Who are va

grants.

Employment prohibited.

Acrobatic,

Employment of children while parents live in idleness.

SECTION 5055. The following persons are and shall be punished as vagrants, viz.:

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(m) All persons who are able to work and do not work, but hire out their minor children or allow them to be hired out, and live upon their wages.

MISSOURI.

REVISED STATUTES OF 1899.

Employment of women in saloons, etc.

SECTION 2185. No owner, proprietor or keeper of any dramshop, saloon or place where spirituous, malt or vinous liquors are sold at retail shall employ or suffer to be employed any female other than the wife, daughter, mother or sister of the owner, as a servant, bartender, waiter, dancer or singer in said dramshop or place where spirituous, malt or vinous liquors are sold at retail and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three nor more than twelve months, or by fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment;

Certain employments of children forbidden—Age limit.

SECTION 2186. It shall be unlawful for any person having the mendicant, etc., care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen occupations. years to exhibit, use or employ, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give away, let out or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person in or for the vocation or occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acrobat in any place whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever, or for or in any business, exhibition or vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure or encourage any such child to engage therein. Nothing in this section contained shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any such child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or at any respectable entertainment, or the teaching or learning the science or practice of music.

Hiring, etc.

Penalty.

Age limit in factories.

Penalty.

SEC. 2187. It shall also be unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or have in custody any child under the age and for the purposes prohibited in section 2186 of this article.

SEC. 2188. Any person convicted under the provisions of the two preceding sections shall for the first offense be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court, and upon conviction for a second or any subsequent offense, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2189. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment in this State wherein steam, water or any other mechanical power is used in the manufacturing process carried on therein, or, where the work to be done by such child would, in the opinion of two reputable physicians in the locality where such work is to be done, be dangerous to the health of such child.

SEC. 2190. Any person, firm or corporation, or its agent, who employs, and any parent or person in charge of such child who

permits the employment of such child in violation of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment [imprisoned] in the county jail for a period of not less than two days nor more than ten days, or both fined and imprisoned, for each offense: Provided, That extreme poverty of the parent, or person in charge of such child, shall be a good defense to such proceeding.

Earnings of married women.

Proviso.

Earnings sep

SECTION 4340. All real estate and any personal property, including rights in action, belonging to any woman at her marriage, or arate property. which may have come to her during coverture, by gift, bequest or inheritance, or by purchase with her separate money or means, or be due as the wages of her separate labor, or has grown out of any violation of her personal rights, shall, together with all income, increase and profits thereof, be and remain her separate property and under her sole control, and shall not be liable to be taken by any process of law for the debts of her husband. *

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· Employment of women and children in factories.

Cleaning

ma

chinery, etc.

SECTION 6434. No minor or woman shall be required to clean any part of the mill, gearing or machinery in any such establish- moving ment in this State, while the same is in motion, or work between the fixed or traversing parts of any machine, while it is in motion by the action of steam, water or other mechanical power.

A person requiring a minor to work at machinery of the kind interdicted hy this section is guilty of aegligence, and can not plead that the employee assumed the risk of injury. 96 S. W. Rep. 679.

SEC. 6438. Every factory and workshop in this State where women and children are employed, and where dusty work is carried on, shall be limewashed or painted at least once in every twelve months.

SEC. 6440. In every factory, workshop or other establishment in this State where girls or women are employed, where unclean work of any kind has to be performed, suitable places shall be provided for such girls or women to wash and dress, and stairs in use by female employees shall in all such establishments be properly screened.

SEC. 6441. Separate water-closets shall be provided for the use of employees of either sex in manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other establishments in this State where persons of both sexes are employed.

Rooms to be limewashed.

Wash rooms for women.

ets.

ees.

Water clos

SEC. 6443. In every manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and Seats for feother establishment in this State wherein girls or women are male employemployed, there shall be provided and conveniently located seats sufficient to comfortably seat such girls or women, and during such times as such girls or women are not necessarily required by their duties to be upon their feet, they shall be allowed to occupy the seats provided.

SEC. 6450. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, being the owner, agent, lessee or occupant of any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other establishment, business or calling in this State to which this article applies, or any employee therein or thereat, who shall violate, or aid or abet in violating, any of the provisions of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State, be fined for the first offense not less than twenty-five dollars Dor more than two hundred dollars, and for each subsequent offense, not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be committed to the common jail of the county or city in which the offense was committed until such fine and costs are fully paid.

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Penalty.

Employment prohibited.

Age of hoist

Employment of women and children in mines.

SECTION 8811 (as amended by act, page 211, Acts of 1901, and act, page 237, Acts of 1905).

No male person under the age of fourteen years, or female of any age, shall be permitted to enter any mine to work therein; nor shall any boy under the age of sixteen years, unless he can read or write, be allowed to work in any mine. Any party or person neglecting or refusing to perform the duties required to be performed by the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine in the discretion of the court trying the same, subject, however, to the limitations as provided by ✶ ✶✶ [statute].

SEC. 8812. No owner, agent or operator of any mine operated by ing engineers. shaft or slope shall place in charge of any engine whereby men are lowered into or hoisted out of the mines any but an experienced, competent and sober person not under eighteen years of age.

Night work of children in bakeries.

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SECTION 10088. * * No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any bake shop between the hours of nine o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning.

Employment of women and children in factories—Inspection.

SECTION 10099. Every person employing five or more persons in a factory, or employing children, young persons or women, five or more in number, in a workshop, shall keep such factory or workshop in a cleanly state and free from effluvia from any drain, privy or other nuisance.

SEC. 10100. Every person employing five or more persons in a factory or employing children, young persons or women, five or more in number, in a workshop, shall provide, with reasonable access, a sufficient number of proper water-closets, earth closets or privies, for the reasonable use of all persons so employed; and wherever male and female persons are employed in the same factory or workshop, a suflicient number of separate and distinct water-closets, earth closets or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex, and shall be plainly designated; and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex.

SEC. 10101. Every factory in which five or more persons are employed, and every workshop in which children, young persons or women, five or more in number, are employed, shall be so ventilated while work is carried on therein that the air shall not become so exhausted as to be injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, and shall also be so ventilated as to render harmless, so far as is practicable, all the gases, vapors, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the manufacturing process or handicraft carried on therein that may be injurious to health.

SEC. 10102. If, in a factory or workshop included in section 10101 of this article, any process is carried on by which dust is generated and inhaled to an injurious extent by the persons employed therein, and it appears to an inspector of factories that such inhalation could be to a great extent prevented by the use of a fan or other mechanical means, and that the same could be provided without excessive expense, such inspector may direct a fan, or other mechanical means of a proper construction, to be provided within a reasonable time; and such fan or other mechanical means shall be so provided, maintained and used.

SEC. 10103. Any person employing labor in a factory or workshop, and violating any provision of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars; but no criminal prose

cution shall be made for such violation until four weeks after notice in writing by an inspector of factories of the changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of this article has been sent by mail or delivered to such person, nor then, if in the meantime such changes have been made in accordance with such notification. A notice shall be a sufficient notice under this article to all the members of a firm, company or corporation, when given to one member of such firm or company, or to the clerk, cashier, secretary, agent or any other officer having charge of the business of such corporation, or to its attorney; and in case of a foreign corporation, notice to the officer having charge of such factory or workshop shall be sufficient.

SEC. 10104. The following expressions used in this article shall have the following meanings: The expression "person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, company or association. The expression “child” means a person under the age of fourteen years. The expression young person means a person of the age of fourteen years and under the age of eighteen years. The expression "woman" means a woman of the age of eighteen years and upward. The expression "factory" means any premises where steam, water or other mechanical power is used in aid of any manufacturing process there carried on. The expression workshop" means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article or part of an article, and to which or over which premises, room or place the employer of the persons working therein has the right of access or control: Provided, however, That the exercise of manual labor in a private house or room by a family dwelling therein, shall not in itself constitute such house or room a workshop within this definition.

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ACTS OF 1905.

Employment of children during school time.

(Page 146.)

Definitions.

SECTION 1. Every parent, guardian or other person in the State School atof Missouri having charge and control of a child between the ages tendance required. of eight and fourteen years shall cause such child to attend regularly some day school, public, private, parochial or parish, not less than one-half of the entire time the school which said child attends is in session, or shall provide such child at home with such regular daily instruction during the usual hours as shall be, in the judgment of a court having competent jurisdiction, substantially equivalent at least to the instruction given the children of like age at said day school in the locality in which said child resides: Provided, That every parent, guardian, or person in the State of Missouri having charge and control of a children. child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years who is not actually and regularly and lawfully engaged in some useful employment or service, shall 'cause said child to attend regularly some day school as aforesaid.

Unemployed

ents.

of

SEC. 2. A child between the ages aforesaid may be excused Children temporarily from complying with the provisions of this act, in dependent parwhole or in part, if it be shown to the satisfaction of a court of competent jurisdiction that said parent or guardian, or person having charge and control of said child is not able through extreme destitution to provide or obtain in any way proper clothing for said child; or that said child is mentally or physically incapacitated to attend school for the whole period required, or any part thereof, or that there is no public school taught within two and one-half miles of the residence of said child by the nearest traveled road, or that the labor of said child is absolutely necessary for the support of the family, or that said child has

Enforcement.

Certificates.

Penalty.

Limit of 14 years.

Hours of labor

Night work.

completed the common school course as prescribed by constituted authority or its equivalent and has received a certificate of graduation therefrom.

SEC. 3. The board having charge of a public school in a city or district of three thousand or more population by the last census may appoint, and remove at pleasure, one or more attendance officers to enforce the provisions of this act, and shall fix the compensation and manner of performance of the duties of said attendance officer, and shall pay them from the public school funds; and the attendance officers, as aforesaid, * shall have the right to visit and enter any office, or factory or business house employing children as aforesaid; shall have the right to acquire a properly attested certificate of the attendance of any child or children at such day school: * * *

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SEC. 7. No child between eight and fourteen years of age shall be employed in any mine, factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, or in any other manner, during the usual school hours unless the person employing him shall first procure a certificate from the superintendent or teacher of the school he attended stating that such child attended school for the period required by law, or has been excused from attendance as provided in section two; and it shall be the duty of such superintendent or teacher to furnish such certificate upon application of the parent, guardian or other persons having control of such child entitled to the same.

SEC. 8. Every owner, superintendent or officer 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 act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined for each offense in a sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars and costs.

[This law does not apply to the city of St. Louis. See section 13 of act, page 428, Acts of 1907, on page 738 below.]

ACTS OF 1907.

Employment of children-Age limit.

(Page 86.)

SECTION 1. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupation in any theater, concert hall, or in or about any place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold, or in any manufacturing establishment, laundry, bowling alley, freight elevator, factory or workshop within this State, [nor] in any store or mercantile establishment in which more than ten persons are employed; nor in the transmission or distribution of messages or merchandise: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall apply only to cities of ten thousand inhabitants or more.

SEC. 2. No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, under 16 years. permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupation in any theater, concert hall or place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold, or in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, or in any messenger or express service, or at any boot-blacking establishment more than fifty-four hours in any one week, nor more than nine hours per day; or before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room where such minors are employed a printed notice stating the hours required of them each day of the week, the hours of commencing and stopping work and the hours when the time or times allowed for meals begin(s) or end(s). The printed forms of such notice shall be furnished by the State factory inspector upon request of the employer, and the employment of any such minor for longer time in any day so stated shall be deemed a violation of this section: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall apply only in cities of ten thousand inhabitants or more.