over one hundred feet in length, and in other cases such number as may be directed by the fire department, or such other authority as may have the control of fire regulations in any city or town where such hotel or lodging house is located. Such balconies and iron stairs shall be constructed at the expense of the owner of such hotel or lodging house. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 6. [Notices.]-It shall be the duty of every such proprietor or keeper of any hotel or lodging house to post notices in every such room of such hotel or lodging house, calling attention to the fact that this act has been complied with, and the part of such room where such coil of rope or rope ladder is fastened. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 7. [Penalty.]-Any violation of any of the provisions of this act hereinbefore contained shall be deemed a misdemeanor and indictable as such; and any person convicted thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, and imprisoned until such fine and costs are paid. [Id. § 4.]

SEC. 8. [Watchman.]-In hotels or lodging houses containing more than fifty rooms, and being four or more stories high, the proprietor or lessee of each hotel or lodging house shall employ and keep at least one competent watchman, whose duty it shall be to keep watch and guard in such hotel or lodging house against fire, and to give warning in case a fire should break out. Such watchman shall be on duty between the hours of nine o'clock, P. M., and six o'clock, A. M., and in case of fire he shall instantly awaken each guest and all other persons therein, and inform them of such fire. A large alarm bell or gong shall be placed on each floor or story, to be used to alarm the inmates of such hotel or lodging house in case of fire therein. It shall be the duty of every proprietor, or keeper of such hotel or lodging house, in case of fire therein, to give notice of same to all guests and inmates thereof at once, and to do all in their power to save such guest and inmates. [Id. § 5.]

SEC. 9. [Same-penalty.]-Should such watchman leave his post of duty in such hotel or lodging house for more than fifteen minutes at any one time during the hours specified for him to be on watch, or if he shall sleep while on duty, or if he shall fail to awaken the persons sleeping in such hotel or lodging house, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. [Id. § 6.]

SEC. 10. [Penalty.]-Every proprietor of such hotel or lodging house who shall fail to comply with the requirements of section eight of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished in the same manner as is provided in section seven of this chapter. [Id. §7.]

SEC. 11. [Grand jury.]-This act shall be given in charge to the grand jury at each session. And they shall make due inquiry and indict and bring to trial all parties found guilty of violating any of its provisions. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 12. [Fines.]-All fines imposed or collected for any violation of the provisions of this act shall be paid to the treasurer of the county where such offense is committed, for the use and benefit of the common school fund. [Id. § 9.]

SEC. 13. [Hotels hereafter constructed.]-All hotels or lodging houses hereafter constructed in this state over two stories in height and over one hundred feet in length shall be constructed so that there shall be at least two stairways for the use of the guests leading from the ground floor to the uppermost story. And all out doors shall be so hung that they shall open on the outside instead of the inside of such hotel. [I. § 10.]

CHAPTER 39 a-INDUSTRIAL HOME.

SECTION 1. [Establishment.]-There shall be established in the state of Nebraska an institution to be designated and known as the Nebraska Industrial Home. [1887, chap. 46.]

SEC. 2. [Object.]-Besides shelter and protection, the object of said institution hall be to provide employment and means of self-support for penitent women and girls, with a view to aid in the suppression of prostitution.

SEC. 3. [Government.]-The government of the "Nebraska Industrial Home shall be by and under the supervision of the trustees of the "Woman's Associate Charities of the State of Nebraska," and their successors in office, who shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of the duties this act makes incumbent upon them, not to exceed the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars in any one year; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the "board of public lands and buildings" from establishing rules and regulations for the government of such home in any manner.

SEC. 4. [Location.]-It shall be the duty of the "board of public lands and buildings," within ninety (90) days after this act takes effect, to procure, by purchase or gift, not less than ten acres nor more than one hundred and sixty (160) acres of land for a site, and to locate said home thereon; and said site shall be located at the city or village which shall, after duly advertising for bids for its location, donate the largest amount to said home.

SEC. 5. [Buildings.]—Said board are hereby authorized and required, as soon as practicable after this act goes into effect, to take the necessary steps for constructing and furnishing suitable buildings for said home, including hospital accommodations. They shall advertise for plans and specifications of said buildings, and upon their adoption shall at once advertise for sealed proposals for constructing the buildings in accordance with the plans and specifications adopted by them, and shall require bonds for the faithful performance and completion of all work contemplated in this section, according to contract.

SEC. 6. [Officers.]-Said trustees, by and with the advice and consent of the governor, shall appoint a superintendent, a steward, a teacher or teachers, and such other officers as in their judgment the wants of said home may require, and fix their salaries; and, by and with the advice and consent of the governor, may remove the same. All such officers shall be women.

SEC. 7. [Report.]-Within ten days preceding the meeting of each regular session of the legislature, said board and said trustees jointly shall furnish to the governor a printed report of their action and an estimate of the expenses of said home, together with a statement of the receipts and disbursements of funds; and during the first week of the session of the legislature, at least ten copies of said report shall be delivered to each member thereof. The said report shall show the names and residences of trustees of the "Woman's Associate Charities of the State of Nebraska," the condition of said home and names of the regular officers and salary of each, the number of persons who have been inmates, the average number during each year, the discipline prescribed, the studies and industries pursued, the expenses per capita based on an average yearly numbers and such other information as may be deemed important, or the governor request.

SEC. 8. [Appropriation-Obsolete.]

CHAP. 39 a. "An act providing for the establishment and government of the Nebraska Industrial Home and making appropriation therefor." Laws 1887, chap. 46. Took effect July 1, 1887.

CHAPTER 39 6.-INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

SEC. 1. [Establishment.]— There is hereby created a bureau of labor census and industrial statistics, with headquarters in the capitol building, for which stationery, postage, expressage, printing, and facilities for transacting business shall be furnished the same as for other executive departments. [1887, chap. 47.]

SEC. 2. [Commissioner.]—The governor of this state is hereby made commismissioner of said bureau.

SEC. 3. [Same-Deputy.]-Said commissioner shall have the power to appoint a deputy at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, who, when acting for or instead of said commissioner, shall have and may exercise equal power and authority subject to the approval of the commissioner.

SEC. 4. [Duties.]-The duties of said commissioner shall be to collect, collate, and publish statistics and facts relative to manufacturers, industrial classes, and material resources of the state, and especially to examine into the relations between labor and capital, the means of escape from fire and protection of life and health in factories and workshops, mines and other places of industries, the employment of illegal child labor, the exaction of unlawful hours of labor from any employe, the educational, sanitary, moral, and financial condition of laborers and artisans, the cost of food, fuel, clothing, and building material, the causes of strikes and lockouts, as well as kindred subjects and matters pertaining to the welfare of industrial interests and classes.

SEC. 5. [Power of commissioner.]-The commissioner or his deputy shall have power to enter any factory or workshop in which labor is employed, for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics, or of examining the means of escape from fire, and the provisions made for the health and safety of operatives in such factory or workshop; and in case the officer of the bureau shall discover any violations of, or the neglect to comply with the laws in respect to child labor, hours of labor for women and children, fire escapes, and similar enactments now or hereafter to be made, he shall notify the owner or occupant of such factory or workshop in writing of the offense or neglect, and if such offense or neglect is not corrected or remedied within thirty days after the service of notice aforesaid, he shall lodge formal complaint with the attorney of the county in which the offense is committed or the neglect occurs, whereupon that officer shall proceed against the offender according to law.

SEC. 6. [Same-Examination of buildings.]-The commissioner or his deputy may examine hotels and lodging or boarding houses, for the purpose of discovering whether they are properly equipped with lawful fire escapes; and he may post in any hotel, lodging or boarding house so examined the laws upon this matter, together with his official statement as to whether said laws are fully complied with by said hotel, lodging or boarding house. And any hotel, lodging or boarding house keeper, or other who shall mutilate, destroy, or remove from any building or buildings the said laws or statements so posted, shall, upon conviction, be fined any sum not to exceed fifty ($50.00) dollars for each and every offense. Whenever any hotel, lodging or boarding house that has been posted as not having complied with the terms of the law in respect to fire escapes shall be properly provided and equipped with lawful fire escapes, and the bureau shall be notified thereof, the commissioner shall at once order a new statement, setting forth that fact, to be posted in said hotel, lodging or boarding house, and the bureau shall keep a record of all buildings so examined and posted.

SEC. 7. [Laws posted.]-The commissioner or his deputy may post in any factory or workshop examined by him the laws now or hereafter to be made in respect to

CHAP. 39 b.-"An act to provide and continue a bureau of labor and industrial statistics and define the duties of its officers." Laws 1887, chap. 47. Took effect July 1, 1887.

child labor, hours of labor, fire escapes, or others pertaining to the health and safety of artisans or employees, and if the owner, manager, and proprietor of any factory or workshop, or his agent or any person whomsoever, shall remove, destroy or mutilate the law so posted, he shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not to exceed fifty dollars for

each offense.

SEC. 8. [Forms-Admission to workshops.]-The said commissioner shall have power to prescribe blank forms and transmit them to employers, which shall be filled out clearly and completely under oath, by the person or persons to whom they are sent, with the facts, statistics, and statements asked for, and returned to him within such reasonable time as he may fix. In case any owner or occu¡ ant, or his agent, shall refuse to admit any officer of the said bureau to his workshop or factory, when open or in operation, he shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each and every offense, and if he shall, through his agent or otherwise, neglect, fail, or refuse to fill out the said blank forms, and verify and return them as required, he shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each and every day said blank may be so delayed beyond the time fixed by the commissioners for their return. The forfeits named and provided in this act shall be sued for in the name of the state, by the county attorney of the respective county where such of fense is committed, upon the complaint of any officer of said bureau, or any citizen, and shall be paid into the school fund.

SEC. 9. [Seal.]-There shall be provided a seal of office for the use of said bureau, and the commissioner or his deputy, for the purpose of making any investigation contemplated by this act, shall have power to administer oaths, take testimony, and subpœna witnesses, which witnesses shall receive the same fees as are allowed to any person testifying in district courts of this state, to be paid out of the contingent fund of this bureau; Provided, however, That no person subpoenaed by the said commissioner or his deputy shall be compelled to go outside of the city or town in which he resides to testify in behalf of such investigation.

SEC. 10. [Report.]-The commissioner shall report biennally to the governor, accompanying his report with such suggestions and recommendations as may be deemed wise and proper. The said report shall be printed and distributed according to the provisions of the law governing the printing of other state reports.

SEC. 11. [Appropriation.]-The commissioner shall be allowed a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum for traveling and contingent expenses, and a further sum of one hundred dollars per annum for the purchase of books and periodicals on labor and industrial matters for the bureau library. There is hereby appropriated annually, out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act.

CHAPTER 40.-INSANE.

SECTION 1. [Location.]-That the hospital for the insane located at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster, shall be known under the name and by the title of the "Nebraska Hospital for the insane," and shall be under the charge of three trustees, two of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. [G. S. 411.]

SEC. 2. [Postoffice privileges of inmates.]-That henceforth there shall be no censorship exercised over the correspondence of inmates of the hospital for the insane in this state, but their postoffice rights shall be as free and unrestrained as are those of any resident or citizen of this state, and be under the protection of the same postal laws. And every inmate shall be allowed to write when and whenever he or she desires to any person he or she may choose. And it is hereby made the duty of the superintendent to furnish each and every inmate of each and every insane asylum in this state with suitable material, at the expense of the state, for writing, enclosing, sealing, stamping, and mailing letters, sufficient for writing at least one letter a week, provided they request the same, unless they are otherwise furnished with such material; and all such letters shall be dropped by the writers thereof, accompanied by an attendant when necessary, into a postoffice box, provided by the state at the hospital for the insane, and kept in some place easy of access to all the patients; and the contents of such postoffice box or boxes shall be collected once every week by an authorized person, and by him placed into the hands of the United States mail for delivery. And it is hereby made the duty of the superintendent of every hospital for the insane in the state, either public or private, to deliver or cause to be delivered to said person any letter or writing to him or her directed, without opening or reading the same, or allowing it to be opened or read without consent of the recipient of such letter, or the request or consent of the writer. [1883, chap. LXIX.]

SEC. 3. [Penalty.]-That any person refusing or neglecting to comply with, or willfully and knowingly violating any of the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding three years nor less than six months, or by a fine not exceeding $500, or both, at the discretion of the court, and by ineligibility to any office in the asylum afterward. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 4. [Act posted.]—A printed copy of this act shall be framed and kept posted in every ward of every hospital for the insane, both public and private, in the state of Nebraska. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 5. [Government.]-The trustees shall have the general control and management of the hospital; they shall have full power to make all by-laws necessary for the government of the same, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, and to conduct the affairs of the institution in accordance with the laws and by-laws regulating the same. It shall be the duty of the majority of said board to visit the hospital quarterly, and at said quarterly visits they shall, with the superintendent, examine the accounts of the steward, and certify their approval or otherwise on the of his monthly balance. [G. S. 411.] SEC. 6. [Officers.]-The board of trustees shall appoint, upon the nomination of the superintendent, a steward and matron, who, together with the superintendent and assistant physician, shall be styled the resident officers of the hospital, and shall reside

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CHAP. 40. "An act for the government of the hospital for the insane, defining the legal relations of insane persons, and providing for their care and protection.' G. S. 411. Took effect March 3, 1873. Government now vested in board of public lands and buildings. Art. V, sec. 19, Const; sec. 19, art. VII, chap. 83. SECS. 2-4. "An act for the protection of the inmates of the hospital for the insane." Passed and took effect Feb. 27, 1883. SEC. 6. Appointment is vested in governor by the constitution. 18 Neb. 341.