Women not to be employed.

Acrobatic,

occupations.

Employment of females in barrooms.

SECTION 4740. No company, corporation, firm, owner, proprietor, lessee or person owning, conducting or operating any dramshops, saloon or place where spirituous, malt or vinous liquors are sold at retail shall employ or suffer to be employed any female as a servant, bartender, waiter, dancer or singer in said dramshop or place where spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors are sold at retail, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three nor more than twelve months, or by fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and it shall be the duty of the judge of the court before whom any person is convicted for the violation of the provisions of this section to declare the license of such person for the keeping of a dramshop forfeited and revoked, and enter the same on record; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the clerk of the said court to certify the fact to the authority granting such license, and no such license shall be renewed or again granted to such person until after the expira-. tion of the two years from the day of conviction.

Employment of children-Certain occupations forbidden.

SECTION 4741. It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, mendicant, etc., custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years to exhibit, 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 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 at any respectable entertainment, or the teaching or learning the science or practice of music.

Hiring, etc.

Penalty.

Nine-hour day.

Violations.

SEC. 4742. 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 4741 of this article.

SEC. 4743. Any person convicted under the provisions of the two preceding sections shall for the first offense be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court, and, upon conviction for a second or any subsequent offense, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. [See also section 7829, Appendix B, page 969.]

SECTION 7815 (as amended by act, p. 311, Acts of 1911). No female shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical and mercantile establishments, laundry or workshop, in this State, more than nine hours during any one day, nor more than fifty-four hours during any

one week.

SEC. 7816 (as amended by act, p. 311, Acts of 1911). Any employer or overseer, superintendent, foreman, agent, or any other employee who shall require or permit or suffer any female to work in any of the places mentioned in section 7815 of this act more than the number of hours therein specified, or any employer who permits or suffers any overseer, superintendent, foreman, agent or other employee to require or to permit or to suffer any female to work in any of the places mentioned in section 7815 of this act more than the number of hours therein specified shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each offense not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

Employment of women and children in mines.

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SECTION 8456. * * No male person under the age of fourteen years, or female of any age, shall be permitted to enter any mine to work therein; nor shall any boy under the age of sixteen years, unless he can read or write, be allowed to work in any mine. Any party or person neglecting or refusing to perform the duties required to be performed by the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine, in the discretion of the court trying the same, subject, however, to the limitations as provided by section 8462 of this acticle.

Employment of children-School attendance.

Attendance re

SECTION 10896. Every parent, guardian, or other person in the State of Missouri having charge and control of a child between the ages of quired. eight and fourteen years shall cause such child to attend regularly some day school, public, private, parochial or parish not less than threefourths of the entire time the school which said child attends is in session, or shall provide such child at home with such regular daily instruction during the usual hours as shall be, in the judgment of a court having competent jurisdiction, substantially equivalent at least to the instruction given children of like age at said day school in the locality in which the child resides: Provided, That every parent, guardian, or person in the State of Missouri having charge and control of a child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, who is not actually and regularly and lawfully engaged in some useful employment or service, shall cause said child to attend regularly some day school as aforesaid.

SEC. 10898. The board having charge of a public school in a city or district of one thousand or more population by the last census shall appoint and remove at pleasure one or more attendance officers to enforce the provisions of sections 10896 to 10905, inclusive, and shall fix the compensation and manner of performance of the duties of said attendance officer, and shall pay them from the public-school funds; and the attendance officer, as aforesaid, * * shall have the right to visit and enter any office or factory or business house employing children as aforesaid; shall have the right to require a properly attested certificate of the attendance of any child or children at such day school; *

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SEC. 10906. Every parent, guardian, or other person in any city of the State of Missouri of five hundred thousand inhabitants or over having charge, control or custody of a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall cause such child to attend regularly some day school, public, private, parochial or parish, not less than the entire time the school which said child attends is in session, or shall provide such child at home with such regular daily instructions during the usual hours as shall, in the judgment of a court having competent jurisdiction, be substantially equivalent at least to the instruction given the children of like age at said day school in the locality in which said child resides; and every parent, guardian, or person in the State of Missouri in such cities having charge, control or custody of a child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, who is not actually and regularly and lawfully engaged for at least six hours each day in some useful employment or service, shall cause said child to attend regularly some day school as aforesaid.

SEC. 10908. The board having charge of public schools in such city may appoint, and remove at pleasure, one or more attendance officers to enforce the provisions of sections 10906 to 10917, inclusive, and shall fix the compensation and manner of performance of the duties of said attendance officers, and shall pay them from the public school funds; and the attendance officer or officers, as aforesaid, shall have the right * * to visit and enter any mine, office, factory, workshop, business house, place of amusement, or other place in which children are employed or engaged in any kind of service, or any place or building in which children loiter or idle during school hours; *

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Enforcement.

School attendance required, St. Louis.

Attendance of

ficers.

Duties.

ΜΟΝΤΑΝΑ.

Limit of sixteen years.

School attend

ance required.

Certificates.

Illiterates.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 18.-Employment of children in mines-Age limit-Hours of labor of employees on public works and in mines, smelters, etc. SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful to employ children under the age of sixteen (16) years of age in underground mines.

REVISED CODES-1907.

Employment of children-School attendance.

SECTION 965. All parents, guardians and other persons who have care of children, shall instruct them, or cause them to be instructed in reading, spelling, writing, English grammar, geography, physiology and hygiene, and arithmetic. Every parent, guardian or other person having charge of any child between the ages of eight and fourteen years shall send such child to a public, private, or parochial school, for the full time that the school attended is in session, which shall in no case be for less than sixteen weeks during any current year, and said attendance shall begin within the first week of the school term, unless the child is excused from such attendance * upon satisfactory showing, either that the bodily or mental condition of the child does not permit of its attendance at school, or that the child is being instructed at home by a person qualified, * or that there is no school taught the required length of time within 2 miles of the residence of such child by the nearest traveled road: Provided, That no child shall be refused admission to any public school on account of race or color.

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SEC. 966. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed or be in the employment of any person, company or corporation during the school term and while the public schools are in session, unless such child shall present to such person, company or corporation an age and schooling certificate herein provided for. An age and schooling certificate shall be approved only by the superintendent of schools, or by a person authorized by him, in city or other districts having such superintendent, or by the clerk of the board of trustees in village and township districts not having such superintendent, upon a satisfactory proof of the age of such minor and that he has successfully completed the studies enumerated in section 965 of this article; or if between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, a knowledge of his or her ability to read and write legibly the English language. The age and schooling certificate shall be formulated by the superintendent of public instruction and the same furnished in blank, by the clerk of the board of trustees or the clerk of the district. Every person, company, or corporation employing any child under sixteen years of age, shall exact the age and schooling certificate prescribed in this section, as a condition of employment and shall keep the same on file, and shall upon the request of the truant officer hereinafter provided for, permit him to examine such age and schooling certificate. Any person, company, or corporation, employing any minor contrary to the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense.

SEC. 967. All minors over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen years, who can not read and write the English language shall be required to attend school as provided in section 965, of this article and all the provisions of said section shall apply to said minors: Provided, That such attendance shall not be required of such minors after they have secured a certificate from the superintendent of schools in districts having superintendents, or the clerk of the board of trustees in districts not having superintendents, that they can read, and write the English language. No person, company or corporation shall employ any such minor during the time schools are in session, or having such minor in their employ shall immediately cease such employment, upon notice from the truant officer who is hereinafter provided. Every

person, company, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense.

SEC. 968. Every child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and every child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years unable to read, and write the English language, or not engaged in some regular employment and who is an habitual truant from school, or who absents itself habitually from school, or who, while in attendance at any public, private, or parochial school, is incorrigible, vicious, or immoral in conduct, or who habitually wanders about the streets and public places during school hours having no business or lawful occupation, shall be deemed a juvenile disorderly person and be subject to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 969. * * * The truant officer shall be vested with police powers, the authority to serve warrants, and have authority to enter workshops, factories, stores and all other places where children may be employed, and do whatever may be necessary, in the way of investigation or otherwise to enforce the provisions of this act;

Employment of children-Enforcement of laws.

Delinquents.

Enforcement.

Bureau of child

tection.

SECTION 1660. There is hereby created a State Bureau of Child and Animal protection, for the purpose of enforcing the laws of the State and animal pr of Montana, pertaining to children and dumb animals which may now or hereafter exist; and to promote the growth of education and sentiment favorable to the protection of children and dumb animals.

SEC. 1664 (as amended by chapter 127, Acts of 1911). The secretary Inspectors. shall have the power to appoint six deputies, one of whom shall have his office in the city of Butte, one in Great Falls, one in Havre, one in Billings, one in Missoula and one in Kalispell. Such deputies shall take and subscribe the same oath required by the principal, and the same shall be of record in the secretary's office.

The deputies shall have the same power and authority as fixed by law in the principal, and shall have a salary of eighteen hundred ($1800) dollars, per annum, payable monthly, out of the public treasury. They shall make full and complete reports every month to said Reports. principal showing all their official acts, with names of persons accused and against whom prosecution may have been instituted, and the results thereof. Said deputies may be removed at any time by the secretary, and another appointed to fill the vacancy. All deputies shall have authority to investigate cases reported to said bureau from any section of the State of Montana when called or directed to so do by the secretary of said bureau.

Powers of sec

SEC. 1669. The secretary is hereby vested with authority to make arrests of any person, or persons, violating any provisions of the laws retary of bureau. relating to wrongs to children and dumb animals, and is hereby further vested with the authority to enter workshops, factories, stores, mines, mills and smelters, and all other places where children may be employed, and do what may be necessary in the way of investigation, or otherwise, to enforce the laws pertaining to minor children and animals.

Employment of children-Age limit.

SECTION 1746. Any person, company, firm, association, or corporation engaged in business in this State, or any agent, officer, foreman or other employee having control or management of employees, or having the power to hire or discharge employees, who shall knowingly employ or permit to be employed any child under the age of sixteen years, to render or perform any service or labor, whether under contract of employment or otherwise, in, on, or about any mine, mill, smelter, workshop, factory, steam, electric, hydraulic, or compressed air railroad, or passenger or freight elevator, or where any machinery is operated, or for any telegraph, telephone or messenger company, or in any occupation not herein enumerated which is known to be dangerous or unhealthful, or which may be in any way detrimental to the morals of said child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided.

Age limit.

Hiring out children.

List.

Certificate.

Violation.

Enforcement.

Penalty.

SEC. 1747. Any parent, guardian or other person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of sixteen years, who shall permit, suffer or allow any such child to work or perform service for any person, company, firm, association or corporation doing business in this State, or who shall permit or allow any such child over whom he has such care, custody or control, to retain such employment as is prohibited in section 1746 (1) of this act, whether under contract of employment or not, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 1748. The commissioner of the bureau of agriculture, labor and industry shall compile and preserve in his office from reports made to him by the county superintendent of schools, as otherwise provided, a fun and complete list of the name, age, date of birth and sex of each child, and the names of the parents or guardians of each child under the age of sixteen years who is now or may hereafter become a resident of this State, and such list shall be the official record of the age of children in this State.

SEC. 1749. Upon attaining the age of sixteen years any child may make application to the commissioner of the bureau of agriculture, labor and industry for an age certificate, which must be presented to any employer with whom such child may seek employment. The employer, if such employment be given, must countersign the certificate, and return the same to the commissioner of said bureau, who shall keep the same on file in his office. Any person, firm, company, association or corporation who employs or permits to be employed in any occupation prohibited in section 1746 (1) of this act, any child without such certificate showing the child to be at least sixteen years of age, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided, should such child prove to be less than sixteen years of age.

SEC. 1750. To enforce this act the commissioner of the bureau of agriculture, labor and industry, the bureau of child and animal protection and all county attorneys shall, each upon their own volition, or upon the sworn complaint of any reputable citizen that this act is being violated, make prosecutions for such violations.

SEC. 1751. Every person, firm, company, association or corporation who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Employment of SEC. 1752. Any person, corporation, stock company or association children in mines. of persons, owning or operating any underground mine, or any officer, agent, foreman or boss, having the control or management of employees, or having the power to hire or discharge employees, who shall employ, or knowingly permit to be employed, any child under the age of sixteen years, for work or service in any such mine, or the underground workings thereof, or permit or allow any such child to render or perform any work or service whatever in such mine, whether under contract of employment or otherwise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided.

Violations parents.

Penalty.

by SEC. 1753. Any parent, guardian or other person having the care, custody, or control of any child under the age of sixteen years, who shall permit, suffer, or allow such child to work in any mine having underground workings, or who shall permit or allow any such child over whom they may have such care, custody, or control to retain employment in any such mine, or who, after having knowledge that any such child has taken employment in any such mine, or is performing work or service therein, whether under contract of employment or not, shall fail forthwith to notify the person or corporation owning or operating such mine, or some officer, foreman or employee thereof having the power to hire or discharge employees, of the age of such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 1754. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars nor