bly, in the month of January, a detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements of the board during the preceding year, together with a statement of its acts and proceedings and such recommendations as it may deem proper. Any moneys in the hands of the treasurer of said board at the time of making such report in excess of five hundred dollars shall be paid over to the State treasurer to be kept by him for the future maintenance of the board, and to be disbursed by him upon warrants signed by the chairman and treasurer of said board.

SEC. 7. Said board shall hold each year, at such times and Examinations. places as it shall designate, at least four public examinations, notice whereof shall be given by a publication at least ten days before the holding of any such meeting in at least one newspaper printed and published in the county in which such meeting shall be held.

SEC. 8. Every person now engaged in the occupation of barber in any city in this State, and who shall have been actually engaged in said occupation for the period of two years prior to the passage of this act, and who shall,' within ninety days after the passage of this act, file with the secretary of said board an affidavit setting forth his name, residence, and length of time during which and the place or places where he has practiced such occupation, and who shall pay to the treasurer of said board two dollars, shall receive a certificate of registration entitling him to practice said occupation.

Registration.

Qualifica

SEC. 9. Any person not now engaged or who has not been actu- Applicants. ally engaged in the occupation of barber for two years prior to the passage of this act, or who has not complied with section eight of this act, shall not be authorized to practice said occupation in any city in this State until he shall have obtained a certificate of registration to be granted after complying with the following conditions: 1st. He shall make written application therefor to said board and shall pay to the treasurer of said board an Fee. examination fee of five dollars, which shall be in full payment for all examinations to be taken by said applicant. Said application shall be sworn to before the secretary of said board and shall state that said applicant is above the age of nineteen years, of tlons. good moral character, that he has studied the trade of barbering for at least two years as an apprentice under a registered and practicing barber, or that he has studied the trade in a barber's school or schools, as hereinafter defined, for at least two years. 2nd. He shall file with said board a certificate of a practicing physician of this State, sworn to before a notary public, that said applicant is free from contagious or infectious diseases. 3rd. Upon the filing of the foregoing application and certificate, said board, at the next meeting held for the examination of applicants, shall examine said applicant as to his skill in said trade, namely, in the care and preparation of the tools and utensils of said trade, shaving, hair cutting, and all the services incident thereto, and being satisfied that said applicant is possessed of the requisite skill to properly practice said trade, the secretary of said board shall enter his name in the register hereinafter provided for, and said board shall thereupon issue to him a certificate authorizing him to practice said trade in this State: Provided, That whenever it appears that said applicant has acquired his knowledge of said trade in a barber school the board may subject him to an examination and withhold from him a certificate if it shall thus appear that he is not qualified to practice said trade: And also provided, That any apprentice applying for a certificate of registration shall be allowed for so much time as he may have studied the trade, previous to the passage of this act, under any practical barber in this State.

School de

A barber's school is hereby declared to be a school conducted by a suitable person who is authorized to practice the trade of a bar- fined. ber in this State, and in which all instruction is given by competent persons so authorized, and in which the course and period of

training shall comply with the rules and regulations of the said board adopted for the government of barber schools.

SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from serving as an apprentice in said trade under a barber authorized to practice the same under this act, nor from serving as a student in any school for the teaching of said trade under the instruction of a qualified barber. An apprentice within the meaning of this act is one who has entered the employment of a registered barber for a fixed term in order to learn the trade of barbering. Every apprentice, in order to avail himself of the provisions of this act, shall, at the time of entering upon his apprenticeship, file with the secretary of said board a statement in writing, showing the name and place of business of his employer, the date of commencement of employment with him, and the full name and age of said apprentice.

SEC. 11. Said board shall furnish to each person to whom a certificate of registration is issued a card bearing the seal of the board and the signature of its chairman and secretary, certifying that the holder thereof is entitled to practice the occupation of barber in any city in this State, and it shall be the duty of the holder of such card to post the same in a conspicuous place in front of his working chair, where it may be readily seen by all persons whom he may serve. Said card shall be renewed on or before the first day of January in each year, and the holder of said certificate of registration shall pay to the secretary of said board the sum of one dollar for said renewal card. Upon the failure of any holder of a certificate of registration to apply for a renewal of his card on or before the first day of January in each year, his said certificate may be revoked by said board, subject to the provisions of section 13 of this act.

SEC. 12. Said board shall keep a register in which shall be entered the names of all persons to whom certificates are issued under this act, and said register shall be at all times open to public inspection.

SEC. 13. Said board shall have power to revoke any certificate of registration granted by it under this act, for (a) gross incompetency; (b) the keeping of a shop, or the tools, appliances, or furnishings thereof, in an unclean or unsanitary condition; (c) failure to comply with the requirements of section 11 of this act: Provided, That before any certificate shall be so revoked the holder thereof shall have notice in writing of the charge or charges against him, and shall have reasonable opportunity to be heard in his defense. Any person whose certificate has been so revoked may apply to have the same reissued, and the same shall be [re]issued to him upon a satisfactory showing that the disqualification has ceased. The said board shall have power by its chairman to summon any person to appear as a witness and testify at any hearing appointed by it touching any such charge preferred against any barber in any city in this State, and to examine such witness relating [relative] thereto; and may administer oaths to such witness.

Any person aggrieved by any decision or ruling of said board may, within thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, after receiving notice of said decision, take an appeal therefrom to the appellate division of the supreme court, sitting at Providence, and said appellate division of the supreme court shall, as soon as may be, hear and determine said appeal.

SEC. 14. To shave or trim the beard or cut the hair of any person for hire or reward received by the person performing such service, or any other person, shall be construed as practicing the occupation of barber within the meaning of this act: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to professional nurses, domestic servants, nor to undertakers or persons engaged in preparing a body for burial, nor to apprentices under the direction of a duly registered barber.

SEC. 15. Any person practicing the occupation of barber in any

city in this State without having obtained a certificate of registration as provided by this act, or willfully employing a barber who has not such a certificate, or falsely pretending to be qualified to practice such occupation under this act, or violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 16. The town council of any town in this State is hereby Towns may authorized and empowered to adopt the provisions of this act, and adopt. upon the adoption of this act by any town of this State, within ten days thereafter the town clerk of said town shall file with the secretary of the board of examiners provided for in this act an attested copy of the vote of the town council setting forth the fact that the provisions of said act have been adopted by the town council of said town, and upon the filing of said attested copy, then this act shall be in full force and effect in said town; and when so adopted the word "city," wherever used in this act, shall be construed to mean and include such town, and the words “ passage of this act," wherever used in this act, shall be construed to mean and include the adoption of this act by said town.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 9.-Liability of railroad companies for injuries to

employees.

Negligence of

Of fellow-ser

chinery.

SECTION 15. Every employee of any railroad corporation shall have the same rights and remedies for any injury suffered by superior; him from the acts or omissions of said corporations or its employees as are allowed by law to other persons not employees, when the injury results from the negligence of a superior agent or officer, or of a person having a right to control or direct the services of a party injured, and also when the injury results from the negligence of a fellow-servant engaged in another department of labor vants in another departfrom that of the party injured, or of a fellow-servant on another ment. train of cars, or one engaged about a different piece of work. Knowledge by any employee injured of the defective or unsafe Knowledge of character or condition of any machinery, ways or appliances shall defective mabe no defense to an action for injury caused thereby, except as to conductors or engineers in charge of dangerous or unsafe cars or engines voluntarily operated by them. When death ensues from any injury to employees, the legal or personal representatives of ing death. the person injured shall have the same right and remedies as are allowed by law to such representatives of other persons. Any contract or agreement, expressed or implied, made by any employee to waive the benefit of this section shall be null and void; and this section shall not be construed to deprive any employee of a corporation, or his legal or personal representative, of any remedy or right that he now has by the law of the land. The general assembly may extend the remedies herein provided for to any other class of employees.

A contract whereby a railroad company beforehand seeks immunity from damages caused by its negligence is not prohibited by this section, but is void as contrary to public policy. 55 S. C. 152.

Under this section a servant may recover of a railroad company for injuries caused by the carelessness of a fellow-servant directing him. 52 S. C. 438.

CODE OF 1902.

CIVIL CODE.

CHAPTER 28.-Hours of labor on public roads.

Injury caus

Contract waiving rights.

SECTION 1355. day's work.

ten hours' labor shall be held to be a

Ten hours a day's labor.

Employers to

CHAPTER 28.-Employers to furnish road overseers with names of employees.

SECTION 1363 (as amended by act No. 535, Acts of 1902). report names Said [road] overseer is hereby authorized to demand of any perof employees. son or corporation the name of any and all hands in his, her or its employ; and any person or corporation receiving of such overseer or warner, by him appointed, such demand, failing or refusing to furnish a list containing the names of all male employees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offense shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than thirty days;

CHAPTER 50.-Accidents on railroads.

SECTION 2071. The railroad commissioners shall investigate the causes of any accident on a railroad resulting in loss of life, and of any accident not so resulting, which, in their judgment, shall require investigation.

CHAPTER 50.-Sunday labor-Railroads.

SECTION 2121. It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation owning or controlling railroads operating in this State to load or unload, or permit to be loaded or unloaded, or to run or permit to be run, on Sunday, any locomotive, cars or trains of cars moved by steam power, except as hereinafter provided, and except to unload cars loaded with animals.

SEC. 2122 (as amended by act No. 52, Acts of 1903). Said corporations or persons may run on Sundays trains laden exclusively with vegetables and fruits; and on said day, in any and every month, their regular mail trains and such construction trains as may be rendered necessary by extraordinary emergencies other than those incident to freight or passenger traffic, and such freight trains as may be in transit which can reach their destination by six o'clock in the forenoon: Provided, That the railroad commissioners shall have the power (upon proper application made to them for the purpose by the officers of the church or religious denominations in charge of the place where such services are to be held) to authorize and permit the running of trains on any Sunday in the year for the transporting of passengers to and from religious services: Provided, The application for the permit and the authority granted must both be in writing and made a part of the records of said railroad commissioners.

SEC. 2123. Any train running by a schedule in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, but delayed by accident or other unavoidable circumstance, may be run until it reaches the point at which it is usual for it to rest upon a Sunday.

SEC. 2124. For a willful violation of the provisions of the three preceding sections the railroad company so offending shall forfeit to the State five hundred dollars, to be collected in any court of competent jurisdiction.

CHAPTER 50.--Railroads-Brakes and brakemen.

SECTION 2127. Every railroad corporation shall cause a good and sufficient brake to be attached to every car used upon its railroad for the transportation of passengers, and to every car used for the transportation of freight, except four-wheeled freight cars used only for that purpose; and shall cause to be stationed on every passenger train trusty and skillful brakemen, equal in number at least to one for every two cars in the train, except on passenger trains, where power brakes are used, and one such brakeman upon the last car of every freight train, which must always be equipped with a good and sufficient brake.

In the absence of testimony to the contrary the company will be presumed to have complied with this section. 26 S. C. 49.

In order to hold the company liable, the failure to comply must be shown to be the proximate cause of the injury. 27 S. C. 71.

CHAPTER 50.-Accidents on railroads.

SECTION 2137. Every railroad corporation shall cause immediate Accidents to be reported. notice of any accident which may occur on its road, attended with injury to any person, to be given to a physician most accessible to the place of accident, and shall also give notice, within twentyfour hours, to the railroad commissioners of any such accident, or of any accident falling within a description of accidents of which said commissioners may by general regulation require notice to be given. For each omission to give such notice the corporation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

CHAPTER 50.-Actions for personal injuries—Railroads.

lien.

SECTION 2138. Whenever a cause of action shall arise against Judgment a any railroad or street railway corporation for personal injury or injury to property sustained by any person, and such cause of action shall be prosecuted to judgment by the person injured, or his or their legal representatives, said judgment shall relate back to the date when the cause of action arose, and shall be a lien as of that date upon the income, property and franchise of said corporation, enforcible in any court of competent jurisdiction by attachment or levy and sale under execution, and shall take precedence and priority of payment of any mortgage, deed of trust or other security given to secure the payments of bonds made by said railroad or street railway company: Provided, Any action brought Limitation. under this section shall be commenced within twelve months from the time that said injury was sustained.

CHAPTER 57.-Seamen-Boarding houses.

Boarding

SECTION 2291. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep, conduct, or carry on, either as owner, proprietor, agent, or other- house to be 11censed. wise, any sailors' or immigrants' boarding house, or sailors' or immigrants' hotel, in the city of Charleston, without having a license from the city council thereof.

Unlicensed

solicit.

SEC. 2292. It shall not be lawful for any person, not having the license in this chapter provided, or not being the regular agent, hotels not to runner, or employee of a person having such license, to invite, ask, or solicit, in the city or harbor of Charleston, the boarding or lodging of any of the crew employed on any vessel, or of any immigrant arriving in the said city of Charleston.

SEC. 2296. The said city council shall furnish to each sailors' or Badges furimmigrants' hotel or boarding house keeper licensed by them as nished. aforesaid, one or more badges or shields, on which shall be printed or engraved the name of such hotel or boarding house keeper, and the number and street of his hotel or boarding house; and which said badges or shields shall be surrendered to said city council upon the revocation by them, or expiration of any license granted by them, as herein provided.

SEC. 2297. Any sailors' or immigrants' hotel or boarding house Must be worn. keeper, and every agent, runner, or employee of such hotel or boarding house keeper, when boarding any vessel in the harbor of Charleston, or when inviting or soliciting the boarding or lodging of any seaman, sailor, or person employed on any vessel, or of any immigrant, shall wear, conspicuously displayed, the shield or badge referred to in the foregoing section.

Who

may

wear

SEC. 2298. It shall not be lawful for any person, except those named in the preceding section, to have, wear, exhibit, or display not any such shield or badge to any of the crew employed on any ves- badge. sel, or to any immigrant so arriving in the city of Charleston, with the intent to invite, ask, or solicit the boarding or lodging of such immigrant, or of any of the crew employed on any vessel being in the harbor of Charleston.

SEC. 2302. The word "vessel," as used in the preceding section, shall include vessels propelled by steam.

Definition.

Recovery lim

SEC. 2303. It shall not be lawful for any keeper of a public or ited.