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Provided, That in event it should at any time prove that said co-operative work is not being conducted to the best advantage of the State, the Director of the State Geological Survey is hereby authorized to withdraw from such co-operation, when so advised by the Governor, and the mapping may be continued by the State organization alone, or the unexpended balance be turned back into the Treasury and the appropriation for said co-operative surveys cease or be used for other purposes of the Survey, as may be determined by the supervisory board provided for in section three of this act.

§ 11. Since it is manifest that the work of the Survey should proceed without break, and that those persons now engaged on it should continue at their tasks without interruption, an emergency is hereby declared, and this act shall take effect upon its approval by the Governor.

Approved March 25, 1908.

Emergency.

CHAPTER 64.

AN ACT for additional improvements at the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com.. monwealth of Kentucky:

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§1. That the sum of forty thousand dollars, or as much as may be necessary thereof, be, and the appropriated same is hereby, appropriated for the benefit of the mal Institution Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Persons. Colored Persons, Frankfort, Kentucky, for the purpose of paying the outstanding indebtedness heretofore incurred in the purchase of agricultural lands; also for the erection and equipment of an auditorium and practice school; also for the erection and equipment of a mechanical shop; also for the erection and

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equipment of electric light and heating plants, and for the further extension of the water system of said institution.

§ 2. If, in the judgment of the said Board of be purchased. Trustees, the purchase of additional grounds may be necessary for the accommodation of the new buildings herein contemplated, or for the proper conducting of said institution, they may make necessary purchase and pay for the same out of the money herein appropriated.

Approved March 18, 1908.

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CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT to create an Educational Commission to define its powers and duties, and to provide for its expenses.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That a commission of eleven members be, and is hereby created, to be known as the Educational Commission, to be constituted and appointed as hereinafter provided.

Personnel § 2. Said Commission shall consist of the Goverselecting Com nor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, one member of the Senate to be chosen by the Senate, upon the passage and approval of this act one member of the House of Representatives to be chosen by the House of Representatives upon the passage and approval of this act, one woman to be chosen by the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs, the President of the State University, the President of the Eastern State Normal School, the President of the Western State Normal School, one representative of the Colleges of Kentucky, one Superintendent of City Schools and one Superintendent

of County Schools. The three members last named shall be appointed by the Governor upon the passage and approval of this act. The Superintendent of pub hoacancie lic Instruction shall ex officio be chairman of the Commission. All vacancies that may occur by resignation or otherwise shall be filled by the Governor.

proceedings to

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$3. The Commission shall meet at the call of the Record of chairman and elect a Secretary, and shall cause a record to be made and kept of all its proceedings. Six members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Commission.

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the Educational Com-Duty of mission to make a thorough investigation of the whole school system and all the educational interests of Kentucky and the laws under which the same are organized and operated; to make a comparative study of such other school systems as may seem advisable and to submit to the next General Assembly a report embracing such suggestions, recommendations, revisions, additions, corrections and amendments as the Commission shall deem necessary.

$5. The Superintendent of Public Printing is hereby authorized and directed to do the printing necessary for the Educational Commission.

how paid.

$ 6. The members of the Commission shall receive Expenses; only their actual personal and traveling expenses, to be paid upon the presentation of itemized statements of such accounts, verified by affidavits, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant or warrants for such expenses and for postage, clerical service, and incidentals on the order of the Educational Commission, signed by the chairman and attested by its Secretary. The money authorized to be paid under this act shall be paid out of the general funds not otherwise appropriated.

$7. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore this act shall take effect and be in force upon its passage and approval.

Approved March 17, 1908.

Emergency.

Child under fourteen, shall

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school term.

CHAPTER 66.

AN ACT to regulate child labor law and to make the provisions thereof effective.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

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No child under fourteen years of age shall be not be employ employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any factory, workshop, mine, mercantile establishment, store, business office, telegraph office, restaurant, hotel, apartment house or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever, during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session.

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§ 2. No child between fourteen and sixteen years ployed the em- of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any factory, workshop, mine, or mercantile establishment, unless the person or corporation employing him procures and keeps on file and accessible to the truant officers of the town or city, and to the Labor Inspector, an employment certificate as hereinafter prescribed, and keep two complete lists of all such children employed therein, one on file and one conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the building in which such children are employed. On termination of the employment of a child so registered, and whose certificate is so filed, such certificate shall forthwith be surrendered by the employer to the child or its parent or guardian or custodian. The Labor Inspector may make demands on an employer in whose establishment a child apparently under the age of sixteen years is employed or permitted or

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suffered to work, and whose employment certificate Labor Int is not then filed as required by this Act, that such under act. employer shall either furnish him within ten days, evidence satisfactory to him that such child is in fact over sixteen years of age, or shall cease to employ, or permit or suffer such child to work therein. The Labor Inspector may require from such employer the same evidence of age of such child as is required on the issuance of an employment certificate, and the employer furnishing such evidence shall not be required to furnish any further evidence of the age of the child. In case such employer shall fail to produce and deliver to the Inspector within ten days after such demand such evidence of age herein required of him, and thereafter continue to employ such child, or per- Evidence of mit or suffer such child to work in such establishment, be produced. proof of the giving of such notice and of such failure to produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution brought for violation of the provision that such child is under sixteen years of age and is unlawfully employed.

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$3. An employment certificate shall only be ap- Employment proved by the Superintendent of Schools or by a per- be approved. son authorized by him in writing, or, where there is no Superintendent of Schools, by a person authorized by the school board, provided that no member of a school board or other person authorized as aforesaid shall have authority to approve such certificate for any child then in or about to enter his own employment, or the employment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member, officer or employee.

§ 4. The persons authorized to issue employment certificates shall not issue such certificates until he has received, examined, approved, and filed the following papers duly executed:

(1) The school record of such child properly filled out and signed as provided hereinbelow. (2) A passport or duly attested transcript of the certificate of birth or baptism or other religious record, showing

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