map work shall be done under any contract which the State now has or shall have for similar work with any party or parties, and the expense thereof shall be audited and paid for in the same manner as other state printing.

SEC. 16. The prosecuting attorney of any county of this State is hereby authorized and required upon the complaint or oath of the commissioner of labor or factory inspectors, to prosecute to termination before any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the people of the State, actions or proceedings against any person or persons reported to him to have violated the provisions of this act.

SEC. 17. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this act, or who interferes in any manner with the factory inspector in the discharge of his duties, or who suffers or permits any child to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 18. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

ACT No. 209.-Unlawful for employers to force employees to insure in any particular company.

SEC. 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any company or corporation doing business in this State or for any of the officers and agents of any such company or corporation, to require any of the employees of such company or corporation to take out or obtain a life, accident or life and accident policy in favor of such employee or other person in any particular or designated life, accident or life and accident company or association.

SEC. 2. All contracts hereinafter made between any such company or corporation and any employee of said company or corporation requiring or stipulating that the employee so contracting shall procure, obtain or have a policy of insurance in any particular or designated company or association shall be void: Provided, That nothing in the foregoing provisions of this act is intended to prohibit, or shall be construed as prohibiting the employers of labor and the persons employed from voluntarily making agreements with each other for contributions of money by the latter to any fund to be accumulated in their behalf and for their benefit in common with others, and in such case from further agreeing that the employer may deduct from their wages, from time to time, the sums due from them under such agreement.

SEC. 3. The violation of any of the provisions of this act is hereby made a misdemeanor, and any company or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars for each and every offense, and any shareholder, officer or agent of any company or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than sixty days, or by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each offense, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

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CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 1.-Exemption from execution, etc.

* A reasonable amount of property shall be exempt from seizure or sale, for the payment of any debt or liability; the amount of such exemption shall be determined by law. [Provided, however, That all property so exempted shall be liable to seizure and sale for any debts incurred to any person for work done or materials furnished in the construction, repair, or improvement of the same: And provided, further, That such liability to seizure and sale shall also extend to all real property for any debt incurred to any laborer or servant for labor or service performed.]

ARTICLE 9.-Exemption from taxation.

SEC. 3. Laws shall be passed taxing all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint-stock companies, or otherwise, and also all real and personal property, according to its true value in money; but * * * personal property to an amount not exceeding in value two hundred dollars for each individual, shall, by general laws, be exempt from taxation.

GENERAL STATUTES OF 1894.

CHAPTER 1.-Protection of employees as voters—Time to vote, etc.

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and the forenoon of each day on which a general election is held shall be a compulsory half-holiday, and all employees of every kind whatever shall be allowed the whole of said forenoon for the purpose of voting.

SEC. 114. Any person entitled to vote at any general election in this State shall, on the day of such election, be entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed for the whole of the forenoon or from the opening of the polls until twelve o'clock noon, and such voter shall not, because of so absenting himself, be liable to any penalty, nor shall any deduction be made on account of such absence from his usual salary or wages; but such person shall on so absenting himself proceed at once to the polling place wherein he is entitled to vote, and having so voted, return at once to his employment, otherwise he shall not be entitled to such salary or wages. Application for such leave of absence shall be made prior to the day of election; and, if not so made then, such person may make application on the morning of election day, in which event he shall be allowed, between the hour of twelve o'clock noon and an hour one hour before the hour for closing the polls, for the purpose of voting, one full hour, and in addition thereto one-half of an hour for each mile that he may be distant from said polling place, and said employer may specify the hours during which said employee may absent himself as aforesaid. Any person or corporation, or officer or member thereof, who shall refuse to an employee the privilege hereby conferred, or shall subject an employee to a penalty or deduction of wages because of the exercise of such privilege, or who shall, in any manner, attempt to influence or control such voter as to how he shall vote, by offering any reward or by threatening his discharge from employment or otherwise intimidating him from a full and free exercise of his right to vote, or shall, directly or indirectly, violate the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 6.-Duties of commissioner of statistics.

SEC. 404. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of statistics annually to collect and compile, from official and any other reliable source, the statistics of the State of Minnesota pertaining to its agriculture, manufactures and population, including statistics relating to all departments of labor in the State, especially in its relation to the commercial, industrial, social and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industry of the State, including all useful facts which he may be able to gather, bearing upon the material and social interests of the State, and tending to afford, at home and abroad, a correct knowledge of resources and progress.

SEC. 408. The said commissioner of statistics shali, during the month of January in each year, make a written report to the governor, giving in a concise and available form the results of his labors, which shall be communicated by the governor to the legislature, and be printed, distributed and bound with the executive documents, as provided by law.

CHAPTER 6.-Bureau of labor.

SEC. 469. A commissioner of labor, appointed by the governor, and an assistant commissioner and a factory inspector, appointed by the commissioner, shall constitute a bureau of labor. The present commissioner of labor statistics shall act as commissioner of labor until the expiration of his term of office in January, 1895. At that time and thereafter biennially, on the first Monday in January, the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a suitable person to act as commissioner of labor, with headquarters at the capitol, who shall hold his office until his successor has been appointed and qualified.

SEC. 470. It shall be the duty of the officers and employees of the said bureau to cause to be enforced all laws regulating the employment of children, minors and women; all laws established for the protection of the health, lives and limbs of operators in workshops and factories, on railroads and in other places, and all laws enacted for the protection of the working classes, including chapter two hundred and five of the General Laws of 1885 [sections 1455 to 1458 inclusive], chapters ten [sections 2244 to 2246 inclusive] and sixteen of the General Laws of 1889, chapter seventeen of the General Laws of 1891 [sections 6965 and 6966], laws declaring it a misdemeanor on the part of employers to require as a condition of employment the surrender of any right of citizenship, laws regulating and prescribing the qualifications of persons in trades and handicrafts, and similar laws

now in force or hereafter to be enacted. It shall also be the duty of the officers and employees of the bureau to collect, assort, arrange and present, in biennial reports, to the legislature, on or before the first Monday in January, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the State; to the subjects of cooperation, strikes or other labor difficulties; to trade unions and other labor organizations and their effect upon labor and capital; and to such other matters relating to the commercial, industrial, social, educational, moral and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes, and the permanent prosperity of the respective industries of the State as the bureau may be able to gather. In its biennial reports the bureau shall also give an account of all proceedings of its officers and employees which have been taken in accordance with the provisions of this act or of any of the other acts herein referred to, including a statement of all violations of law which have been observed, and the proceedings under the same, and shall join with such account such remarks, suggestions and recommendations as the commissioner may deem necessary.

SEC. 471. It shall be the duty of every owner, operator or manager of every factory, workshop, mine or other establishment where labor is employed, to make to the bureau, upon blanks furnished by said bureau, such reports and returns as the said bureau may require for the purpose of compiling such labor statistics as are authorized by this act, and the owner or business manager shall make such reports and returns within the time prescribed therefor by the commissioner of labor, and shall certify to the correctness of the same. In the reports of said bureau no use shall be made of names of individuals, firms or corporations supplying the information called for by this section, such information being deemed confidential and not for the purpose of disclosing personal affairs, and any officer, agent or employee of said bureau violating this provision shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than one year.

SEC. 472. The commissioner, or any officer of the bureau of labor, shall have the power to issue subpoenas, administer oaths and take testimony in all matters relating to the duties herein required by said bureau, such testimony to be taken in some suitable place in the vicinity to which testimony is applicable. Witnesses subpoenaed and testifying before any officer of the said bureau shall be paid the same fees as witnesses before a district court, such payments to be made from the contingent fund of the bureau. Any person duly subpoenaed under the provisions of this section, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to attend or testify at the time and place named in the subpoena, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, may be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days; Provided, however, That no witness shall be compelled to go outside the county in which he resides to testify.

SEC. 473. The commissioner of labor or any officer or employee of the bureau of labor shall have power to enter any factory or mill, workshop, or public or private works when the same is open, or in operation, for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics such as are contemplated by this act, and to examine into the methods of protection from danger to employees and the sanitary condition in and around such buildings and places and make a record thereof, and any owner or occupant of said factory or mill, workshop, or public or private works, or his agent or agents, who shall refuse to allow an officer or employee of the said bureau to so enter, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed ninety days. The expressions factory or mill," "workshop," and public or private works" used in this act shall have the same meanings defined for them, respectively, in an act entitled "An act providing for the protection of employees," approved March 30, 1893 [sections 2248 to 2264 inclusive].

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SEC. 474. No report or return made to the said bureau in accordance with the provisions of this act, and no schedule, record or document gathered or returned by its officers or employees, shall be destroyed within two years of the receipt or collection thereof, such reports, schedules and documents being declared public documents. At the expiration of the period of two years above referred to in this section, all records, schedules and papers accumulating in the said bureau that may be considered of no value by the commissioner may be destroyed; Provided, The authority of the governor and the senate be first obtained for such destruction. SEC. 475. In addition to the assistant commissioner and the factory inspector, provided by section one [470] of this act, the commissioner of labor shall appoint two deputies and two assistant factory inspectors, one of whom shall act as inspector of railways. He may also employ such other assistants and incur such other expense, not exceeding three thousand dollars a year, as may be necessary in the discharge

of the official duties of said bureau; such other assistants shall be paid for the services rendered such compensation as the commissioner of labor may deem proper, but no such assistant shall be paid more than four dollars per day in addition to necessary traveling expenses.

SEC. 476. The biennial reports of the bureau of labor, provided for by section two [470] of this act, shall be printed in the same manner and under the same regulations as the reports of the executive officers of the State; Provided, That not less than one thousand nor more than three thousand copies of the report shall be distributed, as the judgment of the commissioner may deem best. The blanks and other stationery required by the bureau of labor, in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be furnished by the secretary of the State and paid for from the printing fund of the State.

SEC. 477. The compensation of said bureau shall be two thousand five hundred dollars annual salary for the commissioner, fifteen hundred dollars annual salary for the assistant commissioner, twelve hundred dollars annual salary for the factory inspectors, and one thousand dollars annual salary each for the two deputies and the two assistant factory inspectors, and a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum shall be allowed for the necessary traveling and incidental expenses of the bureau; Provided, That only those persons who possess a practical knowledge of and experience in the work and duties required of them under the provisions of this and other acts shall be appointed factory inspectors.

CHAPTER 6.-Inspection of steam boilers and examination of engineers.

SEC. 480. Within sixty days after the passage of this act, and biennially thereafter, there shall be appointed by the governor a board of five inspectors, one of whom shall reside in each congressional district, whose duty it shall be to inspect all steam boilers in use within the State, not subject to inspection under the laws of the United States, and not hereinafter excepted, and to examine and grant certificates of license to steam engineers entrusted with the care and management of steam boilers. Said inspectors shall examine and license all masters and pilots on inland waters of the State, and such examination shall be conducted, as near as may be, pursuant to the rules and regulations provided by the laws of the United States for the examination of masters and pilots. Said inspectors shall hold their respective offices for two years from the first day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the governor. Said inspectors shall annually on or before the thirty-first day of January, render a report to the secretary of state, and to the legislature, showing a detailed statement of the number of inspections made, licenses issued, and the amount of fees received therefor, also showing the amount of disbursements of their offices.

SEC. 481. No person shall be eligible to hold the office of inspector of boilers who has not had at least ten years of actual experience in operating steam engines and steam boilers, or who is directly or indirectly interested in the manufacture or sale of boilers or steam machinery, or any patented article required to be used, or that is in general use in the construction of steam engines or boilers, or who is not of good moral character, and suitably qualified by experience in the construction of steam boilers so as to enable him to perform the duties of the office; and no person shall enter upon or perform any of the duties of inspector who has not taken and subscribed an oath, and filed the same with the secretary of state, that he will faithfully and impartially perform the duties of his office.

SEC. 482. Said inspectors, in April next after the passage of this act, and in February each year thereafter, shall meet as a board, at the capitol in St. Paul, and establish such rules and regulations for the inspection of steam vessels and steam boilers, and their other duties, as herein provided for, as shall be required by the terms of this chapter. They shall also prescribe rules and regulations for the inspection of the hulls, machinery, boilers, steam connections, fire apparatus, lifesaving appliances and equipments of all the steamers propelled in whole or in part by steam, and navigating the inland waters of the State; such rules to conform, as near as may be, to the requirements of the laws of the United States in regard to the inspection of hulls, machinery, boilers, steam connections, fire apparatus, life-saving appliances and equipments of steam vessels, and such rules and regulations, when approved by the governor, shall have the force of law. Provided further, Any master, owner or person not complying with this section and the rules and regulations as prescribed by the inspectors, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.

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SEC. 483. Every owner, lessee or other person having charge of steam boilers, or any boat propelled in whole or in part by steam, not subject to inspection under the laws of the United States, shall cause the same to be inspected at least once each year by the inspectors herein provided for, and every such owner, lessee or person having charge of such boilers or steam vessels who shall raise steam and operate such boilers and machinery without such inspection shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or may be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or both at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 484. The inspector or inspectors shall once each year at least, upon application in writing by the owner, lessee or manager, carefully inspect the hull, boiler, machinery and equipments of all steam vessels and all steam boilers liable to inspection under this act, and shall satisfy themselves that every such vessel is of a structure suitable for the service in which she is to be employed, and has suitable accommodations for passengers and the crew, and is in condition to warrant the belief that she may be used in navigating as a steamer with safety to life, and that such equipments as life preservers, floats, pumps, hose, anchors and other things necessary to insure safety have been provided. When the inspection of a steam vessel is completed and the inspector or inspectors approve the vessel and her equipment throughout, he or they shall make and subscribe a sworn and verified certificate to the secretary of state in such form as the board of inspectors shall prescribe, and a copy of said certificate shall be furnished by the inspector to the managing owner or master of said steam vessel, who shall post the same in a conspicuous place on said boat. The original certificate shall be kept on file in the office of secretary of state. The said inspector shall also examine all masters and pilots of steam vessels on inland waters of the State as to their qualifications and fitness, and if found competent and reliable enough to perform the duties of master or pilot, the inspector shall issue them a certificate authorizing them to act as such on such inland waters of the State as designated by their certificate. The inspector shall also make such rules and regulations for the navigation of steam vessels as will permit such navigation without danger to life or property. The inspectors shall revoke the license of any master, pilot or engineer if found under the influence of intoxicating liquor when on duty, or who otherwise disregards the rules and regulations as prescribed by the inspectors. The said inspectors shall be authorized to collect a fee of ten dollars for inspection of all vessels of fifty tons burden and over, and five dollars for all of a less tonnage, and a fee of one dollar for the examination of and issuing a master's or pilot's license and one dollar for the biennial renewal of the same. Every lessee, pilot or owner not complying with this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or may be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed sixty days, or both at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 485. The said inspectors shall in addition to their duties as inspectors of steam vessels, inspect all steam boilers and steam generators before the same shall be used, and all steam boilers at least once every year thereafter. They shall subject all boilers to hydrostatic pressure or hammer test and shall satisfy themselves by a thorough internal and external examination that the boilers are well made and of good and suitable material, that the openings for the passage of water and steam, respectively, and all pipes and tubes exposed to heat are of proper dimensions and free from obstructions; that the flues are circular in form; that the arrangement for delivering the feed water is such that the boilers can not be injured thereby, and that such boilers and their steam connections may be safely used without danger to life or property. Provided, further, They shall also satisfy themselves that the safety valves are of suitable dimensions, sufficient in number and properly arranged, and that the safety valve weights are properly adjusted so as to allow no greater pressure in the boilers than the amount prescribed by the inspector's certificate; that there is a sufficient number of gauge cocks properly inserted to indicate the amount of water, and suitable gauges that will correctly record the pressure of steam; and that the fusible metals are properly inserted so as to fuse by the heat of the furnace whenever the water in the boilers falls below its prescribed limits, and that adequate and certain provisions for an ample supply of water to feed the boilers at all times, so that in high pressure boilers the water shall not be less than three inches above the top of the fire surface, and that means for blowing out are provided, so as to thoroughly remove the mud and sediment from all parts of the boilers when they are under pressure of steam. In subjecting to the hydrostatic test boilers usually designated as high pressure, the inspector shall assume one hundred and twenty-five pounds to the square inch as the maxımum pressure allowable, as a working pressure for new boilers forty-two inches in diameter, double riveted, made in the best manner, of plates one-fourth of an