File to be kept. Enforcement. Prior law Louis. re SEC. 11. Every owner, superintendent, officer, or person in charge of any mine, office, factory, workshop, business house, or place of amusement, or any person who employs or has in his service any child between eight and sixteen years of age, shall preserve and keep on file for each child between the aforesaid ages that is in his employ or service, the affidavit or certificate of age, or the certificate of exemption from school attendance which has been furnished to said employer, as provided for by sections nine and ten of this act; and every employer, as aforesaid, shall, upon the request of the attendance officer, submit any or each of said certificates, affidavits, or exemptions from school attendance for inspection and examination of such officer. Any employer failing to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined for such offense not less than twenty dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, and costs. SEC. 12. Prosecutions under this act shall be brought in the name of the State of Missouri. The circuit court, when vested as a juvenile court, with jurisdiction over juvenile offenders, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the court in said city having general jurisdiction over misdemeanors to try and determine any cases of violation of the provisions of this act by parents, employers or other persons, and shall also have jurisdiction to determine exemptions under section two, and a general supervisory jurisdiction over the enforcement of the provisions of this act. SEC. 13. An act entitled "An act to enforce the constitutional right pealed as to St. of every child in the State to an education, to provide for truant or parental schools and attendance officers in cities of ten thousand popufation or more, and to prohibit the employment of children during school hours," approved April 11, 1905, (page 146, Acts of 1905] so far as the same applies to cities having five hundred thousand inhabitants or more, is hereby repealed. Age limit. School attendance required. ΜΟΝΤΑΝΑ. ARTICLE 18.-Employment of children in mines. SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful to employ children under the age of sixteen (16) years of age in underground mines. CODES AND STATUTES-1895. POLITICAL CODE. Employment of children during school term-Illiterates. SECTION 1920 (as amended by chapter 45, Acts of 1903). All parents, guardians and other persons who have care of children, shall instruct them, or cause them to be instructed in reading, spelling, writing, English grammar, geography, physiology and hygiene, and arithmetic. Every parent, guardian or other person having charge of any child between the ages of eight and fourteen years shall send such child to a public, private, or parochial school, for the full time that the school attended is in session, which shall in no case be for less than sixteen weeks during any current year, and said attendance shall begin within the first week of the school term, unless the child is excused from such attendance * * * upon satisfactory showing, either that the bodily or mental condition of the child does not permit of its attendance at school, or that the child is being instructed at home by a person qualified, or that there is no school taught the required length of time within 24 miles of the residence of such child by the nearest traveled road: Provided, That no child shall be refused admission to any public school on account of race or color. * # * * * * SEC. 1921 (as amended by chapter 45, Acts of 1903). No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed or be in the employment of any person, company or corporation during the school term and while the public schools are in session, unless such child shall present to such person, company or corporation an age and schooling certificate herein provided for. An age and schooling certificate shall be approved only by the superintendent of schools, or by a person authorized by him, in city or other districts having such superintendent, or by the clerk of the board of trustees in village and township districts not having such superintendent, upon a satisfactory proof of the age of such minor and that he has successfully completed the studies enumerated in section 1920 of this article; or if between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, a knowledge of his or her ability to read and write legibly the English language. The age and schooling certificate shall be formulated by the superintendent of public instruction and the same furnished, in blank, by the clerk of the board of trustees or the clerk of the district. Every person[,] company, or corporation employing any child under sixteen years of age, shall exact the age and schooling certificate prescribed in this section, as a condition of employment and shall keep the same on file, and shall upon the request of the truant officer hereinafter provided for, permit him to examine such age and schooling certificate. Any person, company, or corporation, employing any minor contrary to the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than twentyfive nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. [See section 1, chapter 99, Acts of 1907.] Certificates. Illiterates. SEC. 1922 (as amended by chapter 45, Acts of 1903). All minors over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen years, who can not read and write the English language shall be required to attend school as provided in section 1920, of this article and all the provisions of said section shall apply to said minors: Provided, That such attendance shall not be required of such minors after they have secured a certificate from the superintendent of schools in districts having superintendents, or the clerk of the board of trustees in districts not having superintendents, that they can read, and write the English language. No person, company or corporation shall employ any such minor during the time schools are in session, or having such minor in their employ shall immediately cease such employment, upon notice from the truant officer who is hereinafter provided. Every person, company, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. SEC. 1924 (as amended by chapter 45, Acts of 1903). The truant officer shall be vested with police powers, the authority Enforcement. to serve warrants, and have authority to enter workshops, factories, stores and all other places where children may be employed, and do whatever may be necessary, in the way of investigation or otherwise to enforce the provisions of this act; CIVIL CODE. Earnings of married women. * * * SECTION 223. The earnings and accumulations of the wife are not liable for the debts of the husband. SEC. 225. All work and labor performed by a married woman for a person other than her husband and children shall, unless there is a written agreement on her part to the contrary, be presumed to be performed on her separate account. Earnings separate property. Same subject. Earnings of minors. SECTION 299. The wages of a minor employed in service may be paid to him until the parent or guardian entitled thereto gives the minors employer notice that he claims such wages. Payments to valid, when. Acrobatic PENAL CODE. Certain employments of children forbidden. SECTION 472. Any person, whether as parent, relative, guardian, and mendicant employer or otherwise, having in his care, custody or control any occupations. child under the age of sixteen years, who shall sell, apprentice, give away, let out or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person, under any name, title or pretense, for the vocation, use, occupation, calling, service, or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope walking, dancing, begging or peddling in any public street or highway, or in any mendicant or wandering business whatever, and any person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use or have in custody any child for such purposes, or either of them, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Powers secretary bureau. Age limit. ACTS OF 1905. CHAPTER 96.-Enforcement of laws-Bureau of child and animal protection. of SECTION 10 (as amended by chapter 19, Acts of 1907). The secof retary of the bureau of child and animal protection is hereby vested with authority to make arrests of any person, or persons, violating any provisions of the laws relating to wrongs to children and dumb animals, and is hereby further vested with the authority to enter workshops, factories, stores, mines, milis and smelters, and all other places where children may be employed, and do what may be necessary in the way of investigation, or otherwise, to enforce the laws pertaining to minor children and animals. Hiring cut children. List of children. ACTS OF 1907. CHAPTER 99.-Age limit of children. SECTION 1. Any person, company, firm, association, or corporation engaged in business in this State, or any agent, officer, foreman or other employee having control or management of employees, or having the power to hire or discharge employees, who shall knowingly employ or permit to be employed any child under the age of sixteen years, to render or perform any service or labor, whether under contract of employment or otherwise, in, on, or about any mine, mill, smelter, workshop, factory, steam, electric, hydraulic, or compressed air railroad, or passenger or freight elevator, or where any machinery is operated, or for any telegraph, telephone or messenger company, or in any occupation not herein enumerated which is known to be dangerous or unhealthful, or which may be in any way detrimental to the morals of said child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. Any parent, guardian or other person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of sixteen years, who shall permit, suffer or allow any such child to work or perform service for any person, company, firm, association or corporation doing business in this State, or who shall permit or allow any such child over whom he has such care, custody or control, to retain such employment as is prohibited in section one of this act, whether under contract of employment or not, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided. SEC. 3. The commissioner of the bureau of agriculture, labor and industry shall compile and preserve in his office from reports made to him by the county superintendent of schools, as otherwise provided, a full and complete list of the name, age, date of birth and sex of each child, and the names of the parents or guardians of each child under the age of sixteen years who is now or may hereafter become a resident of this State, and such list shall be the official record of the age of children in this State. SEC. 4. Upon attaining the age of sixteen years any child may make Certificate. application to the commissioner of the bureau of agriculture, labor and industry for an age certificate, which must be presented to any employer with whom such child may seek employment. The employer, if such employment be given, must countersign the certificate, and return the same to the commissioner of said bureau, who shall keep the same on file in his office. Any person, firm, company, association or corporation who employs or permits to be employed in any occupation prohibited in section one of this act, any child without such certificate showing the child to be at least sixteen years of age, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided. Should such child prove to be less than sixteen years of age [sic]. SEC. 5. To enforce this act the commissioner of the bureau of agri- Enforcement. culture, labor and industry, the bureau of child and animal protection and all county attorneys shall, each upon thier [their] own volition, or upon the sworn complaint of any reputable citizen that this act is being violated, make prosecutions for such violations. SEC. 6. Every person, firm, company, association or corporation who Penalty. violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. NEBRASKA. COMPILED STATUTES OF 1881-TENTH EDITION, 1901. SECTION 3662. * * * The earnings of any married woman, from Earnings her trade, business, labor, or services, shall be her sole and separate separate properproperty, and may be used and invested by her, in her own name. Employment of children-School attendance. ty. Attendance SECTION 4853 (as amended by chapter 131, Acts of 1907). In school districts other than city and metropolitan city school districts every required. person having legal or actual charge or control of any child or children or youth not less than seven nor more than fifteen years of age shall, during each school year between the second Monday of July and the last Monday of June following, cause such child or children or youth to attend the public day schools for a period of not less than twelve weeks, and if the public day school of the school district in which said person or persons having charge or control of such child or children or youth may reside shall be in session during the school year between the second Monday of July and the last Monday of June following more than twelve weeks, then the person having legal control of such child or children or youth shall cause each of them to attend such public day school not less than two-thirds of the entire time that said school shall be in session during the school year as aforesaid; and in no case shall such attendance be for a less period than twelve weeks. In city and metropolitan city school districts every person residing within such school district who has legal or actual charge or control of any child or children or youth not less than seven nor more than sixteen years of age shall cause such child or children or youth to attend the public day school for the full period each school year in which the public day schools of such school district are in session. The portion of this act requiring attendance in public day school Exemptions. shall not apply in any case where the child or youth is, for a time equal to that required by this act, instructed in some private or parochial school; or in any case where the child is instructed at home or elsewhere by a person qualified to give instruction in the studies required to be taught in the public schools; or in any case where the child or youth, being of the age of fourteen years, is legally and regularly employed for his own support or the support of those actually dependent upon him; or in any case where the child or youth is physically or mentally in capacitated for the work done in the schools; or in any case where the child or youth lives more than two miles from the school by the nearest practicable traveled road, unless free transportation to and from such school is furnished to such child or youth. In case exemption is claimed on account of mental or physical incapacity, the school authorities shall have the right to employ a physician or physicians who shall have authority to examine such child or youth, and if such physician or physicians shall declare that such child or youth is capable of undertaking the work of the schools, then such child or youth shall not be exempt from the requirements of this act. In case exemption is claimed and granted on account of a child or youth of the age of fourteen years being legally and regularly employed for his own support or the support of those dependent upon him, such child or youth may, in the discretion of those charged with enforceEvening ment of this act, be required to attend a public evening school or some other suitable school for not less than two hours each school day and not less than three days each week for a school year of not less than twenty weeks. schools. Hours of labor of females. Night work. Schedule to be posted. Seats. Penalty. Age limit. Certificate. Employment of women. SECTION 6942a. No female shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment. hotel or restaurant in this State, more than sixty hours during any one week and ten hours shall constitute a day's labor. The hours of each day may be so arranged as to permit the employment of such females at any time from six o'clock a. m. to ten o'clock p. m.; but in no case shall such employment exceed ten hours in any one day. SEC. 6942b. Every such employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room where such females are employed, a printed notice, stating the number of hours work required of them each day of the week[,] the hours of commencing and stopping such work and the hours when the time or times allowed for dinner or for other meals begins and ends [sic]. Printed forms of said notice shall be furnished by the deputy labor commissioner, and the form of such notice approved by the attorneygeneral of this State. SEC. 6942c. Every such employer in such establishment, shall provide suitable seats for 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. SEC. 6912d. Any employer, overseer, superintendent or other agent of any such employer who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be fined for each offense in a sum not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars; and it is hereby made the duty of the deputy labor commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act: Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any other person from enforcing its provisions. This act (sections 6942a to C942d) is constitutional. 91 N. W. Rep. 421. ACTS OF 1907. CHAPTER 66.—Employment of children—General provisions. SECTION 1. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in, or in connection with, any theater, concert hall, or place of amusement, or any place 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 as a messenger or driver therefor, within this State. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever during the hours when the public schools of the town, township, village or city in which the child resides are in session. SEC. 2. No child between fourteen and sixteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any theater, concert hall, or place of amusement, or in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, passenger or freight elevator, factory, or workshop, or as a messenger or driver |