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Sale of oil

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barrel, vessel or package containing such material a certificate
substantially as follows: "This is to certify that I have this
day of
inspected the material contained in this vessel and
find that same complies with the laws governing the sale of
illuminants for use in mines in the State of Alabama." (Signed)
inspector. If, however, he shall find that such
material does not conform to the requirements of said section he
shall condemn such material for use as an illuminant in mines
and shall affix or attach to the barrel, vessel or package contain-
ing said material a certificate substantially as follows: "This is
to certify that I have this the day of
inspected the
material contained in this vessel and find that the same does not
meet the requirements of the law governing the sale of illumi-
nants for use in the mines in the State of Alabama and is there-
fore prohibited for sale or use for such purpose." (Signed)
—, inspector. And thereafter it shall be unlawful to
sell the material so condemned for illuminating purposes in any
mine in this State, or to use the same therein until it is made by
the manufacturer to conform to the requirements of section one
of this act.

SEC. 4. Any person or corporation who shall knowingly sell in violation of or offer for sale for use in open lamps in any mine in this State any oil or other material that does not conform to the requirements of the first section of this act, or that has not been inspected and certified as complying with the laws of this State, as above provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, and any person so convicted may be also sentenced to hard labor for not less than thirty days nor more than twelve months within the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. Any miner or other person who shall knowingly use and in violation of any mine foreman who shall knowingly permit to be used, any oil or other material for illuminating purposes in any mine in this State that does not conform to the requirements of the first section of this act, or that has not been inspected and certified as complying with the laws of this State as above provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and he may also be sentenced to hard labor for not less than thirty days nor more than twelve months within the discretion of the court.

Use of oil

statute.

ALASKA.

COMPILED LAWS-1913.

Mine regulations.

SECTION 202. The owners or managers of every coal mine shall provide an adequate amount of ventilation of not less than eightythree and one-third cubic feet of pure air per second, or five thousand cubic feet per minute for every fifty men at work in said mine, and in like proportion for a greater number, which air shall by proper appliances or machinery be forced through such mine to the face of each and every working place, so as to dilute and render harmless and expel therefrom the noxious or poisonous gases. Wherever it is practicable to do so the entries, rooms, and all openings being operated in coal mines shall be kept well dampened with water to cause the coal dust to settle, and when water is not obtainable at reasonable cost for this purpose accumulations of dust shall be taken out of the mine, and shall not be deposited in way places in the mine where it would be again distributed in the atmosphere by the ventilating currents: Prorided, That all owners, lessees, operators of, or any other person having the control or management of any coal shaft, drift slope, or pit in the Indian Territory, employing twenty or more miners to work in the same, shall employ shot firers to fire the shots therein. Said shots shall not be fired to exceed one per day; at twelve o'clock noon in cases where the miners work but half a day; and at five o'clock in the evening when the mine is working three-quarters or full time, and they shall not be fired until after all miners and other employees working in said shafts, drifts, slopes or pits shall be out of same. The violation of this act shall constitute a misdemeanor and any person convicted of such violation shall pay a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars.

The above section prescribes an absolute duty as to ventilation and does not at all leave the points prescribed to the judgment of the operator. The consequences of negligence can not be excused because of a workman's contributory negligence. 20 Sup. Ct. Rep. 967.

Ventilation.

Sprinkling.

Shot firers.

inspectors.

SEC. 203. * For salaries of two mine inspectors, author- Salaries ized by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninetyone, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at two thousand dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars; and said inspectors are hereby authorized to inspect coal and other mines in the District of Alaska, to which District the provisions of said act are hereby extended and made applicable;

Alien labor-Employment in fisheries.

SECTION 254. It shall be unlawful for any person not a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and is not a bona fide resident therein, or for any company, corporation, or association not organized or authorized to transact business under the laws of the United States or under the laws of any State, Territory, or District thereof, or for any person not a native of Alaska, to catch or kill, or attempt to catch or kill, except with rod, spear, or gaff, any fish of any kind or species whatsoever in any of the waters of Alaska under the jurisdiction of the United States: And provided further, That nothing contained in this act shall prevent any person, firm,

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corporation, or association lawfully entitled to fish in the waters of Alaska from employing as laborers any aliens who can now be lawfully employed under the existing laws of the United States, either at stated wages or by piecework, or both, in connection with Alaskan fisheries, or with the canning, salting or otherwise preserving of fish.

Accident, old age, etc., relief—“Alaska Fund."

SECTION 305 (as amended by act of U. S. Congress, March 3, 1913). All moneys derived from and collected for liquor licenses, occupation or trade licenses, outside of the incorporated towns in the Territory of Alaska, shall be deposited in the Treasury Department of the United States, there to remain as a separate and distinct fund, to be known as the “Alaska fund,” and to be wholly devoted to the purposes hereinafter stated in the Territory of Alaska. * Ten per centum of said fund shall be, and is hereby, appropriated and authorized to be expended for the relief of persons in Alaska who are indigent and incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident; * * *.

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At the end of each fiscal quarter the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States shall divide the amount of said ten per centum of said fund so received during the quarter just ended into four equal parts, and transmit to each of the four United States district judges in Alaska one of said equal amounts.

Each of said judges is hereby authorized to expend so much of the money received by him under this act as may, in his discretion, be required for the relief of those persons in his division who are incapacitated through nonage, old age, sickness, or accident, and who are indigent and unable to assist and protect themselves: Provided, That each judge shall quarterly submit to the Secretary of the Treasury an itemized statement, with proper vouchers, of all expenditures made by him under this Act, and he shall at the time transmit a copy of said statement to the governor of the Territory: Provided further, That any unexpended balance remaining in the hands of any judge at the end of any quarter shall be returned to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and by him deposited in the said "Alaska fund," and the said sum shall be subsequently devoted, first, to meeting any actual requirements for the care and relief of such persons as are provided for in this act in any other division in said Territory wherein the amount allotted for that purpose has proved insufficient; and, second, if there shall be any remainder thereof, said remainder shall be devoted to the construction and maintenance of wagon roads, bridges, and trails in said Territory.

Exemption of wages from execution.

SECTION 1105. *

* The following property shall be exempt ex- from execution if selected and reserved by the judgment debtor or his agent at the time of the levy, or as soon thereafter before sale thereof as the same shall be known to him, and not otherwise: First. The earnings of the judgment debtor, for his personal services rendered at any time within sixty days next preceding the levy of execution or attachment, when it appears by the debtor's affidavit or otherwise that such earnings are necessary for the use of his family supported in whole or in part by his labor;

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Wages as preferred claims-In administration.

SECTION 1704. The charges and claims against the estate shall be paid in the following order, ** ** : First, funeral charges; second, taxes of whatever nature due the United States; third, expenses of last sickness; fourth, all other taxes of whatever nature; fifth, debts preferred by the laws of the United States; sixth, debts which at the death of the deceased were a

lien upon his property or any right or interest therein according to the priority of their several liens; seventh, debts due employee of decedent for wages earned within ninety days immediately preceding the death of the decedent; eighth, all other claims against the estate.

Sunday labor.

SECTION 2021. If any person shall keep open any store, shop, Sunday labor, grocery, ball alley, billiard room, or tippling house, for purpose of etc., forbidden. labor or traffic, or any place of amusement, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday or the Lord's Day, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not less than five nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That the above provision shall not apply to the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery-stable keepers, barbers, butchers, and bakers, and all circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded in defense, which shall be treated as questions of fact for the jury to determine, when the offense is tried by jury.

Employment of females and minors in barrooms.

Exceptions.

in barrooms

SECTION 2587. No licensee under a barroom license shall employ, Employment or permit to be employed, or allow any female or minor or person forbidden. convicted of crime, to sell, give, furnish, or distribute any intoxicating drinks or any admixture thereof, ale, wine, or beer to any person or persons.

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ACTS OF 1913.

CHAPTER 7.-Hours of labor on public works-Eight-hour day. SECTION 1. Hereafter, eight hours in any calendar day, shall constitute a day's work on any work done for the Territory or any municipality within the Territory, subject to the following conditions:

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SEC. 2. All work done by contract or subcontract on any build- Contracts for ing or improvements, or work on roads, bridges, streets, alleys or public buildings for the Territory or any municipality within the Territory, shall be done under the provisions of this act: Provided, That in cases of extraordinary emergency such as danger to life or property, the hours for work may be extended. And for this purpose this act is made a part of all contracts, subcontracts or agreements for work done for the Territory or any municipality within the Territory.

SEC. 3. Any contractor, subcontractor, or agent of contractor or subcontractor, foreman or employer, who shall violate the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or with imprisonment for a period of not less than ten days nor more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment.

CHAPTER 9.-Protection of employees as traders, etc.

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SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation Coercion to compel by threats or intimidation, or threats of discharge, or to to boarding or use any means to compel an employee against his will to board at any particular hotel, boarding house or other place where lodging or board may be provided, or to require an employee to purchase goods and supplies at any particular store.

SEC. 2. Any person 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 in a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred ($100), or by imprisonment in the Federal jail not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Penalty.

Dangerous

CHAPTER 29.-Hours of labor in mines, smelters, etc. SECTION 1. Employment in underground mines, underground employments. workings, open cut, open pit workings, smelters, reduction works, stamp mills, roller mills, concentrating mills, chlorination processes, cyanide processes, is hereby declared to be injurious to health and dangerous to life and limb.

Limit of SEC. 2. The period of employment of workingmen in undereight hours ground workings, underground mines, stamp mills, and roller mills, per day. open cut workings, chlorination processes, cyanide processes, and at coke ovens shall not exceed eight (8) hours within any twentyfour (24) hours, except on such days as change of shift is made; excluding, however, any intermission of time for lunch or meals, and excluding also the time required in descending to and ascending from, or otherwise going to or from the place where the work is actually carried on, whether going to or coming from the place of work be in going on or off shift, or in going to or returning from meals or lunch; it being the intention of this act to limit the hours of employment in any twenty-four (24) hours to eight hours of actual labor at the face or other place or places where the work or labor to be done is actually performed; except in case of emergency where life and property is in imminent danger or in case of urgent necessity, the period may be extended during the continuance of such emergency or urgent necessity: Providing, however, That this act applies to metalliferous lode mining only.

Violations.

Constitution

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False statements.

Penalty.

Hiring armed guards.

SEC. 3. Any person, persons, body corporate, general manager or employer who shall violate, or cause to be violated, any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100) dollars or more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the Federal jail not less than ninety (90) days nor more than six (6) months; or by both fine and imprisonment. Every day's violation of the provisions of this act shall constitute a separate offense.

SEC. 4. If it shall be adjudicated that any portion, section, or part of any section of this act, is unconstitutional and invalid for any reason, an adjudication or invalidity of such portion, section, proviso or part of any section of this act shall not affect the validity of the act as a whole or any part thereof.

CHAPTER 36.-Employment of labor-False representations.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company, corporation, society, association or organization of any kind doing business in this Territory, by himself, themselves, his, its, or their agents or attorneys to induce, influence, persuade or engage workmen to change from one place to another in this Territory, to bring workmen of any class or calling into this Territory to work in any of the departments of labor in this Territory, through or by means of false or deceptive representations, false advertising, or false pretenses concerning the kind and character of the work to be done, or amount and character of the compensation to be paid for such work, or the sanitary or other conditions of their employment.

SEC. 2. Any person, or persons, company, corporation, society. association or organization of any kind doing business in this Territory as well as his, their, or its agents, attorneys, servants or associates found guilty of violating section one of this act, or any part thereof shall be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars or confined in the Federal jail not exceeding one year, or both where the defendant or defendants is or are a natural person or persons.

SEC. 3. Any person or persons who shall, in this Territory, or any other Territory or State, hire, aid, abet or assist in hiring, through agencies or otherwise, persons to guard with arms or

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