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of accident to the shipper rope or hoisting machinery, or from any similar cause, and said mechanical device shall at all times be kept in good working order.

SEC. 3 (as amended by chapter 241, Acts of 1907). The inspector Deputies. may from time to time appoint deputies to assist him in the performance of his duties. Such deputies shall have the same power and authority as the inspector, subject to his approval. Each of said deputies shall receive a compensation of five dollars per day for actual services, and his or her necessary expenses incident to the performance of the duties of his or her office. The total amount expended under this section shall not exceed in any one year nine thousand dollars, which shall be paid upon proper vouchers by the deputies, signed by the inspector.

ACTS OF 1907.

CHAPTER 241.-Factory inspectors-Female deputy.

SECTION 1. The factory inspector shall, in addition to the deputy Female infactory inspectors provided for by chapter 97 of the Public Acts of spector. 1903, appoint, from time to time, on the recommendation of an advisory commission of three women appointed by the governor for that purpose as specified in section five of this act, a female deputy factory inspector, who shall hold office until her successor is appointed and qualified, unless removed by said factory inspector for cause. Said female deputy factory inspector shall receive the compensation for services and expenses provided by section three of chapter 97 of the Public Acts of 1903 as amended by this act.

SEC. 2. Said female deputy factory inspector shall inquire into the Duties. enforcement of the laws regulating the employment of women and girls in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, investigate the conditions relating to the health and welfare of women and girls employed in such establishments, and report thereon to the factory inspector: Provided, however, That she shall have no power or authority over and no duty concerning any machinery, appliances, or fixtures except sanitary fixtures.

SEC. 3. Said female deputy factory inspector shall have the same power and authority as the factory inspector, except as to machinery, appliances, and fixtures, subject to his approval, and shall serve under the direction of said factory inspector in all respects as other deputy inspectors.

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SEC. 5. The governor shall, on or before the first day of August, Commission of 1907, appoint three women, no two of whom shall be residents of the women. same town, who shall constitute an advisory commission for the appointment of a female deputy factory inspector and shall serve for two, four, and six years respectively; and biennially thereafter the governor shall appoint one member of said commission to serve for the term of six years. It shall be the duty of said commission to recommend to the factory inspector some woman for appointment as female deputy factory inspector, such recommendation to be made on or before October 1, 1907, and thereafter whenever a vacancy shall occur in said office.

DELAWARE.

REVISED CODE OF 1893.

CHAPTER 127.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.
(Page 929.)

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Abusive, etc., language forbidden.

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tower or structure furnished with safe and easy communication with such building: Provided, That this act shall not apply to any building whatever that is already supplied with two or more independent stairways leading from the highest story to the ground floor, if said stairways shall not be nearer to each other at any point than a distance of sixty feet.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the chief engineer of the fire department in any city, town or borough where there may be such officers, or if there be no such officer therein, then of the mayor or chief officer thereof, and in all other places of the clerk of the school district wherein any such building is located to examine such fire escapes as to their suitableness and sufficiency, whether as to quality, location or number. If upon such examination such escapes be found to be sufficient and suitable, the person examining shall give the owner of such building or some one of them, if more than one, a certificate stating such examination and his approval, which certificate shall be good for two years, at the expiration of which time another examination shall be had and a like certificate given. Such certificate of approval shall be evidence of sufficient compliance with the requirements of this act and shall protect such owner from any penalty herein prescribed during the time for which it may have been given. The fee for such examination shall be one dollar.

SEC. 4. Every owner of any such building as is specified in this act, whether an individual or a body corporate, who shall fail to comply with the provisions thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall forfeit and pay to the State a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and in case of a corporation, payment of the fine may be enforced by a writ of fieri facias to be issued out of the court where such conviction was had on the judgment thereof and continued by venditioni exponas as upon judgments in the superior court.

ACTS OF 1897.

CHAPTER 452.-Factories and workshops-Provisions for female employees-New Castle County.

SECTION 1 (as amended by chapter 453, Acts of 1897). It shall be the duty of every person or corporation employing female labor to the number of ten or upwards in New Castle County to provide, within three months after the passage of this act, a room or rooms, plainly and appropriately furnished, for such female employees to dress, wash and lunch in, separate and apart from the male employees of such person or corporation, allowing in said separate room or rooms [sic]; and further, to provide washing sinks for such female employees, separate and apart from such male employees, allowing one such washing sink to each fifteen of such female employees employed by such person or corporation; and further, to provide water-closets for such female employees, separate from those used by such male employees: Provided, That nothing in this section shall apply to canning establishments doing business in the rural districts of said county.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of every storekeeper in New Castle County to provide seats for his or her clerks and employees, so that when unemployed such clerks and employees may be seated.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of every person or corporation employing female labor to provide such places for such female employees to work in during cold weather as shall be reasonably and comfortably

warm.

SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any employer of female labor, or any overseer, superintendent, foreman or boss of any such employer of female labor to use toward female employees any abusive, indecent or profane language, or to in any manner abuse, misuse, unnecessarily expose to hardship, or maltreat any such female employee.

SEC. 5. Any person violating any provision of section 4 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense; any person or corporation violating any provision of

the first, second and third sections of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined the sum of ten dollars, and shall be subject to the further penalty of ten dollars for each day thereafter during which such corporation or person shall refuse or neglect to provide the furnished rooms, seats, appliances or furnish the heat therein mentioned.

CHAPTER 452.-Inspection of factories-Female inspector.

SECTION 7. The chief justice of the State of Delaware is hereby Female inspecauthorized and required within sixty days after the passage of this act tor. to appoint a female inspector, whose duty it shall be to visit from time to time all stores, mills, factories and other places of business where female labor is employed and to duly enforce the provisions of this act. Whenever said inspector shall ascertain that the provisions of this act or any of them are being violated by any employer in New Castle County, it shall be the duty of said inspector to serve upon such violator of the provisions of this act written notice that unless such employer shall conform to the requirements of this act, and wholly cease any violation thereof within ten days from the services of such notice, such employer will be prosecuted under the provisions of this act. And it shall further be the duty of said inspector in case of the neglect or failure of such employer, who has received such notice, to conform to the provisions of this act, and to cease all violations thereof within ten days from the said service of said notice, to institute the prosecution of such recalcitrant employer or employers under the provisions of this act, by swearing out before any justice of the peace in New Castle County resident in the hundred where said employer may have his, her or its place of business, or in an adjacent hundred, the necessary warrant or complaint and thereupon to assist and enforce the prosecution of the person or corporation so complained of to the full extent of her power, and it shall further be the duty of such inspector in case any prosecutions under the provisions of this act shall be begun or instituted by any other person than such inspector, to aid, further and assist such independent prosecution of such employer to the best of her power, and whenever such independent prosecution of any such employer shall be begun by any person other than said inspector it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace before whom such complaint shall be made to straightway notify by due course of mail the inspector appointed under this act, informing such inspector of the name of the complainant and defendant, of the names of the witnesses indorsed upon said complaint and of the day, hour and place fixed for the hearing of said cause.

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SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of every employer of female labor in New Inspector Castle County, whether to the number of ten or upward or less, to to have access to permit said inspector to have full and free access at any time during the working noon hours of said employees to the place of business of such employer where such employees are employed, and in case any such employer shall refuse such inspector full and free access to his place of business as aforesaid, or shall in any way hinder or prevent the full performance of her duties of inspection under the provisions of this act, such employer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon every conviction of such interference with said inspector in the performance of her duties, shall pay a fine to New Castle County of ten dollars, which fine shall be collected in the same manner as the other fines and penalties heretofore provided for in this act.

SEC. 9 (as amended by chapter 453, Acts of 1897). The inspector Term, etc. appointed under this act shall hold her said office for the term of two years, or until her successor is appointed, and shall receive an annual salary of three hundred dollars, payable quarterly, by warrants upon the county treasury; it shall further be her duty on the first day of August in each year subsequent to the year of her appointment, to

make a written report to the chief justice of her acts and of all trans- Report.
actions under this statute. The provisions of this act shall apply to
and be enforced only in duly incorporated towns and cities in New
Castle County.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

ACTS OF U. S. CONGRESS, 1897-98.

CHAPTER 8.-Factories and workshops-Water-closets.

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SECTION 9. Every building in said District * are employed or intended to be employed in any trade or business, shall be provided with sufficient and suitable privy accommodations, having regard to the number of persons employed in or in attendance at such building; and also where persons of both sexes are employed or intended to be employed, or in attendance, with sufficient, suitable, and separate privy accommodations for persons of each sex. It shall be unlawful for any owner or agent to put any person or persons in possession of any building, or any part thereof, not provided with privy accommodations as aforesaid, except a watchman for the purpose of guarding such building or part thereof.

ACTS OF FIRST SESSION, 59TH CONGRESS, 1905-1906.

CHAPTER 957.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having possession, charge, or control of any building already erected, or which may hereafter be erected, in which ten or more persons are employed at the same time in any of the stories above the second story, to provide and cause to be erected and affixed thereto a sufficient number of the * * * fire escapes [of such material, type, and construction as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine], the location and number of the same to be determined by the said commissioners, and to keep the hallways and stairways in every such building as is used and occupied at night properly lighted, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from sunset to sunrise.

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SEC. 3. It shall also be the duty of the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having possession, charge, or control of any building in which ten or more persons are employed, as set forth in section two of this act, to provide, install, and maintain therein proper and sufficient guide signs, guide lights, exit lights, hall and stairway lights, fire hose, and fire extinguishers, in such location and numbers and of such type and character as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine.

SEC. 4. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to require any alterations or changes that may become necessary in buildings now or hereafter erected, in order to properly locate or relocate fire escapes or to afford access to fire escapes, and to require any changes or alterations in any building that may be necessary in order to provide for the erection of additional fire escapes, when in the judgment of said Commissioners additional fire escapes are

necessary.

SEC. 5. Each elevator shaft and stairway extending to the basement of the buildings heretofore mentioned shall terminate in a fireproof compartment or inclosure, separating the elevator shaft and stairs from other parts of the basement, and no opening shall be made or maintained in such compartment or inclosure unless the same be provided with fireproof doors.

SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful to obstruct any hall, passageway, corridor, or stairway in any building mentioned in this act with baggage, trunks, furniture, cans, or with any other thing whatsoever.

SEC. 7. No door or window leading to any fire escape shall be covered or obstructed by any fixed grating or barrier, and no person shall at any time place any incumbrance or obstacle upon any fire escape or upon any platform, ladder, or stairway leading to or from any fire escape.

SEC. 8. No license shall be issued to any person to conduct any business for which a license is required in any building mentioned in this.

act until such building has been provided and equipped with a sufficient number of fire escapes and other appliances required by this act. SEC. 9. Any person failing or neglecting to provide fire escapes, alarm gongs, guide signs, fire hose, fire extinguishers, or other appliances required by this act, after notice from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia so to do, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall be punished by a further fine of five dollars for each day that he fails to comply with the notice aforesaid. Any person violating any other provision of this act shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

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SEC. 10. The said notice requiring the erection of fire escapes and Notices. other appliances mentioned in this act shall specify the character and number of fire escapes or other appliances to be provided, the location of the same, and the time within which said fire escapes or other appliances shall be provided, and in no case shall more than ninety days be allowed for compliance with said notice unless the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall, in their discretion, deem it necessary to extend their time.

SEC. 11. Said notice shall be deemed to have been served if delivered Delivery of to the person to be notified, or if left with any adult person at the usual notice. residence or place of business of the person to be notified in the District of Columbia, or if no such residence or place of business can be found in said District by reasonable search, if left with any adult person at the office of any agent of the person to be notified, provided such agent has any authority or duty with reference to the building to which said notice relates, or if no such office can be found in said District by reasonable search if forwarded by registered mail to the last known address of the person to be notified and not returned by the post-office authorities, or if no address be known or can by reasonable diligence be ascertained, or if any notice forwarded as authorized by the preceding clause of this section be returned by the post-office authorities, if published on ten consecutive days in a daily newspaper published in the District of Columbia, or if by reason of an outstanding unrecorded transfer of title the name of the owner in fact can not be ascertained beyond a reasonable doubt, if served on the owner of record in the manner herein before in this section provided. Any notice to a corporation shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed to have been served on such corporation if served on the president, secretary, treasurer, general manager, or any principal officer of such corporation in the manner hereinbefore provided for the service of notices on natural persons holding property in their own right, and notice to a foreign corporation shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed to have been served if served on any agent of such corporation personally, or if left with any person of suitable age and discretion residing at the usual residence or employed at the usual place of business of such agent in the District of Columbia: Provided, That in case of failure or refusal of the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having possession, charge, or control of any buildings specified in this act to comply with the requirements of the notice provided for in section ten, then, and in that event, the Commissioners are hereby empowered and it is their duty to cause such erection of fire escapes and other appliances mentioned in the notice provided for, and they are hereby authorized to assess the costs thereof as a tax against the buildings on which they are erected and the ground on which the same stands, and to issue tax-lien certificates against such building and grounds for the amount of such assessments, bearing interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum, which certificates may be turned over by the Commissioners to the contractor for doing the work.

SEC. 12. The supreme court of the District of Columbia, in term Injunctions. time or in vacation, may, upon a petition of the District of Columbia,

filed by its said Commissioners, issue an injunction to restrain the use

or occupation of any building in the District of Columbia in violation of any of the provisions of this act.

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