New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-05-22
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u to regulate the employment OF

" 1eas uiAec ta.SsAiS "
Be It enacted hy the Legislature Of the
State Of Minnesota
years OF age shall be employed at any time
In any factory or workshop or about any
mine. No such child shall be employed
Mt any indoor work performed for wages
i or other compensation, to whomsoeyer pay
able. before the hour OF seven o'clock in
the morning nor. after the hour of six
O'Clock In the evening.
a Sec. 2. No child under the age below
which all children are by law required to
attend school shall in the year next sue
ceeding any birthday Of said child be en-
pl0yed at any Occupati lion during the hours
in which the public schools in the town or
city in which he resides are in session, I'M
less or until In said year he has attended
some school for at least period of time
equal to that required by law for attend
ance at school.
Sec. 3. The commissioners OF labor, the
factory inspector or any assistant factory
inspector shall have power to demand a
ceruncate of physical fitness from some
regularly licensed physician in the case OF
children who may seem physically unable
to perform the labor at which they may ,
pc employed. and no minor shall be en-
ployeu VINO can not obtain such cerun-
Sec. 4. No child under sixteen years of
age VINO cannot read and write simple SEN
FENCES IN the English language shall ex-
cept IN vacations of the public schools, be
employed at any indoor occupation, pro-
vided such child is not regular attendant
at a day or evening school,
Sec. 3. Whenever it appears to the court,
on the trial of any complaint under this
act. that the labor of any minor twelve
years of age and under fourteen years Of
age. who is able to read and write the
English language and who would be de-
barred from employment under section two
Of this act, or that the labor of any minor
be debarred. by section four Of this act, is
necessary for the support of the family to
| which said minor belongs, or for his own
support, aud that such minor is employed
during SeasOnable part of the year only or
that he is necessarily employed during the
whole year, the penalties provided in this
act shall not apply to the parents, guar
dams or employers of such minor.
| Sec. 6. No person, firm corporation
shall employ or permit any child under six
teen years of age to have the care, GUS
vator, OF permit any person under eighteen
| years of age to have the care, custody,
| management or operation of any elevator
running at speed of over two hundred
Sec. Z No child actually or apparently
under sixteen years of age shall be EN-
ployed in any factory workshop or mer.
camille establishment, or in the service of
any public. telegraph, telephone district
messenger company or other corporation,
unless the person, firm or corporation EN-
file the certificate required in the case of
such child by the following section, and
also keep on file a full and complete list
OF such children employed therein.
| Sec. g. The employment certificates OF
Children under sixteen years of age called
for by this act shall. in cities and towns
having superintendent of schools, be
signed by said superintendent or by some
i person authorized by him in writing so to
sign the same; in other cities and towns
it shall be signed by. some member Of the
| school board authorized by vote Of said
board to sign such certificates. Said GER
tifcate. shall contain statement Of the
name, birthplace, date of birth and age Of
CHILD at date Of statement. This state 1ent
shall be signed and acknowledged under
cath or affirmation before the person au-
lilnrized to issue the certificate. The GER
certificate by the officer issuing the same
that the child can read at sight and write
| egibly simple sentences in the English
lanGrage. or that said child, if unable so
to read and write, is regularly attending a
day or evening school OF has been excused
by the school board from said attendance
IS provided by section five, and that if I'M
der the age required by law for the at
tendance of all children at school. said
child has in the year next preceding the is
suing OF said certificate attended school as
required by law. If attendance has been
at a private school there must also be
added the signature of the teacher in charge
of the same, followed by words certifying
to schoo! ATTIC ndance. The person signing
the certificate shall have authority to aii-
minister the oath provided therein, but
! fee shall he charged therefor. The com
missioner vf labor is hereby authorized and
| directed to prepare blank certificates such
as called for by this section and fur
nisl. the same to the superintendent Of
schools and school boards of tho state,
giving the birthplace and age of the child
shall be signed by the father, if living.
and resident of the same city or town; if
not, by his mother; or if his mother is not
living, or if living is not resident of the
same city or town, by his guardian; if
child has no father. mother or guardian
signature to the certificate may be ac-
cepted by the person authorized to approve
the sane.
Sec 10: Every factory, workshop mine,
| mercantile establishment other place in
which or in connection with which chill
dren are engaged at labor of any kind.
shall at all times be subject to visitation
by the members or agents Of the board Of
education or board of trustees of the city.
town or district in which said factory,
workshop, mine, establishment or place is
Esituated.
Sec H. The words facto y and workshop
in this act shall have the same meaning as
! set forth in chapter seven of the General
Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-h.ce.
Sec -. Every parent or guardian OF Il
child under sixteen years of age who per-
n::ts the employment of any child contrary
to the provisions OF this act, or who. IN
aEing the statement called for by section
eight &C this act, certites to any materially
false statement therein, and every owner.
. superintendent, agent or overseer OF any
lishment, telegraph or telephone comp my,
district messenger company or other cor
poration who employs or permits to be en-
ployed therein or thereby any child con-
trary to the provisions of this act, and any
pei sen who employs child contrary to the
provisions OF this att or violates the pro-
visions of section ten of this act, shall be
guilty of d misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof before any competent court,
shall be fined not less than twenty (2O) nor
more than fifty i5Ol dollars for each and
every offense. A failure to produce to an
officer or employe OF the bureau of labor,
4 or to a member or authorized agent of the
board of education or board Of trustees of
the city or school district in which the SAID
and register required by this act, shall be
prima facie evidence of the illegal en-
ployment of the child whose certificate is
not produced
Sec. 49, All acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with the provisions Of this act are
hereby repealed
Sec. IL This act shall take effect AMI be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April 5, 1895.
NO. fill. F. NO. 5S4.
II AN ACT to appropriate tine income derived
! from the investments in the internal i'm
proyement land fund to the internal i'm.
proyement or road and bridge fund.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section L.. That the income derived from
, all Investments now in the internal i'm
after accrue to said fund from ales of land
. or otherwise, be and the same is hereby
set aside and appropriated to the internal
, improvement, or road and bridge fund
shall be used only for making public roads
, and building bridges on public roads within
, this state in such amounts and in the man.
ner as the legislature Of the state may
direct.
Sec s. Nothing In this act contained
shall operate to affect or abrogatc the right
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