to any member of the school board, truant officer, principal, or city superintendent, for the whole or any part of such period, by the school board of the district in which the child resides, upon its being shown to the satisfaction of such board:

3. * * Provided, first, That any child fourteen (14) years of age or over, whose help may be required in any permitted occupation in or about the home of his parent or guardian may be excused from attendance between April 1 and November 1 in any year; but this proviso shall not apply to any cities of the first and second class; *

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The clerk, or any authorized officer of the school board shall issue and keep a record of such excuses, under such rules as the board may from time to time establish.

SEC. 4. Any person who shall refuse or fail to send or keep in school any child or children of whom he has legal charge or control, and who is required by law to attend school, when notified so to do as herein before provided, and any person who induces or attempts to induce any child unlawfully to absent himself from school, or who knowingly harbors or employs while school is in session any child unlawfully absent from school, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed fifty (50) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days.

SEC. 6. The commissioner of labor and his assistants shall assist in the enforcement of the provisions of this act, and shall have authority to examine the excuses granted under this act, to make investigation into the causes for which excuses have been granted, and to revoke and cancel any that may be found to be granted without proper or sufficient cause.

MISSISSIPPI.

CODE OF 1906.

Employment of children-Enticing.

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SECTION 1080. Any person who shall persuade, entice, or decoy Enticing away from its father or mother, with whom it resides, any child under the age of twenty-one years if a male, or eighteen if a female, being unmarried, for the purpose of employing such child without the consent of its parents, or one of them, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, or both.

Hiring out children to support parents in idleness.

SECTION 5055. The following persons are and shall be punished as vagrants, viz.:

(m) All persons who are able to work and do not work, but hire out their minor children or allow them to be hired out, and live upon their wages.

ACTS OF 1908.

CHAPTER 99.-Employment of children—General provisions.

SECTION 1. No children under the age of twelve years shall be employed in or permitted to work in any mill, factory or manufacturing establishment in this State.

SEC. 2. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or detained in any mill, factory or manufacturing establishment within this State for more than ten hours in any one day, or for more than fifty-eight hours in any one week, or be employed in or detained in any such manufacturing establishment between the hours of 7 p. m. and

6 a. m.

SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ or detain or permit to work in any mill, factory or manfuacturing establishment in this State any child under the age of sixteen years

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without first requiring said child to present the affidavit of the parent or guardian or person standing in parental relation to such child, stating the place and date of birth of such child, and also stating the last school attendance of such child and grade of studies pursued, and the name of school and name of teacher in charge. The employer shall preserve such affidavit and keep a complete register of all such affidavits showing all the facts contained therein.

SEC. 4. It is the special duty of the sheriff of the county in which manufacturing establishments employing child labor are located to visit, at least once each month, each such manufacturing establishment, and see to the enforcement of this act.

SEC. 5. It is the duty of each county health officer to visit, without notice of his intention to do so, all manufacturing establishments employing child labor within his county, at least twice each year, and oftener if requested by the sheriff, and to promptly report to the sheriff any unsanitary condition of the premises, any child or children afflicted with an infectious, contagious or communicable disease, or whose physical condition renders such child or children incapacitated to perform the work required of them; and the sheriff shall promptly remove such child or children from such manufacturing establishment, and order the premises put in sanitary condition; and the judgment of the county health officer as to the physical condition of the children and sanitary condition of the premises shall be final and conclusive. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the circuit judge to specially charge the grand jury to investigate violations of this act.

SEC. 7. Any officer, manager or superintendent of any manufacturing establishment in which child labor is employed who shall fail or refuse to give true and correct information demanded of him by any of the officers hereinbefore directed to inspect such establishments, or who shall fail or refuse to obey any lawful order of the sheriff or health officer of the county in which such establishment is located, for carrying out purposes of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 8. Any person, firm or corporation, or the superintendent, manager, or any officer of a manufacturing establishment employing any child or permitting any child to be employed by or to work in or to be detained in any mill, factory or manufacturing establishment in this State contrary to law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or may be sentenced to the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or both such fine and impris

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of SEC. 9. The provisions of this act shall apply only to manufacturing establishments engaged in manufacturing or working in cotton, wool or other fabrics, and to manufacturing establishments where children are employed indoors at work injurious to health, or in operating dangerous machinery.

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MISSOURI.

REVISED STATUTES-1909.

Employment of children-General provisions.

SECTION 1715 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupation within this State, except at agricultural pursuits, and in domestic service.

SEC. 1716 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful occupation in this State more than forty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eight hours per day; nor before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of seven Schedule to be o'clock in the evening. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous posted. place in every room or place where such minors are employed a printed notice stating the hours of service required of them each day of the

week, the hours of commencing and stopping work, and the hour, or hours, when the time, or times, allowed for meals begin and end. The printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the State factory inspector.

SEC. 1717 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). It shall be the Registers. duty of every person, firm or corporation, employing minors over fourteen and under sixteen years of age within this State to keep two complete lists containing the names, ages and places of residence of all such children employed therein, one on file, and one conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the place or establishment in which such children are employed.

Employment certificates.

SEC. 1718 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). No child under sixteen years of age, and over fourteen years of age, shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in this State unless there is first produced and placed on file at the time of employment, and accessible to any factory inspector, and to any school attendance officer, or to any other authorized officer, an employment certificate as hereinafter prescribed. On termination of the employment of any such child, such certificate shall be forthwith surrendered by the employer to the owner thereof, or in the event said certificate is not called for within thirty days, it shall be transmitted by the employer to the person who issued the same. SEC. 1719 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). An employment Who to issue. certificate shall be issued only by the superintendent of instruction of any board of education in this State, or by a person authorized by him in writing, or, where there is no superintendent of instruction, by a person authorized by the board of directors of any school district in this State.

SEC. 1720 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). The person so authorized to issue an employment certificate shall not issue such certificate until he has received, examined, approved and filed the following papers, duly executed:

1. The school record of such child, properly filled out and signed by the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such child has attended. It shall contain a statement certifying that the child has regularly attended the public schools, or schools equivalent thereto, or parochial schools, and is able to read and write simple sentences in the English language. Such school record shall also give the date of birth and residence of the child, as shown on the record of the school, and the names of its parents, guardian, or custodian.

2. A passport, or duly attested transcript of the certificate of birth, or baptism, or other religious record, showing the date and place of birth of such child.

3. An affidavit of the parent or guardian or custodian of a child (which shall not be accepted, however, unless a passport or certificate of birth, or baptism, or other religious record is not obtainable), showing the date and place of birth of such child. Such affidavit must be taken before the officer issuing the employment certificate, who is hereby authorized and required to administer such oath without demanding or receiving any fee therefor.

Proof required.

SEC. 1721 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). No employment Issue of certificertificate shall be issued until the child in question has personally cate. appeared before and been examined by the officer issuing the certificate, nor until such officer, after making such examination, has signed and filed in his office a statement that the child can read and legibly write simple sentences in the English language, and that in his opinion, the child is fourteen years of age or over, and has reached the normal development of a child of its age, and is in sufficiently sound health and physically able to perform the work it intends to do. Whenever such officer issuing the employment certificate requests it, such normal development, sound health and physical fitness shall be determined by a medical officer of the board or department of health or by a regularly licensed physician.

SEC. 1722 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). Every such employment certificate shall state the name, sex, residence, the date and place of birth of the child, and describe the color of the hair and eyes, the height and weight, and any distinguishing physical marks of such child, and that the papers required by the preceding sections

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have been duly examined, approved and filed, and that the child named in such certificate has appeared before the officer signing it. Every such certificate shall be signed in the presence of the officer issuing it by the child in whose name it is issued. It shall show the date of its issue. In the event such employment certificate is lost, duplicates may be issued upon the payment of a fee of 50 cents for each duplicate, which shall be paid into the general school fund.

SEC. 1723 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). All such employment certificates shall be subject to review by the factory inspector, or by any of his assistants or deputies, and may by him be cancelled if he finds such certificate has been obtained through fraud, misrepresentation or falsification of facts. In such cases the factory inspector shall give written notice to the employer, who shall at once cause the minor affected to be dismissed from employment. The factory inspector or his assistant or deputy shall also have the power to demand a certificate of physical fitness from some regularly licensed physician in the case of children who may seem to said inspector physically unable to perform the labor at which they may be employed: and no such child shall be employed who can not obtain such a certificate.

SEC. 1724 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). Such employment certificate shall be printed, the printed form to be furnished by the State factory inspector, and shall be filled out, signed and held for surrender in the following form:

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EMPLOYMENT CERTIFICATE.

(here officer issuing certificate shall insert his name and official title and by what authority he issues said certificate) hereby certify that there personally appeared before me (here insert name of child), and that he, or she, has been duly examined by me and found by me to be able to read and legibly write simple sentences in the English language; and I further certify that in my opinion the said child is fourteen years of age or over and has reached the normal development of a child of his, or her, age, and is in sufficiently sound health and physically able to perform the work which he, or she, intends to do, which, according to the statement of the child, is as follows: (here insert kind of work child states he,

or she, intends to perform).

I further certify that I have received, examined, approved, signed and filed in my office at (here insert address of officer issuing certificate), the papers required by the statutes of Missouri pertaining to the issuance of employment certificates to children over fourteen years of age.

I further certify that the child in whose name this certificate is issued, has signed his, or her, name in my presence. His, or her, full name is (here insert full name of child in whose behalf certificate is issued). ...(here state whether male or female child); residence ......; born on the .... day of (month); .... (year), at ..... (place of birth); color of hair is ..; of eyes is height, insert distinguishing

facial marks).

.; weight, .....

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In the event this certificate is lost, a duplicate may be issued upon the payment of a fee of 50 cents.

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(Signature and official title of officer issuing certificate.)

(Signature and address of child on whose behalf certificate is issued.) SEC. 1725 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). The superintendent of instruction, or other person authorized to issue employment certificates, shall transmit, between the first and tenth days of each month, to the office of the factory inspector, upon blanks to be furnished by him, a list of the names of the children to whom certificates have been issued. Such list shall give the name of the prospective employer,

if known, and the nature of the occupation the child intends to engage in.

SEC. 1726 (as amended by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). The presence of Evidence any person under the age of sixteen years in any place where labor is employment. employed, shall constitute prima facie evidence of his, or her, employment therein.

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SEC. 1726a (added by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). No boy under ten, and no girl under sixteen years of age shall sell, or expose, or offer for etc. sale, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, or other merchandise in any street or hotels, railway stations, places of public amusement, places where intoxicating liquors are manufactured or sold or public office building within the State.

SEC. 17266 (added by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any of the following occupations or in any of the following positions: Sewing machine belts in any workshop or factory, or assisting therein in any capacity whatever; adjusting any belt to any machinery; oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery or assisting therein; operating, or assisting in operating circular saws; wood jointers; wood shapers; planers; sandpaper or wood-polishing machinery; picker machines; machines used in picking wool; machines used in picking cotton; machines used in picking hair; machines used in picking upholstering material; paper-lacing machines; leather-burnishing machines; burnishing machines in any tannery or leather manufactory; job or cylinder printing presses, operated by power other than foot power; emery or polishing wheels used for polishing metal; wood-turning or boring machinery; stamping machines used in sheet-metal and tinware manufacturing; stamping machines used in washer and nut factories; corrugating rolls, such as are used in roofing and washboard factories; steam boilers; steam machinery; or other steam generating apparatus; dough brakes; or cracker machinery of any description; wire or strengthening machinery; rolling mill machinery; punches or shears; washing, grinding or mixing mills; calender rolls in rubber manufacturing; laundering machinery.

SEC. 1726c (added by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacity in, about or in connection with the preparing any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids or alkalies are used; manufacture of paints, colors or white lead; dipping, drying or packing matches; manufacturing, packing or storing powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine compounds, fuses or other explosives; manufacture of goods for immoral purposes; nor in, about or in connection with any-brewery or other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled; hotel; concert hall; moving picture shows: pool and billiard halls; wholesale drug store; saloon, or place of amusement; nor in operating any automobile, motor car or truck; nor in bowling alleys; nor in any other employment declared by the State factory inspector to be dangerous to lives and limbs, or injurious to the health or morals of children under the age of sixteen.

SEC. 1726d (added by act, p. 132, Acts of 1911). The violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor and every day's violation shall constitute a separate offense, and any person, firm or corporation committing such violation shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and punishment.

Seats for female employees.

SECTION 4493. Every person 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 permit the use of said seats by them when not engaged in the duties for which they are employed.

SEC. 4494. A person or corporation violating the provisions of section 4493 of this article shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

[See also sec. 7838, Appendix B, p. 969.]

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