The safety apparatus, whether consisting of eccentrics, springs, or other device, must be securely fastened to the cage, and must be of sufficient strength to hold the cage loaded, at any depth to which the shaft may be sunk. The iron bonnet of the aforesaid cage must be made of boiler sheet iron, of good quality, of at least three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness, and must cover the top of such cage in such manner as to afford the greatest protection to life and limb from anything falling down said shaft. It shall be the duty of the mining inspector and his assistant to see that all cages are kept in compliance with this section and to also see that the safety dogs are kept in good order. Every person or corporation failing to comply with any of the provisions of this section is punishable by a fine not less than three hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this section are hereby repealed. Approved March 1, 1897. NEW MEXICO. ACTS OF 1897. CHAPTER 16.-Protection of employees, etc.-Unlawful and malicious interference with engines and cars, etc. SECTION 1. Any person or persons who shall unlawfully and without authority remove, take, steal, change, add to, take from, or in any manner interfere with any journal bearings or brasses or any of the parts or attachments of any locomotive, tender or car or any fixture or attachment belonging thereto, connected with and used in operating any locomotive, tender or car, owned, leased or used by any railroad, railway or transportation company in this Territory, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof before any court or competent tribunal, shall be subject to imprisonment in the Territorial penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years. Provided, That if the malicious and unlawful removal of any such journal bearings or brasses, fixtures or attachments, or the unlawful and malicious change thereof or interference therewith, shall be the cause of wrecking or derailing any locomotive, car or cars, shall result in the injury or death of any employee, passenger or other person, such person or persons guilty of such removal, change, alteration, or interference with such journal bearing or brasses or other parts or attachments of any such locomotive, tender or car, or any fixture or attachment belonging thereto, connected with or used in operating such locomotive, tender or car, shall be deemed guilty of an assault with intent to commit murder, or guilty of murder as the case may be, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as in other cases of assault with intent to commit murder and murder. SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall unlawfully and knowingly buy, receive, or aid in the concealment of any link, pin-bearing journal or other articles used exclusively for railroad purposes without the consent in writing of the president, general manager, or superintendent of the railroad owning such property within this Territory, such person shall be guilty of receiving stolen property knowing the same to be stolen, and be subject to the penalties prescribed under the laws of this Territory in other cases of knowingly receiving, buying and concealing stolen property. And any such property so purchased, received or concealed by any person or persons within this Territory, upon which is stamped the name or initials of any railroad company operating a railroad within this Territory, shall be prima facie evidence on the trial of any such offense of the true ownership of such property and of knowledge on the part of any such person or persons buying, receiving or aiding in the concealment of the same, that the same was or had been the property of the railroad company, the name or initials of which is, or are stamped or marked on such property. SEC. 3. Any person who shall unlawfully and without authority remove any waste or lubricating packing from the journal boxes of any engine, tender, passenger coach, freight or way car of any railroad operating lines in this Territory, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days, nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 4. Any person or persons who shall unlawfully or maliciously remove, carry away, destroy, break or injure any switch lamp or signal lamp or shall unlawfully change or extinguish the same while in place and being used as a signal along the line or at the switches or side tracks of any railroad company operating a railroad in this Territory, and within this Territory, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days, nor more than one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 71.-Exemption from execution, etc.-Wages. Subdivision 6 of section 1, of Chapter XXXVII of the Laws of 1887, entitled, “An act to provide for the exemption of property from forced sale under execution" be so amended as to read as follows: 6. The personal earnings of the debtor for sixty days next preceding his application for such exemption, when it is made to appear by the affidavit of the debtor, or otherwise, that such earnings are necessary to the support of such debtor, or his wife or his family, Provided, That such exemption shall not apply to debts incurred for manual labor, or for the necessaries of life furnished the debtor or his family. RECENT GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS. [The Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments have consented to furnish statements of all contracts for constructions and repairs entered into by them. These, as received, will appear from time to time in the Bulletin.] The following contracts have been made by the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury: PHILADELPHIA, PA.-September 3, 1897. Contract with Allen B.. Rorke for trench excavation, portion of general excavation, concrete foundations, footing stones of terrace columns, stone and brick work of basement, yard and terrace walls, ironwork, brick arches, and concrete filling of terrace floors, etc., of the United States Mint building, $138,400. Work to be completed within nine months. NEW YORK, N. Y.--September 13, 1897. Contract with D. S. Hess & Co. for fitting up library room, etc., in the court-house and post-office, $11,475. Work to be completed within three months. NEW LONDON, CONN.-September 21, 1897. Contract with John A. Holland, Norwich, Conn., for heating and ventilating apparatus for the post-office and custom-house, $1,987. Work to be completed within sixty-four days. SAVANNAH, GA.-September 21, 1897. Contract with Charles B. Kruse Heating Company, Milwaukee, Wis., for heating and ventilating apparatus for court-house and post-office, $4,962. Work to be completed within one hundred working days. NEW YORK, N. Y.-September 22, 1897. Contract with James C. Wilson for rolling iron shutters for all windows above second story of appraisers' warehouse, $32,690. Work to be completed within four months. BOSTON, MASS.-September 27, 1897. Contract with Mosler Safe Company, New York, N. Y., for money vault and burglar-proof steel and iron plates for post-office and subtreasury, $7,596. Work to be completed within one hundred working days. LYNN, MASS.-September 30, 1897. Contract with Lynch & Woodward, Boston, Mass., for low-pressure, return-circulation steam heating and ventilating apparatus for post-office, $3,230. Work to be completed within sixty days. PATERSON, N. J.-October 5, 1897. Contract with McIlvain, Unkefer Co., Pittsburg, Pa., for erection and completion (except heating apparatus, vault doors, and tower clock) of post office, $130,755. Work to be completed within eighteen months. NEW YORK, N. Y.-October 21, 1897. Contract with James Harley, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plumbing and gas piping in appraisers warehouse, $29,985. Work to be completed within one hundred and twenty-five working days. INDEX. Anthracite mine laborers... Arbitration and conciliation in the boot and shoe industry.... Arbitration and mediation, ninth annual report of the board of, of the State of New York........ Building and loan associations.... Conciliation and arbitration in the boot and shoe industry. Condition of the negro in various cities.... Decisions of courts affecting labor: Page. 728-774 1-38 153 370-374 1-38 257-369 173-175 Alien contract-labor law not applicable to a chemist....... Beneficial associations-not partnerships-ownership of property...... 528, 529 of provision... Chinese laborers-deportation.... 175-177 386, 387 Claim for wages-preference of same over prior mortgage. 177-179 197-201 Constitutional provision--when self-executing-enforcement of foreign injuries to railroad employees-application of statute to railroads in hands of receivers.. involuntary servitude-sailors in the merchant service.. 508, 509 632-635 509-516 Construction of statute-alien contract labor.. Construction of statute-fellow-servant act of Texas Contract compelling employee to join labor union unlawful.. Contract of employment-consideration ... 804, 805 529-532 813, 814 522 Decisions of courts affecting labor-Continued. Contract of service to work out fine and costs-modification of such Page. 187, 188 Definition of "wages" under law exempting same from garnishment... 188, 189 amount received on accident policy not to be considered in mitiga- construction of statute-discontinuance of suit by administrator........ 524-526 custom-concurring negligence........ duties of master duties of master-assumption of risk by employee.. duties of servant-duties of master. electric railway company. electric railway companies-duties of the master. fellow-servant act of Texas. fellow-servants.. fellow-servants-principal and agent-scope of authority.. masters' duty, etc 815, 816 655 201, 202 202, 203 203, 204 656, 657 657-659 204-206, 659-662 662-665 measure of damages. 84-87 negligence..... negligence of minor employees-application of New York factory 640, 641, 665-667 810, 811 railroad companies.... 80, 81, 87, 88, 207, 208, 641-645, 667-670 211, 212 816, 817 railroad companies-construction of statute. railroad companies-duty of master........ railroad companies-employees' contracts of service-fellow-serv- railroad companies-negligence of company's surgeon. railroad companies-negligence of the master-assumption of risks unblocked railway frog-contributory negligence validity of contracts making the acceptance of benefits by employ- ees from railway relief fund a waiver of claims for personal injury. 646-649 Exemption from garnishment-wages. 526, 527, 649, 650 651, 652 |