laborer, servant, clerk, or other employee of any corporation, firm, or individual, in this State, for the purpose below stated, to sell, assign, transfer, or by any means dispose of any such claim, book account, bill, or debt of any name or nature whatever, to any person or persons, firm, corporation, or institution, or to institute in this State or elsewhere, or prosecute any suit or action for any such daim or debt against any such laborer, servant, clerk, or employee by any process seeking to seize, attach, or garnish the wages of such person or persons earned within sixty days prior to the commencement of such proceeding, for the purpose of avoiding the effect of the laws of the State of Nebraska concerning exemptions. SEC. 6121. It is hereby declared unlawful for any person or persons to aid, assist, abet, or counsel a violation of section one [6120] of this act for any purpose whatever. SEC. 6122. In any proceeding, civil or criminal, growing out of a breach of sections one or two [6120, 6121] of this act, proof of the institution of a suit, or service of garnishment summons by any persons, firm, or individual, in any court of any State or Territory other than this State or in this State to seize by process of garnishment or otherwise, any of the wages of such persons as defined in section one [6120] of this act, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of an evasion of the laws of the State of Nebraska and a breach of the provisions of this act on the part of the creditor or resident in Nebraska causing the same to be done. SEC. 6123. Any persons, firm, company, corporation, or business institution guilty of a violation of sections one or two [6120, 6121] of this act shall be liable to the party injured through such violation of this act, for the amount of the debt sold, assigned, transferred, garnished, or sued upon, with all costs and expenses and a reasonable attorney's fee, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State; and shall further be liable by prosecution to punishment by a fine not exceeding the sum of two hundred dollars and costs of prosecution. PART III.-CRIMINAL CODE. CHAPTER 5.-Unlawful assembly, riots, etc. SEC. 6677. If three or more persons shall assemble together with intent to do any unlawful act, with force and violence, against the person or property of another, or to do any unlawful act against the peace; or, being lawfully assembled, shall agree with each other to do any unlawful act as aforesaid, and shall make any movement or preparation therefor, the persons so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the jail of the county not exceeding three months. SEC. 6678. Whenever three or more persons shall be assembled as aforesaid, and proceed to commit any of the offenses aforesaid, it shall be the duty of all judges, justices of the peace, and sheriffs, and all ministerial officers, immediately, upon actual view, or as soon as may be, on information, to make proclamation in the hearing of such offenders, commanding them in the name of the State of Nebraska to disperse and depart to their several homes or lawful employments; and if, upon such proclamation, such persons shall not disperse and depart as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of such judges, justices of the peace, and sheriffs, and all other ministerial officers, respectively, to call upon all persons near, and, if necessary, throughout the county, to aid and assist in dispersing and taking into custody all persons assembled as aforesaid; and military officers and others, called on as aforesaid, and refusing to render immediate assistance, shall each be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. SEC. 6679. If any person shall forcibly obstruct any of the authorities aforesaid, or if any three or more persons shall continue together after proclamation made as aforesaid, or attempted to be made, and prevented by such rioters; or, in case of the proclamation, any three or more persons, being assembled as aforesaid, shall commit any unlawful act as aforesaid, every such offender shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the jail of the county not exceeding three months; and shall, moreover, find security for good behavior and to keep the peace for a time not exceeding one year. SEC. 6680. If any of the persons so unlawfully assembled shall be killed, maimed, or otherwise injured, in consequence of resisting the judges or others in dispersing and apprehending them, or in attempting to disperse and apprehend them, said judges, justices of the peace, sheriffs, and other ministerial officers, and others acting by their authority, or the authority of either of them, shall be holden guiltless; Provided, Such killing, maiming, or injury shall take place in consequence of the use of necessary and proper means to disperse or apprehend any such persons so unlawfully assembled. SEC. 6681. If any person shall abuse any judge or justice of the peace. resist or abuse any sheriff, constable, or other officer, in the execution of his office, the person so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars, or imprisoned in the jail of the county not exceeding three months, at the discretion of the court. CHAPTER 13.-Railroads, obstructing, injuring property of, etc. SEC. 6753. Every person who shall willfully and maliciously remove, break, displace, throw down, destroy, or in any manner injure any iron, wooden, or other rail, or any branches, or branchways, or any part of the tracks, or any bridge, viaduct, culvert, trestlework, embankment, parapet, or other fixture, or any part thereof, attached to or connected with such tracks of any railroad in this State, now in operation, or which shall hereinafter be put in operation, or who shall willfully and maliciously place any obstruction upon the rail or rails, track or tracks of any such railroad shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than twenty years; Provided, however, That if any person shall, by the commission of either of the aforesaid offenses, occasion the death of any person or persons, the person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder in the first or second degree, or manslaughter, according to the nature of the offense, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as in other cases. SEC. 6755. Every person who shall willfully and maliciously throw down, break, remove, displace, cut, split, burn, or in any other manner destroy or injure any of the rails, sills, cross-ties, piles, bridges, culverts, viaducts, parapets, or any other fixture, to the value of thirty-five dollars or upward, or shall willfully and maliciously injure or destroy any embankment of any railroad within this State, now constructed, or in the process of construction, or any railroad which shall hereafter be constructed, or in the process of construction, to the value of thirty-five dollars or upwards, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, not exceeding three years, nor less than one year. SEC. 6756. Every person who shall willfully and maliciously cut, break, burn, injure or destroy any locomotive, car, or other machinery, now, or which may hereafter be in use upon any railroad within this State, or any wood house, car house, or water station erected for the accommodation and use of any railroad within this State, to the value of thirty-five dollars or upward, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, not exceeding three years nor less than one year. SEC. 6757. Every person who shall willfully or maliciously commit any of the acts or offenses enumerated in the last two preceding sections, but the injury or damage therefrom shall be of a less value than thirty-five dollars, every person so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than five dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail, not exceeding thirty days, at the discretion of the court. 營 CHAPTER 23.-Sunday labor. SEC. 6905. * * And if any person of the age of fourteen years or upward shall be found on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, at common labor (work of necessity and charity only excepted), he or she shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars nor less than one dollar; Provided, Nothing herein contained in relation to common labor on said first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, shall be construed to extend to those who conscientiously do observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, nor to prevent families emigrating from traveling, watermen from landing their passengers, superintendents or keepers of toll bridges or toll gates from attending and superintending the same, or ferrymen from conveying travelers over the water, or persons moving their families on such days, or to prevent railroad companies from running necessary trains. CHAPTER 23.-Seats for female employees. SEC. 6941. It shall be the duty of every agent, proprietor, superintendent, or employer of female help in stores, offices, or schools within the State of Nebraska, to provide a chair, stool, or seat for each and every such employee, upon which these female workers shall be allowed to rest when their duties will permit, or when such position does not interfere with the faithful discharge of their incumbent duties. SEC. 6942. Any neglect or refusal to provide a chair, stool, or seat for every female worker in the employ of any agent, proprietor, superintendent or employer in the State of Nebraska, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not less than ten dollars and not over five hundred dollars, and this fine shall be paid to the said female worker whose health has been injured by this neglect of her employer to provide said chair, stool, or seat, as required by this act. CHAPTER 23.-Employment of children. SEC. 6953. No male or female child under the age of twelve years shall be employed in any railroad shops, factories, shops, or mines to exceed four months in any one year. SEC. 6954. If any person or persons, or body corporate, shall hereafter employ, or if any parent or guardian shall consent to the employment of any male or female child under the age of twelve, as aforesaid, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, and proof be made thereof before any police judge or justice of the peace of the city, town, or district where such offense is committed, he, she, or they so employing such child, or consenting thereto, as aforesaid, shall, upon conviction, for every such offense pay a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty ($50) dollars, said fine to be applied to the use of the public schools of the proper city, town, or district; Provided, That no conviction shall be had under this act unless proceedings thereunder shall be commenced within one month after the offense shall have been committed. SEC. 6955. All city, town, and district police and constables are hereby authorized and required, and it is hereby made their duty to attend to the strict observance of the two preceding sections of this act when complaint shall have been properly made to them of a violation of the same. CHAPTER 23.-Importation of men for police duty prohibited. SEC. 6967. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons or association, company, or corporation to bring or import into this State any person or persons, or association of persons for the purpose of discharging the duties devolving upon the police officers, sheriffs, or constables in the protection or preservation of public or private property. SEC. 6968. No sheriff, mayor, or chief of police, or members of the board of police commissioners shall appoint any under sheriff or deputy for the protection of public or private property except the person so appointed shall be a resident of this State. SEC. 6969. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than three years. And if any company, association, or corporation shall be guilty of violating this act such company. association, or corporation shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand ($1,000) dollars nor more than five thousand ($5,000) dollars. CHAPTER 49.-Convict labor. SEC. 7260. For the purpose of enabling the county commissioners of any county in this State to employ in a profitable manner all persons who have heretofore been, or may hereafter be sentenced to hard labor in the jail of the county, said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power to designate the place where the persons so sentenced shall work, and to make all proper and needful regulations and provisions for the profitable employment of such convicts, and for their safe custody during such employment. The county jail is hereby declared to extend to any stone quarry, road, or other place that shall be designated by the county commissioners for the employment of such convicts. SEC. 7261. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to make the contracts for the employment of convicts as specified in the preceding section, and the sheriff of the county shall collect the proceeds of all such labor, and after paying the board of such convicts and the expenses incident to such labor to pay the balance to the county treasurer within ten days. NEVADA. ARTICLE I.-Exemptions from execution, etc. SECTION 14. The privilege of the debtor to enjoy the necessary comforts of life shall be recognized by wholesome laws, exempting a reasonable amount of property from seizure or sale for payment of any debts or liabilities hereafter contracted. * * ARTICLE IV.-Exemption from execution, etc.-Homesteads. * SEC. 30. A homestead, as provided by law, shall be exempt from forced sale under any process of law, *but no property shall be exempt from sale for taxes or for the payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of said premises, or for the erection of improvements thereon. * GENERAL STATUTES OF 1885. CHAPTER 1.-Safety apparatus for mine shafts. * * SECTION 296. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company or companies, corporation or corporations * to sink or work through any vertical shaft where iron mining cages are used, at a greater depth than four hundred and fifty feet, unless the said shaft shall be provided with an iron bonneted safety cage, to be used in the lowering and hoisting of the employees of such person or persons, company or companies, corporation or corporations. The safety apparatus, whether consisting of eccentrics, springs, or other device, shall be securely fastened to the cage, and shall be of sufficient strength to hold the cage loaded at any depth to which the shaft may be sunk. The iron bonnet aforesaid shall be made of boiler sheet iron of a good quality, of at least three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness, and shall cover the top of said cage in such manner as to afford the greatest protection to life and limb from any matter falling down said shaft. SEC. 297. Any person or persons, company or companies, corporation or corporations * * who shall neglect, fail, or refuse to comply with the provisions of [the preceding] section *shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars. * * * CHAPTER 4.-Exemption from execution, etc.—Homesteads. * SEC. 539. The homestead, consisting of a quantity of land, together with the dwelling-house thereon and its appurtenances, not exceeding in value five thousand dollars, to be selected by the husband and wife, or either of them, or other head of a family, shall not be subject to forced sale on execution, or any final process from any court, for any debt or liability, * * except process to enforce the payment of the purchase money for such premises, or for improvements made thereon, or for legal taxes imposed thereon, or for the payment of any mortgage thereon, executed and given by both husband and wife, when that relation exists. Said selection shall be made by either the husband or wife, or both of them, or other head of a family, declaring their intention in writing to claim the same as a homestead. * * * SEC. 540. Such exemption shall not extend to any mechanic's, laborer's, or vendor's lien lawfully obtained; but no mortgage or alienation of any kind, made for the purpose of securing a loan or indebtedness upon the homestead property, shall be valid for any purpose whatsoever. * * * * * SEC. 542. The homestead and all other property exempt by law from sale under execution, shall, upon the death of either spouse, be set apart by the court as the sole property of the surviving spouse, for his or her benefit and that of his or her legitimate child or children; * Provided, That the exemption made by this * shall not extend to unmarried persons, except when they have the care and maintenance of minor brothers or sisters, or both, or of a brother's or sister's minor children, or of a father or mother, or of grandparents, or unmarried sisters living in the house with them. act * * * * * CHAPTER 11.-Convict labor. SEC. 1397 (as amended by chapter 91, acts of 1893). The board of state prison commissioners, as named in section twenty-one of article v. of the constitution, shall have such supervision of all matters connected with the state prison as is provided for as follows: They shall have full control of all the state prison grounds, buildings, prison labor, and prison property; shall purchase, or cause to be purchased, all needed commissary supplies, all raw material and tools necessary for any manufacturing purposes carried on at said prison; shall sell all manufactured articles and stone, and collect the money for the same; shall rent or hire out any or all of the labor of the convicts, and collect the money therefor, and shall regulate the number of officers and employees, and fix the salaries thereof. SEC. 1405. The board of commissioners may, in their discretion, cause the prisoners, or any number of them, to be employed in any mechanical pursuits, and at hard labor, and furnish such convicts thus employed with any material that may be deemed necessary, in the same manner as is provided for the furnishing of supplies and stores to the state prison, and they shall, in all respects, have the exclusive control of the employment of the convicts, and may from time to time employ them in such manner as, in their opinion, will best subserve the interest of the State and the welfare of the prisoners. SEC. 1406. If, at any time, the board of commissioners be of the opinion that it would be to the interest of the State to employ any portion of the prisoners, either within or without the walls or enclosures of the state prison, either in improvement of the public grounds or buildings, or for hire upon any private work or employment, where they may be profitably employed, they shall have power to so employ or hire such labor; they shall, in such case, direct the warden accordingly in writing, and cause a record of such order to be entered at length on the records of the board. All such employment outside of the prison walls or inclosures shall be within a reasonable distance from the prison. SEC. 1428. The board of state prison commissioners are hereby authorized to contract for the hire of convict labor for any period not to exceed five years from date of contract, upon such terms and under such provisions as they may deem proper. CHAPTER 20.-Exemption from execution, etc.-Personal property. SEC. 3243. The following property shall be exempt from execution, except as herein otherwise specially provided: First-Chairs, tables, desks, and books to the value of one hundred dollars belonging to the judgment debtor. Second-Necessary household, table, and kitchen furniture belonging to the judgment debtor, including stove, stovepipe, and stove furniture, wearing apparel, beds, bedding, and bedsteads, and provisions and firewood actually provided for individual or family use sufficient for one month. Third-The farming utensils or implements of husbandry of the judgment debtor; also, two oxen or two horses or two mules and their harness, two cows, and one cart or wagon, and food for such oxen, horses, cows, or mules for one month; also, all seed grain or vegetables actually provided, reserved, or on hand for the purpose of planting or sowing at any time within the ensuing six months, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars. Fourth-The tools and implements of a mechanic or artisan necessary to carry on his trade; the instruments and chests of a surgeon, physician, surveyor, and dentist, necessary to the exercise of their profession, with their scientific and professional libraries, and the law libraries of an attorney or counselor, and the libraries of ministers of the gospel. Fifth-The cabin or dwelling of a miner, not exceeding in value the sum of five hundred dollars; also, his sluices, pipes, hose, windlass, whim, derrick, cars, pumps, tools, implements, and appliances necessary for carrying on any kind of mining operations, not exceeding in value the aggregate sum of five hundred dollars, and two horses, mules, or oxen, with their harness, and food for such horses, oxen, or mules for one month, when necessary to be used for any whim, windlass, derrick, car, pump, or hoisting apparatus. Sixth--Two oxen, two horses, or two mules, and their harness, and one cart or wagon, by the use of which a cartman, huckster, peddler, teamster, or other laborer, habitually earns his living; and one horse, with vehicle and harness or other equipments, used by a physician or surgeon or minister of the gospel in making his professional visits, and also food for such oxen, mules, or horses for one month. Seventh-One sewing machine, not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty dollars, in actual use by the debtor or his family. * * * * # Eleventh-No article or species of property mentioned in this section shall be exempt from execution issued upon a judgment recovered for its price, or upon a mortgage thereon. CHAPTER 20.-Exemption from exccution, etc.—Wages. SEC. 3267. The judge or referee may order any property of the judgment debtor not exempt from execution, in the hands of such debtor, or any other person, or |