CHAPTER 4144.-Conspiracy against workingmen.

SEC. 1. If two or more persons shall agree, conspire, combine, or confederate together for the purpose of preventing any persons from procuring work in any firm or corporation, or to cause the discharge of any person or persons from work in such firm or corporation, or if any person or persons shall verbally or by a written or printed communication, threaten any injury to the life, property or business of any person, for the purpose of procuring the discharge of any workman in any firm or corporation, or to prevent any person or persons from procuring work in such firm or corporation, such person or persons so combining shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction [thereof] shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars each, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year.

CHAPTER 4170.-Protection of seamen.

SEC. 1. The governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint at each port of entry in the State of Florida which is also a port of ocean navigation, immediately upon the approval of this act, a discreet person who has had experience at such port in the shipping of seamen on sea-going vessels, who shall be known and designated as shipping agent of the port, whose term of office shall be four years and until his successor shall be appointed.

SEC. 2. Every shipping agent thus appointed shall enter into a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, payable to the governor of the State of Florida, conditioned for the faithful discharge of all the duties of his office by himself, his agents, clerks and deputies, and more especially for the payment to each and every seaman of such sum or sums of money as may be illegally obtained from them by reason of the act or neglect of such shipping agent, his agents, clerks and deputies.

SEC. 3. Every shipping agent thus qualified and appointed may, at his own expense, and upon terms to be made by himself, appoint agents, clerks and deputies, for whose acts or neglect in the discharge of the duties and business of the office he shall be responsible to any person damaged thereby.

SEC. 4. The duties of a shipping agent so appointed shall be as follows:

(1) To afford facilities to vessels not so provided under the laws of the United States.

(2) To superintend the employment of seamen to serve on ocean-going vessels where such superintendence is not provided for by the laws of the United States, and in so doing to specially consider, represent and protect the seamen so employed or engaged to be employed against the imposition or fraud of others or his own improvidence in the fixing of the terms of employment.

(3) To aid the masters of vessels or consuls of foreign nations in securing the presence on board at the proper time of men who are so engaged or employed, where other provision therefor has not been made by Congress.

SEC. 5. Any person other than such shipping agent, or one authorized by act of Congress, who shall perform, offer to perform any duty or act belonging to the shipping agent at any port where one shall have been appointed, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year.

SEC. 6. The said shipping agent shall be entitled to demand and receive from every vessel or her owner or master for each seaman engaged as aforesaid the sum of three dollars, which shall be paid to the shipping agent upon his receipted voucher, which shall thereupon become a charge in favor of the owners or master of the vessel against the seamen so employed as aforesaid.

CHAPTER 4198.-Labor day.

Whereas, Many states of the United States of America, have declared the first Monday in September of each year Labor Day and a legal holiday, and where so declared, has resulted in much good to the laboring classes of the people, and tended to their education and material advancement, therefore;

Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Florida:

SECTION 1. That the first Monday in September of each and every year, be and the same is hereby declared Labor Day and a legal holiday.

CHAPTER 4199.-Hours of labor—Railroad employees.

SEC. 1. From and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any railroad doing business in this State to require or permit its employees, who are

engaged in the business of operating its trains over its roads, to make runs of over thirteen hours, or make runs aggregating more than thirteen hours in any twentyfour hours, except when such train is detained by reason of casualty, or other cause, from reaching its destination on schedule time, and no conductors and engineers, after having been on a run or runs for as much as thirteen hours, out of every twenty-four hours, shall be required to again go on duty until after eight hours rest, except in the case above stated. No employee of any railroad company shall be deprived of his right to recover damages for personal injury by reason of the fact that he, at the time of such injury, was making a run of more than thirteen hours, or making a run aggregating more than thirteen hours in twenty-four hours, or had gone on duty after a thirteen hours run, or runs aggregating thirteen hours before eight hours rest.

SEC. 2. Any railroad violating any of the provisions of section 1 of this act, shall be subject to a forfeiture of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars; all forfeitures collected under the provisions of this act, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the school fund.

SEC. 3. Suits for the collection of forfeitures under the provisions of this act, shall be brought in the county in which the principal office of the railroad employing trainmen offending is situated, or if such company shall have no principal office in this State, then such suit may be brought in any county in which such company has a track and an agent.

CHAPTER 4207.-Protection of employees—Blacklisting, etc.

SEC. 1. If any railroad company or other corporation doing business in this State, or any person, agent or employer of any such company or corporation after having discharged any employee from the service of any such company or corporation, shall attempt to prevent by word or writing, sign or other means, directly or indirectly, such discharged employee from obtaining employment with any other person, company or corporation, such person, agent, employer, company or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or less than one hundred dollars, and such person, agent, employer, company or corporation shall be liable in damages to such discharged person, to be recovered by civil action; but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any person, agent, employer, company or corporation from giving in writing to any other person, company or corporation to whom such discharged person has applied for employment, a truthful statement of the reasons for such discharge; and shall furnish to such discharged employee on his application, to such address as may be given by such discharged employee, within ten days after such application made as aforesaid, a true copy of any such written statement.

SEC. 2. If any railroad company or other corporation doing business in this State, shall authorize or permit, with its knowledge and consent, any of its officers, agents, employers or employees to commit either or any of the acts prohibited by this act (except as herein provided), such railroad company or corporation shall be liable in damages to such employee so prevented from obtaining employment, to be recovered by him in a civil action.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of any person, officer, agent, employer, company or corporation aforesaid, after having discharged any employee from the service of any such company or corporation, upon written demand by such employee, to furnish to him, within ten days from the application for the same, a full statement in writing of the cause or causes of his discharge, and if any such person, officer, agent, employer, company or corporation as aforesaid shall refuse within ten days after demand as herein provided to furnish such statement to such discharged employee, it shall be ever after unlawful for any such person, officer, agent, employer, company or corporation to furnish any statement of the cause of such discharge to any person or corporation or to in any way black-list or to prevent such discharged employee from procuring employment elsewhere, subject to the penalties prescribed in section one of this act. And on the trial of any person, company or corporation, for a violation of the provisions of this act, any other person who may have authorized or permitted, with knowledge and consent as aforesaid, any such offense, or who may have participated in the same, shall be a competent witness, and be compelled to give evidence, and nothing then said by such witness shall at any time be received or given in evidence against him in any prosecution against the said witness, except on an indictment for perjury in any matter to which he may have testified; and on the trial of any such person for any violation of this act, the prosecution shall have the authority and process of the court trying the case to compel the production in court, to be used in evidence

in the case, the books and papers of any such person, company or corporation, and a failure to produce the same, after such reasonable notice as the court may in each case provide, shall be in contempt of court, and punishable as such against the custodian or person, company or corporation having the control or in charge of such books and papers, who shall fail to produce the same; Provided, That such written cause of the discharge, when so made as aforesaid, at the request of such discharged employee shall never be used as the cause for an action for slander or for libel, either civil or criminal, against the person or authority furnishing the

same.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of any person, company or corporation, who has received any request or notice in writing, sign, word or otherwise, from any other person. company or corporation, preventing or attempting to prevent the employment of any person discharged from the service of either of the latter, on demand of such discharged employee, to furnish to such employee within ten days after such demand, a true statement of the nature of such request or notice, and if in writing, a copy of the same, and if a sign, the interpretation thereof, with the name of the person, company or corporation furnishing the same, with the place of business of the person or authority furnishing the same; and a violation of this section shall subject the offender to all the penalties, civil and criminal, provided by the foregoing sections of this act.

SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall apply to and prevent, under all the penalties aforesaid, railroad companies or corporations under the same general inanagement and control but having separate divisions, superintendents or master mechanics, master machinists or similar officers, for separate or different lines, their officers, agents and employees, from preventing or attempting to prevent, the employment of any such discharged person by any other separate division, or officer or agent or employer of any such separate railroad line or lines.

ACTS OF 1895.

CHAPTER 4322.-Exemption from taxation.

SECTION 4. The following shall be exempt from taxation:

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Seventh. There shall be exempt from taxation property to the value of two hundred dollars to every widow dependent upon her own exertions, and to every person who has lost a limb or been disabled in war or by misfortune to that extent that disqualifies him from the performance of manual labor.

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CHAPTER 4323.-Convict labor.

* The county commissioners of the respective counties are authorized and empowered to hire out or otherwise contract for the labor of all county convicts as they may deem advisable, the proceeds of all such contracts to go into the fine and forfeiture fund.

CHAPTER 4330.—Statistics of manufactories.

SEC. 1. The commissioner of agriculture of the State of Florida, is hereby required to have an enumeration of all the inhabitants of the several counties in this State made during the year 1895, and shall have collected all statistics relating to farms, gardens, manufactories and other industries in operation in this State at the time said enumeration is made, and shall appoint or employ a competent person or persons in each county to do such work, and the secretary of state of Florida, and said commissioner of agriculture shall give necessary instructions to the parties who do the work, and furnish them with all the necessary blanks.

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CHAPTER 4372.-Enticing seamen to abandon vessels.

SEC. 1. From and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to entice any seaman or sailor from the vessel, on which he is engaged, previous to the expiration of his term of service on said vessel. And any person or persons enticing said seaman or sailor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

GEORGIA.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 9.-Exemption from execution, etc.

SECTION 5210. There shall be exempt from levy and sale, by virtue of any process whatever under the laws of this State, except as hereinafter excepted of the property of every head of a family, or guardian, or trustee of a family of minor children, or every aged or infirm person, or person having the care and support of dependent females of any age, who is not the head of a family, realty or personalty, or both, to the value in the aggregate of sixteen hundred dollars.

SEC. 5211. No court or ministerial officer in this State shall ever have jurisdiction or authority to enforce any judgment, execution, or decree, against the property set apart for such purpose, including such improvements as may be made thereon from time to time, except for taxes for the purchase money of the same for labor done thereon, for material furnished therefor, or for the removal of incumbrances thereon.

SEC. 5212. The debtor shall have power to waive or renounce in writing his right to the benefit of the exemption provided for in this article, except as to wearing apparel, and not exceeding three hundred dollars' worth of household and kitchen furniture, and provisions, to be selected by himself and his wife, if any, and he shall not, after it is set apart, alienate or incumber the property so exempted, but it may be sold by the debtor, and his wife, if any, jointly, with the sanction of the judge of the superior court of the county, where the debtor resides or the land is situated, the proceeds to be reinvested upon the same uses.

CODE OF 1882.

PART I.

TITLE 8.-Exemption from sale for taxes.

SECTION 895. Property exempted from levy and sale ordinarily, is exempted from levy and sale for taxes.

TITLE 13.-Manual labor schools.

SEC. 1273. The county board of education shall have power to organize, in each county, one or more manual labor schools, on such a plan as shall be self-sustaining: Provided, That the plan be first submitted to and approved by the state board of education.

PART II.

TITLE 2.-Hours of labor-Children.

SEC. 1885. The hours of labor by all persons under twenty-one years of age, in all cotton, woolen, or other manufacturing establishments, or machine shops in this State, shall be from sunrise untill [sic] sunset, the usual and customary times for meals being allowed from the same; and any contract made with such persons or their parents, guardians, or others, whereby a longer time for labor is agreed upon or provided for, shall be null and void, so far as relates to the enforcement of said contracts against such laborers.

TITLE 2.-Corporeal punishment of minor laborers forbidden.

SEC. 1886. No boss or other superior in such establishments shall inflict corporeal punishment upon such minor laborers; and the owners of such factory or machine shop shall be directly liable for all such conduct on the part of their employees; and such minor may sue in his own name for damages for such conduct, and the recovery shall be his own property, and not belong to his parents.

TITLE 3.-Conditional sale of personal property.

SEC. 1955a. Whenever personal property is sold and delivered with the condition affixed to the sale, that the title thereto is to remain in vender of such personal property until the purchase price thereof shall have been paid, every such conditional sale, in order for the reservation of title to be valid as against third

parties, shall be evidenced in writing, and not otherwise. And the written contract of every such conditional sale shall be executed and attested in the same manner as is now provided by existing laws for the execution and attestation of mortgages on personal property: Provided, nevertheless, That, as between the parties themselves, the contract as made by them shall be valid, and may be enforced whether evidenced in writing or not. The existing statutes and laws of this State in relation to the registration and record of mortgages on personal property, shall apply to and affect all conditional sales of personal property as defined in this section.

TITLE 3.-Mechanics' liens.

SEC. 1972. The following liens are established in this State:

7. Liens in favor of mechanics on real and personal property.

8. Liens in favor of contractors, material men, machinists and manufacturers of machinery.

9. Liens in favor of certain creditors against steamboats and other water craft.

SEC. 1974. Laborers shall have a general lien upon the property of their employers, liable to levy and sale, for their labor, which is hereby declared to be superior to all other liens, except liens for taxes, the special liens of landlords on yearly crops, and such other liens as are declared by law to be superior to them.

SEC. 1975. Laborers shall also have a special lien on the products of their labor, superior to all other liens, except liens for taxes, and special liens of landlords on yearly crops, to which they shall be inferior.

SEC. 1976. Liens of laborers shall arise upon the completion of their contract of labor, but shall not exist against bona fide purchasers without notice, until the same are reduced to execution and levied by an officer, and such liens in conflict with each other shall rank according to date, dating each from the completion of the contract of labor.

SEC. 1979 (as amended by act No. 282, page 34, acts of 1893, and act No. 159, page 27, acts of 1895). All mechanics of every sort, who have taken no personal security therefor, shall, for work done and material furnished in building, repairing or improving any real estate of their employers; all contractors, material men, and persons furnishing material for the improvement of real estate; all contractors for building factories, furnishing material for the same, or furnishing machinery for the same; and all machinists and manufacturers of machinery, including corporations engaged in such business, who may furnish or put up in any county of this State, any steam mill or other machinery, or who may repair the same, and all contractors to build railroads, shall each have a special lien on such real estate, factories or railroads. When work done or material furnished for the improvement of real estate is done or may be furnished upon the employment of a contractor or some other person than the owner, then, and in that case, the lien given by this section shall attach upon the real estate improved, as against such true owner, for the amount of the work done or material furnished for the improvement of said real estate, upon written notice given to him for the amount of work done or material furnished. Said notice to be given within thirty days of the completion of the work or the furnishing of the material. Said lien shall attach upon said real estate, as against the owner thereof, to the extent of no more than 25 per cent. of the contract price agreed to be paid by such owner to such contractor or other person than the owner. Such real estate shall be discharged from such lien when it shall appear that such owner or his successor in estate has paid out said 25 per cent. pro rata, to the persons entitled to such liens as provided in the above section of this act; but no person shall be so entitled who has not given the written notice as above provided, and who has not duly recorded his claim of lien as required by law.

SEC. 1980. To make good the liens specified in the preceding section, they must be created and declared in accordance with the following provisions, and on failure of either the lien shall cease, viz:

1. A substantial compliance by the party claiming the lien with his contract for building, repairing, or improving, or for materials or machinery put up or furnished, as set forth in said preceding section.

2. The recording of his claim of lien within thirty days after the completion of the work, or within three months after such material or machinery is furnished, in the office of the clerk of the superior court, in the county where such