Minor entitled

REVISED CODES-1909.

Earnings of minors.

SECTION 2697. The wages of a minor employed in service may be to earnings, when. paid to him, unless within thirty days after the commencement of the service, the parent or guardian entitled thereto gives the employer notice that he claims such wages.

Age limit.

during hours.

ACTS OF 1911.

CHAPTER 159.-Employment of children-General provisions.

SECTION 166. No child under fourteen (14) years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any mine, factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, store, telegraph or telephone office, laundry, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages. It shall Employment be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child school under fourteen (14) years of age in any such business or service whatever during the hours in which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session, or before the hour of six (6) o'clock in the morning, or after the hour of nine (9) o'clock in the evening: Provided, That any such child over the age of twelve (12) years may be employed at any of the occupations mentioned in this act during the regular vacations of two weeks or more of the public schools of the district in which such child resides.

Night work.

Illiterates.

Register.

Hours of labor.

Penalty.

Dangerous and

tions.

SEC. 167. No minor who is under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed or permitted to work at any gainful occupation during the hours that the public schools of the school district in which he resides are in session, unless he can read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, and has received instructions in spelling, English grammar and geography and is familiar with the fundamental operations of arithmetic up to and including fractions, or has similar attainments in another language.

SEC. 168. Every person, firm, corporation, agent or officer of a firm or corporation employing or permitting minors under sixteen (16) years of age and over fourteen (14) years of age to work in any mine, factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, store, telegraph or telephone office, laundry, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, or on [in] the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages, shall keep a record of the names, ages, and place of residence of such minors. SEC. 169. No person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall be employed or suffered or permitted to work at any gainful occupation more than fifty-four (54) hours in any one (1) week, nor more than nine (9) hours in any one (1) day; nor before the hour of six (6) o'clock in the morning nor after the hour of nine (9) o'clock in the evening. SEC. 170. Whoever employs a child under sixteen (16) years of age, and whoever having under his control a child under such age permits such child to be employed in violation of sections 1 and 2 of this act [Secs. 166, 167, supra] shall, for such offense, be fined not more than fifty dollars ($50), and whoever continues to employ any child in the violation of either of said sections of this act after being notified by a truant officer, probation officer or school authority shall, for every day thereafter that such employment continues, be fined not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than twenty dollars ($20). A failure to produce to a truant officer, policeman, probation officer or school authority, the age record required by this act shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any person whose age record is not produced. Any parent, guardian or custodian of a minor under sixteen (16) years of age who knowingly swears falsely as to the age of such child for the purpose of obtaining an age record is guilty of perjury.

SEC. 171. Any person, whether as parent, relative, guardian, emimmoral occupa- ployer or otherwise, having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of sixteen (16) years, who exhibits, uses or employes [employs] in any manner or under any pretense, sells, apprentices, gives away, lets out or disposes of such child to any person, under

any name, title or pretense, for or in any business, exhibition or vocation, injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or in or for the vocation, occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging or peddling, or as a gymnast, acrobat, or contortionist, or rider, or in any place whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever, or for or in any mendicant, or wandering business whatsoever, or who causes, procures or encourages such child to engage therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars ($250), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every person who takes, receives, hires, employs, uses, exhibits, or has in custody any child under the age and for any of the purposes mentioned in this section is guilty of a like offense and punishable by like imprisonment. Nothing in this section contained applies to or affects the employment or use of any such child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or the teaching or learning of the science or practice of music.

Sending as mes

SEC. 172. Any person, whether as parent, guardian, employer or otherwise, and any firm or corporation, who as employer or otherwise, sengers. shall send, direct, or cause to be sent or directed any minor, to any saloon, gambling house, house of prostitution or other immoral place; or who shall employ any minor to serve intoxicating liquors to customers, or who shall employ a minor in handling intoxicating liquor, Employment or packages containing such liquors in a brewery, bottling establish- in saloons, etc. ment or other place where such liquors are prepared for sale or offered for sale, shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) or imprisonment for not less than two (2) months or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 173. The probation officer, or in counties where there is no probation officer, one or more of the school trustees shall visit the various places of employment mentioned in sections 166 and 172 of this act and ascertain whether any minors are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and they shall bring complaint for offenses under this act to the attention of the prosecuting attorney for prosecution, but nothing herein shall be held to prohibit any reputable citizen from bringing complaint for violations of this act. All offenses under this act shall be prosecuted in the probate court.

ILLINOIS.

HURD'S REVISED STATUTES-1905.

CHAPTER 38.-Employment of children in certain occupations forbidden.

Enforcement.

Sellng obscene,

SECTION 485. It shall be unlawful to hire, use or employ any minor child to sell or give away, or in any manner to distribute, or who, etc., literature. having the care, custody or control of any minor child, to permit such child to sell, give away, or in any manner to distribute any book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, story paper or publication coming within the description of matters mentioned in the first section of this act [devoted to the publication, or principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures and stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime], and any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail of the county where the offense has been committed not to exceed six months, or both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

Acrobatic, mendicant, etc.,

SEC. 492. It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years to exhibit, occupations. 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

Exception.

Unlawful to em

ploy.

Sex not a bar.

Act construed.

Age limit.

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 in the teaching or learning the science or practice of music.

SEC. 493. 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 42a [492] hereof.

CHAPTER 48.-Sex no disqualification for employment.

SECTION 3. No person shall be precluded or debarred from any occupation, profession or employment (except military) on account of sex: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to affect the eligibility of any person to an elective office.

SEC. 4. Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring any female to work on streets or roads, or serve on juries.

CHAPTER 48.-Employment of children.

SECTION 20. 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 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 as a messenger or driver therefor, within this State. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed at any work performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during any portion of any month when the public schools of the town, township, village or city in which he or she resides are in session, nor be employed at any work before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of six o'clock in the evening: Hours of labor. Provided, That no child shall be allowed to work more than eight hours in any one day.

Night work.

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SEC. 20a. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of any firm or corporation employing minors over fourteen years and under sixteen years of age in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theater, concert hall or place of amusement, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop or as messenger or driver therefor, within this State, to keep a register in said mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theater, concert hall or place of amusement, factory or workshop in which said minors shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work, in which register shall be recorded the name, age and place of residence of every child employed or suffered or permitted to work therein, or as messenger or driver therefor, over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen years; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager, of any firm or corporation to hire or employ, or to permit or suffer to work in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theater, concert hall or place of amusement, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, or as messenger or driver therefor, any child under the age of sixteen years and over fourteen years of age, unless there is first produced and placed on file in such mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, factory or workshop, theater, concert hall or place of amusement, an age and school certificate approved as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 206. Every person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of a corporation employing or permitting or suffering to work five or more children under the age of sixteen years and over the age of fourteen in any mercantile institution, store, office, laundry, hotel, manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous place in every room in which such help is employed, or permitted or suffered to work a list containing the name, age and place

of residence of every person under the age of sixteen years employed, permitted or suffered to work in such room.

Certificate of

SEC. 20c. No child under sixteen years of age and over fourteen years of age shall be employed in any mercantile institution, store, office, age, etc. hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theater, concert hall, or place of amusement, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, or as messenger or driver therefor, unless there is first produced and placed on file in such mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theater, concert hall or place of amusement, factory or workshop, and accessible to the State factory inspector, assistant factory inspector or deputy factory inspector, an age and school certificate as hereinafter prescribed; and unless there is kept on file and produced on demand of said inspectors of factories a complete and correct list of all the minors under the age of sixteen years so employed who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences, unless such child is attending night school as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 20d. An age and school certificate shall be approved only by Who may issue. the superintendent of schools or by a person authorized by him in writing; or where there is no superintendent of schools by a person authorized by the school board: Provided, That the superintendent or principal of a parochial school shall have the right to approve an age and school certificate and shall have the same rights and powers as the superintendent of public schools to administer the oaths herein provided for children attending parochial schools: Provided further, That no member of a school board or other person authorized as aforesaid shall have authority to approve such certificates for any child then in or about to enter his own establishment, or the employment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member, officer or employee. The person approving these certificates shall have authority to administer the oath provided herein, but no fee shall be charged therefor. It shall be the duty of the school board or local school authorities to designate a place (connected with their offices, when practicable) where certificates shall be issued and recorded, and to establish and maintain the necessary records and clerical service for carrying out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 20e. An age and school certificate shall not be approved unless satisfactory evidence is furnished by the last school census, the certificate of birth or baptism of such child, the register of birth of such child with a town or city clerk, or by the records of the public or parochial schools, that such child is of the age stated in the certificate: Provided, That in cases arising wherein the above proof is not obtainable, the parent or guardian of the child shall make oath before the juvenile or county court as to the age of such child, and the court may issue to said child an age certificate as sworn to.

SEC. 20f. The age and school certificate of a child under sixteen years of age shall not be approved and signed until he presents to the person authorized to approve and sign the same, a school attendance certificate, as hereinafter prescribed, duly filled out and signed. A duplicate of such age and school certificate shall be filled out and shall be forwarded to the State factory inspector's office. Any explanatory matter may be printed with such certificate in the discretion of the school board or superintendent of schools. The employment and the age and school certificates shall be separately printed and shall be filled out, signed and held or surrendered as indicated in the following forms:

(Name of school).

SCHOOL CERTIFICATE.

(City or town and date). This certifies (name of minor) of the ..th grade, can read and write legibly simple sentences. This also certifies that according to the records of this school, and in my belief, the said (name of minor) was born at (name of city or town) in (name of county) on the (date) and is now (number of years and months) old.

(Name of parent or guardian),
(Residence).

Evidence.

Age and school certificate.

(Name of school).

Illiterates.

Inspection.

EVENING SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE.

(Date).

This certifies that (name of minor) is registered in and regularly attends the evening school.

This also certifies that according to the records of my school and in my belief the said (name of minor) was born at (name of city or town) on the .... day of (year), and is now (number of years and months) old. (Name of parent or guardian), (Residence).

(Signature of Teacher). (Signature of Principal).

AGE AND SCHOOL CERTIFICATE.

This certifies that I am (father, mother, guardian or custodian) of (name of minor), and that (he or she) was born at (name of town or city) in the (name of county, if known) and State or county of ..... on the (day of birth and year of birth) and is now (number of years and months) old.

(Signature of parent, guardian or custodian) (City or town and date)

There personally appeared before me the above named (name of person signing) and made oath that the foregoing certificate by (him or her) signed is true to the best of (his or her) knowledge. I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of (name of child), height (feet and inches), weight ......, complexion (fair or dark), hair (color), having no sufficient reason to doubt that (he or she) is of the age therein certified.

OWNER OF CERTIFICATE. This certificate belongs to (name of child in whose behalf it is drawn) and is to be surrendered to (him or her) whenever (he or she) leaves the service of the corporation or employer holding the same; but if not claimed by said child within thirty days from such time it shall be returned to the superintendent of schools, or where there is no superintendent of schools, to the school board. (Signature of person authorized to approve and sign, with official character [or] authority.) (Town or city, and date).

In the case of a child who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences, the certificate shall continue as follows, after the word sentences: "I hereby certify that (he or she) is regularly attending the (name of public or parochial evening school)." This certificate shall continue in force just as long as the regular attendance of said child at said evening school is certified weekly by the teacher and principal of said school.

In any city or town in which there is no public or parochial evening school, an age and school certificate shall not be approved for a child under the age of sixteen years who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences. When the public or parochial evening schools are not in session an age and school certificate shall not be approved for any child who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences. The certificate of the principal of a public or parochial school shall be prima facie evidence as to the literacy or illiteracy of the child.

SEC. 20g. No person shall employ any minor over fourteen years of age and under sixteen years, and no parent, guardian or custodian shall permit to be employed any such minor under his control, who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences, while a public evening school is maintained in the town or city in which such minor resides, unless such minor is a regular attendant at such evening school.

SEC. 20h. The State inspector of factories, his assistants or deputies, shall visit all mercantile institutions, stores, offices, laundries, manufacturing establishments, bowling alleys, theaters, concert halls or places of amusement, factories or workshops, and all other places where minors are or may be employed, in this State, and ascertain whether any minors are employed contrary to the provisions of this act. Inspectors of factories, may require that age and school certificates, and all lists of minors employed in such factories, workshops, mercantile institutions and all other places where minors are employed as provided for in this act, shall be produced for their inspection, on demand.