The Republican journal., 1909-04-08


whoever, either for himself, or as super
lntendent, overseer or agent OF another,
employs or has in his employment any
s eecton IN violation of the PROVISIONS Oh inns
VINO allows any child TO pc SO employed
snail be punished by line OF not less
than one nor more than fifty dollars for
Section 4. Chapter forty Of the revised
statutes is hereby amended by inserting
as section fifty -four the following:
Section 54. Age and schooling certifi-
Gates shall be issued by the superintend-
ent of schools of the city or town in
Which the child resides, or some person
designated and authorized IN writing by
the school committee, but no person shall
issue such certificate to any minor then
in or about to enter his employment. or
the employment of firm or corporation
of which he is member stakeholder,
officer or employee The person who is
sues the certificate in accordance with the
provisions of this section IS hereby en-
powered to administer the oath provided
for therein, but no fee shall be charged
therefor
Section S. Chapter forty Of the revised
statutes is hereby amended by inserting
as section fifty-tive the following:
tificate Shall not be issued until the child
applying therefor, or some person in his
behalf, shall furnish satisfactory evidence
OF the age of the child, which evidence
shall be a certified copy of the town
clerks record of the birth of said child,
or certified copy of his baptismal rec
ord, showing the date of his birth, or
passport showing the date of his birth,
or other document satisfactory to the
superintendent of schools or the person
authorized to issue such age and school,
ing certificates; nor until such child has
demonstrated his ability to read at sight
and write simple sentences in the Eng
lisl language, and perform simple arith-
metical problems involving the tunda-
mental processes of addition, subtraction,
and "a.
tlonal test to be prepared and furnished
by the superintendent of schools or the
school committee of each city and town
in the state; or has furnished a certificate
any of the public schools of the city or
town in which such child resides, or by
the principal of any approved private
school, or certificate signed by the
principal of any evening school in said
city or town, to the effect that said child
is a regular attendant of said evening
school,
Section 6. Chapter forty Of the revised
statutes is hereby amended by insenting
as section fifty-six the following:
Section Sc. The form of the age and
ton fifty three of this act shall be pre-
pared and furnished to the superintend-
ent of schools Oh the school committee of
the cities and towns by the attorney gen.
eral, and shall be substantially as fol-
lows:
AGE AND SCHOOLING CERTIFICATE.
Revised Statutes, Chapter forty, Section
fifty-three.
This certifies that l am the
father, mother, guardian or custodian, of
name of child, and that he
was born at name of city or
on the day of in the
year and that at, his or her, last
birthday, he was years old.
City or town and date
Signature of parent,
4 RI ION,
Then personally appeared before me the
above named, name of person
signing. and having produced for my in,
Spectlon the record passport of
said child, made oath that the foregoing
certificate by him or her, signed
is true to the best of his or her,
knowledge and belief.
Having no sufficient reason to doubt
that he is of the age therein GER
tilted, 7 hereby approve the foregoing
certificate of name of child ;
whose signature. written in my presence,
appears below; whose height is
feet and inches; complexion is
fair or dark; hair is color.
l hereby certify that he has Sd It's
factoriiy demonstrated his or her
ability to read at sight and to write leg
lbie simple sentences in the English lam
guage. and to employ the fundamental
principles Of arithmetic, according to the
test supplied by the local superintendent
of public schools; that he has presented
us certificate to that effect signed by
the principal u teacher of some public
school IN said town, or that he has pre-
scented a certificate signed by the princi-
pal Of an evening school in said town to
the effect that he, said child is regular
attendant in said evening school.
This certificate belongs to
name of child, and is to be surrendered
10 him or her. whenever
he leaves the service of the employer
holding the same, but if not claimed by
said minor within thirty days from the
q ,1f,yyr,, If
it shall be returned to the superintendent
of schools, or to the person by whom it
Signature of child Signature of person
authorized to issue
and approve, with
official character or
City or town and date.
whoever, being authorized to sign the
foregoing age and schooling certificate,
or whoever signing any certified copy of
fled copy of chid's baptismal record,
shall knowingly certify to any false
statement therein, and any parent or
guardian who presents. or who permits
present to any employer, owner, superin-
tendent, overseer or agent as required
under section fifty three, any certified
copy of birth or baptismal record. or
passport or age and schooling certificate
containing any false statements as to
the date of birth or age of such child,
hlloNlHS tnem TO be false, shall be pun
lshed by fine Of not less than twenty
five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for
each otfense'
Section 7. Sections ffty-seven, fifty
eight, lifty-nine,. sixty, sixty-one and
slXty-two of said chapter forty of the
revised. statutes are hereby REMEMBERED
respectively as sections fifty EIGHT, fifty
n n sixty sixty sNty-one, sixty-two and
seven shall hereafter be numbered section
dfty-eight; said section fifty-eight shall
hereafter be numbered section tifty-nine;
said section ffty-ni shall hereafter be
numbered section sixty; section sixty
shall hereafter be numbered section sixty
one; section sixty-one shall hereafter be
numbered section sixty-two: and section
sixty-two shall hereafter be numbered
section slXty-three; and said chapter
forty is further amended by inserting as
section fifty-seven the following:
Section 81. Nothing in the nine pre-
ceding. sections shall apply to any manu-
featuring establishment or business, the
materials and products of which are
perishable and require immediate labor
thereon. to prevent decay thereof or
damage thereto. Provided, however the
employment of children therein shall be
under the supervision of said inspector
VINO shall on complaint investigate the
sanitary conditions, hours of labor and
other conditions detrimental to children,
and If In his Judgment he finds detri-
mental conditions to exist, he may in
conjunction with the municipal officers of
the town or city in which the complaint
is mace, prohibit the employment of
children therein until such conditions are
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