Toilet facilities. What are nuisances. Sleeping in workrooms. Infectious or diseases. Enforcement. simple, mixed or compound, and all substances or ingredients used in the preparation thereof. SEC. 5. Every such building, room, basement, inclosure, or premises occupied, used or maintained for the production, preparation, manufacture, canning, packing, storage, sale or distribution of such food, shall have adequate and convenient toilet rooms, lavatory or lavatories. Toilet rooms shall be separate and apart from the room or rooms where the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, canning, selling and distributing is conducted. The floors of such toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile, wood, brick or other nonabsorbent material, and shall be washed and scoured daily. Such toilet or toilets shall be furnished with separate ventilating flues and pipes discharging into soil pipes or shall be on the outside of and well removed from the building. Lavatories and wash rooms shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. SEC. 6. If any such building, room, basement, inclosure, or premises occupied, used or maintained for the purposes aforesaid, or if the floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements, appliances or machinery of any such establishment, shall be constructed, kept, maintained or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to any of the requirements or provisions of the preceding five (5) sections of this act, the same is hereby declared a nuisance, and any toilet, toilet room, lavatory or wash room as aforesaid, which shall be constructed, kept, maintained or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to the requirements or provisions of section five (5) of this act, is hereby declared a nuisance; Whoever unlawfully maintains, or allows or permits to exist a nuisance as herein defined shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished as herein provided. ** SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person to sleep, or to allow or permit any person to sleep in any workroom of a bakeshop, kitchen, dining room, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, or any place where food is prepared for sale, served or sold, unless all foods therein handled are at all times in hermetically sealed packages. SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful for any employer to require, suffer contagious or permit any person who is affected with any contagious, infectious or venereal disease to work, or for any person so affected to work, in a building, room, basement, inclosure, premises or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution or transportation of food. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the State food commissioner and food and drug inspectors to enforce this act, and for that purpose, the State food commissioner and food and drug inspectors shall have full power at all times to enter every such building, room, basement, inclosure or premises occupied or used or suspected of being occupied or used for the production, preparation, or manufacture for sale, or the storage, sale, distribution or transportation of such food, to inspect the premises and all utensils, fixtures, furniture and machinery used as aforesaid; and if upon inspection any such food producing or distributing establishment, conveyance, or any employer, employee, clerk, driver or other person is found to be violating any of the provisions of this act, or if the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution or transportation of such food is being conducted in a manner detrimental to the health of the employees and operatives, or to the character or quality of the food therein being produced, manufactured, packed, stored, sold, distributed or conveyed, the officer or inspector making the inspection or examination shall report such conditions and violations to the State food commissioner. The State food commissioner or food and drug inspectors shall thereupon issue a written order to the person, firm or corporation responsible for the violation or condition aforesaid to abate such condition or violation or to make such changes or improvements as may be necessary to abate them, within such reasonable time as may be required in which to abate them. * * SEC. 11. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act, or refuses to comply with any lawful order or requirement of the State food commissioner, duly made in writing as provided in section 11 of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200), and for the second and subsequent offense by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court; and each day after the expiration of the time limit for abating insanitary conditions and completing improvements to abate such conditions, as ordered by the State food commissioner, as aforesaid, shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. CHAPTER 129.—Railroads—Headlights on locomotives. Violations. Headlights SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of every railroad corporation, receiver or lessee thereof, operating any line of railroad in this required. State, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to equip all locomotive engines used in the transportation of trains over said railroad with headlights of not less than 1200 candlepower, measured without the aid of a reflector: Provided, This act shall not apply to locomotive engines which are regularly employed in yard service, and known as switch engines: And provided further, That this act shall not apply to engines running for a distance of not more than sixteen miles within the limits of this State, to complete their runs, nor to those used exclusively between sunup and sundown, nor to engines going to or returning from repair shops when ordered to such shop for repair. SEC. 2. Any railroad company or the receiver or lessee thereof, doing business in the State of Colorado, which shall violate the provisions of this act, shall be liable to the State of Colorado for a penalty of not less than one hundred ($100) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars, for each and every locomotive not so equipped, counting each train hauled by such locomotive a separate and distinct offense, and such penalties shall be recovered and suit brought in the name of the State of Colorado in a court of proper jurisdiction, in any county in or through which such line of railroad may be operated. Employment of women-Hours of labor. (Page 692.) Penalty. SECTION 1. Employment of females in any and all manufactur- Injurious eming, mechanical and mercantile establishments, laundries, hotels ployments. and restaurants, is hereby declared to be injurious to health and dangerous to life and limb. or SEC. 2. No female shall be employed in any manufacturing, Limit of 8 mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, hours per day. restaurant in this State more than eight (8) hours during any twenty-four (24) hours of any one calendar day. The hours of work may be so arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time: Provided, That any such female shall not work more than eight (8) hours during the twenty-four (24) hours of any one calendar day. SEC. 3. Any person, persons, firm, copartnership, association, company or corporation 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 less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every day's violation of the provisions of this act shall constitute a separate offense. Penalty. CONNECTICUT. GENERAL STATUTES-1902. Wages as preferred claims—In insolvency. SECTION 271. All debts due to any laborer or mechanic for per- Wages to be sonal wages, from any insolvent debtor whose estate is in settle- paid first. ment, for any labor performed for him within three months next preceding the commencement of proceedings in insolvency, shall be allowed by the commissioners on his estate, and paid in full by the trustee, to the amount of one hundred dollars, before the general liabilities of such debtor are paid. Attachment of wages-Costs. Νο without SECTION 774. In any action in which wages only are attached, no costs shall be taxed in favor of the plaintiff, unless it shall ap- demand pear to the court or justice of the peace before which or whom debt. such action is brought, that demand was made upon the defendant for the payment of the claim sued for, not more than thirty days nor less than three days prior to the bringing of such action. SEC. 777. In any action in which, upon the service of process, moneys due to the defendant by reason of personal services are attached, the plaintiff shall not recover of the defendant, as costs, a sum exceeding one-half of the amount of damages recovered in the action. Wages as preferred claims-In receiverships. costs prior for Limit of costs. Wages to be SECTION 1051. Every debt due to any laborer or mechanic for personal wages, from any corporation or partnership for which a paid first. receiver shall be appointed, for any labor performed for such corporation or partnership within three months next preceding the service of the application for the appointment of a receiver, shall be paid in full by the receiver, to the amount of one hundred dollars, before the general liabilities of such corporation or partnership are paid. Actions for personal injuries. SECTION 1119 (as amended by chapter 149, Acts of 1903). No action to recover damages for injury to the person, or for an injury to personal property caused by negligence, shall be brought but within one year from the date of the injury or neglect complained of. SEC. 1130 (as amended by chapter 122, Acts of 1911). No action to recover damages for an injury to, or for the death of, any person, or for an injury to personal property, caused by negligence, shall be maintained against any electric, cable, or street railway company, or against any steam railroad company, unless written notice containing a general description of the injury and of the time, place, and cause of its occurrence, as nearly as the same can be ascertained, shall have been given to the defendant within four months after the neglect complained of, unless the action itself is commenced within said period of four months. Such notice may be given to the secretary, or to any agent or executive officer of the company in fault.. Limitation. Notice. Defective no tices. Gross misconduct. Acrobatic No notice given under the provisions of this section shall be held invalid or insufficient solely by reason of an inaccuracy in describing the injury or in stating the time, place, or cause of its occurrence, if it be shown that there was no intention to mislead, and that such railway or railroad company was not in fact misled thereby. Intoxication, etc., of employees on railroads. SECTION 1144 (as amended by chapter 267, Acts of 1907). Every servant of any railroad or electric railway company who shall, in consequence of his intoxication, or of any gross or willful misconduct or negligence, cause any loss of life, or the breaking of a limb, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. Employment of children—Certain employments forbidden. SECTION 1163. Every person who shall exhibit, use, employ, apand immoral prentice, give away, let out, or otherwise dispose of any child occupations. under the age of twelve years, in or for the vocation, occupation, service, or purpose of rope or wire walking, dancing, skating, bicycling, or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider, or acrobat, in any place whatever; or for or in any obscene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice, whatsoever; or for or in any business, exhibition, or vocation, injurious to the health, or dangerous to the life or limb of such child; or who shall cause, procure, or encourage any such child to engage therein, shall be fined not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. But nothing herein shall prevent the employment of any such child as a singer or musician, in any church or school, or in learning or teaching the science or practice of music. Abandonment, etc. Penalty for intimidation. Preventing Railroads-Abandonment, etc., of locomotives or cars. SECTION 1293. Every person who shall unlawfully, maliciously, and in violation of his duty or contract, unnecessarily stop, delay, or abandon any locomotive, car, or train of cars, or street railway car, or shall maliciously injure, hinder, or obstruct the use of any locomotive, car, railroad, or street railway car, or street railway. shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months. Intimidation of employees, etc.-Blacklisting. SECTION 1296 (as amended by chapter 202, Acts of 1909). Every person who shall threaten, or use any means calculated or intended to intimidate any person to compel such person, against his will, to do or abstain from doing any act which such person has a legal right to do, or shall persistently follow such person in a disorderly manner, or injure or threaten to injure his property. with intent to intimidate him, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months. A conspiracy to intimidate the publishers of a newspaper and compel the discharge of certain employees is within the prohibition of this section. The maintenance of a boycott against the paper and its patrons is, prima facie, a malicious and corrupt effort to commit injury. It is also a crime to seek to injure other workmen by depriving them of their employment. 55 Conn. 46. To threaten and use means to intimidate a company against its will to abstain from keeping in its employ workmen of its own choice is within the prohibition of this section. 55 Conn. 70, 71. Actual intimidation need not be proved, but only that such acts were done or threats made as would affect the act or choice of the ordinary man. 69 Atl. Rep. 1059. SEC. 1297. Every person, and every agent or officer of any coremployee from poration who shall coerce or compel, or attempt to coerce or com-, joining union. pel, any laborer, mechanic, or other employee in the employ of such person or corporation, to agree, that as a condition of retaining |