Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-09


each such crossing and shall set a GATE
or dates on or before which each such
crossing shall be protected in the man.
ner prescribed by said commission; ana
shall require each railroad company TO
protect one quarter of said grade cross
ings during the calendar year nineteen
hundred and seventeen. and one quarter
during each of the three succeeding
calendar years, giving preference in
point of time to the more dangerous
crossings, but for good cause shown
the commission may suspend any such
order or may extend the time within
which any railroad company shall COM
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
expense, remove distractions so as to
permit fair view as described In sec
thereafter. SO long as such fair view
is maintained, be held to be subject to
the provisions of this section.
Section 10. All orders of the commits
sion made under this act may be en-
forced in the manner provided in chap
ter ffty-fve of the Revised Statutes.
The supreme judicial court is hereby
given jurisdiction at law and in equity
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.
Section II. Except where otherwise
herein expressly specified this act shall
apply only to railroads operated in
whole or principally by steam power.
Section IL. For the purpose of ere
ating and maintaining the fair view
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-
vided in chapter ffty-sX, Revised Stat
utes. and there shall be the same right
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, 1919
CHAPTER 14s.
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
"or passport showing the in the
twenty-thrd 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
that said section as amended shall read
as follows:
Section 81 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
strated his ability to read at sight and
write simple sentences in the English
language and perform simple arith-
metical problems involving the funda-
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
nshed 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
old or upwards; such evidence shall
clerks record of the birth of said child,
or a certified copy of his baptismal rec
ord. showing the date of his birth and
place of baptism, or passport show
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
permit being satisfied of that fact. the
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
documentary evidence has been APP
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, a certificate signed by a physi-
in case there is n6 school physician,
from the medical officer of the board
OF nealln, stating IndI SuCn CnlIu mas
been examined by him. and, in his opin-
ion, has reached the normal devel-
opment of 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. A 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
ton of which he is member, stock
holder, officer or employee. -(Approved
March 81, 1910
CHAPTER 147.
An Act to amend Section twenty-seven
of Chapter fifty-two of the Revised
Statutes and to permit savings banks
to invest, in certain electric railroad
bonds.
Section l. Amend section twenty
seven, chapter fifty-two, subdivision
third, paragraph T 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-seyenth day of April,
eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and
State constructed after said date; pro-
vided. an amount of capital stock equal
to thirty-three and one-third per cent
of the mortgage dept shall have been
paid in. in cash, and expended upon the
road evidenced by a certificate of the