provided, of the changes necessary to be made in order to conform thereto, nor then, if in the meantime such changes have been made in accordance with such notification; notice to one member of a firm or a corporation, or the person in charge of the premises, shall be deemed sufficient notice hereunder, and such notice shall be given in person; any such owner, lessee or occupant shall be liable for all damages caused by his violation of the provisions of this act; any person using or occupying a building contrary to the provisions of this act may be enjoined from such use or occupation in a proceeding to be had before any court of competent jurisdiction at the instance of the inspector, and upon the filing of a petition or bill of complaint therefor, the court in which such proceeding is pending may issue a temporary injunction or restraining order, as provided in proceedings in equity and according to the practice of such court.*

9. Each and every person employing labor, his officers, agents and employes, and any person or persons, owner or lessee of any building, mentioned in section one of this act, located within this state, shall, on demand of the inspector of factories and workshops, or any of his deputies, for admission to any such building, immediately admit thereto such inspector of factories and workshops, or his said deputy, and such owner, lessee or occupant, his officers, agents and employes, shall afford such inspector or deputy full and free access to any room or apartment of any such building, and each of such persons is hereby required, if thereto requested by such inspector or deputy, to answer such questions as may be asked by such inspector or deputy, and if so requested by such inspector or deputy, to render a true account in writing to such inspector or deputy, to the best of his knowledge, of every person or employe then belonging to such building, regarding the various matters mentioned in this act, and whoever shall willfully fail or refuse to immediately answer such questions, or to render such written report to such inspector or deputy as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than fifty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars; and every president, treasurer, secretary, general agent or manager, director of any manufacturing corporation located or employing labor in this state, or the owner, lessee or occupant of any building or institution mentioned in section one of this act, from which answers to any question or the rendition of the written report are herein re

*See Section 11 of supplement of 1887, above.

quired to be made, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to give true or complete answers to any inquiries, or render a written report, as required by this section, such person, officer or agent shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt, to be instituted by the prosecutor of the pleas of the proper county in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name and for the use of the county wherein such violation occurs.*

10. All fines from penalties imposed by this act may be enforced by indictment or appropriate action at law in any court of competent jurisdiction of the county wherein such offenses have been committed or forfeitures incurred.*

Approved May 13th, 1889. P. L., Chap. 287.

Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for the better security of life and limb in case of fire in hotels and other buildings," approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.†

1. All persons owning, leasing or in any manner having charge or control of any hotel or boarding-house, or any public school, or other public building, factory, manufactory or workshop of any kind, or any other building (in which guests, students, employes or operatives, or any persons whatsoever, to the number of thirty or more are accommodated, or are steadily or casually at work or do congregate), when any such buildings are three or more stories in height (or any dwelling-house three or more stories in height, occupied by, or built to be occupied by, three or more families above the first story), said owners or lessees, or other person having charge or control of said buildings, shall provide all such buildings with a permanent and safe external means of escape therefrom, which shall be so arranged that in case of fire the ground can be readily reached by the persons occupying the third and higher floors.

2. It shall be the duty of the fire inspector or superintendent of buildings of any city, town, borough or township in this state, or of any common council, board of aldermen or other governing board of any city, town, borough or township of this state, by whatever name

See Section 11 of supplement of 1887, and Section 4 of employment of children act (1883), above.

This is virtually a substitute for the act to which it is a supplement. See, also, supplement to general factories act, above.

such authorities may be known, in case there is no fire inspector or superintendent of buildings in such city, town, borough or township, to designate the number of, and the kind and manner of the erection of such external fire-escapes to or upon any of said buildings, and shall give notice in writing to the owner or lessee, or the person having charge or control of any such building, setting forth in said notice the number and kind of, and the manner in which said external fire-escape or escapes is or are to be erected, as required by said fire inspector or superintendent of buildings, or by ordinance of said municipal authorities, or by resolution of any of said governing boards.

3. Any violation of this act, or neglect to comply with such notice to put up said fire-escape or escapes within ninety days after said notice is received, shall be deemed a misdemeanor; and any person convicted thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court; and any person or corporation failing to comply with the provisions of this act shall be liable in an action for damages in case of death or personal injuries sustained because of the absence or disrepair of such fire-escape, or in case of fire breaking out in any building upon which there shall be no such efficient fire-escape; and such action may be maintained by any person now authorized by law to sue, as in other cases of similar injuries. Approved March 22d, 1888. P. L., Chap. 149.

An Act relative to fire-escapes.*

1. All buildings now or hereafter erected in which twenty or more persons live or congregate or are employed, temporarily or otherwise, above the first or ground floor thereof, shall have one or more, as the proper authority shall direct, external wrought-iron fire-escapes, of such dimensions and character and subject to such regulation and construction as the said proper authority shall designate.

2. In all incorporated municipalities the board of aldermen, city council or borough commissioners shall provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this act by ordinance.

3. In all sections outside of incorporated municipalities township committees shall have power to enforce the provisions of this act. Approved March 24th, 1890. P. L., Chap. 63.

See above.

An Act to authorize cities of this state to compel owners of tenement-houses to construct fire-escapes thereon.*

1. It shall and may be lawful for any city of this state, by general ordinance of the common council, board of aldermen, or other governing body, to provide for the construction of fire-escapes on all houses in said city which, in their judgment, shall require the same, and to provide rules and regulations for the construction and regulation of said fire-escapes, and to provide penalties to be imposed on any owner who may refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of said ordinance, which penalties may be recovered before any police justice or recorder of cities in which said offices exist, or before any justice of the peace in any other city.

Approved March 1st, 1886. P. L., Chap. 41. Rev. Sup., p. 692, § 902.

An Act respecting fire-escapes or means of exit in and upon buildings in cities or municipal corporations.*

1. The common council, board of aldermen or other governing body of all cities or municipal corporations in this state, are hereby authorized, empowered and required to pass, ordain and enforce ordinances and regulations and penalties, respecting the building, erection, equipment, maintenance and use of proper and efficient fire-escapes or means of exit, in and upon hotels, theaters, halls, school-houses and other public buildings, manufactories or other public buildings where operatives are employed.

Approved March 25th, 1881. P. L., Chap. 200. Rev. Sup., p. 685, § 863.

An Aot relating to the depth and construction of foundation walls of buildings and the responsibility of adjoining propertyowners to each other in cities in the state of New Jersey.†

1. It shall be lawful for the common council of any city in this state, or other municipal board empowered by the charter to pass ordinances, to provide by ordinance for the depth of excavation below the established grade or curb-line of any such city not greater than

*See above.

† See acts immediately preceding.

ten feet, to which the owner of any land may excavate, in the erection of any building upon his own property, and to provide for the giving of notice in writing of such intended excavation to any adjoining owner or owners, and that they will be required to protect and care for their several foundation walls that may be endangered by such excavation, and to provide that in case of the neglect or refusal for ten days of such adjoining owner or owners to take proper action to secure and protect the foundations of any adjacent building or other structure that the party or parties, or their agents, contractors or employes may enter into any such adjacent property, and do all necessary work to make such foundations secure, and recover for such work and labor in so protecting such adjacent property the cost thereof and to make such further and other provisions in relation to the proper conduct and performance of such work as to said common council or legislative board of any city may seem necessary and proper.

2. A suit may be maintained in any court having jurisdiction over the amount involved and the person of the plaintiff or defendant, to recover for any work done under any ordinance passed in pursuance of the first section hereof, in the protecting or securing of the buildings or foundation walls of adjacent owners as aforesaid.

Approved May 10th, 1884. P. L., Chap. 218. Rev. Sup., p. 737, § 1148.

ARBITRATION.

An Act to provide for the amicable adjustment of grievances and disputes that may arise between employers and employes.*

1. Whenever any grievance or dispute of any nature shall arise between any employer, joint stock association, company or corporation engaged in manufacturing and his, their or its employes, it shall be lawful by the mutual consent of the parties to submit the same in writing to a board of arbitrators for hearing and settlement, which board shall be composed of five persons; a majority of said employes, at a meeting duly held for that purpose, shall have the power to designate two persons to act as arbitrators in their behalf, the employer, firm, joint stock association, company or corporation as afore

•This is virtually a substitute for the act of 1880 (Rev. Sup., p. 21) on the same subject.