CHAPTER 39.-INNKEEPERS. 8290 SECTION 1. [Notice-Valuables.] That hereafter every landlord or keeper of a public inn or hotel in this state, who shall constantly have in his inn or hotel an iron safe in good order, and suitable for the safe custody of money, jewelry, or other valuable articles belonging to his guests or customers, shall keep posted conspicuously at the office and in other public rooms or halls of his inn or hotel notices to his guests or customers that they must leave their money, jewelry, and other valuables with the landlord, his agent, or clerk, for the safe keeping, that he may make safe deposits of the same in the place provided for that purpose. [1875, §1, 157.] 3291 SEC. 2. [Same-Loss-Liability of Landlord.] That such landlord, hotel or inn keeper as shall comply with the requirements of the first section of this act shall not be liable for any money, jewelry, or other valuables of gold or silver, or rare or precious stones, that may be lost, if the same is not delivered to said landlord, hotel or inn keeper, his agent or clerk, for deposit, unless such loss shall occur by the hand or through the negligence of the landlord, or by a clerk or servant employed by him in such hotel or inn; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to such amount of money and valuables, as is usual, common, and prudent for any such guest to retain in his room or about his person. [Id., § 2.] 3292 SEC. 3. [Defrauding landlord-Penalty.] Any person who shall put up at any hotel or inn and shall procure any food, entertainment, or accommodation, without paying therefor, except where credit is given by express agreement, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner or keeper thereof out of the pay for the same; or who, with intent to cheat or defraud such owner or keeper out of the pay therefor, shall obtain credit at any hotel or inn for such food, entertainment, or accommodation by means of any false show of baggage or effects brought thereto; or who shall with such intent remove, or cause to be removed, any baggage or effects from any hotel or inn while there is a lien existing thereon for the proper charges due from him for fare and board furnished therein, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. [Id., § 3.] 3293-3296 SECS. 4-7. [Fire escapes. Repealed. Laws, 1899, chap. 34.] 3297 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.] 3298 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 timeduring the hours specified for him to be on watch, or if he shall sleep while on duty, CHAP. 39, SECS. 1-3. effet Feb. 19, 1875. SECS. 8-13. "An act concerning innholders or hotel keepers and their guests." Laws, 1875, 157. Took Secs. 5-10 of "An act for the security of guests and lodgers against injury from fires." Passed and took effect February 24, 1888. For fire escapes see secs. 15-20, chap. 30, ante. 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.] 3299 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.] 3300 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.] 8301 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 of fense is committed, for the use and benefit of the common school fund. [Id., § 9.] 3302 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. [Id., § 10.] 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 Board of Public Lands and Buildings. The governor shall appoint five women as a visiting and advisory board, two for one year, one for two years, and two for three years from April first, 1897, and thereafter the terms shall be for three years and until their successors are appointed and qualify by acceptance of their appointment. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term. They shall be paid only necessary traveling expenses incurred in discharge of their duties. They shall visit the Home at least, once every quarter, and whenever called by the governor, Board of Public Lands and Buildings or superintendent of such Home, so to do, and inspect and inquire into the conduct and management thereof and treatment of the inmates therein and shall formulate, recommend and submit to the Board of Public Lands and Buildings rules for admission to said Home and by-laws and regulations for its government, which shall be subject to change, amendment, or abrogation by the Board of Public Lands and Buildings at any time, and such rules, when and as long as approved by said board shall be obligatory upon the officers and inmates of said Home. The actions and powers of said visiting board shall be advisory only, for the information and advice of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. A majority of said visiting Board shall be a quorum and it shall designate in each county a woman correspondent and assistant to collect and give information respecting applications and the affairs and objects of said institution. [Amended 1897, chap. 38, § 1.] 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 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. 3308 SEC. 6. [Officers.] The Governor shall appoint a superintendent and such other officers as the wants of the institution require. All officers and employes except the engineer and farmer shall be women. The salaries of the officers and employes per year shall be for the superintendent $800.00; matron $500.00; physician $700.00; teacher, including services as secretary, $300.00; engineer $600.00; farmer, including duty and services as coachman, $360.00. [Amended 1897, chap. 38, §1.1 SEC. 4. Institution located at Milford. 3308a SEC. 7. [Reports.] On or before December 1st, preceding each regular session of the Legislature, the visiting advisory board and superintendent shall make to the Governor a full detailed report of all transactions and doings of the institution for the two years ending November 30th preceding, showing for each year separately the number of inmates admitted and discharged, births and deaths, the number remaining, the average annual attendance, the rules and discipline prescribed, studies and industries pursued, expense per capita based on average attendance, condition of the institution, names of its officers, and names and residence of the members of the advisory board, the receipts and disbursements of money or other property including farm products, valuation of property on hand, amount of each appropriation and balance remaining unexpended, and such other information as may be deemed important or as the governor may request. The governor may call for and require reports whenever in his judgment necessary or desirable. [Amended 1897, chap. 38, § 1.] 3308b SEC. 9. [Applicants for admission-Records.] All applications for admission to said Home shall be made to the Board of Public Lands and Buildings and shall show the conditions of the applicant and such matters as the regulations established may require. If upon inquiry the application is granted, the board shall forward it with its order thereon indorsed to the superintendent of said Home, to be kept. If the application is denied it shall be returned to the applicant. No record disclosing the name of any applicant or inmate shall be kept by the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. The records of said Home kept in charge of the superintendent shall be deemed private and confidential, subject only to examination by the governor, Board of Public Lands and Buildings and advisory visiting board; nor shall any information by any officer obtained as to the name of any applicant or inmate be disclosed except upon requirement by a court of justice upon compulsory process, or to a duly accredited and empowered committee appointed by either House of the Legislature. [Laws, 1897, chap. 38, § 2.] CHAPTER 396.-INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS. 8310 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. [Powers of commissioner-Violations of act-Destruction of posted laws.] The commissioner or his deputy shall have power to enter any factory or workshop in which labor is employed, for the purpose of gath ering facts and statistics, or of examining the means for escape from fire, and the provisions for the health and safety of operatives in such factory or workshop. He may also post in such factory or workshop the laws now, or hereafter to be, made in respect to child labor, fire escapes, hours of labor, or others pertaining to the health or safety of employes; and if the owner, manager or agent shall remove o destroy the same he shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not to ex ceed fifty dollars for each offense. And in case the officer of the Bureau shall dis cover any violation of, or neglect to comply with, said laws, he shall notify the owner or occupant of said workshop or factory in writing of the offense or neglect and if such offense or neglect is not corrected 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 said officer shal! proceed against the offender according to law. [Amended 1897, chap. 39.] 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, lolging or boarding house that has been posted as not having complied with CHAP. 396. "An act to provi e and continue a bureau of labor and in lustrial statistics and define the duties of its officers." Laws, 1887, chap. 47. Took effect July 1, 1887. SECS. 5, 6, 9a. "An act to amend sections 2066 and 2068, and to create a new section to be numbered 2071, of Cobbey's Consolidated Statutes of Nebraska, 1893, and to repeal sections 2066 and 2068 as they now stand. Took effect April 13, 1897. Laws. 18/7, chap 39. The act does not read that the sections 2066 and 2068 be amended to read as follows:" It has no sections |