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SEC. 4022-3 (as amended by act, page 615, Acts of 1902). All Illiterates. minors over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen years, who can not read and write the English language shall be required to attend school as provided in section 4022-1 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio and all the provisions of said section shall apply to said minors: Provided, That such attendance shall not be required of such minors after they have secured a certificate from the superintendent of schools, in districts having superintendents or the clerk of the board of education in districts not having superintendents, that they can read and write the English language. No person, company or corporation shall employ any such minor during the time schools are in session, or having such minor in their employ shall immediately cease such employment, upon notice from the truant officer who is hereinafter provided for. Every person, company or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars.

SEC. 4022-5. To aid in the enforcement of this act, truant officers Enforcement. shall be appointed * **: The truant officer shall be vested with police powers, the authority to serve warrants, and shall have authority to enter workshops, factories, stores and all other places where children may be employed, and do whatever may be necessary, in the way of investigation or otherwise, to enforce this act; he is also authorized to take into custody the person of any youth between eight and fourteen years of age, or between fourteen and sixteen years of age when not regularly employed or when unable to read and write the English language, who is not attending school, and shall conduct said youth to the school he has been attending, or which he should rightfully attend. The truant officer shall institute proceedings against any officer, parent, guardian, person or corporation violating any provisions of this act, * *

etc.

SEC. 4022-9 (as amended by act, page 615, Acts of 1902). When Children of deany truant officer is satisfied that any child, compelled to attend school pendent parents, by the provisions of this act, is unable to attend school because absolutely required to work, at home or elsewhere, in order to support itself or help support or care for others legally entitled to its services, who are unable to support or care for themselves, the truant officer shall report the case to the authorities charged with the relief of the poor, and it shall be the duty of said officers to afford such relief as will enable the child to attend school the time each year required under this act. Such child shall not be considered or declared a pauper by reason of the acceptance of the relief herein provided for. * In all cases

where relief is necessary it shall be the duty of the board of education to furnish text books free of charge and said board may furnish any further relief it may deem necessary, the expenses incident to furnishing said books and relief to be paid from the contingent funds of the school district.

Retaining wages of minors-Written contracts.

Fines, etc. pro

SECTION 4364-65. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation doing business in the State of Ohio, to retain or withhold hibited. from an employee, male or female, who is a minor, the wages or compensation, or any part thereof, agreed to be paid to such employee, and due to the same for work performed or services rendered, because of presumed negligence or failure to comply with rules, or for breakage of machinery, or for alleged incompetency to produce work or to perform labor in accordance with any standard of merit set up; nor shall any firm, corporation, or individual as aforesaid, receive any guarantee, bonus, or money deposit, or any other form of security, in order to obtain or to secure for any such minor employment, or to insure faithful performance of labor, or to guarantee strict observance of rules, or to make good any losses which may be ascribed or charged to the incompetence, negligence, or inability of such minor employee.

SEC. 4364-66 (as amended by act, page 598, Acts of 1902). No person, Contracts to be company or corporation, as aforesaid, shall give employment to any in writing. minor, without agreeing with said minor what wages or compensation

Penalty.

Seats to be provided.

he or she shall be entitled to receive per day, week, month or year or per piece for work performed; and written evidence of such agreement shall be furnished to such minor, and on or before each pay day a statement of earnings due, and the amount thereof to be paid to him or her on such pay day shall be given to such minor, and no subsequent change shall be made in the wages or compensation of such minor without notice of the same being given to him or her at least twenty-four hours previous to its going into effect, and when such change is effected written agreement shall be given as in the first instance to said minor employee.

SEC. 4364-67. Any person, or officer, or agent of any company or corporation, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court; and it is hereby declared to be the duty of the State inspector of workshops and factories to see that the provisions of this act shall be enforced.

Seats, etc., for female employees.

SECTION 4364-69. Every person or corporation employing female employees in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishments in this State, shall provide a suitable seat for the use of each female employee so employed, and shall permit the use of such by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed, and shall permit the use of such seats at all times when such use would not actually and necessarily interfere with the proper discharge of the duties of such employees, and such seat shall be constructed or adjusted where practicable so as to be a fixture and not obstruct such female when actually engaged in Toilet rooms. the performance of such duties when such seat can not be used. And the owner of the building shall provide, on the same floor, or floor immediately above or below, of the building wherein any female persons are employed, suitable and separate toilet and dressing rooms and water-closets for the exclusive use of such female employees, and where possible, such dressing rooms and water-closets shall be situated together, with one water-closet for every twenty-five females or less, and where there are more than twenty-five there shall be provided an additional water-closet, up to the number of firty, and above that number in the same ratio: Provided, That no such closet for the use of females shall be placed in a basement or cellar, unless such basement or cellar is used for manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile purposes, and females are employed therein: And, provided, further, That such closets, in the same ratio as above mentioned, shall be placed on the outside of such building at a distance not to exceed twenty feet in such cities, towns and villages as are not provided with a system of waterworks; unless such building is provided with a dry closet system such closets to be kept in good sanitary condition at all times. The State inspector of factories and workshops is hereby charged with the duty of seeing that the provisions of this section are observed and enforced.

Penalty.

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occupations.

SEC. 4361-70. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.

PART IV. PENAL.

Certain employments of children forbidden.

SECTION 6984. Whoever takes, receives, hires, employs, uses, exmendicant, etc..hibits, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sells, apprentices, gives away, lets out, or otherwise disposes of, to any person, any child under the age of fourteen years, for or in the vocation, occupation, service, or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging, or peddling, or as a gymnast, contor

tionist, rider, or acrobat, or for or in any obscene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice, or for or in any business, exhibition, or vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limbs of such child, or causes, or procures, or encourages, any such child to engage therein, or causes or permits any such child to suffer, or inflicts upon it, unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or willfully causes or permits the life of any such child to be endangered, or its health to be injured, or such child to be placed in such situation that its life may be endangered, or its health injured, or has in custody any such child for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

SEC. 6986-1. No child under the age of sixteen years, shall be em- Dangerous employed by any person, firm or corporation in this State, at employment ployments. whereby its life or limb is endangered, or its health is likely to be in

jured, or its morals may be depraved by such employment.

SEC. 6986-2. Any person, firm or corporation in this State who will- Penalty. fully causes or permits the life or limb of any child under the age of sixteen years to be endangered, or its health to be injured, or its morals to become depraved, from and while actually in their employ, or who willfully permits such child to be placed in such a position or to engage in such employment that its life or limb is in danger, or its health likely to be injured, or its morals likely to be impaired by such position or employment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten ($10) dollars nor more than fifty ($50) dollars, or imprisonment not less than thirty nor more than ninety days for each and every offense.

SEC. 6986-3. It shall be the duty of the State inspector of workshops Enforcement. and factories to enforce the provisions of this act.

Employment of children.

Certificates.

SECTION 6986-7 (as amended by act, page 598, Acts of 1902, and act, Age limit. page 321, Acts of 1904). No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any factory, workshop, mercantile or other establishment, directly or indirectly at any time, nor be employed as messenger or driver therefor; and no child under [said] the age shall be employed in any other manner, whether it be for compensation or otherwise, when the public schools in which district such child resides are in session. Every person, company or corporation, or agent having charge of or the management of such factory, workshop, mercantile or other estabment employing any child over fourteen years and under sixteen years of age, shall exact the age and schooling certificate prescribed in section 4022-2 as a condition of employment, and shall keep the same on file, and shall upon the request of the chief or district inspector of workshops and factories produce said certificates for inspection; but no person authorized as aforesaid shall approve such certificates for any child under sixteen years of age then in or about to enter his own employment or the employment of a firm, company or corporation of which he is a member, officer, or employee. An age and schooling certificate shall not be approved unless satisfactory evidence is furnished by the last school census, the certificate of birth or baptism, or in some such manner, that said child is of the age re quired as aforesaid; failure to produce to an inspector of workshops and factories an age and schooling certificate, as aforesaid required, shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any person whose age and schooling certificate is not produced.

In case of doubt of the physical fitness of such minor, the inspector shall require a certificate signed by a medical officer of the board of health, certifying that such child is in sound health and physically able to perform the work he is required to do.

SEC. 6986 8 (as amended by act, page 598, Acts of 1902, and act, Register. page 321, Acts of 1904). It shall be the duty of every person employ

ing minors under the age of eighteen years to keep a register in which

shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of

every minor employed by him under the age of eighteen years. No Night work. boy under sixteen years of age and no girl under eighteen years of

age, shall be employed at any work at night time later than seven o'clock in the evening nor earlier than six o'clock in the morning, and no minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed in any of the places named in section 6986-7 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio for a Hours of labor. longer period than ten hours in one day, nor more than fifty-five hours in one week; and every such minor under eighteen years of age shall be entitled to no less than thirty minutes for mealtime at noon, but such mealtime shall not be included as part of the work hours of the day; and every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room where such minors are employed a printed notice stating the maximum number of work hours required in one week, and in each day of the week from such minors; such printed notice to be furnished by the chief inspector of workshops and factories, and approved by the attorney-general.

Penalty.

SEC. 6986-9 (as amended by act, page 321, Acts of 1904). Any person, firm or corporation who shall employ any minor contrary to the provisions of this act, or who shall violate any of the provisions thereof, shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and upon failure or refusal of any such person, firm or corporation to pay said fine or costs according to the order of the court, then such person, firm or corporation shall be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine is paid.

OKLAHOMA.

CONSTITUTION OF 1907.

ARTICLE 23.—Employment of children.

Dangerous, SECTION 3. The employment of children, under the age of fifteen etc.,occupations. years, in any occupation, injurious to health or morals or especially hazardous to life or limb, is hereby prohibited.

Employment SEC. 4. Boys under the age of sixteen years, and women and girls, shall not be employed, underground, in the operation of mines; *

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STATUTES OF 1893.

Hours of labor of women and children.

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PARAGRAPH 2550. Every owner, stockholder, overseer, employer, clerk or foreman, of any manufactory, workshop, or other place used for mechanical or manufacturing purposes, who, having control, shall compel any woman or any child under eighteen years of age, or permit any child under fourteen years of age, to labor in any day exceeding ten hours, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred and not less than ten dollars.

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CHAPTER 59.-Earnings of minors.

PARAGRAPH 3562. The wages of a minor employed in service may valid, be paid to him or her until the parent or guardian entitled thereto gives the employer notice that he claims such wages.

OREGON.

ANNOTATED CODES AND STATUTES-1902.

Earnings of married women.

SECTION 31. A wife may receive the wages of her personal labor, Earnings sepand maintain an action therefor in her own name, and hold the same arate property. in her own right, as if unmarried.

ACTS OF 1903.

Employment of children.

(Act, page 79, as amended by chapter 208, Acts of 1905.)

SECTION 2. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed Age limit. in any factory, store, workshop, in or about any mine, or in the telegraph, telephone, or public messenger service.

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SEC. 3. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed Employment in any work, or labor of any form, for wages or other compensation to during whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the town, district, or city in which he or she resides are in session.

hours.

SEC. 4. Attendance at school shall be compulsory upon all children School attendbetween the ages of eight and fourteen years in all cities, towns and ance required. villages of the State of Oregon during the whole of the school term in the city, town or village in which the child resides, and upon all children in such city, towns, and villages between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years who are not employed in some lawful work.

SEC. 5. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed at any work before the hour of seven in the morning, or after the hour of six at night, nor employed for longer than ten hours for any one day, nor more than six days in any one week; and every such child, under sixteen years of age, shall be entitled to not less than thirty minutes for mealtime at noon, but such mealtime shall not be included as part of the work hours of the day; and every employer shall post in a conspicuous place where such miners are employed, a printed notice stating the maximum work hours required in one week, and in every day of the week, from such minors.

The limitation of the hours of labor is a valid exercise of the legislative power. 86 Pac. Rep. 881.

Hours of labor.

Night work.

SEC. 6. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed, per- Certificates. mitted or suffered to work in any employment enumerated in section 2 unless the person or corporation employing him procures and keeps on file and accessible to the school authorities of the district where such child resides, and to the police and board of inspectors of child labor an age and schooling certificate as hereinafter prescribed, and keep a complete list of all such children employed therein.

SEC. 7. An age and schooling certificate shall be executed, issued and approved only by the superintendent of schools, or by a person authorized by him in writing or, where there is no superintendent of schools, by a person authorized by the board of school directors: Provided, That no member of a board of school directors or other person authorized as aforesaid shall have authority to approve such certificate for any child then in or about to enter his own employment, or the employment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member, officer or employee. The person approving the certificate shall have authority to administer the oath provided for therein, but no fees shall be charged therefor.

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SEC. 8. An age and schooling certificate shall not be approved Proof of age. unless satisfactory evidence is furnished by the last school census, the duly attested transcript of the certificate of birth or baptism of such child or other religious record, or the register of birth of such child with a town or city clerk, that such child is of the age stated in the certificate.

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