CHAPTER 39a.-INDUSTRIAL HOME.

3303 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.]

3304 SEC. 2. [Object.] Besides shelter and protection, the object of said institution shall be to provide employment and means of self-support for penitent women and girls, with a view to aid in the suppression of prostitution.

3305 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.

3306 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.

3307 SEC. 5. [Buildings.] Said board are hereby authorized and required, as soon as practicable atter 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.

3308 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.

3303 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. 39a. "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 396.-INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

3310 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.]

3311 SEC. 2. [Commissioner.] The governor of this state is hereby, made commissioner of said bureau.

3312 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.

3313 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.

3314 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.

3315 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 commis

CHAP. 398.-"An act to provide and continue a bureau of labor and industrial statistics and define the duties Laws, 1887, chap. 47. Took effect July 1, 1887.

of its officers.

sioner 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.

3316 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 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 proprie tor 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.

3317 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 occupant, 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 offense is committed, upon the complaint of any officer of said bureau, or any citizen, and shall be paid into the school fund.

3318 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 subpoena 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.

3319 SEC. 10. [Report.] The commissioner shall report biennially 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.

3320 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 treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act.

CHAPTER 40.-INSANE.

3321 SECTION 1. [Location.] That the hospital for the insane located at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster, shall be known nnder the name and by the title of the "Nebraska Hospital for the insane," and shall be under the charge of three (3) trustees, two (2) of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. [G. S., 411.]

3322 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.]

3323 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.]

3324 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.]

3325 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 page with his monthly balance. [G. S., 411.]

Government now

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. vested in board of public land 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.

3326 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 in the same, and be governed and subject to all the laws and by-laws established for the government of the hospital.

3327 SEC. 7. [Property in trust.] The board of trustees may take and hold in trust, for the hospital, any lands conveyed or devised, and any money or other personal property given or bequeathed, to be applied for any purpose connected with the institution.

3328 SEC. 8. [Record of proceedings.] The board of trustees shall make a record of their proceedings at all meetings, in a book to be provided for that purpose, and at their annual meeting shall make a report to the governor, of the condition and wants of the hospital, which shall be accompanied by a full and accurate report of the superintendent, and a detailed account of all moneys received and disbursed by the steward.

3329 SEC. 9. [Contracts.] No trustee or any officer of the institution shall hereafter be directly or indirectly interested in the purchase of building material, or any article of furniture or supply, for the use of the hospital.

3830 SEC. 10. [Governor shall appoint superintendent.] The governor of the state shall appoint a superintendent and may appoint two assistant physicians for the hospital of the insane, one of whom shall be a woman, who shall hold their offices for a term of six years, unless sooner removed as hereinafter provided. [Amended 1883, chap. XLVIII.]

3331 SEC. 11. [Duties and powers of superintendent.] The superintendent of said institution shall be a physician of acknowledged skill and ability in his profession, and be a graduate of a regular medical college. He shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital, and shall hold his office for the term of six years, unless sooner removed by the governor for malfeasance in office, or other good and sufficient cause. He or the assistant physician must be in daily attendance at the hospital, and in no instance must both be absent at the same time. Before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation for the faithful and diligent discharge of the duties required by law. He shall have the entire control of the medical, moral, and dietetic treatment of the patients, and shall see that the several officers of the institution faithfully and diligently discharge their respective duties. He shall employ attendants, nurses, servants, and such other persons as he may deem necessary for the efficient and economical administration of the government of the hospital. [Amended 1875, 86.]

3332 SEC. 12. [Seal of hospital.] The superintendent shall provide an official seal for the hospital, upon which shall be the words, "Nebraska Hospital for the Insane." He shall make reports to the board of trustees as provided for in section eight (8) of this act.

3333 SEC. 13. [Duties of assistant physicians.] The assistant physicians shall be graduates of a medical school, and be able to perform the ordinary duties of the superintendent, and the physician who is oldest in office shall be known. as the first assistant, and shall, during the necessary absence of the superintendent, perform the duties of said superintendent. The salary of the first assistant shall be fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars, and of the second assistant twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum. [Amended 1883, chap. XLVIIL

SEC. 6. Appointment is vested in governor by the constitution. 18 Neb., 341.

SEC. 11. Act of 1875 has no repealing clause. Former law omitted words "And be a graduate of a regular medical college" in line three; the sentenee beginning "He or the assistant," etc. in lines six and seven; read faithfully and diligently to" instead of "for the faithful and diligent" in line nine; and added after the word "hospital" in last line the words "assign them their respective places and duties, and may at any time discharge any of them from service."