time. employed in any manufacturing establishment, nor in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides. Employment SEC. 11 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No child under during school the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, or in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment, during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides, without first presenting a statement of his age from his parent or guardian, sworn to before the superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, by some person authorized by the school board of the district in which such child is employed. Certificates. Illiterates. Penalty. Enforcement. Limitation. And no child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed as aforesaid during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides without first presenting a certificate from the superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, some person authorized by the school board, that such child can read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language. And any superintendent of schools or person authorized by the school board who certifies falsely as to matters prescribed by this section shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. SEC. 12 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No minor shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, or in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment, who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, while a free public evening school is maintained in the district in which he resides, unless he is a regular attendant at such evening school or at a day school: Provided, That upon presentation by such minor of a certificate signed by a regular practicing physician, and satisfactory to the superintendent of schools, or, where there is no superintendent of schools, the school board, showing that the physical condition of such minor would render such attendance in addition to daily labor prejudicial to his health, said superintendent of schools or school board shall issue a permit authorizing the employment of such minor for such period as said superintendent of schools or school board may determine. Said superintendent of schools or school board, or teachers acting under authority thereof, may excuse any absence from such evening school arising from justifiable cause. Any parent, guardian, or custodian who permits to be employed any minor under his control in violation of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty dollars for the use of the evening schools of such town or city. SEC. 13 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). If any owner, agent, superintendent, or overseer of a manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, or any other person, shall employ any child in violation of the provisions of either of the three preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense, for the use of the district. SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the school board to prosecute offenders for violations of the provisions of this chapter. If they neglect to perform this duty they shall forfeit twenty dollars for each neglect, for the use of the district, to be recovered in the name of the district by the selectmen of the town. All necessary expenses incurred in such proceedings shall be paid by the district. SEC. 19. No prosecution under this chapter shall be sustained unless begun within one year after the offense is committed. CHAPTER 176.-Earnings of married women. Earnings sepSECTION 1. Every woman shall hold to her own use, free from the arate property. interference or control of any husband she may have, all property at if such earning, any time earned, ** occasioned by payment or pledge of the property of the husband. Hours of labor. * * * * were not CHAPTER 180.-Hours of labor of women and children. SEC. 14 (as enacted by chapter 94, Acts of 1907). No woman and no minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed in a manufacturing or mechanical establishment for more than nine hours and forty min utes in one day except in the following cases: I. To make a shorter day's work for one day in the week. II. To make up time lost on some day in the same week in consequence of the stopping of machinery upon which such person was dependent for employment. III. When it is necessary to make repairs to prevent interruption of the ordinary running of the machinery. In no case shall the hours of labor exceed fifty-eight in one week. SEC. 15. The proprietors of every such establishment shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in every room where such persons are employed a notice printed in plain, large letters, stating the exact time of beginning and of stopping work in the forenoon and in the afternoon, and the number of hours' work required of them each day of the week. Schedule to be posted. SEC. 16. If any owner, agent, superintendent, or overseer of any Penalty. such establishment shall willfully violate the provisions of either of the two preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense. SEC. 17. A certificate of the age of a minor, made by him and by Certificate. his parents or guardian and presented to the employer at the time the minor is employed, shall be conclusive evidence of his age upon a prosecution for the violation of the provisions of section fourteen. False state SEC. 18. If any person shall make and utter a false certificate in regard to the age of a minor, with intent to evade the provisions of ment. this chapter, he shall be fined twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned thirty days, or both, for each offense. SEC. 19. * * * Prosecutions under sections sixteen and eighteen Limitation. shall be barred unless begun within one year after the offense was committed. CHAPTER 265.-Certain employments of children forbidden. tions. SECTION 3. If any person shall employ or exhibit a child under the Acrobatic, age of fourteen years in dancing, playing on musical instruments, sing- etc., occupa ing, walking on a wire or rope, or riding or performing as a gymnast, contortionist, or acrobat in any circus or theatrical exhibition, or in any public place whatsoever, or shall cause, procure, or encourage any such child to engage therein, or if any person having the custody or control of any such child shall permit him to be so employed, such person shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars; but nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the education of children in vocal and instrumental music, or their employment as musicians in any church, chapel, or school, or school exhibition, or to prevent their taking part in any concert or musical exhibition. ACTS OF 1895. CHAPTER 16.-Seats for female employees. SECTION 1. Every person, firm, or corporation employing females in Seats to be any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment in this provided. State, 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 nec essarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. SEC. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the pro- Penalty. visions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars for each offense. ACTS OF 1903. CHAPTER 95.-Employment of women and minors in barrooms. SECTION 17 (as amended by chapter 49, Acts of 1905). It shall not Employment be lawful * 2. To permit any girl or woman * * * * to sell or serve any liquor on the premises; or to permit any male person under the age of twentyone years to sell or serve any liquor on the premises, except to bona fide registered guests in their rooms and in dining rooms with meals under licenses of the first class. prohibited. * Seats to be provided. Penalty. Earnings se p NEW JERSEY. GENERAL STATUTES-1895. Seats for female employees. SECTION 217. Every person or corporation employing female employees in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment in this State shall provide suitable seats for the use of the female employees 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. 218 (as amended by chapter 192, Acts of 1898). Any person or corporation who shall be guilty of any violation of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense: Provided, That ten days' notice in writing shall be given by any person or persons who may choose to do so, to any person or persons or corporation violating this act, that they are required to comply with the provisions of the first section of this act [sec. 217], and any person or corporation failing to comply therewith upon or before the expiration of ten days from the date of service of such notice, shall be liable to the said penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be recovered in an action of debt in any district court in any city or before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction in civil causes; * * Earnings of married women. (Page 2013.) SECTION 4. The wages and earnings of any married woman, acquired arate property. or gained by her * in any employment, occupation, or trade in which she is employed, and which she carries on separately from her husband, and all investments of such wages, earnings, money, or property, shall be her sole and separate property, as though she were a single Hours of labor. Women and children. Proviso. Enforcement. Penalty. School attendance required. woman. SECTION 66. Hours of labor in factories, etc. (Page 2350.) fifty-five hours shall constitute a week's work in any factory, workshop, or establishment where the manufacture of any goods whatever is carried on; and the periods of employment shall be from seven o'clock in the forenoon until twelve o'clock noon, and from one o'clock in the afternoon until six o'clock in the evening of every working day except Saturday, upon which last named day the period of employment shall be from seven o'clock in the forenoon until twelve o'clock noon. SEC. 67. No person under the age of eighteen years, male or female, and no woman above that age shall be employed in any factory, workshop, or manufacturing establishment except during the periods of employment hereinbefore mentioned: Provided, That the provisions in this act in relation to the hours of employment shall not apply to or affect any person engaged in preserving perishable goods in fruit canning establishments or in any factory engaged in the manufacture of glass. SEC. 68. The inspector of factories shall investigate any reported violation of the provisions of this act and of the act to which this is a supplement, after it has been discovered by him or brought to his notice, and may proceed against the violator or violators in the manner prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement. SEC. 69. Any manufacturer or other employer who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered in the same way and for the same purpose as prescribed in the act to which this is a supplement. Employment of children-School attendance. (Page 3039.) SECTION 146. No child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed by any person, company or corporation to labor in any business whatever, unless such child shall have attended within twelve months immediately preceding such employment, some public day or night school, or some well-recognized private school; such attendance to be for five days or evenings every week during a period of at least twelve consecutive weeks, which may be divided into two terms of six consecutive weeks each, so far as the arrangement of school terms will permit, and unless each [such] child or his or her parents or guardians shall have complied with the provisions of the act approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, limiting the employment hours of the labor of children. Act of March fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, repealed, apparently superseded by chapter 64, Acts of 1904. ACTS OF 1896. CHAPTER 181.-Night work of children in bakeries. SECTION 10 (added by chapter 64, Acts of 1903). No person under Night work prohibited. the age of eighteen years shall be employed, or required, permitted or suffered to work, in a biscuit, bread or cake bakery between the hours of seven o'clock in the afternoon and seven o'clock in the forenoon. ACTS OF 1898. CHAPTER 235.-Certain employments of children forbidden. occupations. SECTION 56. Any person who, whether as parent, relative, guard- Acrobatic, ian, employer, or otherwise, having in his or her custody or control, mendicant, etc., lawfully or unlawfully, any minor child under the age of eighteen years, who shall sell, apprentice, give away, let out, employ, hire or otherwise dispose of such minor or minors for the purpose of begging, singing and playing on a musical instruments [instrument], ropewalking, dancing, or for any mendicant or wandering business whatsoever, or in any immoral conduct or occupation in the streets, roads and other highways or public places of this State, and any person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use or have in custody any such minor or minors, under the age of eighteen years, and use or employ him, her or them in any such purpose, or any of them, for any mendicant or immoral business whatsoever, either in public or private places within this State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished accordingly; and if, upon such conviction, the minor or minors shall have no home or means of support and no one to take proper care of him, her or them, the court may, in its discretion, if it shall appear a humane and proper thing to do, commit such minor or minors to the State reform school for boys, or the State industrial school for girls, until such minor or minors attain the age of eighteen years, or for a less age, in the discretion of the court. ACTS OF 1904. CHAPTER 64.-Employment of children. SECTION 1. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed, allowed or permitted to work in any factory, workshop, mill or place where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on; any corporation, firm, individual, parent, parents or custodian of any child who shall violate any of the provisions of this section, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. Age limit. Definition. SEC. 2. The word custodian as used in this act shall include any person, organization or society having the legal custody of a child. SEC. 3. If at the time of the employment of a child, the proofs of age Evidence. specified in subdivisions I. and II. of this section, are filed with the corporation, firm or person employing the child, such proofs shall be conclusive evidence of the age of child in a suit against such employer for a violation of section 1: Provided, however, That correct copies of all papers, certificates, passports and affidavits relating to such employment shall be mailed, postage prepaid, to the department having charge of the enforcement of this act, at Trenton, New Jersey, within twentyfour hours after the same are filed, together with a statement of the legal name of the person, firm or corporation employing such child. Records evidence. 1. NATIVE BORN CHILDREN. The parent, parents or custodian shall make and swear to an affidavit before some officer authorized by the law of this State to take affidavits, setting forth the following facts: The name of the child in full; his or her residence, giving street and number; place where and year, month and day when born; name of father; maiden name of mother; church attended, if any; school last attended and time when, if any, and where the church and school are situated; if child was baptized, name and location of church or parish in which such baptism took place; there must accompany such affidavit a transcript of the record of the child's birth; duly attested by an officer having by law the authority to keep records of birth in the State, county, town or city in which the child was born; if no such birth record can be obtained and the child was baptized, then a certified copy of the baptismal record of the church or parish in which such baptism took place, duly certified as a true copy, under the hand of the person having the custody of such church or parish records, shall accompany the affidavit, and the affidavit shall set forth the age of child at time of baptism. II. FOREIGN BORN CHILDREN. An affidavit to be made by the same persons and containing the same statement of facts as in the case of native born children, with an additional statement that the child named in the affidavit is the same mentioned and described in the passport under which the child was admitted to this country; a true copy of said passport must in all cases be attached to the affidavit. III. OTHER CHILDREN. The commissioner shall have power to issue permits of employ. ment to children upon the production of evidence of the child's age satisfactory to him: Provided, That he shall first be satisfied that the child can not obtain a transcript of birth record, a baptismal certificate or passport, as provided in either subdivision I. or II. as SEC. 4. In any suit brought to recover a penalty for violation of section one of this act, a copy of the baptismal record, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the person having the custody of such records for the church or parish in which such child was baptized, shall be prima facie evidence of the child's age (provided, that in case the age of the child is not set forth in the baptismal record, that there shall be other proof showing the age of the child at the time he or she was baptized). Enforcement. False statements. Physical fit ness. SEC. 5. The commissioner, assistant or any inspector is hereby empowered to demand of any parent, parents or custodian, proof of the age of a child satisfactory to the commissioner, and such parent, parents or custodian shall, within five days after such demand is made, furnish to such officer proofs of such child's age; and in event of the failure to procure and furnish such proof of age, such child shall be discharged by his or her employer upon notice in writing signed by the commissioner, and shall not be reemployed until such proof of age shall have been furnished to the commissioner; any person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. SEC. 6. Any one who shall swear falsely to any affidavit or present any certificate or passport which he or she knows to be false, and any person or persons who shall aid, assist or advise the making of a false affidavit or the obtaining of a false certificate or passport, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. SEC. 7. The commissioner, assistant or the inspectors shall have power to demand a certificate of physical fitness from some regular practicing physician in the case of minors under the age of sixteen years, who, in the judgment of such officer, shall be physically unable to do the work in which such minor is employed, and shall |