The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-05

each such crossing and shall set date
OF oates on or before which each such
crossing shall be protected in the man
ner prescribed by said commission; and
IN SO far as practicable the commission
sna!l require each railroad company to
protect one quarter ofasaid grade cross
lngs during the calendar year nineteen
hundred and seventeen and one quarter
during each of the three succeeding
r ,,ieat years giving preference In
crossings, but for good cause shown
Z the commission may suspend any such
order or may extend the time within
ply Herewith. If at any such crossing
the railroad company passing over the
same shall, under existing law, under
the provisions of this act or at its own
permit fair view as described in Sec
ton two hereof, such crossing shall not
thereafter, SO long as such fair view
the provisions of this section
Section 10. All orders of the commits
sion made under this act, may be en-
t forced in the maVner proyidsd in chap
The supreme judicial court is hereby
given jurisdiction at law and in equity
to enforce compliance of any order is
sued by the PUBLIC utilities commission
under this act. 1t shall be the duty
of said commission to see that the rights
of the public under this act are fully
protected.
OCnerwlS0
herein expressly specified this act shall
apply only to railroads operated in
whole or principally by steam power
Section II. For the purpose of Gre
mentioned in this act. any steam rail-
road company subject to the provisions
hereof may enter upon private property
and remove any embankment or other
obstruction except a dwelling house.
The owner of such property is entitled
to damages, and may have the same
estimated and paid in the manner pro-
of appeal as therein given.
Section 10. The provisions of this
act shall not apply to railroads of less
Valley Railroad Company
Section IA. In view of the emergency
cited in the preamble, this act shall
take effect when approved-(Approv
March 81, 1879
CHAPTER 14e.
An Act to amend Section twenty-one
of Chapter forty-nine OF the Revised
Statutes. relating to regulations for
employment of minors between fourteen
and sixteen years old.
Section twenty-one of chapter forty
nine of the Revised Statutes is hereby
amended by inserting after the words:
cor a passport showing, the" in the
twenty-third line of said section. the
words date Of and inserting after the
word birth in the same line of said
section the words: In the event of the
minor being unable to produce the evil
dence heretofore mentioned. and the
person authorized to issue the work per-
NIT being satisfied of that fact the said
work permit may be issued on other
documentary evidence of age satisfac-
tory to the person authorized to issue
the work permit, provided said docu-
mentary evidence has been approved by
the State commissioner of labor so
.,ai1 ion 1aI doll
as follows
Section q. No minor between the
ages of fourteen and sixteen years shall
be employed. permitted or suffered to
work in any of the aforementioned oc-
equations unless the person, firm or cor
poration employing such child procures
and keeps on file accessible to any tru-
ant officer factory inspector or other
authorized officer charged with the en-
forCement of sections twenty to thirty
one. both inclusive, of this chapter, a.
work permit issued to said child by the
superintendent of schools of the city
or town in which the child resides, or
by some person authorized by him in
writing. The person authorized to is
sue work permit shall not issue such
permit until such child has demon
Sstrated his ability to read at sight and
write simple sentences in the English
language and perform simple arith-
metical problems involving the funGa-
mental processes of addition, substrac-
ton, multiplication and division, such
educational 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 fur
nished a certificate to that effect signed
by any teacher in any Of the public
schools of the city or town in which
such child resides, or by the principal of
any approved private school, nor until
he has received, examined, approved
and filed satisfactory evidence of age
showing that the child is fourteen years
consist of a certified copy of the town
clerks record of the birth Of said child,
or a certified copy of his baptismal rec
ord, showing the date of his birth and
ing the date of birth. In the event of
the minor being unable to produce the
evidence heretofore mentioned, and the
person authorized to issue the work
said work permit may be issued on
other documentary evidence of age sat
isfactory to the person authorized to
issue the work permit, provided said
proved by the State commissioner of
labor The superintendent of schools.
or the person authorized to issue such
work permit may require, in doubtful
cases, certificate signed by physi-
clan appointed by the school board or,
IN case there is no school physician.
from the medical officer of the board
of health, stating that such child has
ion, has reached the normal devel-
opment of a child Of it's age, and is in
sufficiently sound health and physically
able to perform the work which he in
tends to do. The State factory inspec-
tor his deputy or agent, may require a
similar certificate in doubtful cases Of
the minors employed under a work per-
nit. work permit when duly issued
shall excuse such child from attendance
from public school; but no person shall
issue such permit to any minor then in
or about to enter his employment or
the employment of the firm or corpora
ton of which he is a member, stock
holder, officer or employee. - approved
March 81, 1919
CHAPTER 147.
An Act to amend Section twenty-seven
of Chapter ffty-two of the Revised
Statutes and to permit savings banks
to invest in certain electric railroad
bonds.
Section l. Amend section twenty
seven, chapter f1fty-two, subdivision
third, paragraph of the Revised Stat
utes by striking out all of said para
graph and in place thereof inserting
the following:
f, %: In the bonds of electric
railroads constructed in this State prior
to the twenty seventh day of April,
eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and
In bonds of electric railroads in this
State constructed after said date; pro-
vided, an amount of capital stock equal
to thirty-three and one-third per cent
of the mortgage debt shall have been