money or any other valuable thing for the restoration or return of such person, such offender shall be guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment, by separate and solitary confinement at labor, for the term of his or her natural life, or for any term of years, at the discretion of the court. Section 2. Any person who shall aid, assist, or abet, in the taking or carrying away, or in the decoying or enticing away, or secreting, of any child or person, with intent to extort money or any other valuable thing for the restoration or return of such child or person, such offender shall be guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of five thousand dollars and undergo an imprisonment, by separate and solitary confinement at labor, for a period not exceeding twenty-five years, at the discretion of the court. Section 3. All acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved-The 4th day of April, A. D. 1901. Private sales of real estate for of decedents. No. 34. AN ACT To validate private sales of real estate of decedents, heretofore made under authority of orphans' courts upon petition of executors or administrators for payment of debts. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all private sales payment of debts of real estate of decedents, heretofore made under and by virtue of decrees of orphans' courts upon petition of executors or administrators for payment of debts of such decedent, respectively, shall and the same are hereby declared to be valid and effectual to vest in the purchasers the title of such decedents in the real estate so decreed to be sold: Provided, That adequate security, conditioned for the faithful application of the purchase money, shall have been given by such executors or administrators, as the case may be, in accordance with such decrees: Provided, further, That this act shall not apply to any case heretofore ju dicially adjudicated. Proviso. Proviso. Approved-The 4th day of April, A. D. 1901. No. 35. AN ACT Regulating acknowledgments, by married women, of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments of writing required by law to be acknowledged. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That acknowledgments of any married woman of any deeds, mortgages or other instruments of writing, required by law to be acknowledged, shall be taken by any judge, justice of the peace, notary public, or other person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, et cetera, in same manner and form as though said married woman were feme-sole; said acknowledgment to have the same force and effect as if taken separate and apart from the husband of said married woman. Regulating acmarried woman. knowledgments by Section 2. All acts or parts of acts of Assembly in- Repeal. consistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved-The 4th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. No. 36. AN ACT To validate changes heretofore made in the names of corporations by the several courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth. Validating decrees names of corpora of court changing tions. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any court of common pleas of this Commonwealth, by a proceeding under and in pursuance of the act of Assembly, entitled "An act to enable the courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth to change the name, style and title of corporations," approved the twentieth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall heretofore have made a decree changing the name of any corporation, such change of name shall be taken and held to be as valid and effectual in every respect as if made in accordance with the requirements of existing laws: Provided, Proviso. however, That said corporation shall have complied with the provisions of said above recited act of Assembly, by giving notice to the Auditor General of the application for such change of name, and before using the name as decreed by the court, filed with the Auditor General a copy of the decree making such change. Approved-The 4th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. Notice to be given eral. the Auditor Gen Decree to be filed. Regulating the hours of labor. Drainage and plumbing. Ventilation. Cellars and basements. Construction of floors. Of walls. Domestic and pet animals forbidden. Care of product. Wash-rooms and water closets. Sleeping rooms. No. 37. AN ACT To regulate the manufacture of flour and meal food products, the employment of adult females and minors therein, and to provide penalties for violations of the provisions hereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no minor male or female, adult woman, shall be employed at labor or detained in any biscuit, bread, pie or cake bakery, pretzel or macaroni establishment, for a longer period than twelve hours in any one day, nor for a longer period than sixty hours in any one week. Section 2. All buildings or rooms occupied as a biscuit, bread, pretzel, pie or cake bakery, or macaroni establishment, shall be drained and plumbed in the manner directed by the rules and regulations governing the house drainage and plumbing, as prescribed by law, and all rooms used for the purpose aforesaid shall be ventilated by means of air shafts, windows or ventilating pipes, so as to insure a free circulation of fresh air. No cellar, or basement, not now used for a bakery, shall hereafter be occupied and used as a bakery unless the proprietor shall have previously complied with the sanitary provisions of this act. Section 3. Every room used for the manufacture of flour or meal food products shall have a tight floor, constructed of cement, wood, or tiles, laid in cement. The inside walls shall be plastered, or painted with oil paint, three (3) coats, or be lime-washed. When painted, shall be renewed at least once in every five years, and shall be washed with hot water and soap at least once in every three (3) months; when lime-washed, the lime-washing shall be renewed at least once in every three (3) months. The furniture and utensils in such room shall be so arranged that the furniture and floor may at all times be kept in a thoroughly sanitary and clean condition. No domestic or pet animal shall be allowed in a room used as a biscuit, bread, pie, or cake bakery, or in any room in such bakery where flour or meal food products are stored. Section 4. The manufactured flour and meal food products shall be kept in perfectly dry and airy rooms, so arranged that the flour, shelves, and all other places for storing the same, can be easily and perfectly cleaned. Section 5. Every such bakery shall be provided with a wash-room and water closet, or closets, apart from the bake-room or rooms, where the manufacture of such food products is conducted, and no water closet. earth closet, privy, or ash pit, shall be within or communicate directly with the bake-room of any bakery. Section 6. The sleeping room or rooms, for persons employed in bakeries, shall be kept separate and apart from the room or rooms where flour or meal food products are manufactured or stored. And such sleeping places, when they are on the same floor as the bakery, shall be inspected in order to maintain them in a condition of cleanliness. Section 7. No employer shall, knowingly, require, permit or suffer, any person to work in his bakeshop who is affected with consumption of the lungs, or with scrofulous diseases, or with any venereal diseases, or with any communicable skin affection; and every employer is hereby required to maintain himself and his employes in a clean condition while engaged in the manufacture, handling or sale of such food products, and it is hereby made the duty of the board of health to enforce the provisions of this section. spector. Section 8. The Factory Inspector is authorized to Certificate of Inissue a certificate of satisfactory inspection to a person conducting a bakery, where such bakery is conducted in compliance with all the provisions of this act. agent or lessee. Section 9. The owner, agent or lessee of any property Duty of owner, affected by the provisions of sections three and five of this act, shall make the alterations or additions necessary, within such time as said alterations can be made with proper diligence upon the part of such proprietors, and notice to the last known address of Notice to. such owner, agent or lessee, shall be deemed sufficient for the purpose of this act. Copy of this act Section 10. A copy of this act shall be conspicuously to be posted. posted and kept posted in each work room of every bread, cake, or pie bakery, or confectionery establishment, in this State. Section 11. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act, or refuses to comply with any requirements, as provided herein, of the Factory Inspector or his deputy, who are hereby charged with the enforcement of this act, excepting section seven, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before Misdemeanor. any justice of the peace, magistrate, alderman, mayor or burgess, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fines and penalty. twenty nor more than fifty ($50) dollars, for a first offense; and not less than fifty ($50) nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, for a second offense, or imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days; and for a third offense, by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty (250) dollars and more than thirty (30) days imprisonment. Section 12. All the acts or parts of acts inconsistent Repeal. with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved-The 4th day of April, A. D. 1901. WILLIAM A. STONE. No. 38. AN ACT To enable Indians to sue and be sued in the courts of record of this Commonwealth. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act, any Indian may bring, maintain, prosecute and defend any civil action, real, personal, or mixed, or suit or other proceeding in equity, in any court of record, having jurisdiction of the subject matter, in this Commonwealth. Approved-The 4th day of April, A. D. 1901. Term of notaries public appointed during recess. When confirmed by Senate. When reappointed and confirmed. Fee to be paid before issue of commission. Proviso. No. 39. AN ACT Fixing the term of office of notaries public, regulating the appointment, and prescribing certain duties thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act notaries public, appointed by the Governor during the recess of the Senate, shall each receive a commission which shall expire at the end of the next session of the Senate. Section 2. That when notaries public, appointed by the Governor during the session of the Senate, and those appointed under the provisions of the first section of this act, are duly confirmed by the Senate they shall each be entitled to receive a commission for the term of four years, to be computed from the date of such confirmation. Section 3. That where notaries public are reappointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate before the expiration of their commissions, they shall each receive a commission for a term of four years, to be computed from the date of the expiration of their previous commission. Section 4. That before any commission shall be issued to any notary public appointed under this act, a receipt from the State Treasurer shall first be produced, showing the payment of twenty-five dollars into the State Treasury, for the use of the Commonwealth: Provided, Such receipt shall not be required for a commission issued for the term of four years when such full term shall follow, consecutively, the recess appointment. |