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crop reporters from each magisterial district in the county to serve for one year without pay, whose duty shall be to report to the Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics, monthly the acreage and condition of crops and such other information as he, under the law, may ask for. In the event no convention of farmers is held on the date fixed, the said Commissioner is authorized and empowered to appoint one or more delegates from such county to attend the said State Institute, and to appoint one or more crop reporters in each magisterial district.

§ 10. Whereas, it is necessary that the provisions of the act of Congress herein referred to be accepted, and that the work in agricultural extension be begun at once, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Gover

nor.

Approved March 15, 1916.

CHAPTER 21.

AN ACT in relation to the semi-monthly payment of wages and salaries by corporations for pecuniary profit and providing penalty for violation of same.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That every corporation for pecuniary profit engaged in any enterprise or business within the State of Kentucky shall, as often as semi-monthly, pay to every employe engaged in its business all wages or salary earned by such employe to a day not more than eighteen (18) days prior to the date of such payment. And any employe who is absent

at the time fixed for payment, or who, for any other reason, is not paid at that time, shall be paid thereafter at any time upon six days' demand, and any employe leaving his or her employment or is discharged therefrom shall be paid in full following his or her dismissal or voluntary leaving his or her employment at any time upon three days' demand. No corporation coming within the meaning of this act shall, by special contract with its employes or by any other means, secure exemption from the provisions of this act. And each any every employe of a corporation coming within the meaning of this act shall have his or her right of action against any such corporation for the full amount of his or her wages due on each regular pay day as herein provided in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State.

§ 2. Any corporation coming within the meaning of this act violating the provisions of Section one (1) of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum not less than twentyfive dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each separate offense, and each and every failure or refusal to pay each employe the amount of wages due him or her at the time, or under the conditions required in Section one (1) of this act shall constitute a separate offense.

$ 3. This act shall take effect and be in force in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 15, 1916.

CHAPTER 22.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Kentucky Confederate Home and provide for the maintenance thereof," approved March 27th, 1902; amended March 26th, 1904; March 21st, 1906; March 19th, 1910, and March 18th, 1912. Whereas, heretofore at the regular session of 1914, House Bill No. 440 was introduced, passed by the House, and Senate unanimously, signed by the Speaker of the House, but the signature of the Lieutenant Governor was not attached to said bill, the same having been mislaid, and therefore it failed of enactment, and which bill provided that for a period of four years there should be a fixed appropriation of thirty-five hundred ($3,500.00) dollars monthly to be in lieu for that period of one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175.00) per capita, allowed for the support of the inmates of the Confederate Home. Now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. Whereas, heretofore the appropriations for the Kentucky Confederate Home averaged the sum of $10,431.00 per quarter; and,

Whereas, the average age of the persons now inmates of the Kentucky Home is seventy-seven years and six months and increasing infirmities of the said inmates, who, in large numbers, are now in the infirmary, makes it necessary to have a fixed income, instead of a per capita, for the period above named.

Therefore, be it enacted, that for a period of two years, commencing February 1st, 1916, there is hereby appropriated for the maintenance and support of the Kentucky Confederate Home, the sum of three thousand five hundred ($3,500.00) dollars per month; and, the Auditor of the State of Kentucky is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State of Kentucky, on the first of

every month, in favor of the Treasurer of the Kentucky Confederate Home, for said sum of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500.00) and which is to be used and set apart for the clothing, feeding, maintenance, nursing, payment of physicians and surgeons of the inmates, and operation of said Confederate Home; and which is to be in lieu, for the period of two years, of the per capita of $175.00 heretofore provided for each inmate of the Kentucky Confederate Home. The accounts embracing the expenditure of said funds so appropriated are to be subject to the laws governing the operation of State Institutions.

§ 2. Whereas the necessity for the care of said invalid and infirm soldiers is urgent, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this enactment shall take effect from and after the approval by the Gov

ernor.

Approved March 15, 1916.

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT to amend section three hundred and thirty-one-A, subsection one of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the labor and employment of children and minors, and to make the provisions thereof effective," approved by the Governor March twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That Section three hundred and thirty-one-a of Chapter seventy-two of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and fourteen, being an act entitled, "An Act to regulate the labor and employment of children and minors and to make the provisions thereof effective," which act was ap

proved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be, and the same is hereby amended by inserting a semi-colon at the end of said section in lieu of the period, and by adding to said paragraph the following language:

"Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall prevent a child under sixteen years of age from being employed to perform or from performing in a duly licensed theatre if such child is not an inhabitant or resident of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and at the time of such performance is accompanied by or in the custody, care or control of a parent, guardian, governess, teacher or some other adult custodian who remains in the wings or behind the curtains or scenery in such theatre during the performance of such child and accompanies such child to and from the theatre to the child's place of abode while performing at such theatre." So that said subsection one of section three hundred and thirty-one-a of said act, as so amended, shall read in full as follows:

Section 331-A. 1. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any factory, mill, workshop, mercantile establishment, store, office printing establishment, bakery, laundry, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, theatre, motion picture establishment, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session. Nor shall any child under fourteen years of age be permitted to perform in or appear upon the stage of any

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