wells, stairways, shafting or dangerous machinery of any kind to be guarded and protected, so as not to hazard the safety of workmen or visitors, any person refusing to obey his orders in this respect, shall be fined fifty dollars for each and every offense. SECTION 3. Whenever the state factory inspector, or his assistant, or any officer of the bureau of labor and industrial statistics, shall file complaint with any district attorney that any hotel, factory or public building, or any structure whatsoever in his county is being used without fire-escapes, watchmen or other means of safety prescribed by law, the said district attorney shall at once proceed against the offender according to law; and shall without the further aid or presence of the state factory inspector or the other officers named in this section, secure the necessary witnesses and evidence for the complete information of the jury. And in case he shall refuse so to do, the state factory inspector, or any officer named in this act, may file charges against him with the governor, and ask his removal for wilful neglect of duty and malfeasance in office. CHAPTER 549.-Factories and workshops. SECTION 1. No person, persons or corporation shall employ and put to work in any factory, workshop or other place of employment, or in any room or other part of such factory, workshop or other place of employment, more persons than the laws of health will warrant, as shall be determined by the board of health. SECTION 2. Every stationary vat, pan or other structure with molten metal or hot liquids shall be surrounded with proper safeguards for preventing accidents or injury to those employed at or near them. All belting, shafting, gearing, hoists, fly-wheels, elevators, and drums of manufacturing establishments so located as to be dangerous to employés when engaged in their ordinary duties shall be securely guarded or fenced so as to be safe to persons employed in any such place of employment. SECTION 3. Any person, company or corporation who shall refuse or fail to comply with the provisions of this act, shall forfeit not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense, and every day's failure after the first conviction shall constitute a separate offense, after due notice by the state factory inspector. ACTS OF 1889. CHAPTER 123.-Railroads-Blocking of frogs. SECTION 1. Every railroad corporation operating any railroad, shall erect and maintain sufficient guards or blocks at the front and rear of every frog in every railroad track of any such corporation used and operated in this state. SECTION 2. If any railroad corporation, its officers, agents or servants, shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act, or shall fail to sufficiently guard such frogs, such corporation for each and every such violation or failure shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more.than five hundred dollars, one-half to the person prosecuting, and shall in addition be liable to the person injured for all damages sustained thereby, whether the person so injured shall be a servant or agent of such corporation or not, and notwithstanding that such violation or failure shall arise or occur through the negligence of any other agent or servant thereof. CHAPTER 438.-Liability of railroad companies for injuries of employés. SECTION 1. Every railroad corporation doing business in this state, shall be liable for damages sustained by any employé thereof within this state, without contributing negligence on his part, when such damage is caused by the negligence of any train dispatcher, telegraph operator, superintendent, yard master, conductor or engineer, or of any other employé, who has charge or control of any stationary signal, target point, block or switch. CHAPTER 474.-Payment of wages. SECTION 1. All wages or compensation for labor or service in the state of Wisconsin, unless there shall be a written contract to the contrary, shall be paid weekly or bi-weekly in cash. But this act shall not be held to annul contracts in force at the time of its passage, nor to apply to agricultural laborers, commercial travelers, persons working on commission, traveling employés of railway and express companies, persons employed in logging camps, or "driving," running or manufacturing of logs or lumber, nor to any person whose occupation is such as to render him inaccessible on the regular pay day. CHAPTER 518.-Conditional sale of personal property. SECTION 1. All contracts for the sale of furniture or other household effects made on condition that the title to the property sold shall not pass until the price is paid in full, whether such contract be in the form of a lease or otherwise, shall be in writing, and a copy thereof shall be furnished the vendee by the vendor at the time of such sale; and all payments made by or in behalf of the vendee, and all charges whether in the nature of interest or otherwise as they accrue, shall be endorsed by the vendor or his agent upon such copy, if the vendee so requests. If the vendor fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section through negligence, his rights under such contract shall be suspended while such default continues; and if he refuses, or wilfully or fraudulently fails to comply with any of such provisions, he shall be deemed to have waived the conditions of such sale. SECTION 2. The vendor, upon taking possession of such furniture or effects for non-compliance with the terms of such contract of sale, shall furnish the vendee or other person in charge of such furniture or effects an itemized statement of the account showing the amount then due thereon, and the vendee shall have the right at any time within fifteen days after such taking to redeem the property so taken by paying to the vendor the full amount of the price then unpaid, together with the interest and all lawful charges and expenses due to the vendor; and the fifteen days herein before provided during which the vendee shall have the right to redeem the furniture or household effects so taken, shall not begin to run until such statement is furnished: Provided, The vendee or other person in charge can be found by the vendor by the exercise of reasonable care and diligence. No contract mentioned in this act shall be valid as against any other person than the parties thereto and those having notice thereof unless such contract shall be in writing subscribed by the parties thereto, and the same or a copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the town, city, or village where the vendee resides or if he shall not be a resident of the state then in the office of the clerk of the town, city or village where the property may be at the time of making such contract, and such clerk shall file, keep and index the same in like manner as mortgages of personal property, and receive a like compensation therefor; but the effect of such filing shall not extend for more than one year after the time fixed for payment of the contract price or for the performance of the other conditions of such sale. CHAPTER 519.-Employment of children. SECTION 9. No child under thirteen years of age shall be employed or allowed to work by any person, company, firm, or corporation at labor or service in any shop, factory, mine, store, place of manufacture, business or amusement except as hereinafter provided. SECTION 10. The judge of the county court in the county where the child resides and is to be employed or to work, may, by order of record, grant a permit to any child over ten years to be exempt and in such county from the operation of this act as to such employment, and to such extent, and for such time and on such terms as may be named in such permit, on its being shown to his satisfaction that such child can read and write the English language and that it is fit and proper considering the lack of means of support of the family of which such child is a member, that such permit should be granted, and such permit may be rescinded by any such judge on written notice to such child, or to any person having control of or employing such child. Such permit must state the age, place of residence and the amount of school attendance prior to the granting of such permit. A record of such permits to be kept in such court. No charge or fee shall be required in any matter under this section. SECTION 11. No child shall be so employed or work who does not present such permit and every person before employing or permitting such child to so labor, or be at service shall require and retain such permit, and shall keep the same together with a correct list of all children so employed posted in a con * * * spicuous manner in the place of employment, and shall show such list on demand, to any school officer or teacher or police officer. SECTION 12. Any person, company or corporation who employs or permits to be employed or to work any child in violation of this act, and any person having the control of any such child who permits such employment or work, shall, for every offense forfeit a sum of not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, and every day of such illegal employment shall constitute * a distinct offense. * WYOMING. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 1.-Rights of labor to be protected. SECTION 22. The rights of labor shall have just protection through laws calculated to secure to the laborer proper rewards for his service and to promote the industrial welfare of the state. ARTICLE 5.-Arbitration of labor disputes. SECTION 28. The legislature shall establish courts of arbitration, whose duty it shall be to hear, and determine all differences, and controversies between organizations or associations of laborers, and their employers, which shall be submitted to them in such manner as the legislature may provide. SECTION 30. Appeals from decisions of compulsory boards of arbitration shall be allowed to the supreme court of the state, and the manner of taking such appeals shall be prescribed by law. ARTICLE 9.-Mine regulations and inspection. SECTION 1. There shall be established and maintained the office of inspector of mines, the duties and salary of which shall be prescribed by law. When said office shall be established, the governor shall, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint thereto a person proven in the manner provided by law to be competent and practical, whose term of office shall be two years. SECTION 2. The legislature shall provide by law for the proper development, ventilation, drainage and operation of all mines in the state. SECTION 3. No boy under the age of fourteen years and no woman or girl of any age shall be employed or permitted to be in or about any coal, iron or other dangerous mines for the purpose of employment therein; Provided, however, This provision shall not effect the employment of a boy or female of suitable age in an office or in the performance of clerical work at such mine or colliery. SECTION 4. For any injury to person or property caused by wilful failure to comply with the provisions of this article, or laws passed in pursuance hereof, a right of action shall accrue to the party injured, for the damage sustained thereby, and in all cases in this state, whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and the legislature shall provide by law at its first session for the manner in which the right of action in respect thereto shall be enforced. SECTION 6. There shall be a state geologist, who shall be appointed by the governor of the state, with the advice and consent of the senate." Said state geologist shall ex-officio perform the duties of inspector of mines until otherwise provided by law. * * * ARTICLE 10.—" Corporations "-Certain contracts of employés waiving right to dam SECTION 4. * * * ages, void. Any contract or agreement with any employé waiving any right to recover damages for causing the death or injury of any employé shall be void. ARTICLE 10.—Coöperative associations. SECTION 10. The legislature shall provide by suitable legislation for the organization of mutual and coöperative associations or corporations. ARTICLE 19.—" Homesteads."- Exemption from execution, etc.-Homesteads. SECTION 1. A homestead as provided by law shall be exempt from forced sale under any process of law, and shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife, when that relation exists; but no property shall be exempt from sale for taxes, or for the payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of said premises, or for the erection of improvements thereon. ARTICLE 19.-" Concerning labor."-Hours of labor. SECTION 1. Eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute a lawful day's work in all mines, and on all state and municipal works. ARTICLE 19.-" Labor on public works."-Citizens of the United States only to be employed. SECTION 1. No person not a citizen of the United States or who has not declared his intention to become such, shall be employed upon or in connection with any state, county or municipal works or employment. SECTION 2. The legislature shall by appropriate legislation see that the provisions of the foregoing section are enforced. ARTICLE 19.-"Labor contracts."-Certain contracts of employés waiving right to damages, void. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation, to require of its servants or employés as a condition of their employment, or otherwise, any contract or agreement, whereby such person, company or corporation shall be released or discharged from liability or responsibility, on account of personal injuries received by such servants or employés, while in service of such person, company or corporation, by reason of the negligence of such person, company or corporation, or the agents or employés thereof, and such contracts shall be absolutely null and void. ARTICLE 19.-" Police powers."-Importation of men for police duty prohibited. SECTION 1. No armed police force, or detective agency, or armed body, or unarmed body of men, shall ever be brought into this state, for the suppression of domestic violence, except upon the application of the legislature, or executive, when the legislature can not be convened. ARTICLE 21.-Territorial laws in force in state. SECTION 3. All laws now in force in the territory of Wyoming, which are not repugnant to this constitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitation, or be altered or repealed by the legislature. REVISED STATUTES OF 1887. TITLE 7.-Incorporation of assemblies of the Knights of Labor. SECTION 589. Any number of persons, not less than seven, may voluntarily associate themselves together SECTION 590. Any such * * * * * * .* * * * body that may wish to become incorporated * * * shall file in the office of the secretary of the territory and the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such * body shall be located, a certificate in writing, setting forth the name of such and the place where the same shall be held, * * body or association having filed the certificate required, deemed and held a body corporate and politic, * * * * * * * * body, * * * shall be * and such * SECTION 599. [The above sections] shall be deemed to apply to the order of Knights of Labor and to all or any subordinate or grand lodge or assembly of the Knights of Labor in Wyoming, * TITLE 10.-Alien contract labor. SECTION 1075. No contract made for labor or services with any alien or foreigner previous to the time that such alien or foreigner may come into the territory, shall be enforced within this territory for any period after six months from the date of such contract. SECTION 1076. Any alien or foreigner who shall hereafter perform labor or services for any person or persons, company, or corporation within this Territory shall be entitled to recover from such person or persons, company or corporation, a reasonable compensation for such labor or services, notwithstanding such person or persons, company or corporation, may have paid any other party or parties for the same; and in actions for the price of such labor or services no defense shall be admitted to the effect that the defendant or defendants had contracted with other parties, who had, or pretended to have, power or authority to hire out the labor or services of such party or parties, or to receive the pay or price for such labor or services. SECTION 1077. Any person, whether he or she, acts for himself or herself, or as agent, attorney or employé for another or others, who shall, in pursuance of, or by virtue of, any contract made with any alien or foreigner, made before such alien or foreigner came into the territory, receive or offer to receive any money, pay or remuneration for the labor or services of any alien or foreigner, excepting the person so performing such labor or services, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, and not more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail for not less than three nor more than twelve months, for each and every offense. * * * TITLE 28.-Earnings of married women. * SECTION 1562. Any married woman may * perform any labor or services on her sole and separate account and the earnings of any married woman from her labor or services shall be her whole and separate property and may be used and intrusted by her in her own name, and she may sue and be sued as if sole in regard to her * labor, services and earnings, * * TITLE 30.-Coal mine regulations and inspection. * * SECTION 1640. The owner, operator or superintendent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of such coal mine, on a scale not exceeding two hundred feet to the inch; which map or plan shall exhibit all the openings or excavations, the shafts, tunnels, slopes, planes, gangways, entries, cross-headings, rooms, etc., and shall show the direction of the air currents therein, and shall accurately delineate the boundary line between said mine and adjoining mines, and show its relation and proximity thereto. The said map or plan, or a true copy thereof, shall be kept at such mine by the said owner, operator or superintendent, for the use of the territorial inspector of coal mines, and for the inspection of any miner working in said mine, whenever said miner shall have cause to fear that the place where he is working is becoming dangerous by reason of its proximity to other workings, which may be supposed to contain water or dangerous gases. The said owner, operator or superintendent shall as often as once in every six months accurately place or cause to be placed on a map or plan of said coal mine, a plan of the excavations made of all the working places or other parts of such coal mine during the preceding six months, and whenever the workings or excavations of said coal mine, or any part of the same have been driven to within ten feet of the boundary line, or when said coal mine or any part of the same is abandoned, the owner, operator or superintendent thereof, shall furnish the territorial inspector of coal mines, within three months thereafter, the proximity to the boundary line as aforesaid, or after abandonment of the said mine, or any part of the same with a correct copy on tracing muslin or blue print of the map or plan of said mine, which shall accurately show all excavations and workings of such mines to date, exhibiting clearly the part or parts abandoned, and the part or parts in proximity to the boundary line aforesaid. 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