SEC. 4611. Every person shall file with his application for a license a bond to the State in the sum of five hundred dollars, with surety approved by the commissioner, conditioned that the obligor shall not violate any provision of this chapter. The commissioner may cause an action to be brought on said bond in the name of the State for any violation of its conditions; and he may revoke any license whenever, in his judgment, the person licensed shall violate any provision of this chapter.

SEC. 4612. Every person so licensed shall keep a register in which shall be entered, in the English language, the name and address of every applicant, and of every person who shall make application for help or servants, and the nature of the employment for which such help shall be wanted. Such registers shall at all reasonable hours be open to the examination of the commissioner and his agents.

SEC. 4613 (as amended by chapter 271, Acts of 1905). Every such licensed person shall give to cach applicant for employment from whom a fee or other valuable thing shall be received for procuring such employment, which fee or valuable thing shall in no case exceed the value of ten per centum of the first month's wages, a recci¡ t in which shall be stated the name of the applicant, the amount of the fee or other valuable thing, the date, the name or nature of the employment or situation to be procured, and a separate receipt in which shall be stated the name and address of the person or persons to whom the applicant shall be referred or sent for employment or work. In case the applicant shall not obtain or accept a situation or employment through the agency of such licensed person within one month after registration as aforesaid, said licensed person shall forthwith return to said applicant upon demand the full amount of the fee or valuable thing paid or delivered by said applicant to said licensed person, provided that such demand be made within thirty days after the expiration of the period aforesaid. In case the applicant shall accept the situation with the person to whom said applicant has been referred, said applicant shall forfeit the whole amount of the ice or valuable thing paid aforesaid. Every such receipt shall have printed on its back, in, the English language, a copy of this section, and every licensed person shall cause a plain and legibly printed copy of this chapter to be posted in a conspicuous place in such agency or place of business. No person shall display on any sign, window, or in any publication, the name of the Connecticut free public employment bureau or a name similar thereto.

SEC. 4614. No such licensed person shall send or cause to be sent any female help or servants to a place of bad repute, house of ill-fame, or assignation house, or to a house or place of amusement kept for immoral purposes. No such licensed person shall publish or cause to be published any false or fraudulent notice or advertisement, or give any false information, or make any false promise relating to work or employment to any one who shall register for employment; and no such licensed person shall make false entries in the register kept by him. Every person violating any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

CHAPTER 33, ACTS OF 1903.

The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics may establish and conduct branch public employment bureaus under the direction and control of the five established bureaus. Such branches may be established and conducted in any city within the State and shall be managed by the nearest burcau: Provided, That in no case shall such a branch be established unless it can be conducted by the bureau taking charge thereof upon the appropriation made for such bureau.

Approved, April 14, 1903.

CHAPTER 148, ACTS OF 1905.

The provisions of chapter 259 of the General Statutes [sections 4608-4614] shall not apply to any person supplying positions in connection with educational institutions, provided such person is not engaged in supplying positions for other employees. Approved, June 22, 1905.

ILLINOIS.

ACTS OF 1903, page 194.

SECTION 1. Free employment offices are hereby created as follows: One in each city of not less than fifty thousand population, and three in each city containing a population of one million or over, for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment, and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. Such offices shall be designated and known as Illinois Free Employment Offices.

SEC. 2. Within sixty days after this act shall have been in force, the State board of commissioners of labor shall recommend, and the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a superintendent and assistant superintendent and a clerk for each of the offices created by section 1 of this act, who shall devote their entire time to the duties of their respective offices. The assistant superintendent or the clerk shall in each case be a woman. The tenure of such appointment shall be two years, unless sooner removed for cause. The salary of each superintendent shall be fifteen hundred (1,500) dollars per annum, the salary of such assistant superintendent shall be one thousand two hundred (1,200) dollars per annum. The salary of such clerk shall be one thousand (1,000) dollars per annum, together with proper amounts for defraying the necessary costs of equipping and maintaining the respective offices. SEC. 3. The superintendent of each such free employment office shall, within sixty days after appointment, open an office in such locality as shall have been agreed upon between such superintendent and the secretary of the bureau of labor statistics, as being most appropriate for the purpose intended; such office to be provided with a sufficient number of rooms and apartments to enable him to provide, and he shall so provide, a separate room or apartment for the use of women registering for situations or help. Upon the outside of each such office, in position and manner to secure the fullest public attention, shall be placed a sign which shall read in the English language, Illinois Free Employment Office, and the same shall appear either upon the outside windows or upon signs in such other languages as the location of each such office shall render advisable. The superintendent of each such free employment office shall receive and record in books kept for that purposes [purpose], names of all persons applying for employment or help, designating opposite the names and addresses of each applicant, the character of employment or help desired. Separate registers for applicants for employment shall be kept, showing the age, sex, nativity, trade or occupation of each applicant, the cause and duration of nonemployment, whether married or single, the number of dependent children, together with such other facts as may be required by the bureau of labor statistics to be used by said bureau: Provided, That no special registers shall be open to public inspection at any time, and that such statistical and sociological data as the bureau of labor may require shall be held in confidence by said bureau, and so published as not to reveal the identity of any one: And, provided further, That any applicant who shall decline to furnish answers as to the questions contained in special registers shall not thereby forfeit any rights to any employment the office might secure.

SEC. 4. Each such superintendent shall report on Thursday of each week to the State bureau of labor statistics the number of applications for positions and for help received during the preceding week, and the number of positions secured, also those unfilled applications remaining on the books at the beginning of the week. It shall also show the number and character of the positions secured during the preceding week. Upon receipt of these lists, and not later than Saturday of each week, the secretary of the said bureau of labor statistics shall cause to be printed a sheet showing separately, and in combination, the lists received from all such free employment offices.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of each such superintendent of a free employment office to immediately put himself in communication with the principal manufacturers, merchants and other employers of labor, and to use all diligence in securing the cooperation of the said employers of labor, with the purposes and objects of said employment offices. To this end it shall be competent for such superintendents to advertise in the columns of newspapers, or other medium, for such situations as he has applicants to fill, and he may advertise in a general way for the cooperation of large contractors and employers in such trade journals or special publication as reach such employers, whether such trade or special journals are published within the State of Illinois or not. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of each such superintendent to make report to the State bureau of labor statistics annually, not later than December first of each year, concerning the work of his office for the year ending October first of the same year, together with a statement of the expenses of the same, including the charges of an interpreter when necessary, and such report shall be published by the said bureau of labor statistics annually with its coal report. Each such superintendent shall also perform such other duties in the collection of statistics of labor as the secretary of the bureau of labor statistics may require.

SEC. 7. No fee or compensation shall be charged or received, directly or indirectly, from persons applying for employment or help through said free employment offices, and any superintendent, assistant superintendent or clerk, who shall accept, directly or indirectly, any fee or compensation from any applicant or from his or her represenative [representative], shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days.

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SEC. 8. The term, "applicant for employment," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean any person seeking work of any lawful character, and applicant for help'' shall mean any person or persons seeking help in any legitimate enterprise; and nothing in this act shall be construed to limit the meaning of the term work to manual occupation, but it shall include professional service, and all other legitimate service. SEC. 9. No person, firm or corporation in this State shall open, operate or maintain a private employment agency for hire, or where a fee is charged to either applicant for employment or for help without first obtaining a license for the same from the State commissioners of labor. Such license fee, in cities of fifty thousand (50,000) population and over, shall be fifty dollars ($50) per annum. In all cities containing less than fifty thousand (50,000) population a uniform fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) per annum will be required. Every license shall contain a designation of the city, street and number of the building in which the licensed party conducts said employment agency. The license, together with a copy of this act, shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each and every employment agency. No agency shall print, publish or paint on any sign, window, or insert in any newspaper or publication, a name similar to that of the Illinois Free Employment Office. The commissioners of labor shall require with cach applicant for a license a bond in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500), with one or more sureties, to be approved by the said commissioners, and conditioned that the obligor will not violate any of the duties, terms, conditions, provisions or requirements of this act. The said commissioners are authorized to cause an action or actions to be brought on said bond in the name of the people of the State of Illinois for any violation of any of its conditions, and they may also revoke, upon a full hearing, any license. whenever, in their judgment, the party licensed shall have violated any of the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of every licensed agency to keep a register, in which shall be entered the name and address of every applicant. Such licensed agency shall also enter into a register the name and address of every person who shall make application for help or servants; and the name and nature of the employment for which such help shall be wanted. Such register shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to the inspection and examination of the commissioners of labor or their agents. Where a registration fee is charged for receiving or filing applications for employment or help, said fee shall in no case exceed the sum of two dollars ($2), for which a receipt shall be given, in which shall be stated the name of the applicant, the amount of the fee, the date, the name or character of the work or situation to be procured. In case the said applicant shall not obtain a situation or employment through such licensed agency within one month after registration as aforesaid, then said licensed agency shall forthwith repay and return to such applicant, upon demand being made therefor, the full amount of the fee paid or delivered by said applicant to said licensed agency. provided that such demand be made within thirty (30) days after the expiration of the period aforesaid. No agency shall send or cause to be sent any female help or servants to any place of bad repute, house of ill-fame or assignation house, or to any house or place of amusement kept for immoral purposes. No such licensed agency shall publish or cause to be published any false or fraudulent notice or advertisement, or to give any false information, or to make any false promise concerning or relating to work or employment to anyone who shall register for employment, and no licensed agency shall make any false entries in the register to be kept as herein provided. No person, firm or corporation shall conduct the business of any employment office in, or in connection with, ony place where intoxicating liquors are sold.

SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of labor, and the secretary thereof, to enforce this act. When informed of any violation, it shall be their duty to institute criminal proceedings for the enforcement of its penaltics before any court of competent jurisdiction. Any person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less [than] fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred (100) dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or both, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 11. A private employment agency is defined and interpreted to mean any person, firm or corporation furnishing employment or help or giving information as to where employment or help may be secured, or who shall display any employment sign or bulletin, or through the medium of any card, circular or pamphlet, offering employment or help, shall be deemed an employment agency, and subject to the provisions of this act, whether a fee or commission is charged or not Provided, That charitable organizations are not included.

SEC. 12. All money or moneys received from fees and fines shall be held by the said commissioners of labor, and shall constitute a fund for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act; and the said commissioners shall, at the end of each fiscal year, make an account of said fund and pay into the State treasury whatever balance shall

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remain after paying the necessary disbursements for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act.

SEC. 13. All printing, blanks, blank books, stationery and such other supplies as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the offices herein created shall be furnished by the secretary of state upon requisition for the same made by the superintendents of the several offices.

SEC. 14. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved May 11, 1903.

KANSAS.

GENERAL STATUTES OF 1901.

SECTION 3833. There is hereby created the free employment bureau of the State of Kansas, for the purpose of providing free employment agencies in all cities of the first and second class within the State: Provided, That any city of the second class may, by resolution of the mayor and council, dispense with such free employment agency, and shall notify the director to that effect. Said bureau shall be under the supervision and direction of an officer designated as "director of free employment," who shall be appointed by the governor within ten days from the taking effect of this act, and shall hold such office for the term of two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Before entering upon the duties of the office, he shall take and subscribe an oath as provided for other State officers.

SEC. 3834. As soon as such director of free employment shall have been appointed and qualified, it shall be his duty to prepare, prescribe, print, and transmit to the city clerks of all cities of the first and second classes, directions, rules and regulations for the opening, conduct and reports of free employment agencies in said cities, which directions, rules and regulations said director may amend, add to or revise from time to time. Said director shall also prepare all needful or proper forms to be used by such agencies, and shall cause blanks and all blank books to be prepared by the State printer, and shall forward supplies thereof to all such city clerks for use of such agencies; all work authorized by this act to be done by the State printer, upon the requisition of said director, subject to the approval of the State printing committee.

SEC. 3835. Within thirty days after such directions, rules and regulations shall have been received by any city clerk, the mayor and council shall comply with the directions of said director as to the opening and preparing to maintain a free employment agency and for the expense thereof; and if no such provision be made, the duties of free employment agent shall devolve upon the city clerk, who shall perform the same, and his office shall be the free employment agency of said city.

SEC. 3836. It shall be the duty of the free employment agent of every city to register, as directed by the directions of the director of free employment, every person desiring to employ any person and every person desiring employment; and it shall be the strict legal right of every such person to so register and to enjoy all of the advantages of such employment agency free from any charge or expense whatever. Reports to the director of free employment shall be made by such agencies as often and as to such matters as he may require. Every person shall be notified of employment open in the order of his or her registration for that employment by such agent where registered. All other details shall be fixed by the director of free employment.

SEC. 3837. The reports of such agencies shall be made to the director of free employment as he may require, and shall be tabulated and classified, and such persons as have not secured employment or notice of employment where registered shall be notified by the director where such employment may be had, as shown by the reports made. The director shall embody in his annual report such tabulations of the work performed by such agencies in the State, with such recommendations as he may deem proper for the information of the legislature.

SEC. 3838. If any city clerk shall fail or refuse to carry out in good faith, in a reasonably fair and efficient manner, the duties devolved upon him by this act or by the direction, rules and regulations of the director of free employment, he shall forfeit his office as such free employment officer, and be removed therefrom: Provided, Such removal shall not affect the tenure of his office as to its other duties. Any agent provided for and appointed by any city to conduct a free employment agency under this act shall be removed by the mayor at any time when requested in writing by ten or more electors of said city, upon a showing being made that such agent refused or failed to perform the duties as required by this act. In case of the removal or resignation for any cause of the free employment agent in any city, the mayor of such city shall immediately appoint a qualified person to fill such vacancy.

SEC. 3839. The director of free employment shall keep and maintain an office, and the executive council is hereby directed to provide for said director a suitable room, properly furnished for the use of said director.

SEC. 3840. It shall be the further duty of the said director to secure and list, as far as practicable, from the rural districts of the State, the number of extra laborers required for the harvest season in each community, for the purpose of providing labor for the harvest season to meet such demand, and to provide employment for any idle labor seeking employment.

SEC. 3841. The director of free employment shall be paid a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, to be paid as other State officers. The further sum of five hundred dollars annually for postage and express is hereby allowed for the use of said director in carrying out the provisions of this act.

SECTION 2.

MARYLAND.

ARTICLE 89, PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS-CODE OF 1903.

* 7th. The chief of the bureau of industrial statistics shallcause to be organized and operated a free State employment agency for the free use of the citizens of the State of Maryland, for the purpose of securing employment for unemployed persons who may register in said bureau or agency and for the purpose of securing help or labor for persons registering as applicants for help or labor and to advertise and maintain such office.

MICHIGAN.

ACT No. 37, ACTS OF 1905.

SECTION 1. Free employment bureaus are hereby authorized to be created in every city in this State having a population of over fifty thousand, for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment, and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. Such bureaus shall be designated and known as Michigan Free Employment Bureaus.

SEC. 2. The commissioner of labor shall organize and establish in all cities of fifty thousand inhabitants or over, in this State, a free employment bureau, for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment, and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. No compensation or fee shall be charged or received, directly or indirectly, from persons applying for employment or help through any such bureau. It shall be the duty of said commissioner of labor to use all diligence in securing the cooperation of employers of labor with the purposes and objects of said employment bureaus. To this end it shall be competent for said commissioner to advertise in the columns of newspapers, or to use other mediums, for such situations as he has applicants to fill, and he may advertise in a general way for the cooperation of large contractors and employers, in such trade journals or special publications as reach such employers, whether such trade journals are published within the State of Michigan or not. The expenses for said advertising shall not exceed five hundred dollars per annum, and shall be paid from any appropriations made for the department of labor, and shall be audited the same as other items of expense.

SEC. 3. When the commissioner of labor shall deem it necessary to establish a free employment bureau under the provisions of this act, the board of State auditors shall provide a suitabl office for the same, with necessary furniture; and all printing, binding, blanks, stationery and supplies shall be done and furnished under any contract which the State now has, or shall hereafter have, for similar work with any party or parties; and the expense thereof shall be in the discretion of the board of State auditors, audited and paid for in same manner as other State printing and supplies are paid for.

Approved March 30, 1905.

MINNESOTA.

CHAPTER 316, ACTS OF 1905.

SECTION 1. The commissioner of labor of the State of Minnesota is hereby directed to organize and establish in one city in this State containing fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants, or more, to be chosen by him, a free public employment bureau, for the purpose of receiving applications from persons seeking employment, and applications from employers desiring to employ labor.