And provided, further, That upon written complaint to the school board or local school authorities of any city, town, district or municipality, that any minor (whose name shall be given in such complaint) is employed in any mercantile institution, store, office, 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, contrary to the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of such school board or local school authority to report the same to the State inspector of factories.

SEC. 201. No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or suffered or permitted to work at any gainful occupation more than forty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day; or before the hours of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room where such minors are employed a printed notice stating the hours required of them each day of the week, the hours of commencing and stopping work and the hours when the time or times allowed for dinner or for other meals begins and ends. The printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the State inspector of factories, and the employment of any such minor for longer time in any day so stated shall be deemed a violation of this section.

Hours of labor.

Night work.

Certain occupa

SEC. 20j. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed at sewing belts, or to assist in sewing belts, in any capacity whatever; tions forbidden. nor shall any child adjust any belt to any machinery; they shall not oil or assist in oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery; they shall not operate or assist in operating circular or band saws, wood-shapers, wool [wood] jointers, planers, sandpaper or wood-polishing machinery, emery or polishing wheels used for polishing metal, wood-turning or boring machinery, stamping machines in sheet metal and tinware manufacturing, stamping machines in washer and nut factories, operating corrugating rolls, such as are used in roofing factories, nor shall they be employed in operating any passenger or freight elevators, steam boiler, steam machinery, or other steam generating apparatus, or as pin boys in any bowling alleys; they shall not operate or assist in operating, dough brakes, or cracker machinery of any description; wire or iron straightening machinery; nor shall they operate or assist in operating rolling mill machinery, punches or shears, washing, grinding or mixing mill or calender rolls in rubber manufacturing, nor shall they operate or assist in operating laundry machinery; nor shall children be employed in any capacity in preparing any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used, and they shall not be employed in any capacity in the manufacture of paints, colors or white lead; nor shall they be employed in any capacity whatever in operating or assisting to operate any passenger or freight elevator; nor shall they be employed in any capacity whatever in the manufacture of goods for immoral purposes, or any other employment that may be considered dangerous to their lives or limbs, or where their health may be injured or morals depraved; nor in any theater, concert hall, or place of amusement wherein intoxicating liquors are sold; nor shall females under sixteen years of age be employed in any capacity where such employment compels them to remain standing constantly.

Evidence of employment.

SEC. 20k. The presence of any person under the age of sixteen years in any manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, shall constitute prima facie evidence of his or her employment therein. SEC. 201. It shall be the special duty of the State factory inspector Enforcement. to enforce the provisions of this act, and to prosecute all violations of the same before any magistrate or any court of competent jurisdiction in this State. It shall be the duty of the State factory inspector, assistant State factory inspector and deputy State factory inspectors under the supervision and direction of the State factory inspector, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to visit and inspect, at all reasonable times and as often as possible, all places covered by this act.

SEC. 20m. Whoever, having under his control a child under the age of sixteen years, permits such child to be employed in violation of the provisions of this act, shall for each offense be fined not less than $5 nor more than $25, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid.

Violations.

Seats to be provided.

Attendance required.

Penalty.

Ten-hour day.

A failure to produce to the inspector of factories, his assistants or deputies, any age and school certificates, or lists required by this act, shall constitute a violation of this act, and the person so failing shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $5 nor more than $50 for each offense. Every person authorized to sign the certificate prescribed by section 7 [20f] of this act, who certifies to any materially false statement therein shall be guilty of a violation of this act, and upon conviction be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each offense, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid.

Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager, superintendent or foreman of any firm or corporation, whether for himself or for such firm or corporation, or by himself or through subagents or foreman, superintendent or manager, who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act, or shall refuse admittance to premises or otherwise obstruct the factory inspector, assistant factory inspector or deputy factory inspector in the performance of their duties, as prescribed by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each offense, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid.

CHAPTER 48.-Seats for female employees.

SECTION 36. No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or suffered to work for wages at any gainful occupation more than sixty hours in any one week, nor more than ten hours in any one day. All establishments subject to factory inspection, where girls and women are employed, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the girls and women, and they shall be permitted the use of such seats when not necessarily engaged in their active duties.

[See also section 9, Appendix B, page 889.]

CHAPTER 122.-Employment of children-School attendance.

SECTION 313 (as amended by act, page 520, Acts of 1907). Every person having control of any child between the ages of seven (7) and sixteen (16) years, shall annually cause such child to attend some public or private school for the entire time during which the school attended is in session, which period shall not be less than one hundred and ten (110) days of actual teaching: Provided, That this act shall not apply in any case where the child has been or is being instructed for a like period of time in each and every year in the elementary branches of education by a person or persons competent to give such instruction, or where the child's physical or mental condition renders his or her attendance impractical or inexpedient, or where the child is excused for temporary absence for cause by the principal or teacher of the school which said child attends, or where the child is between the ages of fourteen (14) and sixteen (16) years and is necessarily and lawfully employed during the hours when the public school is in session.

SEC. 316 (as amended by act, page 520, Acts of 1907). Any person having control of a child, who, with intent to evade the provisions of this act, shall make a false statement concerning the age or the employment of such child or the time such child has attended school, shall for such offense forfeit a sum of not less than three dollars ($3.00) nor more than twenty dollars ($20.00) for the use of the public schools of such city, town, village or district.

ACTS OF 1909.

Hours of labor of female employees.

(Page 212.)

SECTION 1 (as amended by act, page 328, Acts of 1911). No female shall be employed in any mechanical or mercantile establishment, or factory, or laundry, or hotel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office thereof, or in any place of amusement, or by any person, firm or corporation engaged in any express or transportation or public utility business, or by any common carrier, or in any public

institution, incorporated or unincorporated in this State, more than ten hours during any one day. The hours of work may be so arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time so that they shall not work more than ten hours during the twenty-four hours of any day.

SEC. 2 (as amended by act, page 328, Acts of 1911). Any employer Violations. who shall require or permit or suffer any female to work in any of the places mentioned in section 1 of this act more than the number of hours provided for in this act, during any day of twenty-four hours, or who shall fail, neglect or refuse so to arrange the work of females in his employ that they shall not work more than the number of hours provided for in this act, during any one day, or who shall permit or suffer any overseer, superintendent or other agent of any such employer to violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each offense in a sum of not less than $25 or more than $100.

SEC. 3. The State department of factory inspection shall be charged Enforcement. with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this act and prosecuting all violations thereof.

SEC. 5 (added by act, page 328, Acts of 1911). Every employer to Record. whom this act shall apply, shall keep a time book or record showing for each day that his establishment is open the hours during which each and every female in his employ, to whom this act applies, is employed. Such time book or record shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the officials of the factory inspection department. The failure or omission to keep such record, or a false statement contained therein, or any false statement made by any person to an official of the factory inspection department, in reply to any question put in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall be punishable on conviction by a penalty of not more than $25 for each offense.

Employment of children-School attendance.

(Page 342.)

School attend

SECTION 274. Every person having control of any child between the ages of seven and sixteen years, shall annually cause such child ance required. to attend some public or private school for the entire time during which the school attended is in session, which shall not be less than six months of actual teaching: Provided, however, That this act shall not apply in case the child has been or is being instructed for a like period in each and every year in the elementary branches of education by a person or persons competent to give such instruction, or in case the child's physical or mental condition renders his or her attendance impracticable or inexpedient, or in case the child is excused for temporary absence for cause by the principal or teacher of the school which said child attends, or in case the child is between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years and is necessarily and lawfully employed during the hours when the public school is in session. For every neglect of the duty prescribed by this section, the person so offending shall forfeit to the use of the public schools of the city, town or district in which such child resides, a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars and costs of suit, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs of suit are fully paid.

ACTS OF 1911.

Employment of women and children in mines.

(Page 387.)

Employment

SECTION 28. No boy under the age of sixteen years, and no woman or girl of any age, shall be permitted to do any manual labor in or about forbidden. any mine, and before any boy can be permitted to work in any mine he must produce to the mine manager or operator thereof an affidavit from his parent or guardian or next of kin, sworn and subscribed to before a justice of the peace or notary public, that he, the said boy, is sixteen years of age.

Acrobatic, etc., employments.

Mendicant employments.

The parent, guardian or next of kin shall submit in connection with said affidavit, a certificate of birth, a baptismal certificate, a passport or other official or religious record of the boy's age or duly attested transcript thereof, which certificate or transcript thereof shall, for the purposes of this act, establish the age of said boy.

Any person swearing falsely in regard to the age of a boy shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be punished as provided in the general statutes of the State pertaining to perjury.

any

INDIANA.

ANNOTATED STATUTES-1901.

Employment of children-Certain employments forbidden.

SECTION 2241. Any person having the care, custody or control of minor child under the age of fifteen years, who shall in any manner sell, apprentice, give away, or otherwise dispose of such child, and any person who shall take, receive or employ such child for the vocation or occupation of rope or wire walking, or as an acrobat, gymnast, contortionist, or rider, and any person who, having the care, custody or control of any minor child shall sell, apprentice, give away or otherwise dispose of such child, or who shall take, receive or employ such child for any obscene, indecent or illegal exhibition or vocation, or any vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child engaged therein, or for the purpose of prostitution, and any person who shall retain, harbor or employ any minor child in or about any assignation house or brothel, or in any place where any obscene, indecent or illegal exhibition takes place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, mayor, police judge or criminal court shall be fined not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

SEC. 2242. Any person having the care, custody or control, lawful or unlawful, of any minor child under the age of eighteen years, who shall apprentice, give away, let out, hire, or otherwise dispose of such minor to any person for the purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, begging, or for any mendicant business whatever, in the streets, roads or other highways of the State, and whosoever shall take, receive, hire, employ, use or have in custody any such [minor] for the vocation, occupation, calling, service or purpose of singing, playing upon musical instruments or begging upon the streets, roads or other highways of the State, or for any mendicant business whatever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the manner provided in the first section of this act [sec. 2241], shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

Employment in SEC. 2243. Any person having the care, custody or control of any dance houses, sa- minor child under the age of fifteen years, who shall in any manner loons, etc. sell, apprentice, give away, or permit such child to sing, dance, act, or in any manner exhibit in any dance house whatever, or in any concert saloon, theater, or place of entertainment where wines or spirituous or malt liquors are sold or given away, or with which any place for the sale of wines or spirituous or malt liquors is directly or indirectly connected by any passage way or entrance, or any proprietor of any dance house whatever, or the proprietor of any such concert saloon, theater or place of entertainment so employing any such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, to which may be added imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

Employment in mines.

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SEC. 2244. Any person who shall take, receive, hire or employ any child under twelve years of age in any underground works, or mines, or like place whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the manner provided in the first section of this act [sec. 2241], shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

Seats for female employees.

SECTION 2246. Every person or corporation employing women or girls in any business in this State shall provide suitable seats for the use of said employees so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for the performnce of which they are so employed.

SEC. 2247. Any person or persons, or any 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. And it is made the duties of the prosecuting attorneys of the State to enforce the provisions of this act.

Employment of children-Hours of labor—Age limit.

Hours of labor

of children.

SECTION 7087a. No person under sixteen years of age, and no female under eighteen years of age, employed in any manufacturing or mercantile establishment, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office, shall be required, permitted or suffered to work therein more than sixty hours in any one week, nor more than ten hours in any one day, unless for the purpose of making a shorter day on the last day of the week; nor more hours in any one week than will make an average of ten hours per day for the whole number of days which such person or such female shall so work during such week; and every person, firm, corporation, or company employing any person under sixteen years of Posting notices. age, or any female under eighteen years of age in any establishment as aforesaid, shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous place in every room where such help is employed a printed notice stating the number of hours of labor per day required of such person for each day of the week, and the number of hours of labor exacted or permitted to be performed by such persons shall not exceed the number of hours of labor so posted as being required. The time of beginning and ending the day's labor shall be the time stated in such notice: Provided, That such female under eighteen and persons under sixteen years of age may begin after the time set for beginning and stop before the time set in such notice for the stopping of the day's labor, but they shall not be permitted or required to perform any labor before the time stated on the notices as the time for beginning the day's labor, nor after the time stated upon the notices as the hour of ending the day's labor.

Proviso.

Age limit.

Register.

SEC. 7087b. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing or mercantile establishment, mine, quarry, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office within this State. It shall be the duty of every person employing young persons under the age of sixteen years to keep a register, in which shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed by him under the age of sixteen years; and it shall be unlawful for any proprietor, agent, foreman or other person connected with a manufacturing or mercantile establishment, mine, quarry, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office to hire or employ any young person to work therein without there is first provided and placed on file in the office an affidavit made by the parent or guardian, stating the age, date and place of birth of said young person; if such young person have no parent or guardian, then such affidavit shall be made by the young person, which affidavit shall be kept on file by the employer, and said register and affidavit shall be produced for inspection on demand made by the inspector, appointed under this act. There shall be posted conspicuously in every room where young persons are employed, a list of their names, with their ages, respectively. No young person under the age of sixteen years, who is not blind, shall be employed in any establishment aforesaid, who can not read and write simple sentences in the English language, except during the vacation of the public schools in the city or town where such minor lives. The chief inspector of the department of inspection shall have Physical inspec the power to demand a certificate of physical fitness from some regular physician in the case of young persons who may seem physically unable to perform the labor at which they may be employed, and shall have the power to prohibit the employment of any minor that can not obtain such a certificate.

Illiterates.

tion.