating to the attendance at school of children between the ages of eight and sixteen years.

SEC. 18 (as amended by chapter 70, Acts of 1899). Truant officers shall, if required by the school board, enforce the laws prohibiting the employment of children in manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishments who have not attended school the prescribed time; and for this purpose, they may, when so authorized and required by vote of the school board, visit the manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments in their respective cities and towns, and ascertain whether any children under the age of sixteen are employed therein contrary to the provisions of law, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the school board; and the truant officers, when authorized as aforesaid, may demand the names of all children under sixteen years of age employed in such manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments, and may require that the certificates and lists of such children provided for by law shall be produced for their inspection. Truant officers shall inquire into the employment, otherwise than in such manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments, of children under the age of sixteen years, during the hours when the public schools are in session, and may require that the certificates of all children under sixteen shall be produced for their inspection; and any such officer may bring a prosecution against a person or corporation employing any such child, otherwise than as aforesaid, during the hours when the public schools are in session, contrary to the provisions of law. A refusal or failure on the part of an employer of children under sixteen years of age to produce the certificate required by law, when requested by a truant officer, shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of the child whose certificate is not produced. Truant officers shall have authority without a warrant to take and place in school any children found employed contrary to the laws relating to the employment of children, or violating the laws relating to the compulsory attendance at school of children between the ages of six and sixteen years.

CHAPTER 93.-Employment of children.

SECTION 10 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No child Age limit. under the age of twelve years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, nor in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides.

SEC. 11 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, or in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment, during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides, without first presenting a statement of his age from his parent or guardian, sworn to before the superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, by some person authorized by the school board of the district in which such child is employed.

And no child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed as aforesaid during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides without first presenting a certificate from the superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, some person authorized by the school board, that such child can read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language. And any superintendent of schools or person authorized by the school board who certifies falsely as to matters prescribed by this section shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

Certificate.

Employment

of illiterates.

SEC. 12 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No minor shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, or in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment, who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, while a free public evening school is maintained in the district in which he resides, unless he is a regular attendant at such evening school or at a day school: Provided, That upon presentation by Physician's certificate. such minor of a certificate signed by a regular practicing physician, and satisfactory to the superintendent of schools, or, where there is no superintendent of schools, the school board, showing that the physical condition of such minor would render such attendance in addition to daily labor prejudicial to his health, said superintendent of schools or school board shall issue a permit authorizing the employment of such minor for such period as said superintendent of schools or school board may determine. Said superintendent of schools or school board, or teachers acting under authority thereof, may excuse any absence from such evening school arising from justifiable cause. Any parent, guardian, or custodian who permits to be employed any minor under his control in violation of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty dollars for the use of the evening schools of such town or city.

SEC. 13 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). If any owner, Penalty. agent, superintendent, or overseer of a manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, or any other person, shall employ any child in violation of the provisions of either of the three preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense, for the use of the district.

SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the school board to prosecute Enforcement. offenders for violations of the provisions of this chapter. If they neglect to perform this duty they shall forfeit twenty dollars for each neglect, for the use of the district, to be recovered in the name of the district by the selectmen of the town. All necessary expenses incurred in such proceedings shall be paid by the district. SEC. 19. No prosecution under this chapter shall be sustained unless begun within one year after the offense is committed.

Limitation.

Appointment of inspectors.

Annual inspections.

Certificate.

Rules, etc., to be posted.

Other inspections.

Boats

etc.

found

CHAPTER 119.-Inspection of steamboats.

SECTION 1 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899, and chapter 72, Acts of 1903). The governor, with the advice of the council, shall appoint one inspector and three deputy inspectors of electric, naphtha, gasoline, or steamboats, whose duty it shall be to inspect all such boats and the boilers and engines thereof, used for the carriage of passengers or freight for hire on any lake, river, or pond in the State not subject to the authority in this respect of the United States inspection laws, or where inspections under such laws are not regularly made.

SEC. 2 (as amended by chapter 6, Acts of 1895). The owners or lessees of every such boat shall cause it to be inspected by an inspector in all its parts, its engines and its boilers, annually, within thirty days prior to engaging in the carriage of passengers. SEC. 3. If upon such inspection the inspector finds the boat, its boilers and engines, to be safe and sufficient for the carriage of passengers, he shall prescribe the maximum number of passengers the boat may carry at any one time, and such other rules and regulations as may seem to him proper for such a boat, and he shall give the owners or lessees a certificate and license accordingly.

SEC. 4. The owners or lessees of every such boat shall cause a copy of the rules and regulations so established for it to be posted in a conspicuous place on the boat.

SEC. 5. An inspector shall examine such boat, its boilers and engines, at such other time as he shall deem the public interest and safety require, not exceeding three times in any year, to see if the provisions of law and the rules and regulations established for the boat have been complied with.

SEC. 6 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any boat to be unsafe, licensed as aforesaid shall, during the period of its license, be deemed by an inspector unsafe in its hull, or defective in its engine, boilers, or machinery, or if its owners or lessees shall have failed to comply with the rules and regulations prescribed by the inspector, he shall have power to revoke its license and stop and detain the boat until the necessary repairs have been made, or until the rules and regulations have been complied with, and shall then issue a new certificate or license.

Licensed engineers to be employed.

SEC. 7 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). The owners or lessees of any boat licensed to carry passengers or freight, as provided in this chapter, shall not employ any engineer or pilot upon said boat unless such engineer or pilot has been examined by an inspector of steamboats and has a certificate from him that he is competent to act in that capacity.

Engineers, SEC. 8. All engineers and pilots shall be examined by the inspectetc., to be ex- ors as to their competency, under oath; and power to administer oaths in such cases is granted to inspectors.

amined.

Penalty.

Engineer acting without license, etc.

SEC. 9 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any person shall use any such boat for the carriage of passengers which, with its boilers and engines, has not been inspected and licensed as provided in this chapter, or shall employ upon any such steamboat any engineer or pilot who has not been examined and licensed as required by the preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year or both.

SEC. 11 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any person shall act as engineer or pilot on any boat without the certificate herein required; or if any engineer or pilot shall, during the period for which he is licensed, neglect his duties or be of intemperate habits, or violate any of the rules and regulations established by the inspector; or if any engineer shall carry more steam than the certificate for his boat allows, or shall in any way or manner interfere with the locked safety valve of the boiler, after the same has been set by the inspector, so as to allow greater pressure in the boiler than the amount specified by the certificate,—his license may be suspended or revoked by the

inspector, and he shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both.

SEC. 12 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any in- Unlawful fees. spector of boats, upon any pretense, receives any fee or reward for his services except what is allowed to him by law, he shall forfeit his office, and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both.

CHAPTER 159.--Safety appliances on railroads—Bridge guards.

SECTION 26. The proprietors of every railroad shall erect and Telltales to maintain bridge guards at each end of every bridge or other be erected. structure erected less than eighteen feet above the track of their railroad, the character and location of which shall be approved

by the board of railroad commissioners.

SEC. 27. If the proprietors of any railroad shall fail to comply Penalty. with the provisions of the preceding section, they shall forfeit fifty dollars for each month of continuance in such failure.

CHAPTER 176.-Earnings of married women.

Earnings

erty.

SECTION 1. Every woman shall hold to her own use, free from the interference or control of any husband she may have, all prop- separate property at any time earned, if such earning, * were not occasioned by payment or pledge of the property of the husband.

CHAPTER 180.-Employment of women and children.

SECTION 14. No woman and no minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed in a manufacturing or mechanical establishment for more than ten hours in one day, except in the following cases:

I. To make a shorter day's work for one day in the week.

II. To make up time lost on some day in the same week in consequence of the stopping of machinery upon which such person was dependent for employment.

III. When it is necessary to make repairs to prevent interruption of the ordinary running of the machinery.

Hours of la

bor.

Schedule to be

In no case shall the hours of labor exceed sixty in one week. SEC. 15. The proprietors of every such establishment shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in every room where such persons posted. are employed a notice printed in plain, large letters, stating the exact time of beginning and of stopping work in the forenoon and in the afternoon, and the number of hours' work required of them each day of the week.

SEC. 16. If any owner, agent, superintendent, or overseer of any Penalty. such establishment shall willfully violate the provisions of either of the two preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense.

Certificate of

SEC. 17. A certificate of the age of a minor, made by him and by his parents or guardian and presented to the employer at the age. time the minor is employed, shall be conclusive evidence of his age upon a prosecution for the violation of the provisions of section fourteen.

False certifi

SEC. 18. If any person shall make and utter a false certificate in regard to the age of a minor, with intent to evade the provi- cate. sions of this chapter, he shall be fined twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned thirty days, or both, for each offense.

SEC. 19. * * * Prosecutions under sections sixteen and eighteen shall be barred unless begun within one year after the offense was committed.

H. Doc. 733, 58-2—47

Limitation.

Order of pay

CHAPTER 180.-Hours of labor.

SECTION 20. In all contracts relating to labor, ten hours' actual labor shall be taken to be a day's work unless otherwise agreed by the parties.

CHAPTER 180.-Payment of wages.

SECTION 21. Every manufacturing, mining, quarrying, stonecutting, mercantile, horse railroad, telegraph, telephone, express, aqueduct, and municipal corporation employing more than ten persons at one time shall pay the wages earned each week by their employees who work by the day or week within eight days after the expiration of the week, or upon demand after that time. Every such corporation shall post a notice in a conspicuous place in its office that it will pay its employees' wages as above, and shall keep the same so posted.

SEC. 22. If any such corporation shall violate the provisions of the preceding section, it shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, provided a prosecution therefor is begun within thirty days after the offense is committed, but not otherwise.

SEC. 23. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not apply to municipal officers whose services are paid for by the day, nor to teachers employed by school districts.

CHAPTER 191.-Right of action for injuries causing death.

SECTION 8. Actions of tort for physical injuries to the person— although inflicted by a person while committing a felony-and the causes of such actions, shall survive to the extent, and subject to the limitations, set forth in the five following sections, and not otherwise.

SEC. 10. If an action is not then [at the time of the decease of one of the parties] pending and has not already become barred by the statute of limitations, one may be brought for such cause at any time within two years after the death of the deceased party, and not afterwards.

SEC. 11. The damages recoverable in any such action shall not exceed seven thousand dollars.

SEC. 12. If the administrator of the deceased party is plaintiff, and the death of such party was caused by the injury complained of in the action, the mental and physical pain suffered by him in consequence of the injury, the reasonable expenses occasioned to his estate by the injury, the probable duration of his life but for the injury, and his capacity to earn money, may be considered as elements of damage in connection with other elements allowed by law.

CHAPTER 201.-Wages preferred—In assignments.

SECTION 32. The following claims are entitled to priority, and ment of de- shall be paid in full in the order named:

mands.

Assignments

filed.

I. Debts due the United States, and all taxes.

II. Wages due an operative, clerk, or servant, not exceeding fifty dollars, for labor performed within six months prior to the beginning of the insolvency proceedings.

III. Taxable costs in any suit begun in good faith in which an attachment is dissolved by the insolvency proceedings.

CHAPTER 215.—Assignments of future earnings to be recorded.

SECTION 4. No assignment of, or order for, wages to be earned not valid unless in the future shall be valid against a creditor of the person making it, until it has been accepted in writing and a copy of it and of the acceptance has been filed with the clerk of the town or city where the party making it resides. The clerks of towns and cities shall keep for public inspection an alphabetical list of all such orders and assignments filed with them.