Injunction. Enticing, a misdemeanor. Hiring for emigration for bidden, when. Records borers. laborer in leaving said service during the term thereof, for the purpose of leaving the Territory of Hawaii, without the consent of said employer, is hereby declared actionable and damages may be recovered of any person or persons or corporation committing any of the acts aforesaid. SEC. 2. Any person or persons or corporation shall be entitled to an injunction in equity against any other person, persons or corporation who shall endeavor or threaten, by promise of employment outside the Territory of Hawaii, to induce, entice or persuade servants or laborers to leave their employment as aforesaid or to aid or abet such leaving, whenever it shall appear that the person, persons or corporation against whom the injunction is sought are without sufficient property liable to execution within the Territory of Hawaii to respond in damages for said inducing, enticing or persuading servants or laborers to leave their employment as aforesaid or for aiding or abetting such leaving as aforesaid or otherwise that the complainant is without a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law. No. 70.-Enticing employees-Emigration. SECTION 1. Any person who, by promise of employment outside the Territory of Hawaii, shall induce, entice or persuade, or attempt to induce, entice or persuade, or aid or abet in inducing, enticing or persuading, any servant or laborer who shall have contracted, either orally or in writing, to serve his employer for a specific length of time, to leave the service of said employer during such time, without the consent of said employer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. No. 90.-Immigrants-Emigrant agents, etc. SECTION 1. To aid in preventing newly arrived immigrants into this Territory from being misled by false and mischievous representations of emigrant agents seeking to withdraw such immigrants from the Territory, thereby discouraging the efforts of the Territory and its citizens, made at great expense, to introduce desirable population; the hiring for employment out of this Territory of any immigrant coming into this Territory, or the inducing, abetting and enticing of such immigrant to leave the Territory by any licensed emigrant agent is hereby forbidden for the period of thirty days following the date of the arrival of such immigrant into the Territory, except with the consent and approval of the board of immigration, or any legal successor in powers and duties to such board. of SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Territorial board of immigraimmigrant la tion, or any legal successor in powers and duties to such board, to keep an accurate record open to public inspection of all immigrants subject to the provisions of this act, showing among other things the date of the arrival of such immigrant into this Territory. Violations. Department created. SEC. 3. Any one violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall forfeit his license and be subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. No. 123.-Department of immigration, labor, and statistics. SECTION. 1. There is hereby established within and for the Territory of Hawaii a department of immigration, labor and statisties, which shall be in charge of a board of immigration, labor and statistics. SEC. 2. The board shall be composed of five members, who shall be appointed by the governor in the manner prescribed in section 80 of the Organic Act, for terms of five years or the unexpired periods thereof, so that the term of one member shall expire on April 30 in each year, beginning with 1912. SEC. 3. One of the members shall be president of the board and Organization. shall be so designated in his appointment. The members shall be entitled to reimbursement for their actual expenses in attending meetings of the board. The board may, with the approval of the governor, appoint a commissioner of immigration, labor and statistics, who shall receive such compensation out of the funds at the disposal of the board, as shall be prescribed by the board, with the approval of the governor. The board may appoint such other officers, agents and servants as it may deem necessary, and regulate their powers and duties consistently with law, and may procure for its use necessary offices. It may remove such commissioner and any of its other officers, agents and servants. SEC. 4. The board may make full inquiry, examination and investigation into the condition, welfare and industrial opportunities of all immigrants and settlers arriving or being within the Territory. It may also collect information with respect to the need and demand for labor by the several agricultural, industrial and other productive activities throughout the Territory; gather information with respect to the supply of labor afforded by such immigrants and settlers as shall from time to time arrive or be within the Territory; ascertain the occupations for which such persons may be best adapted and bring about intercommunication between them and those requiring labor; investigate the treatment accorded them; cooperate with public and philanthropic agencies designed to aid in the distribution and employment of labor, and devise and carry out such other suitable methods as will tend to prevent or relieve unemployment. SEC. 5. The board may make all contracts and do all acts necessary or proper for securing low rates of fare to immigrants, for paying their passage money and otherwise facilitating their transportation, and for their reception and temporary accommodation. SEC. 6. The board shall, as far as possible, keep a record showing the places of residence and the occupations followed by every immigrant brought to Hawaii at the expense of the Territory, for at least a year next preceding the embarkation of said immigrant for Hawaii. Duties. Powers. Records. Lists of SEC. 7. The board shall procure complete lists, giving the names, ages and destination within the Territory of all immigrant chil- children. dren of school age, as soon as may be after their arrival, and such other facts as will tend to identify them, and shall forthwith deliver copies of such lists to the superintendent of public instruction to aid in the enforcement of the provisions of the laws relating to the compulsory attendance at school of children of school age. The board may inspect all labor camps within the Territory, Labor camps. and all employment and contract labor agencies. Investiga The board shall investigate complaints with regard to fraud or extortion practiced against alien and other immigrants intro- tions. duced under its auspices, or otherwise, and shall present to the proper authorities the results of such investigation, for action thereon; and shall investigate and study the general social and economic conditions of alien and other immigrants and settlers within the Territory for the purpose of promoting their welfare and that of the Territory, and inducing remedial action by appropriate public and private agencies. SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the board to make an annual report to the governor, to be by him laid before the legislature. Such report shall give an itemized statement of all moneys received by the board and from what source received, and to whom and for what purpose paid, during the preceding fiscal year. It shall show also the number of immigrants brought to Hawaii at the expense of the Territory during such year, together with the Reports. Nightwork. Violations. Powers of commission. Accidents to be reported. race, nationality, age, sex, conjugal condition, literacy, and the residence and occupation, so far as possible, for at least one year preceding the embarkation of every such immigrant. It shall also show the per capita cost of introducing such immigrants to Hawaii. It shall also show other matters which the board is empowered to investigate or to act upon under this act, and such statistics relating to the Territory of Hawaii as the legislature, or the governor, may from time to time direct to be gathered. ACTS OF 1913. ACT No. 14.-Employment of children-Work of girls at night. SECTION 1. No minor female child under the age of sixteen years shall be permitted to work in any mercantile institution, office, laundry, manufacturing establishment, canning establishment, sugar mill, workshop, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages, between the hours of nine o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning. SEC. 2. Any person who employs any such child at any of the aforesaid employments or occupations within the hours specified in the foregoing section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. ACT No. 89.-Public service employees-Hours of labor-Wages ** * Accidents. SECTION 5. The [public utilities] commission and each commissioner shall have power to examine into the condition of each public utility doing business in the Territory, the manner in which it is operated with reference to the safety or accomodation of the public, the safety, working hours and wages of its employees, * and all matters of every nature affecting the relations and transactions between it and the public or persons or corporations. Any such investigation may be made by the commission on its own motion, and shall be made when requested by the public utility to be investigated, or upon a sworn written complaint to the commission, setting forth any prima facie cause of complaint. All hearings conducted by the commission shall be open to the public. A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum. SEC. 7. Every public utility shall report to the commission all accidents caused by or occurring in connection with its operations and service, and the commission shall investigate the causes of any accident which results in loss of life, and may investigate any other accidents which in its opinion require investigation. IDAHO. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 13.-Bureau of immigration, labor and statistics. Bureau of immigration, etc. Duties of SECTION 1. There shall be established a bureau of immigration, labor and statistics, which shall be under the charge of a commissioner of immigration, labor and statistics, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the senate. The commissioner shall hold his office for two years, and until his commissioner. successor shall have been appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed. The commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity. The commissioner shall annually make a report in writing to the governor of the State of the information collected and collated by him, and containing such recommendations as he may deem calculated to promote the efficiency of the bureau. SEC. 8. The commissioner of immigration, labor and statistics Same subject. shall perform such duties and receive such compensation as may be prescribed by law. ARTICLE 13.-Hours of labor on public works. SECTION 2. Not more than eight (8) hours' actual work shall constitute a lawful day's work on all State and municipal work. ARTICLE 13.-Employment of children in mines. SECTION 4. The employment of children under the age of fourteen (14) years in underground mines is prohibited. Eight hours a day's work. Age limit. Aliens not to ARTICLE 13.-Alien labor-Employment on public works. SECTION 5. No person, not a citizen of the United States, or who has not declared his intention to become such, shall be em- be employed. ployed upon, or in connection with, any State or municipal works. ARTICLE 13.—Arbitration of labor disputes—Boards of arbitration. Boards of ar SECTION 7. The legislature may establish boards of arbitration. whose duty it shall be to hear and determine all differences and bitration. controversies between laborers and their employers which may be submitted to them in writing by all the parties. Such boards of arbitration shall possess all the powers and authority, in respect to administering oaths, subpoenaing witnesses, and compelling their attendance, preserving order during the sittings of the board, punishing for contempt, and requiring the production of papers and writings, and all other powers and privileges, in their nature applicable, conferred by law on justices of the peace. REVISED CODE-1909. Inspector of mines. SECTION 199 (as amended by chapter 199, Acts of 1911). The Office created. office of inspector of mines for the State of Idaho is hereby created, the same to be filled biennially at the general election, by Bond. Salary. the qualified electors of the State, as other offices. The inspector of mines shall hold his office for the term of two (2) years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties as such inspector of mines, he shall file an official bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), conditioned for the faithful performance of his office, in form and manner as other official bonds of State officers. The inspector of mines shall receive as full compensation for his services a salary of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2400) per annum and his actual and necessary traveling expenses when traveling in the discharge of his official duties, not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars ($1500) per annum. Not to be in- SEC. 200. The inspector of mines shall not, at the time of his terested in appointment or at any time during his term of office, be an officer, mines, etc. director, or employee in or of any mining corporation in this State, or in, or of any milling corporation in the State engaged in the business of smelting or reducing ores. Such inspector shall devote his whole time to the duties of his office and shall take and subscribe to the following oath: Oath. I, of Duties. Access mines. Notice. County do solemnly swear that I will perform each and every duty required of me as inspector of mines for the State of Idaho; that I will, at all times while acting in my official capacity, fulfill the duties of such office according to law and to the best of my skill and understanding; that I will never at any time while holding the office of inspector of mines disclose to anyone, directly or indirectly, under any circumstances, any information relative to ore bodies, chutes, or deposits of ore, or the location, course or character of underground workings, or give my opinion founded on any examination made in the performance of my official duties relative to the value of any mine or mining property, unless by permission of the person or persons in charge of the same; to all of which I pledge my sacred honor. So help me God. Nothing in said oath, however, shall be construed to prevent such mining inspector from making full and complete statistical reports as required by law. SEC. 201. It shall be the duty of the inspector of mines, at least once each year, to visit in person each mining county in the State of Idaho and examine all such mines therein as, in his judgment, may require examination for the purpose of determining the condition of such mines as to safety, and to collect information and statistics relative to mines and mining and the mineral resources of the State, and to collect, arrange and classify mineral and geological specimens found in this State and to forward the same to the State school of mines. to SEC. 202. Said inspector shall have full power and authority, at all reasonable hours, to enter and examine any and all mines in this State, and shall have the right to enter into any and all mine stopes, levels, winzes, tunnels, shafts, drifts, crosscuts, workings and machinery for the purpose of such examination; and the owner, lessor, lessee, agent, manager or other person in charge of such mine or mines, shall render the inspector such assistance as may be required by the inspector to enable him to make a full, thorough and complete examination of each and every part of such mine or mines, and whenever, as a result of the examination of any mine (whether such examination is made in consequence of a complaint, as hereinafter provided, or otherwise) the inspector shall find the same to be in an unsafe condition, he shall at once serve, or cause to be served, a written notice upon the owner, lessor, lessee, agent, manager or other person in charge of such mine, stating in detail in what particular or particulars the mine is dangerous or insecure, and shall require all necessary changes to be made, without delay, for the purpose of making said mine safe for the employees therein. Upon the neglect or refusal of |