SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall be carried out by the railroads now operating in this State within the next ninety days, and by railroads to be hereafter constructed before they go into operation.

SECTION 3. In the event any railroad company should fail or refuse to comply with the provisions and requirements of this act, that the Governor shall, through the Attorney-General of the State, cause such company to be enjoined from operating or running any trains in this State until said provisions and requirements are complied with.

ACTS OF 1886-REGULAR SESSION.

Sunday labor.
(Act No. 18.)

SECTION 1. All stores, shops, saloons, and all places of public business, which are or may be licensed under the law of the State of Louisiana, or under any parochial or municipal law or ordinance, and all plantation stores, are hereby required to be closed at twelve o'clock on Saturday nights, and to remain closed continuously for twenty-four (24) hours, during which period of time it shall not be lawful for the proprietors thereof to give, trade, barter, exchange or sell any of the stock or any article of merchandise kept in any such establishment. SECTION 2. Whosoever shall violate the provisions of this act, for each offense, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on trial and conviction, shall pay a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court; provisions of this act shall not apply to newsdealers, keepers of soda fountains, places of resort for recreation and health, watering places and public parks, nor prevent the sale of ice.

SECTION 3. The provisions of this act shall not apply to newspaper offices, printing offices, bookstores, drugstores, apothecary shops, undertaker shops, public and private markets, bakeries, dairies, livery stables, railroads, whether steam or horse, hotels, boarding houses, steamboats and other vessels, warehouses for receiving and forwarding freights, restaurants, telegraph offices and theatres, or any place of amusement, provided no intoxicating liquors are sold on the premises: Provided, That stores may be opened for the purpose of selling anything necessary in sickness and for burial purposes,

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Employment, hours of labor, etc., of women and children.

(Act No. 43.)

SECTION 1. No boy under the age of twelve years, and no girl under the age of fourteen years, shall be employed in any factory, warehouse or workshop where the manufacture of any goods whatever is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing.

SECTION 2. Nó child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed by any person to labor in any factory, warehouse, workshop, clothing, dressmaking or millinery establishment, or where any goods are manufactured or prepared for manufacturing, or attend itinerant musicians through the streets of any town or city within this State, unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school, where instruction was given by a teacher qualified to instruct in such branches as are usually taught in primary schools, at least four months of the twelve months next preceding the month in which such child shall be so employed: Provided, That a certificate of such attendance from the director of the school district or principal of public or private school in which such child shall have so attended school, shall be evidence of a compliance with the provisions of this section, if acted upon by the employer in good faith. If any such director or principal shall knowingly make a false certificate, he shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this act, and shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter provided.

SECTION 3. Certificates given under the preceding section shall be deposited by the employer at the time of employing such child, and shall be kept by him on file in his office, and shall at all times be subject to inspection by the persons authorized to make inspections under this act.

SECTION 4. No child, or young person under the age of eighteen years, and no woman, shall be employed in any factory, warehouse, workshop, clothing, dressmaking or millinery establishment, or any place where the manufacture of any

kind of goods is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing, for a longer period than an average of ten hours in a day, or sixty hours in any week, and at least one hour shall be allowed in the labor period of each day for dinner.

SECTION 5. Every person who shall employ any female in any factory, warehouse, workshop or store, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.

SECTION 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be guilty of an offense for each violation thereof, and, upon conviction for the same, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the parish jail (parish prison in New Orleans) not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SECTION 7. In all cities it shall be the duty of the superintendent or the chief officer of police, by suitable inspections, to see that the regulations of this act are observed, and also to prosecute all persons who shall violate the same. Such superintendent or chief officer of police shall detail such portion of the force under him as he shall deem necessary for the inspection, from time to time, of all the aforesaid places where such children or young persons may be employed. In towns, the mayor thereof shall perform the duties above imposed on the superintendent or chief officer of police in cities.

SECTION 9. The word "person," wherever used in this act, shall be deemed to mean corporations, as well as individuals.

SECTION 10. * * * Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to apply to domestic or agricultural laborers or industries.

Hours of labor-Street railways.

(Act No. 95.)

SECTION 1. Twelve consecutive hours' labor in twenty-four, with reasonable time for meals, shall constitute a day's labor in the operation of all street railroads owned or operated by corporations, incorporated under the laws of this State, whatever motive power may be used in the operation of such railroads. SECTION 2. It shall be a misdemeanor for any officer or agent of any street railroad company to exact from any of its employés more than twelve consecutive hours' labor in the twenty-four, with one-half hour for dinner, constituting a day : Provided, however, That in cases of accident or unavoidable delay, extra labor may be permitted for extra compensation.

SECTION 3. Any officer or agent of any of the said street railroads, who shall have been convicted of violating the provisions of this act, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or suffer imprisonment in the parish prison or jail, as the case may be, for not more than two months, or both, at the discretion of the court; said fine to go to the benefit of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans.

ACTS OF 1888-REGULAR SESSION.

Fire-escapes on factories, etc.

(Act No. 97.)

SECTION 1. All buildings, except such as are used for private residences exclusively, in the city of New Orleans, of four or more stories in height, shall be provided with one or more metallic ladders or metallic fire-escapes, including from the first story to the upper stories of such buildings, and above the roof and on the outer walls thereof, in such location and numbers and of such material and construction as the mayor, chief engineer of the fire department of their respective districts, the city surveyor and chairman of the fire committee of the city council and commissioner of public buildings, or a majority of them may from time to time determine; after such determination shall have be n made as aforesaid, the chief engineer of the fire department of said city may at any time, by a notice in writing served upon the owner or agent of any such building by leaving with such owner or agent, or at his residence or place of business, a copy of such notice, require such owner or agent to cause such building within thirty days after the service of such notice, require such owner or agent to cause such [sic] metallic ladder or fire-escape to be placed upon such building, within thirty days after the service of such notice: Provided, however, That all buildings more than two

stories in height, used for manufacturing purposes, shall have one metallic ladder for every twenty-five persons, or less, employed above the second story. SECTION 2. In case such owner, or agent, so served with notice as aforesaid shall not, within thirty days after the service of such notice upon him, place, or cause to be placed, such metallic ladder or fire escape upon such building, as required by this article and the terms of such notice, he shall be subject to a fine not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, and to a further fine of twenty-five dollars for each week of such neglect to comply with such notice after the service of the same. That the fines imposed for violation of this act shall be collected by any court of competent jurisdiction.

Convict labor.

(Act No. 121.)

SECTION 1. Hereafter whenever a prisoner sentenced to the parish prison of any parish of this State, the parish of Orleans included, by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be willing of his own free will and accord to perform manual labor upon any of the public roads, or levees, or streets, or public buildings and improvements or public works inside or outside of the prison, the criminal sheriff of said parish shall set said prisoner to work upon such labor as shall be determined by the police juries of the several parishes and the municipal authorities of the several towns and cities: Provided, That such prisoners shall always remain under the custody and control of the several sheriffs.

SECTION 2. Any prisoner who shall thus consent to work shall have as many days taken off or remitted from his sentence corresponding with the number of days during which he shall have performed work in the manner above mentioned: Provided, That such days be computed at the rate of ten hours' work per day.

SECTION 3. The council of the city of New Orleans and the police juries of the several parishes are hereby authorized to pass all such ordinances which they may deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and for the discipline, working and employment of such prisoners.

ACTS OF 1890.

Incorporation of trades unions, etc.

(Act No 50.)

WHEREAS, Trades Unions, Knights of Labor assemblies or lodges, Farmers' Alliances as now established in this State are intended to benefit and protect the interests of laboring men and to promote public welfare.

SECTION 1. Any Trades Unions, Knights of Labor assemblies or lodges, Farmers' Alliances, or any similar organizations as now established in this State or as may hereafter be established for similar purposes, may form themselves into incorporate bodies: Provided, That no less than six members or persons comply with the requirements of section six hundred and seventy-seven of the Revised Statutes, relative to the organization of corporations for literary, scientific, religious and charitable purposes, and all acts amendatory thereof, and the provision of section 677 of the Revised Statutes and acts amendatory thereof, shall apply to and include all corporations organized under the provisions of this act.

Convict labor.

(Act No. 114.)

SECTION 1. The lease now existing and in force by authority of act number fifty-five approved March the fifth, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixtynine; and amended and re-enacted by act fifty-six, approved March the third, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy be and the same is hereby renewed and extended for and during the term of ten years from the expiration of the existing lease, March the third, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one at an annual rental of fifty thousand dollars net payable in advance: Provided, That the lessee be and is authorized to employ the convicts in working on levees, railroads and other works of public improvement and is at no time or manner to sublease or hire to any other person any convict or gang of convicts for the purpose of plantation or farm work.

SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Governor, and he is hereby authorized to contract with S. L. James as lessee, to carry out the provisions of this act: Provided, That the convict labor may be employed upon all public works, such as building and repairing levees, railroads, canals etc.. but under no circumstances shall they be hired, sublet, or rented out, or used by the lessee himself in the cultivation planting or gathering of any agricultural crop, such as rice, sugar, cotton or corn, it being the object of the State herein expressed that the convict labor shall be used only in and on public works and improvements, and not in agricultural pursuits, and any attempt to so use them shall forfeit the lease, and it shall be the duty of the Governor, where proof of the same is brought to his attention, to take possession of the convicts and declare this lease forfeited: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the lessee from using ten male convicts in the cultivation, gathering and shipping vegetables, and butchering, herding and shipping beef to the other convicts: And provided further, That this prohibitory clause shall not apply to the female convicts, who can be hired for or used in agricultural purposes, and to young and disabled convicts, but in no case shall they be sublet or hired to third parties, it being the intent of this act that said exempted persons can only be employed by the lessee.

Factories, workshops, etc.-Health of employés.

(Act No. 123.)

SECTION 1. The board of health of the State of Louisiana be and the same is hereby authorized to enact from time to time all needful rules and regulations for the better protection of the health of operatives and employés, working in manufactories, workshops, laboratories and other places in which substances, materials, or compounds, poisonous in their nature, or otherwise injurious to the health of said operatives or employés are used, manufactured, compounded, prepared or handled.

SECTION 2. Said rules and regulations when so adopted by the board of health, shall be observed and complied with by the owners, and proprietors of said manufactories, workshops, laboratories, or other places described in the first section of this act, as well as by all persons, superintendents, managers, foremen, lessees or sublessees in charge of such establishments, within twenty (20) days after being served by the board of health, with a copy of said rules and regulations, and a notice to comply therewith.

SECTION 3. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this act, or the rules and regulations thereunder, or violating the provisions thereof, shall be fined twenty-five (25) dollars or be imprisoned in the parish jail not more than ten days, for each and every offense.

Enforcement of labor contracts.

(Act No. 138.)

SECTION 1. Whoever shall wilfully violate a contract upon the faith of which money or goods have been advanced and without first tendering to the person from whom said money or goods were obtained the amount of money or value of the goods, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and in default of payment thereof with costs shall be imprisoned in the parish jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days at the discretion of the court.

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SECTION 2. If any one shall wilfully interfere, entice away, knowingly employ or induce a laborer * before the expiration of his contract, as herein provided, to leave his employer before the expiration of his contract, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred, for each person so enticed or employed and shall be liable in double the amount of damages in a civil action which such employer may suffer by such abandonment.

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SECTION 3. If any person availing himself of the provisions of this act, shall falsely or fraudulently cause an arrest to be made, or with the intent to unlawfully and wrongfully detain any laborer or person, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum of not less than $250.00 nor more than $500.00, at the discretion of the court, and in default of the payment of said fine and costs he shall be imprisoned for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days.

MAINE.

REVISED STATUTES OF 1883.

CHAPTER 6.--Exemption from taxation.

SECTION 6. The following property and polls are exempt from taxation:

III. The household furniture of each person, not exceeding two hundred dollars to any one family, his wearing apparel, farming utensils, mechanics' tools necessary for his business, and musical instruments not exceeding in value fifteen dollars to one family.

V. All mules, horses, neat cattle, swine and sheep, less than six months old. VI. Hay, grain and potatoes, orchard products and wool, owned by, and in possession of the producer.

SECTION 26. * * Every building in which any trade, manufacture, or business is carried on, requiring the presence of workmen or other persons above the first story, * * * shall at all times be provided with suitable and sufficient fire escapes, outside stairs, or ladders from each story or gallery above the level of the ground, easily accessible to all inmates in case of fire or of an alarm of fire; the sufficiency thereof to be determined as provided in the following section.

SECTION 27. In towns or parts of towns having no organized fire depart ment, the municipal officers shall annually make careful inspection of the precautions and safeguards provided in compliance with the foregoing requirements, and pass upon their sufficiency as to arrangement and number, and upon their state of repair; and direct such alterations, additions and repairs as they adjudge necessary. In towns, cities and villages having an organized fire department, the duties aforesaid shall be discharged by the board of fire engi

neers.

SECTION 28. Such municipal officers or fire engineers shall give written notice to the occupant of such building, also to the owner thereof, if known, of their determination as to the sufficiency of said precautions and safeguard, specifying in said notice any alteration, addition or repair which they require. Sixty days are allowed for compliance with such notice and order.

SECTION 29. Any owner or occupant who neglects to comply with such order, within the time so allowed, forfeits fifty dollars, besides five dollars for every day's continuance of such neglect; and the building or part of a building so occupied shall be deemed a common nuisance, without any other evidence than proof of its use; and the keeper shall be punished accordingly. Said officers may forbid the use of such building for any public purpose until their order has been complied with. And if the owner or occupant of said building lets or uses the same in violation of such order, he forfeits not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offence.

SECTION 30, (as amended by chapter 126, acts of 1887). Whenever the municipal officers or engineers, upon inspection, find that proper safeguards and precautions for escape in case of fire, or of alarm, have been provided, they shall give to the occupant of such building a certificate, under their hands, of such fact; which shall be valid for one year only from its date; ** *. Such officers shall return to the clerk's office of their town, monthly, a list of such certificates by them issued, which the clerk shall record in a suitable book.

SECTION 31, (as amended by chapter 126, acts of 1887). Every person receiving such certificate shall keep such certificate posted in such building. Such annual certificate, so posted, is prima facie evidence of the inspection of such building, and of the presence of such suitable safeguards and precaution. Every occupant of such building who neglects or refuses to procure such certificate, or to post the same as aforesaid, forfeits ten dollars for every week that he so neg. lects and refuses.

SECTION 32. Every municipal officer or fire engineer who refuses or neglects to perform the duties imposed upon him by the seven preceding sections forfeits fifty dollars.