Section 45 amended.

Department of labor.

Consists of.

CHAPTER 117.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act regulating the age, employment, safety, health and work hours of persons, employes and operatives in factories, workshops, mills and all places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on, and to establish a department for the enforcement thereof," approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and four.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Section forty-five of the act of which this act is amendatory be, and the same hereby is amended, so as to read as follows:

45. For the purpose of carrying into effect and enforcing the provisions of this act, there shall be and hereby is established a department to be known as the Department of Labor; the department shall have its main office in Trenton, and shall consist of a commissioner, an assistant commissioner and eleven inspectors; the Governor shall, immediately after the passage of this act, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint some suitable person, who shall be a resident Commissioner and citizen of this State, as head of the said department, at a salary of six thousand dollars per year, to be paid inonthly, whose term of office shall be three years and until his successor is appointed, and whose title shall be Commissioner of Labor; the commissioner shall, with the approval of the Governor, appoint the assistant commissioner who shall be an architect, engineer or mechanic, he shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per year, to be paid monthly; the Governor shall appoint eleven suitable persons as inspectors, two

and assistants; their salaries.

Inspectors.

of authority.

divided.

of whom shall be women, whose salary shall be one thousand five hundred dollars per year each, to be paid monthly; the terms of office of the assistant and the inspectors shall be three years unless sooner removed by the commissioner; the assistant and the inspectors shall each be furnished with certificates of authority by the Certificate Secretary of State, and they shall produce the same if so required by any manufacturer; the commissioner shall have the power, out of the appropriation made for the purpose of carrying on the work of the department, to purchase badges for the assistant, the inspectors and himself, the commissioner may divide the State State into districts, assign inspectors to such districts, and may, in his discretion, transfer them from one district. to another; the commissioner, assistant and inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the enforcement of this act; the commissioner Clerical help. shall have the right to employ such department clerks for carrying on the work of the department as may, in his judgment, be necessary; such clerks shall receive such salaries as the commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, shall fix, to be paid by the Treasurer on warrant of the Comptroller in equal monthly installments; when the work of the department shall necessitate the employment of additional inspectors, Extra help. the commissioner shall have the power to employ such inspectors at such compensation and for such length of Eme as he may deem necessary, and such extra inspectors shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as the inspectors appointed by the Governor; all salaries and expenses incurred by the commissioner, assistant and all inspectors, in the discharge of their duties, and all salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, shall be paid from the funds of the State, out of the moneys appropriated for that purpose, by the Treasurer, upon warrant of the Comptroller, upon presentation of proper vouchers for the same, approved by the commissioner; it shall be Duties. the duty of the commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act and to exercise supervision and control over the assistant and the inspectors, and to cause inspections

Annual report.

Right to

enter to inspect.

Inspector's

list furnished school authorities.

Hours of service.

Outside employment.

to be made of the factories, mills, workshops, and
places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is
carried on, by the assistant and the inspectors, as often
as practicable, and to make a report of the work of
the department to the Governor of the State on or be-
fore the thirty-first day of October in each year; to
prosecute violations of the provisions of this act in any
district court, recorders' courts of cities and before
any justice of the peace having due jurisdiction, or in
any other court of competent jurisdiction in this State;
the commissioner, the assistant commissioner and the
inspectors shall have the right at all reasonable hours
to enter and inspect factories, mills, workshops and
places where the manufacture of goods of any kind
is carried on, and each inspector shall make a report
in writing of such inspections to the commissioner at
least once in each week; inspectors shall make out a
list of minors discharged, with the name of child in
full, residence, street and number, name of place from
which such minor was discharged and date of dis-
charge; he shall send or deliver within twenty-four
hours, such list to the principal of the public school in
the district where the minor resides, or to the truant
officer having such school district in charge; every
deputy inspector shall devote at least eight hours of
every working day except public holidays, and four
hours on Saturdays, to the discharge of his or her
duties as such deputy inspector, unless prevented by
illness or other disability, and no deputy inspector shall
engage in any business, occupation or employment dur-
ing his or her term of office that will in any way inter-
fere with or prevent the full and faithful performance
of such duties.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 21, 1912.

CHAPTER 118.

An Act to authorize the Board of Fish and Game Commissioners to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, land in this State to be used for the propagation of fish and game.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

167-C-118 S-16-289

land for

and game

1. The Board of Fish and Game Commissioners of Additional this State are hereby authorized to acquire by gift, hatcheries grant, purchase, condemnation, or in any other lawful farms. manner, in the name of the State and for its use, so much land in this State as may in their judgment be necessary for the purposes of artificial propagation of food or game fish, and game birds and animals, for restocking the public waters and lands of this State, and the lands purchased or condemned shall be adjacent to the lands already selected for a fish hatchery and game farm, located in Warren and Ocean counties, and in no case shall the amount expended in such purchase Amount or condemnation exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.

allowed.

2. When such land is acquired by condemnation, the Proceedings. proceedings shall in all respects be in conformity with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to regulate the ascertainment and payment of compensation for property condemned or taken for public use Revision of 1900," approved March twentieth, one thousand nine. hundred, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.

3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 21, 1912.

Tenure of superintendents and employes.

Hearing on charges preferred.

Repealer.

CHAPTER 119.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform standard of weights and measures in this State, to establish a Department of Weights and Measures, and to provide penalties for the use other than standard or legal weights and measures," approved, April twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. The county superintendents and municipal superintendents of weights and measures appointed by the governing body of the respective counties or the governing body of any municipality or other governing bodies shall hold their office during good behavior, and shall not be removed, discharged or reduced in pay or position except for inefficiency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming an employe or other just cause, and until the said officials shall have been furnished with the written statements of the reasons for such removal, discharge or reduction, and shall have been given a reasonable time to make written answer thereto. shall such removal, discharge or reduction be made until the charge or charges shall have been examined into and found true in fact by the governing board or body of such county or municipality appointing the said superintendent or superintendents at a hearing, upon reasonable notice to the person charged, at which time he may be represented by counsel and offer testimony or witnesses or any other evidence in his own behalf.

Nor

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 21, 1912.