ACTS OF 1895. CHAPTER 16.-Seats for female employees. SECTION 1. Every person, firm, or corporation employing females in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment in this 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 necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. SEC. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars for each offense. CHAPTER 42.-Trade-marks of trade unions, etc. SEC.1. Whenever any person, association, or union of workingmen have adopted, or shall hereafter adopt, for their protection, any label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement announcing that goods to which such label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement shall be attached were manufactured by such person, or by a member or members of such association or union, it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to counterfeit or imitate such label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement. And whenever any person, firm, association, or corporation is the owner of any literary, dramatic, or musical composition and the rights of the author pertaining thereto, and such composition has not been copyrighted, printed, or published, or of any map, charter, engraving, cut, print, photograph or negative thereof, statue, statuary, model, or design, which has not been copyrighted or offered for sale, it shall be unlawful for any other person, firm, association, or corporation to publish, produce, print, or sell or offer to sell the same without first obtaining the consent of the owner thereof. SEC. 2. Every person who shall use any counterfeit or imitation of any label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement of any such person, union, or association, knowing the same to be counterfeit or imitation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as provided in section 7 of this act. SEC. 3. Every such person, association, or union that has heretofore adopted, or shall hereafter adopt, a label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement as aforesaid, may file the same for record in the office of the secretary of state by leaving two copies, counterparts, or facsimiles thereof with the secretary of state; and the secretary shall deliver to such person, association, or union so filing the same a duly attested certificate of the record of the same, for which he shall receive a fee of one dollar. Such certificate of record shall, in all suits and prosecutions under this act, be prima facie proof of the adoption of such label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement, and of the right of said person, association, or union to adopt the same. No label shall be recorded that probably would be mistaken for a label already of record. SEC. 4. Every such person, association, or union adopting a label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement as aforesaid, may proceed by suit to enjoin the manufacture, use, display, or sale of any such counterfeits or imitations; and all courts having jurisdiction thereof shall grant injunctions to restrain such manufacture, use, display, or sale, and such person, association, or union shall be entitled to such damages resulting from such wrongful manufacture, use, display, or sale as may be deemed just and reasonable; and the supreme court shall also order that all counterfeits or imitations in the possession or under the control of the defendant in such case be delivered to an officer of the court, or to the complainant, to be destroyed. SEC. 5. Every person who shall use or display the genuine label, trade-mark, or form of advertisement of any such person, association, or union, in any manner not authorized by such person, association, or union, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as provided in section 7 of this act. In all cases where such association or union is not incorporated, suits under this act may be commenced and prosecuted by any officer or member of such association or union, in behalf of and for the use of such association or union. SEC. 6. Any person or persons who shall in any way use the name or seal of any such person, association, or union, or officer thereof, in and about the sale of goods or otherwise, not being authorized to so use the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in the succeeding section. SEC. 7. Any violations of any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than three months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or both. CHAPTER 107.-College of agriculture and the mechanic arts—Manual training. SEC. 3. Every student taking the two-years course, or during two years of any agricultural course, shall devote not less than ten hours a week, during the college year, when practicable, under competent teachers, to practical instruction and manual training in branches of agriculture that require special knowledge and skill, one third of which time may be devoted to suitable practical instruction and manual training in shop work in wood and iron; but any student may be excused from such exercises for physical disability. At the request of parents or guardians, students may be excused from some or all of such exercises by the trustees. A student excused from all, or substantially all, said manual exercises at the request of parent or guardian, and not for sickness or other disability, shall not receive said diploma. NEW JERSEY. REVISION OF 1877. Wages preferred—In assignments. (Page 38.) * SECTION 8. At the first term of * * [the orphans'] court succeeding the expiration of the time fixed for filing the list of creditors, and of giving notice to creditors as aforesaid, should there be no exceptions made to the claim of any creditor, or if exceptions have been made and adjudicated, or settled by said court, the said assignee or assignees shall then proceed to make from time to time, fair and equal dividends among said creditors, of the assets which shall come to hand, in proportion to their claims; and as soon as may be, and not exceeding one year thereafter, shall render, on oath or affirmation, a final account to the orphans' court of said county, in like manner and upon the same notice to creditors and others interested, as is now or may hereafter be directed in regard to executors and administrators; and exceptions may, in like manner, be filed to such accounts and proceeded in as prescribed in regard to executors and administrators, and the settlement and decree of said court shall be conclusive on all parties, except for assets which may afterwards come to hand, or for frauds or apparent errors, Provided, That the wages of clerks, minors, mechanics and laborers, due at the time of making such assignment, from the person or persons making the same, shall be preferred debts, and shall be first paid by said assignee before any other claim or debt shall be paid; And provided further, That no payment shall be made as a preferred debt to any one person to an amount exceeding three hundred dollars. Exemption from attachment. (Page 44.) SEC. 12. The personal property of a nonresident of this State, being in this State, shall not be liable to attachment at the suit of a nonresident creditor, when the said property is exempt by law of the State of which the said debtor and creditor are residents. Wages preferred-In insolvency. (Page 188.) SEC. 63 (as amended by chapter 71, acts of 1887). In case of the insolvency of any corporation the laborers then or theretofore in the employ thereof shall have a lien upon the assets thereof for the amount due to them respectively, which shall be paid prior to any other debt or debts of said company; and the word "laborers" shall be construed to include all persons doing labor or service of whatever character for or as workmen or employees, in the employ of such corporations; and the lien shall have reference to and comprise all claims for such labor or services rendered for or in behalf of such corporations before the date which the court adjudges to be the time when the insolvency occurred which gives it jurisdiction whether such "laborers" were in the actual employ of such corporation at that time or not. * * Conspiracy. (a) SEC. 191 (as amended by section 9, page 1296, Revision of 1877, and section 43, page 199, supplement of 1886). If two or more persons shall combine, unite, confederate, conspire or bind themselves by oath, covenant, agreement or other allior to cheat and defraud any person of any ance to commit any crime, property by any means which are in themselves criminal, or to cheat and defraud any person of any property by any means which, if executed, would amount to a * * * or to commit any act for the perversion or obstruction of juscheat, tice, or the due administration of the laws, they shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a conspiracy, and shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding two years, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both; but no agreement to commit any crime other than_murder, manslaughter, sodomy, rape, arson, burglary or robbery, shall be deemed a conspiracy, unless some act in execution of such agreement be done to effect the object thereof by one or more of the parties to such agreement. Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to any person or persons lawfully and by peaceful means persuading, advising or encouraging other persons to enter into any combination for or against leaving or entering into the employment of other persons. Exemption from distress for rent. * * * (Page 313.) * SEC. 24. Goods and chattels of every kind, not exceeding in value (exclusive of wearing apparel) the sum of two hundred dollars, and all wearing apparel the property of any tenant having a family residing in this State, shall be reserved, as well after as before the death of such tenant, for the use of his family, and shall not be liable to be sold as, or for, a distress for rent, by force of this act or of any from the inventory of the goods * usage or law of this State; * # appraisesuch tenant, or in his absence, his agent, attorney, or any member of his family, may select articles, the value of which, according to [the] * ment, shall not exceed two hundred dollars; and if such tenant, or a member of his family, his agent or attorney, can not readily be found, such selection may be made by said appraisers; and the goods so selected shall be left for the use of the family of said tenant. SEC. 26. * * [The above provision] shall apply to the case of undertenants. Hours of labor on election days. (Page 368.) SEC. 177. Eight hours shall constitute a day's labor on any day whereon any general or municipal election shall be held. Exemption from execution, etc.-Personal property. (Page 391.) SEC. 10 (as amended by section 4, page 291, Supplement of 1886). Goods and chattels, shares of stock or interest in any corporation, and personal property of every kind, not exceeding in value (exclusive of wearing apparel) the sum of two hundred dollars, and all wearing apparel the property of any debtor having a family residing in this State, shall be reserved, as well after as before the death of the debtor, for the use of his family, and shall not be liable to be seized or taken by virtue of any execution or civil process whatever, issued out of any court of : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed or this State held to protect from sale, under execution or other process, any goods, chattels or property, for the purchase whereof the debt or demand for which the judgment on which such execution or process was issued, shall have been contracted; or to apply to process issued for the collection of taxes. * * * Gaslight companies-Liability of stockholders for debts due employees. (Page 462.) SEC. 16. The stockholders of any [gaslight] company organized under the provisions of this act, shall be jointly and severally individually liable for debts that may be due and owing to all their laborers, servants and apprentices for services performed for such corporation. a See Decision, page 1307. Employment, hours of labor, etc., of children. (Page 485.) SEC. 17. Labor performed during a period of ten hours, on any day, in all cotton, woolen, silk, paper, glass, and flax factories, and in manufactories of iron and brass, shall be considered a legal day's labor. SEC. 18. No minor engaged in any factory, shall be holden or required to work more than ten hours on any day, or sixty hours in any week; and that hereafter no minor shall be admitted as a worker under the age of ten years in any factory within this State; that if any owner of, or employer in any factory shall knowingly employ any such minor, or shall require any minor over the age of ten years to work more than ten hours on any day, or sixty hours in any week, he shall be adjudged to pay a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be sued for and recovered, in an action of debt, in the name of the overseer of the poor of the township in which such minor may be employed, together with costs of suit, and for the benefit of such minor. SEC. 19. The word factory, wherever it occurs * * * shall be construed to mean any building in which labor is employed to fabricate goods, wares, or utensils. * * * * * SEC. 20. No owner of or employer in any factory shall be adjudged or liable to pay any penalty for employing any minor over the age of sixteen, for the work done or to be done in said factory, and allowing such minor to work under such employment exceeding the time mentioned ; but in no case shall any minor be employed at an age less than that prescribed by said act; And provided, That no such employment shall be compulsory, and the minor or the parent or guardian of such minor may at any time, by giving the customary notice prescribed in such factory, end such employment or any contract in relation thereto different from that permitted by the act to which this is a supplement [sections 17 and 18]. [Note: See chapter 92, "acts of 1892.] Lien on vessels. SEC. 1 (as amended by page 427, Supplement of 1886). Whenever a debt shall be contracted by the master, owner, agent or consignee of any ship or vessel within this State for either of the following purposes: I. On account of any work done, or materials or articles furnished in this State, for or towards the building, repairing, fitting, furnishing or equipping such ship or vessels; III. On account of the towing of such ship or vessel, the wharfage of such ship or vessel, and the expenses of keeping such ship or vessel in port, including expenses incurred in taking care of and employing persons to watch such ship or vessel; such debt shall be a lien upon such ship or vessel, her tackle, apparel and furniture, and continue to be a lien on the same until paid, and shall be preferred to all other liens thereon, except mariners' wages. SEC. 2 (as amended by section 1, page 426, Supplement of 1886). Any person having due him any sum upon any debt contracted for any of the purposes hereinbefore specified, may make application to any officer authorized by law to perform the duties of a commissioner, appointed by the justices of the supreme court to take special bail and to administer oaths or affirinations, or to one of the justices of the supreme court, or to one of the judges of the court of common pleas of the county, for a warrant to enforce the lien of such debt, and to collect the amount thereof. SEC. 3. Such application shall be in writing, and shall specify: I. By whom such debt was contracted, and for what ship or vessel. II. The items composing such debt. III. It shall be verified by the affidavit of the creditor, or of the person making the application in his behalf, stating that the sum claimed in such account is justly due to the person in whose behalf such application is made, over and above all payments and discounts. And the facts and circumstances to establish such demand shall also be verified by the affidavits of one or more disinterested witnesses. SEC. 4. The officer to whom such application shall be made, shall thereupon issue his warrant to the sheriff or any constable of the county, or, in their absense, to any coroner of the county, commanding him to attach, seize, and safely keep such ship or vessel, her tackle, apparel and furniture, to answer all such liens as shall be established against her, according to law, and to make return of his proceedings under such warrant to the said officer, within ten days after such seizure. SEC. 5. The sheriff or other officer to whom any such warrant shall be directed and delivered, shall forthwith execute the same, and shall keep the ship or vessel and other property seized by him, to be disposed of as hereinafter directed: he shall, also, within ten days after such seizure, make a return to the officer who issued the warrant, stating therein particularly his doings in the premises, and shall make out, subscribe, and annex thereto, a just and true inventory of all the property so seized; which inventory shall be signed by him and annexed to his return. SEC. 6. Whenever any such warrant shall be issued, no other warrant shall issue against the same ship or steamboat, or other craft or kind of vessel, unless the first warrant be superseded. SEC. 7. The officer issuing any such warrant shall thereupon immediately order the notice hereinafter directed, to be published in one or more of the newspapers printed in the county to which the warrant shall be issued; and if there be none printed in such county, then in a newspaper printed nearest to such county, once a week for three months successively, or oftener, if he shall deem proper. SEC. 8. Such notice shall contain the following matters: I. It shall state the issuing of such warrant, the name of the vessel seized, the port or place to which she belongs, and the name of her last commander. II. It shall require all persons who claim to have any demands against said ship or vessel, her tackle, apparel or furniture, under the provisions of this act, to deliver an account of their respective claims to the said officer, within two months from the first publication of such notice, or that their remedy against such vessel will be forfeited. III. It shall state that such vessel will be sold for the payment of the claims against such vessel, unless the owner, consignee or commander thereof, or some person interested therein, appear and discharge such warrant according to law, within three months from the first publication of such notice. SEC. 9. Any person having any lien under the provisions of this act, upon the property so seized, may deliver to the said officer an account in writing of his demand, accompanied by such affidavits and proofs as are herein before prescribed, in relation to the first application by any creditor; and he shall thereupon be deemed an attaching creditor, and be entitled to the same benefits and advantages, and subject to the same responsibilities and obligations as the creditor at whose instance such warrant originally issued. SEC. 10. All liens under this act upon the property so seized, an account of which shall not be presented to the said officer within the time limited in the notice, shall cease. SEC. 19. If the creditors, who shall have exhibited their claims as herein provided, shall not have been satisfied, and if such warrant shall not have been discharged as before provided, within the time for that purpose limited, the officer who issued the same, within one month after the expiration of the time so limited, upon due proof of the publication of the notice herein required, shall issue his order to the sheriff, or other officer, who seized the vessel under such warrant, directing such sheriff or other officer to proceed and sell the vessel so seized, her tackle, apparel and furniture, and shall state in such order the amount necessary to be raised to satisfy such claims and expenses. SEC. 20. If it shall appear to the officer, that the claims exhibited before him, and the expenses of the proceedings, can be satisfied by a sale of the tackle, apparel and furniture of such vessel, or of some part thereof, without selling such vessel, he shall modify his order accordingly. SEC. 21. Within twenty days after the service of such order, the sheriff or constable shall proceed and sell the vessel so seized by him, her tackle, apparel and furniture, or such part thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the claims exhibited and the expenses incurred, upon the same notice, in the same manner, and in all respects subject to the provisions of law in case of the sale of personal property upon execution. SEC. 22. The sheriff or other officer shall return to the officer granting such order, his proceedings under the same; and the proceeds of such sale, after deducting his fees and expenses in seizing, preserving, watching and selling such vessel, shall be retained by such sheriff in his hands, to be distributed and paid as hereinafter directed. SEC. 23. At the time of issuing any such order of sale, the officer granting the same shall order a notice to be published in the same newspaper in which the |