Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-04

women" means female persons of
eighteen years of age and upward. The
expression factory" means any prem
Uses where steam, water, or other me-
chanical power is used in aid of any
manufacturing process there carried
on. The expression workshop"
means any premises, room, or place,
not being factory as above defined,
wherein any manual labor is exercised
by way Of trade, on for the purpose of
gain in or incidental to any process
OF making. altering, repairing, orna-
menting, finishing or adapting for sale
any article or part OF an arti-
Gle, and to which or over which prem
iscs, room OF place the employer of the
person or persons working therein has
the right of access or control; provid-
ed, however, that the, exercise OF such
manual labor in a private room by the
family dwelling therein. or by any
OF them, or in case a majority of per-
sons therein employed are members of
such family, shall not of itself consti-
tute such house or room workshop
within this definition. The aforesaid
expressions shall have the meaning
above defined for them, respectively in
all DAVIS of this state relating to the
employment of labor, unless different
meaning is plainly required by the
context.
Sec. Z. All state, county, township
and city officers are hereby directed
to furnish said commissioner, upon his
request, such statistical or other ili-
formation contemplated by this act as
shall be in their possession as such Off
GERS.
Sec. s. The annual reports of the
bureau of labor and industry provided
for in this act shall be printed in the
same manner and under the same regli-
lations as the report of the executive
officers of the state; provided, not less
than 5000 nor more than 10000 copies
OF the report shall be printed and dis
aributed biennially, as the judgment of
the commissioner may deem best; and
provided further that said report shall
not contain more than 600 pages. The
blanks and other stationery required
in accordance with the provisions of
this shall be furnished by the secretary
of state, upon the requisition of the
commissioner of said bureau, and paid
for from the printing fund of the
state.
Sec. 9. In addition to the assistant
commissioner provided for by section
p of this act, the commissioner shall
appoint stenographer for the bureau,
and he may also employ special agents
and such other assistants as may be
necessary in the discharge of the Off
cial duties of said bureau; such special
agents and other, assistants shall be
paid for the services rendered such
compensation as the commissioner
may deem proper, but no such agents
or assistants shall be paid more than
So per day in addition to necessary
travelling expenses.
Sec. 10. The compensation of Off
Gals of said bureau of labor and in
dustry shall be as follows: Annual sal
airy of the commissioner, $500; annu-
al salary of the assistant commissioner,
$1,000; annual salary of the stenogra-
pher, $3.50; and the further sums of
$500 for postage and expressage, and
$500 for special agents and other as
sistants, and $1,000 for the necessary
travelling and incidental expenses of
the bureau, shall be allowed annually
and payable upon proper vouchers GER
titled by the commissioner.
Sec. II. Chapter s, of Title 10, Code
of 1897, and all other acts or parts of
acts inconsistent with the provisions OF
this act are hereby repealed.