ACTS OF 1899.

CHAPTER 373.-Bureau of labor and printing.

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Commissioner

SECTION 2 (as amended by chapter 539, Acts of 1899). A bureau of labor and printing is hereby created and established, the duties tablished. of which bureau shall be exercised and discharged by a commissioner, who shall be designated as "commissioner of labor and printing" and by an assistant, who shall be appointed by said commissioner and who shall be a practical printer. The said commis- and assistant. sioner shall be elected by the joint ballot of the members of the senate and house of representatives of the general assembly of North Carolina. The term of office of said commissioner shall begin on the fifteenth day of March next after his election, and he shall hold his office until January, nineteen hundred and one, when other State officers are qualified. At the next general election the commissioners [commissioner] of labor and printing shall be elected for a term of four years by the people in the same manner as is provided for the election of secretary of state. The office of said bureau shall be kept in the city of Raleigh and the same shall be provided for as other public officers [offices] by the State.

SEC. 3. Said.commissioners [commissioner] shall receive a salary Compensaof one thousand five hundred dollars per annun, payable monthly; tion. and said assistant commissioner shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, and they shall also receive their actual traveling expenses while traveling for the purpose of collecting the information and statistics provided for in this act. And said assistant commissioner shall perform the duties of the said commissioner in his absence from office or in case of a vacancy therein.

SEC. 4. Said commissioner aided by said assistant commissioner shall collect and collate information and statistics concerning labor and its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laborers and their educational, moral and financial condition, and the best means of promoting their mental and moral and material welfare; shall also collect [and] collate information and statistics concerning the various mining, milling and manufacturing industries in this State, their location, capacity and actual output of manufactured products, the kind and quantity of raw material annually used by them and the capital invested therein; shall also collect and collate information and statistics concerning the location, estimated and actual horsepower and condition of valuable water powers developed and undeveloped in this State; also concerning farm lands and farming, the kinds, character and quantity of the annual farm products in this State; also of timber lands and timbers, truck gardening, dairying and such other information and statistics concerning the agricultural, industrial welfare of the citizens of this State as he may deem to be of interest and benefit to the public, and shall all [also] perform the duties prescribed in chapter fifteen [sic], public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

Duties.

SEC. 5. Said commissioner, aided by said assistant commissioner, Printing, etc., shall carefully examine all printing and binding done for the to be examined. State, or any department thereof by the public printer, and shall certify that the workmanship of said printing and binding is properly executed and that the accounts rendered by the public printer for the same are accurate and just before the auditor shall issue any warrant for the payment thereof.

SEC. 6. Said commissioner shall annually publish a report embodying therein such information and statistics as he may deem expedient and proper, which report shall be printed and paid for by the State just as the report [reports] of other public officers are printed and paid for, the number of copies of said report to be printed to be designated by said commissioner; the distribution of the reports will be paid for from the general fund and not from the appropriation; said commissioner shall send or cause to

Report.

Wage claims

be sent a copy of said report to every newspaper in this State and a copy to each member of the general assembly, a copy to each of the several State and county officers, a copy to each labor organization in the State and a copy to any citizen who may apply for the same either in person or by mail, and he may also send a copy to such officers of other States and Territories and to such corporations or individuals in other States and Territories as may apply for the same or as he may think proper. He shall also make a full report to the governor as other State officers are required to do, embodying therein such recommendation as he may deem calculated to promote the efficiency of his department.

ACTS OF 1901.

CHAPTER 2.-Wages preferred-In insolvency of corporations.

SECTION 87. In case of the insolvency of any corporation the laare a first lien. borers and workmen and all persons doing labor or service of whatever character in the regular employment of such corporation, shall have a first and prior lien upon the assets thereof for the amount of wages due to them respectively for all labor, work, and services done, performed or rendered within two months next preceding the date when proceedings in insolvency shall be actually instituted and begun against such insolvent corporation, which lien shall be prior to all other liens that can or may be acquired upon or against such assets.

Makers of goods, etc.

Discharging employee for vote.

CHAPTER 9.-Peddlers' license-Mechanics exempt.

SECTION 54. *

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* This section shall not apply to those who sell or offer for sale, ** articles of their own individual manufacture, except drugs, medicines and nostrums.

CHAPTER 89.-Protection of employees as voters.

SECTION 53. Any person who shall discharge from employment, * * any qualified voter of this State because of the vote such voter may or may not have cast in any election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 586.-Antitrust law-Labor organizations exempt.

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Organizations SECTION 9. * * ** this chapter shall not be * of laborers ex- derstood or construed to prevent the organization of laborers for empt. the purpose of maintaining any standard of wages.

Platforms to

CHAPTER 743.-Protection of employees on street railways—Closed

platforms.

SECTION 1. All city and street passenger railway companies be inclosed, are hereby required to use vestibule fronts, of frontage not less

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Provisos.

than four feet, on all passenger cars run, manipulated or transported by them on their lines during the latter half of the month of November and during the months of December, January, February and March of each year: Provided, That said companies shall not be required to close the sides of said vestibules: And provided further, That said companies may use cars without vestibule fronts in cases of temporary emergency in suitable weather, not to exceed four days in any one month within the period herein prescribed for use of vestibule fronts. Any city and street railway company refusing or failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars for each day. The North Carolina corporation commission is hereby authorized to make exemptions from the provisions of this section in such cases as in their judgment the enforcement of this section is unnecessary.

ACTS OF 1903.

CHAPTER 247.-Emigrant agents.

SECTION 26. Taxes in this schedule [Schedule B] shall be im- Tax required; posed as license tax for the privilege of carrying on the business or doing the act named, * * * The license issued under this schedule shall be for twelve months, and shall expire on the thirtyfirst day of May of each year.

Of emigrant

SEC. 74. On every emigrant agent or person engaged in procuring laborers for employment out of this State, an annual license tax of agents. one hundred dollars for the State and one hundred dollars for the county for each county in which such agent or person does business, the same to be collected by the sheriff. Anyone engaging in this business without first paying said tax shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than two hundred dollars or imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.

CHAPTER 473.-Employment of children-Age limit-Hours of

labor.

SECTION 1. No child under twelve years of age shall be employed or work in any factory or manufacturing establishment within this State: Provided, This act shall not apply to oyster canning and packing manufactories in this State, where said canning and packing manufactories pay for opening or shucking oysters by the gallon or bushel.

Age limit.

Hours of la

SEC. 2. Not exceeding sixty-six hours shall constitute a week's work in all factories and manufacturing establishments of this bor. State, and no person under 18 years of age shall be required to work in such factories or establishments a longer period than sixty-six hours in one week: Provided, That this section shall not apply to engineers, firemen, machinists, superintendents, overseers, section and yard hands, office men, watchmen or repairers of breakdowns.

Statement of

SEC. 3. All parents, or persons standing in relation of parent, upon hiring their children to any factory or manufacturing estab- age. lishment, shall furnish such establishment a written statement of the age of such child or children being so hired, and any such parent, or person standing in the relation of parent to such child or children, who shall in such written statement misstate the age of such child or children being so employed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished at the discretion of the court. Any mill owner, superintendent or other person acting in behalf of a factory or manufacturing establishment who shall knowingly or willfully violate the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished at the discretion of the court.

Oystermen to

CHAPTER 516.-Licensing of employees on oyster boats. SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch oysters from the public grounds of the State without first obtaining a be licensed. license so to do, and no person shall be licensed for this purpose who is not a bona fide resident of this State and who has not continuously resided therein for two years next preceding the date of his application for license, and it shall be unlawful for any person, licensed under the provisions of this act to employ as agent, or assistant any person not so licensed, or to act as the agent or assistant of any person unlicensed.

NORTH DAKOTA.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 1.-Interfering with employment.

SECTION 23. Every citizen of this State shall be free to obtain employment wherever possible, and any person, corporation or

Commissioner to be elected.

Age limit.

Blacklisting prohibited.

agent thereof, maliciously interfering or hindering in any way, any citizen from obtaining or enjoying employment already obtained, from any other corporation or person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

ARTICLE 3.-Commissioner of agriculture and labor.

SECTION 82. There shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the State at the times and places of choosing members of the legislative assembly, * * one commissioner of agriculture and labor, who shall have attained the age of twenty-five years, shall be a citizen of the United States, and shall have the qualifications of State electors. They shall severally hold their offices at the seat of government, for the term of two years and until their successors are elected and duly qualified, *

ARTICLE 17.-Employment of children.

SECTION 209. The labor of children under twelve years of age shall be prohibited in mines, factories and workshops in this State.

ARTICLE 17.-Blacklisting.

SECTION 212. The exchange of "black lists" between corporations shall be prohibited.

REVISED CODES OF 1899.

Printing to be

POLITICAL CODE.

CHAPTER 2.-Public printing to be done within the State.

SECTION 50. All printing shall be done by established printing done within houses in this State,

State.

Duty of commissioner.

Duty of officials.

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CHAPTER 3.-Commissioner of agriculture and labor.

SECTION 123. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture and labor to collect, systematize and present in biennial reports to the legislative assembly statistical details relating to all labor departments in the State, such as hours and wages of labor, the estimated number of persons employed by the several industries within the State, the operation of labor-saving machinery and its relation to hand labor, a description of the different kinds of labor organizations in existence in this State, and what they have accomplished in favor of the class for which they were organized. Such statistics may be classified as the commissioner of agriculture and labor deems best.

SEC. 124. It shall be the duty of all State, county, township and municipal officers to furnish upon the written request of the commissioner of agriculture all the information in their power necessary to assist in carrying out the objects of this article. For the purpose of obtaining statistics relating to manufactures and mining the commissioner of agriculture shall procure in a manner that may seem best to him, the names and addresses of all the Owners of manufacturers and mine owners and operators in the State, and factories, etc. shall transmit by mail to each owner, operator or manager of each shop, mill, manufacturing establishment or mine, not later than the first day of July of each year, suitably prepared blanks, enbodying inquiries into the subjects upon which the commissioner is required or authorized to prepare statistics, which blanks shall be filled out complete and returned to the commissioner not later than the first day of August following. The information so obtained shall be preserved, systematized and tabulated by the commissioner, but no information concerning the business or affairs of any individual, firm, company or corporation shall be divulged or in any manner made public by the commissioner or any one in

the employ of his office, and any violation of this provision shall subject the party violating to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or to imprisonment of not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment. The refusal or neglect of any such owner, operator or manager of any shop, mill, manufacturing establishment or mine to supply the information asked by the commissioner within the time designated shall be construed as a violation of the following section and shall subject the party so offending to the penalties therein prescribed: Provided, That no prosecution shall be begun against such persons for such neglect or refusal until at least twenty days after a second notice and blank shall have been mailed them by the commissioner.

Penalty.

Obstructing

SEC. 125. Any person who willfully impedes or obstructs the commissioner in the full and free performance of his duties shall commissioner. be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment of not less than seven nor more than thirty days in the county jail, or by both. The refusal or neglect of any person for himself or for any person, firm, company or corporation of which he may be a member, or agent, to furnish the information or statistical statement required to be furnished to assessors, shall be construed to be a violation of the provisions of this section, and it is hereby made the duty of the county auditor to report such violation with the names and post-office address and place of residence of the violator as furnished him by the assessor to the State's attorney for the county in which such violations occurred, and the State's attorney shall forthwith proceed to enforce the penalty provided in this section against such persons; and he is hereby authorized to subpoena the assessor and such other witnesses as may be necessary, and to introduce the assessor's returns in evidence.

SEC. 126. He shall have power to send for persons, books and papers whenever in his opinion it is necessary, and he may examine witnesses under oath, being hereby authorized to administer the same in the performance of his duty, and the testimony so taken must be filed and preserved in his office.

SEC. 127. He shall look after and devise means to advance the immigration interests of the State, and to encourage and promote the permanent settlement and improvement of all sections of the State. He shall have charge of the preparation in manuscript, the publication and distribution by mail and otherwise of any and all documents and articles of reading matter designed to convey correct and full information on all matters pertaining to the growth and development of the agricultural, manufacturing, commercial and mining interests of the State. He shall attend to all correspondence relating to immigration and shall do all in his power by letter, by the use of published printed matter and through personal effort to secure the most liberal and extensive advertisement of the resources and opportunities of the State. It shall be his aim to induce the investment of capital in agriculture, in mining and in different industrial and mercantile pursuits, and to facilitate the coming to the State of persons and families seeking permanent location for new homes. He shall procure the most favorable rates of fare obtainable from railroads and other transportation companies for persons coming to the State, and where such persons have formed a colony or party of considerable number, he shall be required to visit them, if necessary, and do all in his power to direct and assist them in making the necessary arrangements for transportation and in reaching the State.

Powers.

Promoting immigration.

SEC. 129. The commissioner of agriculture and labor shall be Statistics. the State statistician. It shall be his duty to obtain from assessors and other officers of the organized counties of the State, and to collate and prepare in tabulated form for reference, statistics showing the assessed valuation of all real and personal property, the acreage and yield of all kinds of grain and tame grasses; the number of horses, cattle, sheep and other live stock and other in