CHAPTER 75.-Blacklisting, etc.

SEC. 1. Any person, association, company, or corporation within this State, or agent, or officer, on behalf of such person, association, company, or corporation, who shall hereafter willfully do anything intended to prevent any person who shall have for any cause left or been discharged from his or its employ from obtaining employment elsewhere in this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than fifty ($50) dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars for each such offense, or imprisonment in the county jail at the rate of one day for each two ($2) dollars of such fine.

CHAPTER 103.-Protection of employees as voters.

SEC. 19. It shall be unlawful for any person directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person,

Second-To give, offer or promise any office, place or employment, or promise to procure or endeavor to procure any office, place or employment to or for any voter or to or for any other person, in order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting at such election for any particular person or persons, or to attempt to influence the vote of any person by intimating that his present or future employment is dependent upon the election of any particular person or persons to office.

Third-To make any gift, loan, promise, offer, procurement, or agreement, as aforesaid, to, for or with any person in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavor to procure, the election of any person or the vote of any voter at such election.

Fourth-To procure, engage, or endeavor to procure or engage, in consequence of any gift, loan, promise, procurement or agreement the election of any person or the vote of any voter at such election.

SEC. 20. It shall be unlawful for any person directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person,

First-To receive, agree or contract for, before or during an election, any money, gift, loan or other valuable thing, office, place or employment, for himself or any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for coming or agreeing to come, to the polls, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from coming to the polls, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting for any particular person or persons at any election.

SEC. 36. It shall be unlawful for any person directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person in his behalf, to make use of, or threaten to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or to inflict or threaten the infliction by himself or through any other person, of any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any manner to practice intimidation upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, for any particular person or persons at any election or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election. And it shall be unlawful for any person by abduction, duress or any forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance whatever to impede, prevent or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the elective franchise by an [y] voter, or to compel, induce or prevail upon any voter either to give or refrain from giving his vote for any particular person or persons at any election. It shall not be lawful for any employer in paying his employees the salary or wages due them to inclose their pay in "pay envelopes," upon which there is written or printed the name of any candidate, or any political mottoes, devices or arguments, containing threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of such employees. Nor shall it be lawful for any employer, within ninety days of an election, to put up or otherwise exhibit in his factory, workshop, office or other establishment or place where his workmen or employees are working, or where they come to receive their pay, any handbill or placard containing any threat, notice or information that in case any particular ticket of a political party or organization or candidate shall be elected, work in his place or establishment shall cease, in whole or in part, or his place or establishment be closed, or the salaries or wages of his workmen or employees be reduced or other threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of his workmen or employees. This section shall apply to corporations as well as individuals, and any person or corporation violating the provisions of this section 2352- -42

is guilty of a misdemeanor, and any corporation violating this section shall forfeit its charter.

SEC. 37. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under the provisions of this act, shall, unless a different punishment has been provided for the offense of which he may be so convicted, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

PUBLIC STATUTES OF 1891.

CHAPTER 11.-College of agriculture and mechanic arts.

SECTION 1. The state agricultural college, located at Hanover, is a corporation by the name of The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.

SEC. 2. The leading object of the college is, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in conformity to an act of congress entitled "An act donating land to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July 2, 1862.

CHAPTER 55.—Exemption from taxation.

SEC. 7. Personal estate liable to be taxed is,

VI. Stock in trade, whether of merchants, shopkeepers, mechanics, or tradesmen, employed in their trade or business, reckoning the same at the average value thereof for the year; and, for purposes of taxation, raw materials and manufacturers of any manufactory, wood, timber, logs, and lumber, manufactured or otherwise, if exceeding fifty dollars in value, and fishing vessels, steamboats, horse boats, or other vessels, owned by individuals and navigating the waters of the State for the transportation of passengers or freight, and seagoing vessels shall be deemed stock in trade.

VII. Carriages, if exceeding fifty dollars in value.

VIII. Horses, asses, and mules over eighteen months old.

IX. Oxen, cows, and other neat stock over eighteen months old.

X. Sheep and hogs over six months old; but two such hogs to each family shall be exempt from taxation.

XI. Fowls of every description exceeding fifty dollars in value.

CHAPTER 60.-Exemption from distress for unpaid taxes.

SEC. 4. Upon neglect or refusal of any person or corporation to pay the taxes assessed upon them, the collector may distrain the goods and chattels of such person or corporation.

SEC. 5. No distress shall be made of any person's tools or implements necessary for his trade or occupation, nor of his arms, nor of household utensils necessary for upholding life, nor of bedding or apparel necessary for him or his family.

CHAPTER 92.-Free text-books in public schools.

SEC. 7. They [the school board] shall purchase, at the expense of the city or town in which the district is situated, text-books and other supplies required for use in the public schools; and shall loan the same to the pupils of such schools free of charge, subject to such regulations for their care and custody as the school board may prescribe.

CHAPTER 92.-Enforcement of laws regulating employment of children.

SEC. 15. School boards are authorized to appoint truant officers for their districts, and to fix their compensation at a reasonable rate, which compensation shall be paid by the towns.

SEC. 17. Truant officers shall, under the direction of the school board, enforce the laws and regulations relating to truants and children between the ages of six and sixteen years not attending school and without any regular and lawful occupation.

SEC. 18. Truant officers shall, if required by the school board, enforce the laws prohibiting the employment of children in manufacturing establishments who have not attended school the prescribed time.

CHAPTER 93.-Employment of children.

SEC. 10. No child under the age of ten years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment.

SEC. 11. No child under the age of sixteen years who can not read and write shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment during the time the public schools in the district in which he resides are in session.

SEC. 12. Children not included under the provisions of the preceding section shall not be employed in a manufacturing establishment unless they shall first furnish to the person proposing to employ them a certificate of the school board of the district in which they reside that they have attended some public or private day school in which the common English branches are taught during the preceding year as follows: If under sixteen and over fourteen years of age, twelve weeks; if under fourteen and over twelve years of age, six months, or such part thereof as the schools in the district in which they reside were in session; and if under twelve and over ten years of age, the whole time the schools were in session in such district. SEC. 13. If any owner, agent, superintendent, or overseer of a manufacturing establishment shall employ any child in violation of the provisions of either of the three preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense, for the use of the district.

SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the school board to prosecute offenders for violations of the provisions of this chapter. If they neglect to perform this duty they shall forfeit twenty dollars for each neglect, for the use of the district, to be recovered in the name of the district by the selectmen of the town. All necessary expenses incurred in such proceedings shall be paid by the district.

SEC. 19. No prosecution under this chapter shall be sustained unless begun within one year after the offense is committed.

CHAPTER 108.-Factories and workshops, etc.-Sanitary provisions.

SEC. 8. No person shall occupy, lease to any other person, or permit any other person to occupy, a building or any part of a building within the compact part of à city or town as a dwelling house, office, store, shop, or sleeping apartment, unless such building shall be provided with suitable privies and vaults properly ventilated and constructed, and kept in proper sanitary condition, and in case of occupancy as a dwelling house, unless it shall be provided with suitable drains or sewers for conveying the sink water away from the premises into some public sewer, if there be one within one hundred feet thereof, and if not, for conveying it away under ground or in some other way that will not be offensive.

SEC. 9. Any person neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of the preceding section shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars for each day of neglect or refusal, after notice as provided in section four of this chapter.

CHAPTER 108.-Tenement houses-Sanitary condition.

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SEC. 18. Whenever a * * * tenement, or any cellar or any other appurtenance connected therewith, has become a source of danger to the health of its occupants or others from want of cleanliness, the health officers may order the owner, his agents, or the occupants, or any of them, to cleanse and put the same in proper sanitary condition, and the occupants to quit the same, within a time limited. If the persons so ordered do not cleanse the same as ordered, the health officers may do so, and may recover the expense thereof, together with their fees, of the owner, or they may order the same to be closed and to remain so until properly cleansed. If any person shall fail to comply with an order of the health officers made under the authority of this section, after receiving due notice thereof, he shall forfeit ten dollars, for the use of the town, or be imprisoned not more than thirty days.

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CHAPTER 116.-Construction of factories, tenement houses, etc.

SEC. 1. Towns and village districts may make by-laws requiring factories, * tenement houses, * * * to be provided with ample means for escape in case of fire, and adequate facilities for entrance and exit on all occasions, and to be so erected as not to endanger the health and safety of persons who may occupy them; and they may provide thereby for the inspection of such buildings.

SEC. 2. In the absence of such by-laws, the selectmen shall make regulations for the purposes named in the preceding section.

SEC. 3. The firewards and engineers, if any, otherwise the selectmen of the town or the commissioners of the village district, as the case may be, shall constitute a board for the inspection of the buildings and halls mentioned in the first section of this chapter, and shall inspect the same from time to time.

SEC. 4. They shall notify and hear all parties interested, and may thereupon direct such alterations as may be necessary in any building or hall in accordance with such by-laws or regulations, and may order such building or hall to be closed until the alterations are made. The proceedings of such hearing shall be recorded in the records of the town or district.

SEC. 6. Every person who shall let or use any building for the purposes specified in this act, after such building shall have been ordered to be closed or altered as provided in the preceding sections, until the order has been complied with or reversed, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, for the use of the town or district where the building is situated.

CHAPTER 119.-Inspection, etc., of steamboats.

SEC. 1. The governor, with advice of the council, shall appoint one or more inspectors of steamboat, whose duty it shall be to inspect all steamboats and the boilers and engines thereof, used for the carriage of passengers for hire on any lake, river, or pond in the State not subject to the authority in this respect of the United States inspection laws, or where inspections under such laws are not regularly made.

SEC. 2 (as amended by chapter 6, acts of 1895). The owners or lessees of every such boat shall cause it to be inspected by an inspector in all its parts, its engines and its boilers, annually, within thirty days prior to engaging in the carriage of passengers.

SEC. 3. If upon such inspection the inspector finds the boat, its boilers and engines, to be safe and sufficient for the carriage of passengers, he shall prescribe the maximum number of passengers the boat may carry at any one time, and such other rules and regulations as may seem to him proper for such boat, and he shall give the owners or lessees a certificate and license accordingly.

SEC. 4. The owners or lessees of every such boat shall cause a copy of the rules and regulations so established for it to be posted in a conspicuous place on the boat. SEC. 5. An inspector shall examine such boat, its boilers and engines, at such other times as he shall deem the public interest and safety require, not exceeding three times in any year, to see if the provisions of law and the rules and regulations established for the boat have been complied with.

SEC. 6. If any steamboat licensed as aforesaid shall, during the period of its license, be deemed by an inspector unsafe in its hull, or defective in its engine, boilers, or machinery, or if its owners or lessees shall have failed to comply with the rules and regulations prescribed by the inspector, he shall have power to revoke its license and stop and detain the boat until the necessary repairs have been made, or until the rules and regulations have been complied with, and shall then issue a new certificate or license.

SEC. 7. The owners or lessees of any steamboat licensed to carry passengers, as provided in this chapter, shall not employ any engineer or pilot upon said boat unless such engineer or pilot has been examined by an inspector of steamboats and has a certificate from him that he is competent to act in that capacity.

SEC. 8. All engineers and pilots shall be examined by the inspectors as to their competency, under oath; and power to administer oaths in such cases is granted to inspectors.

SEC. 9. If any person shall use any such steamboat for the carriage of passengers which, with its boilers and engines, has not been inspected and licensed as provided in this chapter, or shall employ upon any such steamboat any engineer or pilot who has not been examined and licensed as required by the preceding sections, he shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year or both.

SEC. 11. If any person shall act as engineer or pilot on any steamboat without the certificate herein required; or if any engineer or pilot shall, during the period for which he is licensed, neglect his duties or be of intemperate habits, or violate any of the rules and regulations established by the inspector; or if any engineer shall carry more steam than the certificate for his boat allows, or shall in any way or manner interfere with the locked safety-valve of the boiler, after the same has been set by the inspector, so as to allow greater pressure in the boiler than the amount specified by the certificate,—his license may be suspended or revoked by

the inspector, and he shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both.

SEC. 12. If any inspector of steamboats, upon any pretense, receives any fee or reward for his services except what is allowed to him by law, he shall forfeit his office, and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both.

CHAPTER 138.-Exemption from execution, etc.-Homesteads.

SEC. 1. Every person is entitled to five hundred dollars worth of his homestead, or of his interest therein, as a homestead right.

SEC. 3. The homestead right is exempt from attachment, during its continuance, from levy or sale on execution, and from liability to be incumbered or taken for the payment of debts, except in the following cases: 1. In the collection of taxes: 2. In the enforcement of liens of mechanics and others for debts created in the construction, repair, or improvement of the homestead: 3. In the enforcement of mortgages which are made a charge thereon according to law; 4. In the levy of executions as provided in this chapter.

CHAPTER 140.-Conditional sales of personal property.

SEC. 23. No lien reserved on personal property sold conditionally and passing into the hands of the conditional purchaser, except a lien upon household goods created by a lease thereof, containing an option in favor of the lessee to purchase the same at a time specified, shall be valid against attaching creditors, or subsequent purchasers, without notice, unless the vendor of such property takes a written memorandum, signed by the purchaser, witnessing the lien, the sum due thereon, and containing an affidavit as provided in the following section, and causes such memorandum to be recorded in the town clerk's office of the town, I. Where the purchaser resides, if within this State; or

II. Where the vendor resides, if within this State, and the purchaser does not reside in the State; or

III. Where the property is situated, if neither purchaser nor vendor resides in the State.

SEC. 24. Each vendor and purchaser shall make and subscribe an affidavit in substance as follows: "We severally swear that the foregoing memorandum is made for the purpose of witnessing the lien and the sum due thereon, as specified in said memorandum, and for no other purpose whatever, and that said lien and the sum due thereon were not created for the purpose of enabling the purchaser to execute said memorandum, but said lien is a just lien, and the sum stated to be due thereon is honestly due thereon and owing from the purchaser to the vendor." SEC. 25. When copartners or corporations are parties to such a memorandum, the affidavit may be made and subscribed as in case of mortgages of personal property.

SEC. 26. If the record required by section twenty-three is made within twenty days after the property is delivered, the lien reserved shall be valid against all attaching creditors and purchasers; but if it is not made until after the expiration of twenty days, it shall be valid against those attaching creditors and purchasers only who become such after the record.

CHAPTER 141.-Mechanics' liens.

SEC. 9. If a person shall, by himself or others, perform labor or furnish mate rials towards building, repairing, fitting, or furnishing a vessel within this State payment for which is due, he shall have a lien therefor on the vessel for the space of four days after it is completed.

SEC. 10. If a person shall, by himself or others, perform labor or furnish materials to the amount of fifteen dollars or more, for erecting, altering, or repairing a house or other buildings or appurtenances, by virtue of a contract with the owner thereof, he shall have a lien thereon and on any right of the owner to the lot of land on which the house, building, or appurtenances stand.

SEC. 11. If a person shall perform labor or furnish materials to the amount of fifteen dollars or more for making brick, by virtue of a contract with the owner thereof, he shall have a lien upon the kiln containing such brick for such labor or materials.

SEC. 12. If a person shall, by himself or others, or by teams, perform labor or furnish supplies to the amount of fifteen dollars or more toward rafting, driving, cutting, hauling, or drawing wood, bark, lumber, or logs, or toward cooking or