The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-18
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CHAPTER III.
AN ACT To amend ehante 80 Law


Section i. Chapter Sl9, laws OF 1885 emitted
IAN act TO create bureau of labor statistics Is
hereby amended by striking out all after the en-
acting clause and substituting for the part struck
out the following: There is hereby created
bureau of labor census and industrial statistics,
with headquarters In the capitol building, ior
which stationery, postage, expressage, printing
and facilities for transacting business shall be
furnished the same as for other executive depart
ments.
Section 3 The governor with the advice and
consent of the senate, shall appoint Fundamentally
on the first Monday OF February, competent
person to be commissioner of the said bureau
Section 8. The said commissioner shall have
power 10 appoint deputy at a salary not TO ex-
coed SIPS per month, who, when acting Tor or IN
stead of said commissioner, shall have and may
exercise equal power and authority. He may
also appoint a clerk at a salary not exceeding
500 per month, and factory inspector who
shall reside in Milwaukee, and be and Work I'M
der The direction and control of the commission
err at salary of 81. 200 per year and actual trav-
cling expenses, stated under oath, while engaged
In bureau work outside OF Milwaukee.
Section f. The duties of the said commissioner
shall be, TO collect collate and publish statistics
and facts relative to the manufactures, industrial
classes and material resources of the state; ana
especially to examine into the relations between
labor and capital, the means Of escape from fires
and protection of life and health in factories and
workshops, the employment of Illegal child LABOR,
the exaction of unlawful hours of labor from
women and children, the educational, sanitary.
moral and financial condition of laborers and
artisans the cost OF food fuel clothing ana build
ing material the causes of strikes and lock-outs,
as well rs kindred subjects and matters pertain
ing TO the welfare OF industrial interests and
classes.
Section 5. The commissioner, his deputy or the
factory inspector shall have power to enter any
factory or workshop in which labor is employed,
Tor the purpose OF gathering facts and statistics or
OF examining the means of escape from fire and
the provisions made for the health and safety OF
operatives in such factory or workshop. And In
case the officer of the bureau shall discover any
violations of or neglect to comply with the laws
in any respect to child labor, hours of labor for
women and children, fire escapes, and similar en-
actmentS now or hereafter 10 be made, he shall
notify the owner or occupant OF such factory or
workshop, in writing, of the ofense or neglect,
and II such otfense or neglect is not corrected or
remedied within thirty days after the service of
the notice aforesaid he shall lodge formal COM
plant with the district attorney of the county
which the ofense Is committed or the neglect oc-
ours, whereupon that officer shall proceed at once
against the offender according TO law.
Section 6. The factory inspector or any officer
OF the bureau, may examine hotels and lodging
or boarding houses, for the purpose of discover
ing whether they are properly equipped with
lawful fire escapes: and be may post IN any hotel,
lodging or boarding house SO examined, the laws
upon this matter, together with his official state
ment as to whether the said laws are fully com
piled with by said hotel, lodging or boarding
house And any hotel, lodging or boarding house
keeper, or other person, who shall mutilate, de
stroy or remove from any building or buildings,
the said laws or statement posted shall b, fined
s50for each and every offense, upon complaint Of
any officer of the bureau or any citizen. When
ever any hotel, lodging or boarding house that
has been posted as not complying with the terms
of the laws in respect TO fire escapes, shall be
properly provided and equipped with lawful fire
escapes, and the bureau shall be notified thereof
the commissioner shall at once order new state
ment setting forth that fact, to be posted in said
hotel, lodging or boarding house. And the bu-
reau shall keep record OF all buildings so exam
ined and posted.
Section The factory inspector or any officer
of the bureau, may post in any factory or work
shop examined by him, the laws now or hereafter
to be made in respect of child labor hours of la
Dor, fire escapes, or other matters pertaining TO
the health and safety OF artisans; and ifthe owner
manager or proprietor of such factory or work
shop, or his agent or any person whomsoever,
shall remove, destroy or mutlate the laws so
posted, he shall, on complaint of any officer of
the bureau, or any citizen, be fined fifty dollars
for each and every ofense.
Section s. The said commissioner shall have
power to prescribe blank forms, and transmit
them to employers, which shall be filled out
clearly and completely, under oath, by the per-
sons 10 whom they are sent, with the facts, Stats
tics and statements asked for. and returned to
him within such reasonable time as he may fix.
In any owner or occupant. or his agent, shall
refuse TO admit any officer of the said bureau to
his workshop or factory, he shall forfeit the sum
ten dollars for each and every offense, and If
he shall, through his agent or otherwise neglect,
fail or refuse TO fill out the said blank FORMS
and verify and return them as required he
shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each
and every day the SAID blanks may be so
delayed beyond the time fixed by the commits
sioner for their return. The forte'ts named and
provided in this act shall be sued for m the name
of the state by the district attorney of the proper
county, upon complaint of any officer of said
bureau, or any citizen and shall be paid into the
Section 9. There shall be provided seal of Of
fee for the of the bureau, and the commits
sioner or his deputy, for the purpose of making
any investigation contemplated by this act, shall
have poH er to administer oaths, take testimony
and subpoena witnesses, which Witnesses shall re-
celve the same fees as are allowed to persons
te.tifyng in circuit courts, to be paid out of the
contingent fund of the bureau. Provided, how
ever. that no person subppnaed by the said com
missioner or his deputy shall be compelled to go
outside of the city or town in which he resides 10
testify in behalf of such investigation.
Section 10. The commissioner shall report BIZ
ennialy to the governor, accompanying his re
port with such suggestions and recommendations
as may be deemed wise and proper. The said re-
port shall be printed and distributed according to
the provisions of the law governing the printing
of other state reports.
Section II. The com pensation of said commits
sioner shall be vo thousand dollars per annum,
and sum not exceeding one thousand dollars
per annum for I, yelling and contingent expenses,
and further sum of fifty dollars per annum for
the purchase of books and periodicals on labor
and industrial matters for the bureau library.
There is hereby appropriated annually, ont Of
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated, sum sufficient to carry out the pro-
visions of this act.
Section II. All acts and parts of acts conflicting
with this act are hereby repealed.
Section Is. This act shall be in fun force and
effect from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April 4, 1885.
CHATTER i5z.
AN ACT to appropriate the sum of eighteen
hundred dollars to the Central Wisconsin gri-
cultural and Mechanical Association.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. There is hereby approptia lated out of
the general fund TO the Central Wisconsin Agri-
cultural and Ne, hanical Association the sum of
nine hundred dollars for the year 1885 aud the
sum of nine hundred dollars for the year 1856,
nrnVi6pl hat n n q hp IratU 1 nv no
secretary of state for the payment of the sum of
money hereby appropriated, except upoi: the
presentation OF sworn statement, signed by the
president and secretary OF said Central Wisconsin
Agricultural and Mechanical Association certi-
tying that the sale of intoxicating liquors has
been prohibited and prevented upon the fair
grounds OF said society during the year for which
the appropriation Is made; neither has any
gambling been permitted on tn fair grounds
during the same time
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be IN
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March q, 1885.
CHAPTER17O
AN ACT to establish the salary Of the state r.
brarian.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
il senate and assembly. do enact as follows:
Section l. The salary OF the state librarian "a
hereby fixed and established at the sum of two
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly
There is hereby appropriated out of any money
ID the state treasury not otherwise appropriated
sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this
act.
Section 2. All acts and parts of acts inconSist-
ent with the provisions of this act are hereby re-
pealed
Section 8. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March %, 1885
CHAPTER 246
AN ACT to fix the salary of circuit Judges and
TO repeal portion OF section 10, chapter r. OF
the revised statutes.
The PEOPLE of the state of Wisconsin represented
III senate and assembly, do enact as follows
section l. Each of the several Judges OF the
circuit courts of this stale shall hereafter receive
an annual salary of three thousand six hundred
dollars, to be paid quarterly, in accordance with
existing laws; but this act shall not affect the
compensation of any judge during the term OF
once Tor which he has already been elected or
appointed.
section 2 SO much of section 10, OF chapter
Il, OF the revised statutes, as conflicts with the
provisions Of this act is hereby repealed.
section B. This act shall take effect and be in
lorce from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April 4, 1885.
CHAPTER 1856
AN ACT to appropriate TO the Northern Wiscon-
sin Agricultural and Mechanical association
sum of money therein named.
The people OF the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. There is hereby appropriated out of
the general fund to The Northern Wisconsin