at least once in each year by the inspectors herein provided for, and every such owner, lessee or person having charge of such boilers or steam vessel, who shall raise steam and operate such boilers and machinery without such inspection, shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred (100) dollars, said amount to accrue to the state. SECTION 5. The said inspectors shall once in each year at least, upon application, in writing, of the owner, lessee or manager, carefully inspect the hull, boiler, machinery and equipments of all steam vessels liable to inspection under this act, and shall satisfy themselves that every such vessel is of a structure suitąble for the service in which she is to be employed and has suitable accommodations for passengers and crew and is in a condition to warrant the belief that she may be used in navigation as a steamer, with safety to life, and that such equipments as life preservers, floats, pumps, hose. anchors and other things necessary to insure safety, have been provided. When the inspection of a steam vessel is completed and the inspectors approve the vessel and her equipments throughout, they shall make and subscribe a certificate to the secretary of the state, in such form as the board of inspectors shall prescribe; such certificate shall be subscribed and verified by the oath of the inspector making it, and a copy of said certificate shall be furnished by the inspector to the managing owner or master of said steam vessel, who shall post the same in a conspicuous place on said boat. The original certificate shall be kept on file in the office of the secretary of the state. SECTION 6. The said inspectors shall, in addition to their duties as inspectors of steam vessels, inspect all steam boilers or steam generators before the same shall be used, and once at least in each year thereafter they shall subject all boilers to hydrostatic pressure, and shall satisfy themselves by a thorough examination inside and out, and by hammer test, after hydrostatic pressure, that the boilers are well made of good and suitable material; that the openings for the passage of water and steam respectively, and all pipes and tubes exposed to heat are of proper dimensions and free from obstructions; that the flues are circular in form; that the friction (fire line) of the furnace is at least two inches below the prescribed minimum water line of the boilers: that the arrangements for delivering the feed water are such that the boilers cannot be injured thereby, and that such boilers and their steam connections may be safely employed without peril to life. They shall also satisfy themselves that the safety valves are of suitable dimensions, sufficient in number and properly arranged, and that the safety valve weights and springs are properly adjusted so as to allow no greater pressure in the boilers than the amount prescribed by the inspection certificate; that there is a sufficient number of gauge cocks properly inserted, suitable gauges that will correctly record the pressure of steam; and that a fusible plug is properly inserted so as to fuse by the heat of the furnace whenever the water in the boilers falls below its prescribed 1.mits, and that adequate and certain provisions for an ample supply to feed the boilers at al times so that in high pressure to lers the water shall not be less than four inches above the top of the flues, and that means for blowing out are provided so that the mud and sediment may be removed while the boiler is under p essure of steam. In subjecting to hydrostatic tests, boilers usually designated as high pressure, the inspector shall assume one hundred and twenty-five pounds to the square inch as the maximum pressure allowable as a working pressure for new boilers of forty-two inches in diameter, made in the best manner, of plates one-fourth of an inch thick, of good materials; but the inspector shall rate the working power of all high pressure boi ers according to their strength, compared with this standard, and in all cases the te t applied shall exceed the working power allowed. in the ratio of one hundred and sixty-five to one hundred and ten. In subjecting to the hydrostatic test boilers usually designated as low pressure, the inspector shall allow as a working power for each new boiler, a pressure of only three-fourths the number of pounds to the square inch to which it has been subjected by the hydrostatic test. Should the inspector be of the opinion that any boiler, by reason of its construction or material, will not safely allow so high a working pressure as herein provided, he may, for reasons to be stated specially in his certificate, fix the pressure of such boiler at less than three-fourths of the test pressure. No boiler or steam pipe nor any of the connections therewith, shall be approved which is made in whole or in part of bad material or is unsafe from any cause. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the use of any boiler or steam generator which may not be constructed of riveted iron or steel plates, when the board of inspectors have satisfactory evidence that such boiler or steam generator is equal in strength and as safe from explosion as boilers of the best quality constructed of riveted iron or steel plates. SECTION 7. Every person who constructs a boiler or steam pipe of iron or steel plates, known to be faulty or impe fect, or who drills any rivet hole to make it come fair, or who delivers any such boiler for use, knowing it to be imperfect in its flues, flanges, riveting, bracing, or in other of its parts, shall be fined two hundred (200) dollars, one-half for the use of the informer. SECTION 8. In addition to the annual inspection, it shall be the duty of each inspector to examine at any time, when in his opinion such examination shall become necessary, all such boilers within his district as shall become unsafe from any cause and to notify the owners or persons using such boilers of any defect, and what repairs are necessary in order to render them safe; and it shall be the duty of the person operating or owning any such boilor to cease to use the same until such repairs are made; and in case of failure to comply with the requirements of said inspector, the person operating or owning any such boiler shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred (100) dollars, and liable for any damage to person or property resulting therefrom. SECTION 9. Every steam boiler shall be provided with a fusible plug of good banca tin, inserted in the flues, crown sheet or other part of the boiler most exposed to the heat of the furnace when the water falls below the prescribed limits. SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of owners or managers of steam boilers, mentioned in this act, to allow said inspectors free access to the same, and it is hereby made the duty of the engineer operating the same to assist the inspector in his examination, and to point out any defect they may know in the boiler or machinery in their charge. SECTION 11. No person shall be entrusted with the operating of any steam boiler or steam machinery who has not been examined by an inspector and found competent to perform the duties of an engineer and receive from such inspector a written or printed license to so act. Engin ers shall be divided into three classes, viz: chief engineer, assistant engineer and special engineer. No license shall be granted to any person to perform the duties of chief engineer whose knowledge of steam machinery and experience as an engineer is not such as to justify the belief that he is competent to take charge of all classes of boilers and machinery. No license shall be granted to any person to act as assistant engineer unless his knowledge of steam machinery and habits of life are such as to warrant the belief that he is competent to manage safely and without danger to life, ordinary steam machinery. Special engineers may be licensed to operate steam thresher engines and engines of kindred class, when found on examination to be sufficiently acquainted with the duties of an engineer to warrant the belief that he can safely be entrusted to perform such duty. Whenever complaint is made against an engineer holding a license from a state inspector that he has, through negligence, want of skill or inattention to duty, permitted his boilers to burn or otherwise become in bad condition, it shall be the duty of the inspector, upon satisfactory proof of such negligence, to revoke the license of such engineer; and no engineer shall run his engine longer than seven days without cleaning out the boiler under penalty of this act. SECTION 12. An engineer running a stationary engine, shall keep his license in a public place in the engine room, which license shall be subject to inspection by any inspector or other public official. Engineers running or operating boilers and engines other than stationary ones, shall keep their certificates with them and subject to examination by any inspector, public official, or other person interested therein. Any person operating a steam boiler or engine without a license as provided for by this act, or any person employing anyone to oper ate a steam boiler or engine who does not have a certificate as provided in this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not to exceed two hundred (200) dollars, or imprisoned in county jail not to exceed one year, or both such fine and imprisonment, as the court may deem advisable. The license of chief and assistant engineers shall be good for the time issued in any part of the state, but special licenses shall be good only in the judicial district where granted, and in case of removal to another district a new license must be taken out in said district, and a failure or neglect so to do will incur the penalty in paragraph 2 of this section. SECTION 13. In making the inspection of boilers, machinery, or steam vessels herein provided for, the inspectors may act jointly or separately, but the inspector or inspectors making such inspection shall, in all cases, subscribe and make an oath to the certificate of inspection; any inspector who shall willfully certify falsely regarding any steam boiler or its attachments, or the hull and equipments of any steam vessel, or grant license to incompetent persons to act as eng neers, or grant a license to any person better than the grade that he should have shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year in the state prison, or both, at the discretion of the court. SECTION 15. This act shall not apply to railroad locomotives, nor to boilers owned or controlled by railway companies, unless used upon steam vessels navigating the inland waters of the state; nor shall engineers employed by rai road companies be required to procure licenses from the state board of inspectors, but the penalties herein provided for shall not obtain in any case prior to the time the inspector or inspectors have notified the persons affected that they are ready to make inspection as herein provided for. SECTION 16. No inspector shall act as agent for any machinery manufacturer in the sale of machinery, under the penalty of removal by the governor. CHAPTER 46.-Commissioner of agriculture and labor. SECTION 1. The duties of the commissioner of agriculture and labor shall be to collect, systematize and present in biennial reports to the legislative assembly, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the state, such as the hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number of persons depending on daily labor for their support, the estimated number of persons employed by the several industries within the state, the operation of labor saving machinery in its relation to hand labor, etc. Said statistics may be classified as follows: First. In agriculture. Second. In mining. Third. In mechanical and manufacturing industries. Fifth. In clerical and all other skilled and unskilled labor not above mentioned. Sixth. The amount of cash capital invested in lands, in building and machinery, severally, and means of production and distribution generally. Seventh. The number, age, sex and condition of persons employed; the nature of their employment, the extent to which the apprenticeship system prevails in the various skilled industries, the number of hours of labor per day, the average length of time employed per annum, and the net wages received in each of the industries and employments within the state. Eighth. The number and condition of the unemployed, their age, sex and nationality, together with the cause of their idleness. Ninth. The sanitary condition of lands, workshops, dwellings; the number and size of rooms occupied by the workers, etc.; the cost of fuel, rent. food, clothing and water in each locality of the state; also the extent to which labor saving processes are employed to the displacement of hand labor. Tenth. The number and condition of the Chinese in the state, their social and sanitary habits, number of married and of single, the number employed and the nature of their employment; the average wages per day at each employment, and the gross amount yearly; the amount expended by them in rent, food and clothing and in what proportion such amounts are expended for foreign and home productions respectively; to what extent their labor comes in competition with the other industrial classes of the state. Eleventh. The number, condition, and nature of the employment of the inmates of the state prison, county jails, and reformatory institutions, and to what extent their employment comes in competition with the labor of mechanics, artisans and laborers outside of these institutions. Twelfth. All such other information in relation to labor as the commissioner may deem essential to further the objects sought to be attained by this statute. Thirteenth. A description of the different kinds of labor organizations in existence in the state, and what they accomplish in favor of the class for which they were organized. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of all state, county and precinct officers to furnish upon the written request of the commissioner, all the information in their power necessary to assist in carrying out the objects of this act. And not more than 1,000 copies of the printed report shall be furnished to the commissioner for free distribution to the public. SECTION 3. Any person who wilfully impedes or obstructs the commissioner in the full and free performance of his duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten (10) nor more than fifty (50) dollars, or imprisonment not less than seven or more than thirty days in the county jail, or both. SECTION 5. The commissioner shall have power to send for persons whenever, in his opinion, it is necessary, and he may examine witnesses under oath, being hereby authorized to administer the same in the performance of his duty, and the testimony so taken must be filed and preserved in the office of said commissioner. SECTION 7. If any difference shall arise between any corporation or person, employing twenty-five or more employés, and such employés, threatening to result, or resulting in a strike on the part of such employés, or a lockout on the part of such employer, it shall be the duty of the commissioner, when requested so to do by fifteen or more employés, or by the employers, to visit the place of such disturbance and diligently seek to mediate between such employer and employés. SECTION 11. The commissioner shall report to the legislative assembly the number of coal mines being operated within the state, the number of tons of coal being mined annually, the number of persons employed in coal mining, the wages paid to coal miners, and the cost per ton to mine coal at the different mines. CHAPTER 62.-Employment of children. SECTION 143. No child between eight and fourteen years of age shall be em-. ployed in any mine, factory or workshop or mercantile establishment, or, except by his parent or guardian, in any other mann r, during the hours when the public schools in the city, town, vill ge or district are in session, unless the person, firm or corporation employing h m shall first procure a certificate from the superintendent of the schools of the city, town or village, if one be employed, otherwise from the clerk of the school board or board of education, stating that such child has attended school for the period of twelve weeks during the year, as required by law, or has been excused from attendance *; and it shall be the duty of such superintendent or clerk to furnish such certificate upon application of the parent, guardian or other person having control of such child, entitled to the same. * * SECTION 144. Every owner, superintendent or overseer of any mine, factory, workshop or mercantile establishment, and any other person who shall employ any child between eight and fourteen years of age, contrary to the provisions of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offense shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars and costs. Every person authorized to sign a certificate as prescribed in section 4, [143] who certifies to any materially false statement therein, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars and costs. CHAPTER 111.-Contractor's bond-Security for wages of employés on public works. SECTION 1. Whenever any public officer or officers shall, under the laws of this State, enter into contract in any sum exceeding one hundred dollars, with any person or persons, for the purpose of making any public improvements, or constructing any public building or making repairs on the same, such officer or officers shall take from the party contracted with a bond with good and sufficient sureties to the State of North Dakota, in a sum not less than the sum total in the contract, conditioned that such contractor or contractors shall pay all indebtedness incurred for labor or material furnished in the construction of said public building or in making said public improvements. SECTION 3. Such Fond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county in which such public improvement is to be made or such public building is to be erected; and any person to whom there is due any sum for labor or material furnished, as stated in section 1 of this act, or his assigns, may bring an action on said bond for the recovery of said indebtedness: Provided, That no action shall be brought on said bond after three months from the completion of said public improvements or public buildings. In case of OHIO. REVISED STATUTES OF 1886 (THREE VOLUMES). Fees for incorporation of societies of mechanics etc. * * * * * SECTION 148a. (Vol. III, R. S., as amended by act passed May 15, 1886; laws of Ohio, vol. 83, page 165.) Upon the filing of articles of incorporation by any person desiring to become incorporated under the laws of this state, there shall be paid to the secretary of state, the following fees: *Provided, further, societies or associations composed exclusively of any class of mechanics, express, telegraph, railroad or other employés, formed for the mutual protection and relief of the members thereof and their families exclusively, these fees shall not apply, but a fee of two dollars shall in such cases be charged. * * * Mine regulations and inspection. * * * SECTION 290. (Vol. III. R. S., as amended by act passed March 24, 1888; laws of Ohio, vol. 85, page 106). For the purpose of facilitating an efficient and thorough inspection of mines in Ohio, and to provide an adequate inspecting force therefor, the governor shall appoint, by and with the consent of the senate, one chief inspector, who, with the approval of the governor, shall appoint five district inspectors of mines: the chief inspector shall hold his office for the term of four years, and the district inspectors shall hold their office for the term of three years, from the date of their appointment, and until their successors are appointed and qualified; No person shall be appointed chief inspector of mines unless he is possessed of a competent knowledge of chemistry, the geology of Ohio, and mineralogy, in so far as those sciences relate to mining, and has a practical knowledge of mining engineering, and the different systems of working and ventilating mines, and the nature and proprieties of the noxious and poisonous gases of mines, particularly fire damp, and of the best means of preventing and removing the same; and no person shall be appointed district inspector of mines unless he be a practical miner of at least five years' experience, and a resident of the district for which he is appointed, for at least two years, and is possessed of a practical knowledge of the best mode of working and ventilating mines, of the means of detecting the presence of bad or foul air, noxious and poisonous gases, and of the best means of preventing and removing the same. SECTION 291. (Vol. III, R. S.) the inspector, while in office, shall not act as agent, manager, or mining engineer for any operator, on in any way be interested in operating any mine. * * * SECTION 292. (Vol. III, R. S., as amended by act passed March 24, 1888; laws of Ohio, vol. 85, page 106.) The chief inspector and district inspectors shall give their whole time and attention to the duties of their offices. respectively; it shall be the duty of the district inspectors to examine all the mines in their respective districts as often as possible, to see that all the provisions and requirements of this chapter are strictly observed and carried out; they shall particularly examine the works and machinery belonging to any mine, examine into the state and condition of the mines as to ventilation, circulation and condition of air, drainage and general security; they shall make a record of all examinations of mines in their respective districts, showing the date when made, the condition in which the mines are found, the extent to which the laws relating to mines and mining are observed or violated, the progress made in the improvement and security of life and health sought to be secured by the provisions of this chapter, number of accidents, injuries received, or deaths, in or about the mines, the number of mines in their respective districts, the number of persons employed in or about each mine, together with all such other facts and information of public interest, concerning the condition of mines, development and progress of mining in their respective districts, as they may think useful and proper, which record shall, on or before the first Monday of every month, be filed in the office of the chief inspector, to be by him recorded, and so much thereof as may be of public interest to be included in his annual report; in case of any controversy or disagreement between a district inspector and the owner and [or ?] operator of any mine, or the persons working therein, or in case of conditions of emergencies requir ing counsel, the district inspector may call on the chief inspector for such assist H. 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