Recovery.

Use.

Minimum of three dollars.

Violations.

Railways, mines, etc.

Comparative negligence.

SEC. 3. The fine mentioned in section 2 of this act shall be recovered by an action of debt in the name of the State of Nevada for the use of the State, who shall sue for it against such person, corporation or association violating this act, said suit to be instituted in any court in this State having appropriate jurisdiction. SEC. 4. The said fine when recovered as aforesaid, shall be paid without any deduction whatever, one-half thereof to the informer and the balance thereof to be paid in to the public school fund of the State of Nevada.

CHAPTER 202.-Rate of wages of laborers on public works.

SECTION 1. On all public works carried on in the erection of public buildings by or for the State of Nevada, or by any individual, firm, company or corporation under contract with the State of Nevada, unskilled labor shall be paid for at a rate of not less than three ($3) dollars per eight-hour day for each male person over the age of eighteen years who shall be employed at such labor.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation conducting or carrying on any public work, as specified in section 1 of this act, that shall violate the provisions of this act, upon conviction of such violation in a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined the sum of fifty ($50) dollars for each man employed at such labor for less than three ($3) dollars per eight-hour day.

CHAPTER 214.-Liability of employers for injuries to employees.

SECTION 1. Every common carrier engaged in trade or commerce in the State of Nevada, and every mine and mill owner and operator actually engaged in mining, or in milling or reduction of ores, in the State of Nevada, shall be liable to any of its employees, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his personal representative for the benefit of his widow and children, if any, and if none, then for his next of kin, for all damages which may result from the negligence of the officers, agents, or employees of said common carrier or mine or mill operator, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency due to their negligence in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, ways or works, or to their negligent handling or storing of explosives.

SEC. 2. In all actions hereinafter brought against any common carrier or mine or mill owner and operator to recover damages for personal injuries to or death of an employee, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where his contributory negligence was slight and the negligence of the employer, or its officers, agents, or employees was gross in comparison. All questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury.

Contracts SEC. 3. No contract of employment, insurance, relief benefit, or waiving rights. indemnity for injury or death, entered into by or on behalf of any employee, nor the acceptance of any insurance, relief benefit or indemnity by the person entitled thereto, shall constitute any bar or defense to any action brought to recover damages for personal injuries to, or death of such employee: Provided, however, That upon the trial of such action the defendant may set off therein any sum it has contributed toward any such insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the person entitled thereto.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PUBLIC STATUTES-1891.

CHAPTER 92.-Employment of children-School attendance. Duties as to SECTION 18 (as amended by chapter 70, Acts of 1899). Truant officers shall, if required by the school board, enforce the laws prohibiting the employment of children in manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishments who have not attended school

children at work.

the prescribed time; and for this purpose, they may, when so authorized and required by vote of the school board, visit the manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments in their respective cities and towns, and ascertain whether any children under the age of sixteen are employed therein contrary to the provisions of law, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the school board; and the truant officers, when authorized as aforesaid, may demand the names of all children under sixteen years of age employed in such manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments, and may require that the certificates and lists of such children provided for by law shall be produced for their inspection. Truant officers shall inquire into the employment, otherwise than in such manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments, of children under the age of sixteen years, during the hours when the public schools are in session, and may require that the certificates of all children under sixteen shall be produced for their inspection; and any such officer may bring a prosecution against a person or corporation employing any such child, otherwise than as aforesaid, during the hours when the public schools are in session, contrary to the provisions of law. A refusal or failure on the part of an employer of children under sixteen years of age to produce the certificate required by law, when requested by a truant officer, shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of the child whose certificate is not produced. Truant officers shall have authority without a warrant to take and place in school any children found employed contrary to the laws relating to the employment of children, or violating the laws relating to the compulsory attendance at school of children between the ages of six and sixteen years.

CHAPTER 93.-Employment of children.

SECTION 10 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No child under the age of twelve years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, nor in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides.

SEC. 11 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, or in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment, during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides, without first presenting a statement of his age from his parent or guardian, sworn to before the superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, by some person authorized by the school board of the district in which such child is employed.

And no child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed as aforesaid during the time in which the public schools are in session in the district in which he resides without first presenting a certificate from the superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, some person authorized by the school board, that such child can read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language. And any superintendent of schools or person authorized by the school board who certifies falsely as to matters prescribed by this section shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

SEC. 12 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). No minor shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, or in any mechanical, mercantile, or other employment, who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, while a free public evening school is maintained in the district in which he resides, unless he is a regular attendant at such evening school or at a day school: Provided, That upon presentation by such minor of a certificate signed by a regular practicing physician, and satisfactory to the superintendent of schools, or, where

Age limit.

Certificate.

Employment

of illiterates.

Physician's certificate.

Penalty.

Enforcement.

Limitation.

Appointment

there is no superintendent of schools, the school board, showing that the physical condition of such minor would render such attendance in addition to daily labor prejudicial to his health, said superintendent of schools or school board shall issue a permit authorizing the employment of such minor for such period as said superintendent of schools or school board may determine. Said superintendent of schools or school board, or teachers acting under authority thereof, may excuse any absence from such evening school arising from justifiable cause. Any parent, guardian, or custodian who permits to be employed any minor under his control in violation of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty dollars for the use of the evening schools of such town or city.

SEC. 13 (as amended by chapter 61, Acts of 1901). If any owner, agent, superintendent, or overseer of a manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, or any other person, shall employ any child in violation of the provisions of either of the three preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense, for the use of the district.

SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the school board to prosecute offenders for violations of the provisions of this chapter. If they neglect to perform this duty they shall forfeit twenty dollars for each neglect, for the use of the district, to be recovered in the name of the district by the selectmen of the town. All necessary expenses incurred in such proceedings shall be paid by the district. SEC. 19. No prosecution under this chapter shall be sustained unless begun within one year after the offense is committed.

CHAPTER 119.-Inspection of steamboats.

SECTION 1 (as amended by chapter 72, Acts of 1903). The gov of inspectors. ernor, with the advice of the council, shall appoint one inspector and three deputy inspectors of electric, naphtha, gasoline, or steamboats, whose duty it shall be to inspect all such boats and the boilers and engines thereof, used for the carriage of passengers or freight for hire on any lake, river, or pond in the State not subject to the authority in this respect of the United States inspection laws, or where inspections under such laws are not regularly made.

Annual inspections.

Certificate.

SEC. 2 (as amended by chapter 6, Acts of 1895). The owners or lessees of every such boat shall cause it to be inspected by an inspector in all its parts, its engines and its boilers, annually, within thirty days prior to engaging in the carriage of passengers.

SEC. 3. If upon such inspection the inspector finds the boat, its boilers and engines, to be safe and sufficient for the carriage of passengers, he shall prescribe the maximum number of passengers the boat may carry at any one time, and such other rules and regulations as may seem to him proper for such boat, and he shall give the owners or lessees a certificate and license accordingly.

Rules, etc., SEC. 4. The owners or lessees of every such boat shall cause a to be posted. copy of the rules and regulations so established for it to be posted in a conspicuous place on the boat.

Other inspections.

to

etc.

Boats found

SEC. 5. An inspector shall examine such boat, its boilers and engines, at such other time as he shall deem the public interest and safety require, not exceeding three times in any year, to see if the provisions of law and the rules and regulations established for the boat have been complied with.

SEC. 6 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any boat be unsafe, licensed as aforesaid shall, during the period of its license, be deemed by an inspector unsafe in its hull, or defective in its engine, boilers, or machinery, or if its owners or lessees shall have failed to comply with the rules and regulations prescribed by the inspector, he shall have power to revoke its license and stop and detain the boat until the necessary repairs have been made, or until the rules and regulations have been complied with, and shall then issue a new certificate or license.

Licensed engineers to be

SEC. 7 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). The owners or lessees of any boat licensed to carry passengers or freight, as employed. provided in this chapter, shall not employ any engineer or pilot upon said boat unless such engineer or pilot has been examined by an inspector of steamboats and has a certificate from him that he is competent to act in that capacity.

SEC. 8. All engineers and pilots shall be examined by the inspect- Engineers, ors as to their competency, under oath; and power to administer etc., to be exoaths in such cases is granted to inspectors.

SEC. 9 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any person shall use any such boat for the carriage of passengers which, with its boilers and engines, has not been inspected and licensed as provided in this chapter, or shall employ upon any such steamboat any engineer or pilot who has not been examined and licensed as required by the preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both.

amined.

Penalty.

SEC. 11 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any per- Engineer actson shall act as engineer or pilot on any boat without the certifi- ing without licate herein required; or if any engineer or pilot shall, during the cense, etc. period for which he is licensed, neglect his duties or be of intemperate habits, or violate any of the rules and regulations established by the inspector; or if any engineer shall carry more steam than the certificate for his boat allows, or shall in any way or manner interfere with the locked safety valve of the boiler, after the same has been set by the inspector, so as to allow greater pressure in the boiler than the amount specified by the certificate, his license may be suspended or revoked by the inspector, and he shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both.

Unlawful

SEC. 12 (as amended by chapter 56, Acts of 1899). If any inspector of boats, upon any pretense, receives any fee or reward fees. for his services except what is allowed to him by law, he shall forfeit his office, and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both.

CHAPTER 159.-Safety appliances on railroads-Bridge guards.

SECTION 26. The proprietors of every railroad shall erect and maintain bridge guards at each end of every bridge or other structure erected less than eighteen feet above the track of their railroad, the character and location of which shall be approved by the board of railroad commissioners.

SEC. 27. If the proprietors of any railroad shall fail to comply with the provisions of the preceding section, they shall forfeit fifty dollars for each month of continuance in such failure.

CHAPTER 180.-Hours of labor of women and children.

SECTION 14 (as amended by chapter 94, Acts of 1907). No, woman and no minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed in a manufacturing or mechanical establishment for more than nine hours and forty minutes in one day except in the following cases: I. To make a shorter day's work for one day in the week. II. To make up time lost on some day in the same week in consequence of the stopping of machinery upon which such person was dependent for employment. III. When it is necessary to make repairs to prevent interruption of the ordinary running of the machinery. In no case shall the hours of labor exceed fiftyeight in one week.

SEC. 15. The proprietors of every such establishment shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in every room where such persons are employed a notice printed in plain, large letters, stating the exact time of beginning and of stopping work in the forenoon and in the afternoon, and the number of hours' work required of them each day of the week.

Telltales to be erected.

Penalty.

Hours of la

bor.

Schedule to be posted.

Penalty.

Certificate.

False statement.

Limitation.

SEC. 16. If any owner, agent, superintendent, or overseer of any such establishment shall willfully violate the provisions of either of the two preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense.

SEC. 17. A certificate of the age of a minor, made by him and by his parents or guardian and presented to the employer at the time the minor is employed, shall be conclusive evidence of his age upon a prosecution for the violation of the provisions of section fourteen. SEC. 18. If any person shall make and utter a false certificate in regard to the age of a minor, with intent to evade the provisions of this chapter, he shall be fined twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned thirty days, or both, for each offense. * Prosecutions under sections sixteen and eighteen shall be barred unless begun within one year after the offense was committed.

SEC. 19. *

CHAPTER 180.-Hours of labor.

Ten hours a SECTION 20. In all contracts relating to labor, ten hours' actual day's work. labor shall be taken to be a day's work unless otherwise agreed by the parties.

CHAPTER 180.-Payment of wages.

SECTION 21. Every manufacturing, mining, quarrying, stonecutting, mercantile, horse railroad, telegraph, telephone, express, aqueduct, and municipal corporation employing more than ten persons at one time shall pay the wages earned each week by their employees who work by the day or week within eight days after the expiration of the week, or upon demand after that time. Every such corporation shall post a notice in a conspicuous place in its office that it will pay its employees' wages as above, and shall keep the same so posted.

SEC. 22. If any such corporation shall violate the provisions of the preceding section, it shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, provided a prosecution therefor is begun within thirty days after the offense is committed, but not otherwise.

SEC. 23. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall not apply to municipal officers whose services are paid for by the day, nor to teachers employed by school districts.

CHAPTER 201.-Wages preferred-In assignments.

SECTION 32. The following claims are entitled to priority, and shall be paid in full in the order named:

I. Debts due the United States, and all taxes.

II. Wages due an operative, clerk, or servant, not exceeding fifty dollars, for labor performed within six months prior to the beginning of the insolvency proceedings.

III. Taxable costs in any suit begun in good faith in which an attachment is dissolved by the insolvency proceedings.

CHAPTER 215.-Assignments of future earnings to be recorded.

SECTION 4. No assignment of, or order for, wages to be earned in the future shall be valid against a creditor of the person making it, until it has been accepted in writing and a copy of it and of the acceptance has been filed with the clerk of the town or city where the party making it resides. The clerks of towns and cities shall keep for public inspection an alphabetical list of all such orders and assignments filed with them.

CHAPTER 245.-Exemption of wages from execution.

SECTION 20. The money, rights, and credits of the defendant shall be exempt from trustee process in the following instances, and the trustee shall not be chargeable therefor: