for labor or service (other than professional services) rendered by any clerk, mechanic, laborer, or other employee of any person or persons against whom such execution or attachment process may have been or may be issued.]

(Page 830, chapter 479, vol. 15, Laws of Delaware.)

SEC. 1. The act entitled An act to exempt from execution process, certain articles of personal property, [chapter 562, vol. 14, Laws of Delaware] is hereby amended so as to extend and apply all the provisions of exemption of said act to every case of persons residing in this State who die, leaving a widow, giving and securing to such widow the same benefit of exemption that her husband would have under the said act, if living.

SEC. 2. The appraisers appointed by the register upon the granting of letters of administration upon goods and chattels, rights and credits of every intestate person, who dies insolvent, shall lay off, or set apart for the use of the widow of said deceased, personal property of said deceased, to be by her selected, not exceeding in value, two hundred dollars.

(Page 831, chapter 146, vol. 16, Laws of Delaware.)

SEC. 1. From and after the passage of this act, the amount exempted from execution process under the provisions of section 1, chapter 562, volume 14, Laws of Delaware, is hereby reduced from the sum of seventy-five dollars to the sum of fifty dollars in and for the county of Kent.

SEC. 2. From and after the passage of this act, the amount exempted from execution process under the provisions of section 2, chapter 562, volume 14, Laws of Delaware, is hereby reduced from the sum of two hundred dollars to the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, in and for the county of Kent, and the personal property exempted as therein provided, shall, in the said county of Kent, consist of household goods only.

SEC. 3. Section 2 of this act or the act to which it is supplemental, shall not apply to the county of Sussex, but on the contrary the said county of Sussex is hereby expressly excepted from the operation of the provisions of section 2 of this act, and the act to which it is a supplement.

(Page 831, chapter 538, vol. 16, Laws of Delaware.)

SEC. 1. In addition to articles now exempt by law, all sewing machines owned and used by seamstresses or private families, shall be exempt from levy and sale on execution or attachment process and also from distress and sale for rent: Provided, This act shall not apply to persons who keep sewing machines for sale or hire.

CHAPTER 111.-Exemption from execution, etc.-Wages.

(Page 841, chapter 561, vol. 14, Laws of Delaware.)

SEC. 1. The following shall be exempt from execution attachment process under the laws of this State, to wit: 1st. Fifty per centum of the amount of the wages for labor or service of any person residing within the State of Delaware, attached under said process, and judgments obtained by virtue of said process shall be rendered only for so much of the wages so attached as shall remain after the said fifty per centum thereof shall have been deducted, and the wages so deducted and exempted shall not, thereafter, at any time or in any case, be subject to any execution attachment process whatsoever. 2d. The entire amount of the wages for labor or service of any married woman during coverture. 3d. The entire amount of the wages for labor or service of any minor.

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(Page 841, chapter 542, vol. 16, Laws of Delaware.)

* The amount of the wages for labor or service of any person residing within Newcastle County, shall be exempt from mesne attachment process and execution attachment process, under the laws of this State. [Except where the said execution attachment process is for board or lodging or both, as the case may be, and for an amount not exceeding fifty dollars, exclusive of costs.]

CHAPTER 127.-Strikes of railroad employees.

(Page 928, chapter 481, vol. 15, Laws of Delaware.)

SEC. 1. If any locomotive engineer, upon any railroad within this State, who shall, at the time, be engaged in any strike, or with a view to incite others to such strike, or in furtherance of any combination or preconcerted arrangement with any other person or persons to bring about or produce such strike, shall

abandon the locomotive engine in his charge, when attached either to a passenger or freight train, at any place other than the schedule or otherwise appointed destination of such train, or shall refuse or neglect to proceed with said train to the place of destination, as aforesaid, every such person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars and may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. If any locomotive engineer, or railroad employee, within this State, for the purpose of furthering the object of, or lending aid to, any strike or strikes organized or attempted to be maintained on any other railroad, either within or without this State, shall refuse or neglect, in the course of his employment, to aid in the movement over and upon the tracks of the company employing him of the cars of such other railroad company, or receive therefrom in course of transit where strikes are, either then, or may have been organized or attempted to be maintained, as aforesaid, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by indictment, shall be fined not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. If any person in aid or furtherance of the objects of any strike upon any railroad within this State, shall interfere with, molest or obstruct any railroad employee engaged in the discharge and performance of his duty, as such, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by indictment, shall be fined not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court. .

SEC. 4. If any person or persons, in aid or furtherance of the objects of any strike, shall obstruct any railroad track within this State, or shall injure or destroy the rolling stock of any other property of any railroad company, or shall take possession of or remove any such property, or shall prevent, or attempt to prevent, the use thereof by such railroad company or its employees, or shall, by offer of recompense, induce any employees of any railroad company within this State, to leave the service of such company, every such person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof by indictment, shall be fined not less than five hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars, and may be imprisoned, not less than six months, nor more than one year, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 5. If any conductor, baggage master, brakeman, or other train man, employed on either a freight or passenger train, on any railroad within this State, shall abandon the train to which he is so attached, or with which he is connected in furtherance of any strike, or with a view of inciting others to such strike, or in aid of any others who may be engaged in such strike, at any place other than the schedule or otherwise appointed destination of such train, or shall refuse or neglect to proceed with such train to its place of destination, every such person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, by indictment, shall be fined not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court.

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CHAPTER 127.-Fire escapes on factories, etc. (Page 929, chapter 546, vol. 16, Laws of Delaware.) * being more than two SEC. 1. The owner or owners of any building * stories in height and which shall be used in the third or any higher story, in whole * * * factory or workshop, or as a tenement house or in part as a shall be required to furnish such building with sufficient permanent fire escapes from the third and all higher stories, and which escapes shall be kept and maintained in good order. Such fire escapes may be by means of stairways or ladders outside the building, or by stairways in a separate tower or structure furnished with safe and easy communication with such building. Provided, That this act shall not apply to any building whatever that is already supplied with two or more independent stairways leading from the highest story to the ground floor, if said stairways shall not be nearer to each other at any point than a distance of sixty feet.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the chief engineer of the fire department in any city, town or borough where there may be such officers, or if there be no such officer therein, then of the mayor or chief officer thereof, and in all other places of the clerk of the school district wherein any such building is located to examine

such fire escapes as to their suitableness and sufficiency, whether as to quality, location or number. If upon such examination such escapes be found to be sufficient and suitable, the person examining shall give the owner of such building or some one of them, if more than one, a certificate stating such examination and his approval, which certificate shall be good for two years, at the expiration of which time another examination shall be had and a like certificate given. Such certificate of approval shall be evidence of sufficient compliance with the requirements of this act and shall protect such owner from any penalty herein prescribed during the time for which it may have been given. The fee for such examination shall be one dollar.

SEC. 4. Every owner of any such building as is specified in this act, whether an individual or a body corporate, who shall fail to comply with the provisions thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall forfeit and pay to the State a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and in case of a corporation, payment of the fine may be enforced by a writ of fieri facias to be issued out of the court where such conviction was had on the judgment thereof and continued by venditioni exponas as upon judgments in the superior court.

CHAPTER 127.-Seats for female employees.

(Page 932, chapter 238, vol. 18, Laws of Delaware.)

SEC. 1. Every person or corporation employing female employees in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishments in this State shall provide suitable seats for the use of the female employees so employed, and shall perinit the use of such by them when not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.

SEC. 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) for each offense.

CHAPTER 131.-Sunday labor.

(Page 953.)

SEC. 4. If any person shall perform any worldly employment, labor, or business, on the Sabbath day (works of necessity and charity excepted), he shall be fined four dollars, and on failure to pay such fine and costs, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty-four hours.

If any carrier, peddler, wagoner, or driver of any public stage, or carriage, or any carter, butcher, or drover, with his horse, pack, wagon, stage, carriage, cart, or drove, shall travel, or drive, upon the Sabbath day; or if any retailer of goods shall expose the same to sale on the Sabbath; he shall be fined eight dollars, and on failure to pay such fine and costs shall be imprisoned not exceeding twentyfour hours. Any justice of the peace may stop any such person so traveling on the Sabbath, and detain him until the next day.

Any justice of the peace of the county shall have jurisdiction and cognizance of the offences mentioned in this section.

CHAPTER 131.-Certain employments of children forbidden.

(Page 954, chapter 150, vol. 16, Laws of Delaware.)

SEC. 2. Any person having the care, custody, or control of any minor child under the age of fifteen years who shall in any manner sell, apprentice, give away, or otherwise dispose of such minor, or any person who shall take, receive, or employ such child for the vocation or occupation of rope or wire walking or dancing, or as an acrobat or gymnast, or any person who, having the care, custody, or control of any minor child whatsoever, and shall sell, apprentice, give away, or otherwise dispose of such minor, or who shall take, receive, or employ, such minor for begging or any obscure [sic], indecent, or illegal exhibition or vocation, or any vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child engaged therein, or for the purpose of prostitution, or any person who shall retain, harbor, or employ any minor child in or about any assignation house or brothel, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace or court of record shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense.

CHAPTER 133.-Convict labor.

(Page 976.)

SEC. 6. If any person shall be convicted of a crime deemed felony, and shall be sentenced to imprisonment as a part of the punishment, or shall be sentenced, for any misdemeanor, to imprisonment for a term exceeding three months, it shall be lawful for the sheriff, or jailer, to keep such person employed at labor within the walls of the prison, or in any building or yard connected therewith; and the profits of such labor shall be applied for the use of the county. **

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES RELATING TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CHAPTER 18.-Corporations-Liability of stockholders for debts due employees. SECTION 574. The stockholders of any company organized under the provisions of this chapter shall jointly, severally, and individually be liable for all debts that may be due and owing to all their laborers, servants, and apprentices, for services performed for such corporation, and shall be individually liable for all debts of said corporation to the amount of the stock of each stockholder.

SEC. 575. No stockholder shall be personally liable for the payment of any debt contracted by any such company which is not paid within one year from the time the debt becomes due, unless a suit for the collection of such debt shall be brought against the company within one year after the debt became due; and no suit shall be brought against any stockholder who shall cease to be a stockholder in any such company, for any debt contracted by the company, unless the same shall be commenced within two years from the time he shall have ceased to be a stockholder, nor until an execution against the company shall have been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part.

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CHAPTER 22.-Earnings of married women.

SEC. 727. In the District the right of any married woman to any property, personal or real, * * acquired during marriage in any other way than by gift or conveyance from her husband, shall be as absolute as if she were unmarried, and shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband, nor be liable for his debts.

CHAPTER 23.-Exemption from execution, etc.—Personal property.

SEC. 797. The following property, being the property of the head of a family or householder, shall be exempt from distraint, attachment, levy, and sale on execution or decree of any court in the District:

First. All wearing apparel belonging to all persons, and to all heads of families, being householders;

Second. All beds, bedding, household furniture, stoves, cooking utensils, and so forth, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value;

Third. Provisions for three months' support, whether provided or growing;
Fourth. Fuel for three months;

Fifth. Mechanics' tools and implements of the debtor's trade or business amounting to two hundred dollars in value, with two hundred dollars' worth of stock for carrying on the business of the debtor or his family;

Sixth. The library and implements of a professional man or artist, to the value of three hundred dollars;

Seventh. One horse, mule, or yoke of oxen; one cart wagon, or dray, and harness for such team;

Eighth. Farming utensils, with food for such team for three months, and if the debtor be a farmer, any other farming tools of the value of one hundred dollars; Ninth. All family pictures, and all the family library not exceeding in value four hundred dollars;

Tenth. One cow, one swine, six sheep; and these exemptions shall be valid when the property is in transitu, the same as if at rest; but no property named and exempted in this section shall be exempted from attachment or execution for any debt due for the wages of servants, common laborers, or cierks, except the wearing apparel, beds, and bedding, and the household furniture and provisions, for the debtor and family.

CHAPTER 31.-Judgment for wages not to be stayed.

SEC. 1025. There shall be no stay of execution on any judgment for the wages of a servant or common laborer, nor upon any judgment for a less sum than five dollars; but in such cases execution may issue immediately, and judgments shall be entered within two days after the trial of the action.

CHAPTER 35.—Convict labor.

SEC. 1109. The inspectors shall direct in what labor the convicts shall be employed, subject to the provisions of section eleven hundred and twenty-five.

SEC. 1110. It shall be the duty of the inspectors so to manage the affairs of the penitentiary, if it be possible, that the proceeds of the labor of the convicts shall pay all the expenses of the penitentiary and more; but nothing contained in this section shall prevent the inspectors from employing the convicts in labor for the United States.

SEC. 1125. The warden shall, so far as practicable, employ the convicts in the manufacture of shoes for the use of the Army and Navy, to be made as the War and Navy Department shall direct; orders for which shall be, by said Departments, given to the warden from time to time upon his request; the shoes to be paid for by the Departments ordering the same at the customary rate for shoes of like quality.

SEC. 1126. The following are prison regulations:

Eighth. They [the convicts] shall be kept, as far as may be consistent with their age, health, sex, and ability, to labor of the hardest and most servile kind, and, as far as may be, uniform in its nature, and of a kind where the work is least liable to be spoiled by ignorance, neglect, or obstinacy, or the materials to be injured, stolen, or destroyed.

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ACTS OF 1875-1877.

CHAPTER 117.-Exemption from taxation.

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SECTION 8. The property exempt from taxation under this act shall be the following and no other, namely: * fourthly, personal property not in said District and taxed elsewhere, but owned by persons domiciled in said District; fifthly, personal property not held for sale and not over the value of five hundred dollars.

ACTS OF 1877-78.

CHAPTER 321.-Exemption from execution, etc.—Wages.

SECTION 1. The earnings, not to exceed one hundred dollars each month of all actual residents of the District of Columbia, and who are married persons, or who have to provide for the support of a family in said District, for two months next preceding the issuing of any writ or process from any court or justice of the peace, or other officer of and in said District, against them, shall be exempt from attachment, levy, seizure, or sale upon such process; and the same shall not be seized, levied on, taken, reached, or sold by attachment, execution, or any other process, or proceedings of any court, judge, justice of the peace, or other officer of and in said District: * * *

ACTS OF 1883-84.

CHAPTER 143.-Mechanics' liens.

SECTION 1. Every building hereafter erected or repaired by the owner or his agent in the District of Columbia, and the lot or lots of ground of the owner upon which the same is being erected or repaired, shall be subject to a lien in favor of the contractor, subcontractor, material-man, journeyman, and laborer, respectively, for the payment for work or materials contracted for or furnished for or about the erection, construction, or repairing of such building, and also for any engine, machinery, or other thing placed in said building or connected therewith so as to be a fixture: Provided, That the person claiming the lien shall file the notice prescribed in the second section of this act: Provided further, That the said lien shall not exceed or be enforced for a greater sum than the amount of the original contract for the erection or repair of said building or buildings.