reformatory or charitable institution or asylum belonging to the State, from either contracting for or engaging in the manufacture of such goods solely for the use of the inmates of such institutions, nor to prevent any such board or authority of any such institution under the management of any municipality or county from contracting for or engaging in the manufacture of such goods solely for the use of such institution.

SEC. 2. The members of any such board of trustees or other board of authority who shall violate the provisions of section one of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the State; and it is hereby made the duty of the attorney-general to institute proceedings for the recovery of such penalty and to prosecute the same to a final termination.

Employment of children.

(Page 285. Act passed April 25, 1893.)

SEC. 2. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed by any person, company or corporation during the school term, and while the public schools are in session, unless the parent, guardian or person in care of such child, shall have fully complied with the requirements of section one of this act. Every person, company or corporation shall require proof of such compliance before employing any such minor, and shall make and keep a written record of the proof given, and shall, upon request of the truant officer hereinafter provided for, permit him to examine such record, and also the record provided for by section 6986aa of the Revised Statutes. Any person, company or corporation employing any child contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars.

SEC. 3. All minors over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen years, who can not read and write the English language, shall attend school at least onehalf of each day, or attend a public night school, or take regular private instruction from some person qualified, in the opinion of the superintendent of schools in city or other districts having such superintendents, or the clerk of the board of education in special, village and township districts not having such superintendent, to teach such branches, until such minor obtain a certificate from such superintendent or clerk, that he or she can read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language. Every person, company or corporation employing, or having in employment any such minor, shall exact the school attendance or instruction required by this section, as a condition of employment, and shall, on request of the truant officer hereinafter provided for, furnish evidence that such minor is complying with the requirements of this section. Every person, company or corporation which employs, or has in employment, any such minor without exacting the school attendance or instruction required by this section, or employs or has in employment any such minor who is not complying with the requirements of this section, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars. Frovided, Any employer may, with the approval of the superintendent or clerk above mentioned, make provision for the private instruction of such minors in his employ.

ACTS OF 1894.

Foreclosure of chattel mortgages—Conditional sales.

(Page 339. Act passed May 19, 1894.)

SECTION 1. No chattel mortgage on the necessary household goods, wearing apparel or mechanic's tools of any person or family, except chattel mortgages given to secure the whole or some part of the purchase-price thereof, shall be foreclosed except in a court of record. No such household goods, wearing apparel or mechanic's tools covered by a chattel mortgage shall be seized or taken out of the possession of the mortgagor before foreclosure, except by a sheriff, or constable, and then only after the mortgagee or his [agent] has presented an affidavit to a judge of some court of record or justice of the peace, setting forth that the mortgage is due, or that the mortgagee is in danger of losing his security, giving the facts upon which he relies, and after obtaining an order from such judge or justice of the peace, directing such sheriff or constable to seize such household goods, wearing apparel or mechanic's tools and hold them subject to the order of the court; any stipulation of such mortgage to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided, That

nothing herein shall apply to the sale of furniture or other household goods by regular dealers; Provided further, That this act shall not apply to the foreclosure of chattel mortgages executed prior to the time that this act goes into effect; Provided further, That if the mortgagee fails to recover the full amount on his petition, the court shall adjudge the costs against him.

Regulation of the sale of convict-made goods.

(Page 346. Act passed May 19, 1894.)

SEC. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporation to expose for sale within the State of Ohio, without first obtaining from the secretary of state a license to sell, any convict-made goods, merchandise or wares, as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. Every person, persons or corporation desiring to act as agents for or to deal in convict-made goods, merchandise or wares, before exposing such goods within the limits of the State of Ohio, shall make an application in writing to the secretary of state, setting forth his or their residence or office, the class of goods he, they or it desires to deal in, the town, village or city, giving the street number at which he, they or it intends to locate, together with names of two or more responsible citizens of the State of Ohio, who shall enter into a bond of not less than five thousand dollars to guarantee that the said applicant will, in all and every particular, comply with any and all laws of the State of Ohio regulating and prescribing the sale of convict-made goods, wares and merchandise.

SEC. 3. The secretary of state shall thereupon issue a license to such applicant for one year, except as hereinafter provided, which license shall set forth the name of such person, persons or corporation, and shall be kept conspicuously posted in his, their or its place of business.

SEC. 4. Such person, persons or corporation shall annually, before the fifteenth day of January in each year, transmit to the secretary of state a verified statement setting forth:

1. The name of the person, persons or corporation. 2. His, their or its place of business.

3. The names of the persons, agents, wardens or keepers of any prison, jail, penitentiary or reformatory, or establishment using convict labor, with whom he has done business, and the person, persons or corporation to whom he has sold goods, wares or merchandise, giving the State, city or town and street number of such purchaser or purchasers.

4. In general terins the amount paid to each of such agents, wardens or keepers for goods, wares or merchandise, and the character of goods, wares and merchandise so received.

SEC. 5. Every person, persons or corporation shall pay annually, upon the issue of said license as herein before provided, the sum of five hundred dollars to the secretary of state as a license fee, which amount shall be credited to the maintenance account of the state prison.

SEC. 6. Licenses shall be for one year unless revoked as subsequently provided. SEC. 7. The secretary of state shall have power to revoke the license of any person, persons or corporation upon satisfactory evidence or upon conviction for any violation of any law regulating the sale of convict-made goods, wares and merchandise; but no such revocation shall be made until after due notice to the person, persons or corporation so complained of; and for the purposes of this section the said secretary of state, or his authorized agents, shall have power to administer oath and to compel the attendance of persons and the production of books, papers, et cetera.

SEC. 8. When upon complaint or otherwise the commissioner of labor statistics has reason to believe that this act is being violated, he shall advise the prosecuting attorney of the county in which such alleged violation has occurred, of that fact, giving the information in support of his conclusions, and the prosecuting attorney shall at once institute the proper legal proceedings to compel compliance with this act. Any person offending against the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding ten hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding twelve months nor less than ten days, or both.

SEC. 9. It shall be lawful for any person, persons or corporation to furnish evidence as to the violation upon the part of any person. persons or corporation, and upon the conviction of such person, persons or corporation, one-half of the fine provided for by this act, which shall be secured, shall be paid to the commissioner of labor statistics, to be used by him in investigating and securing information

regarding violations of this act, and in paying expenses of securing convictions for violations thereof.

SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall affect the products of the prisons or other penal institutions of the State of Ohio.

Regulating the height of railroad bridges, etc.

(Page 365. Act passed May 21, 1894.)

SEC. 1. All bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways or foot-bridges, wire and other structure hereafter constructed over the track or tracks of any railroad or railroads within the State of Ohio, by any county, municipality, township, railroad company, or other private corporation or person shall be of such height as to be not less than twenty-one feet in clear from the top surface of the rails of said track or tracks, to said wire and other structure or to the bottom of the lowest sill, girder or cross-beam, and the lowest downward projection on such bridge, viaduct, overhead roadway or foot-bridge. Provided, That where any bridge, viaduct, overhead roadway or foot-bridge over a railroad track or tracks, is rebuilt, it shall be brought under the provisions of this act,

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SEC. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the commissioner of railroads [and] telegraphs to see that the provisions of this act are carried into effect; and every railroad company in the State of Ohio, public or private corporation, or person building, or permitting to be built, any bridge, viaduct, overhead roadway or footbridge, or wire and other structure as specified in section one of this act, shall file with the said commissioner plans and specifications, and first receive from him a permit before being allowed to proceed with said structure and the erection of said wire. Any person, corporation, public or private, violating the provisions of this act, upon conviction before a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined any sum not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars: and every day that said structure or wire, not in conformity to the provisions of this act, is permitted to remain, shall constitute a separate offense. The observance of the provisions of this act may be enforced by injunction or complaint of any person, corporation or board interested therein.

OKLAHOMA.

STATUTES OF 1893.

CHAPTER 17.-Liability of stockholders for debts due employees-Mining and manufacturing corporations.

PARAGRAPH 1074. The stockholders of any corporation formed for the purposes mentioned in this article shall be jointly and severally liable, in their individual capacities, for all debts due to mechanics, workmen and laborers employed by such corporation, which said liability may be enforced against any stockholders by an action at any time after an execution against such corporation shall be returned not satisfied: Provided, Such action be commenced within four months: And provided always, That if any stockholder shall be compelled by any such action to pay the debts of any creditor, or any part thereof, he shall have the right to call upon all the stockholders to contribute their part of the sum so paid by him as aforesaid, and may sue them jointly or severally, or any number of them, and recover in such action: the ratable amount due from the person or persons so sued.

CHAPTER 25.-Sunday labor.

PARAGRAPH 1878. The following are the acts forbidden to be done on the first day of the week, the doing of any of which is Sabbath-breaking:

First. Servile labor.

Second. Public sports.

Third. Trades, manufactures and mechanical employments.

Fourth. Public traffic.

Fifth. Serving process, unless authorized by law so to do.

PARAGRAPH 1879. All manner of servile labor on the first day of the week is prohibited, excepting works of necessity or charity.

PARAGRAPH 1880. It is a sufficient defense in proceedings for servile labor on the first day of the week, to show that the accused uniformly keeps another day of the week as holy time, and does not labor upon that day, and that the labor

complained of was done in such manner as not to interrupt or disturb other persons in observing the first day of the week as holy time.

PARAGRAPH 1882. All trades, manufactures and mechanical employments, upon the first day of the week, are prohibited.

PARAGRAPH 1885. Every person guilty of Sabbath breaking is punishable by a fine of one dollar for each offense.

CHAPTER 25.—Intoxication of railroad employees.

PARAGRAPH 2275. Every person who, while in charge, as engineer, of a locomotive engine, or while acting as conductor or driver upon a railroad train or car, whether propelled by steam or drawn by horses, if intoxicated, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 25.-Negligence of railroad employees.

PARAGRAPH 2276. Every engineer, conductor, brakeman, switch-tender, or other officer, agent or servant of any railroad company, who is guilty of any willful violation or omission of his duty as such officer, agent or servant, by which human life or safety is endangered, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 25.-Intimidation of employers and employees.

PARAGRAPH 2544. Every person who, by any use of force, threats or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent any hired foreman, journeyman, apprentice, workman, laborer, servant or other person employed by another, from continuing or performing his work, or from accepting any new work or employment, or induce such hired person to relinquish his work or employment, or to return any work he has in hand, before it is finished, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

PARAGRAPH 2545. Every person who, by any use of force, threats or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent another from employing any person, or to compel another to employ any person, or to force or induce another to alter his mode of carrying on business, or to limit or increase the number of his hired foremen, journeymen, apprentices, workmen, laborers, servants or other persons employed by him, or their rate of wages or time of service, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 25.-Employment, hours of labor, etc., of women and children. PARAGRAPH 2550. Every owner, stockholder, overseer, employer, clerk or foreman, of any manufactory, workshop, or other place used for mechanical or manufacturing purposes, who, having control, shall compel any woman or any child under eighteen years of age, or permit any child under fourteen years of age, to labor in any day exceeding ten hours, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred and not less than ten dollars.

CHAPTER 33.-Time to vote to be allowed employees.

PARAGRAPH 2820. No person entitled to vote at any general, national, Territorial or county election shall be employed upon the day on which such election shall be held, in any manufacturing, mining, mechanical or mercantile establishment or any railroad or corporation in this Territory during the period of four hours after the opening of any election in the county in which such person is entitled to vote, except as to works of necessity, in which works of necessity every employee shall be given some period of four hours between the opening and closing of the polls on said day; and any district court may enforce the provisions of this section in term time, or in vacation by mandate or otherwise, upon the application of any voter. Every officer of any corporation, owner, superintendent, overseer, or foreman, who employs or permits to be employed any person in violation of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

CHAPTER 34.-Exemptions from execution, etc.

PARAGRAPH 2844. The following property shall be reserved to the head of every family residing in the Territory exempt from attachment or execution and every other species of forced sale for the payment of debts, except as hereinafter provided:

First. The homestead of the family.

Second. All household and kitchen furniture.

Third. Any lot or lots in a cemetery held for the purpose of sepulture.

Fourth. All implements of husbandry used upon the homestead.

Fifth. All tools, apparatus and books belonging to and used in any trade or profession.

Sixth. The family library and all family portraits and pictures, and wearing apparel.

Seventh. Five milch cows and their calves under six months old.
Eighth. One yoke of work oxen, with necessary yokes and chains.
Ninth. Two horses or two mules and one wagon, cart or dray.

Tenth. One carriage or buggy.

Eleventh. One gun.

Twelfth. Ten hogs.

Thirteenth. Twenty head of sheep.

Fourteenth. All saddles, bridles and harness necessary for the use of the family. Fifteenth All provisions and forage on hand, or growing for home consumption; and for the use of exempt stock for one year.

Sixteenth. All current wages and earnings for personal or professional services earned within the last ninety days.

PARAGRAPH 2845. The homestead of a family not in a town or city shall consist of not more than one hundred and sixty acres of land, which shall be in one tract or parcel with the improvements thereon. The homestead in a city, town or village, consisting of a lot or lots, not to exceed one acre with the improvements thereon; Provided, That the same shall be used for the purpose of a home for the family; Provided, also, That any temporary renting of the homestead shall not change the character of the same when no other homestead has been acquired; Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from mortgaging his or her homestead. The exemption herein provided for must not be construed to apply to the following persons, namely:

First. To a corporation for profit.

Second. To a nonresident.

Third. To a debtor who is in the act of removing his family from the Territory; or

Fourth. Who has absconded, taking with him his family.

PARAGRAPH 2846. The following property shall be reserved to persons who are not heads of a family, exempt from attachment, execution and every other species of forced sale; except for liens given by the owners:

First. A lot or lots in a cemetery held for the purpose of a sepulcher.

Second. All wearing apparel.

Third. All tools, apparatus and books belonging to any trade or profession. Fourth. One horse, bridle and saddle, or one yoke of oxen.

Fifth. Current wages for personal services.

PARAGRAPH 2847. The exemption of the homestead provided for in this act shall not apply where the debt is due:

First. For the purchase money of such homestead or a part of such purchase

money.

Second. For taxes due thereon.

Third. For work and material used in constructing improvements thereon, or for mortgaged indebtedness; but in this last case such work and material or mortgaged indebtedness must have been contracted for in writing, and the consent of the wife, if there be one, must have been given in the same manner as is by law required in making a sale and conveyance of the homestead.

PARAGRAPH 2848. The exemption of personal property, provided for in this act, shall not apply when the debt is due for rents and advances made by a landlord to his tenant; or to other debts which are secured by a lien on such property.

PARAGRAPH 2849. None of the personal property mentioned in this act, shall be exempt from attachment or execution for wages of any clerk, mechanic, laborer or serv ant.

PARAGRAPH 2850. There shall also be exempt from levy and sale upon execution or attachment to every resident of this Territory who became disabled in the service of the United States as a soldier, sailor, or marine, all pension money hereafter received belonging to such soldier, sailor or marine.

CHAPTER 40.-Earnings of married women.

Second. The earnings of the wife are not liable for the debts of the husband, and the earnings and accumulations of the wife, and of her minor children living with her or in her custody, while she is living separate from her husband, are the separate property of the wife.