in any of the adjoining counties, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the said keepers and the officers or other persons under whose directions such convicts shall be placed.

CHAPTER 51.—Exemption from execution, etc.-Homesteads.

SECTION 1631. Every householder in the State of Colorado, being the head of a family, shall be entitled to a homestead not exceeding in value the sum of two thousand dollars, exempt from execution and attachment, arising from any debt, contract or civil obligation. *

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SECTION 1633. Such homestead shall only be exempt as provided in [section 1631] while occupied as such by the owner thereof, or his or her family.

SECTION 1634. When any person dies seized of a homestead, leaving a widow, or husband, or minor children, such widow, or husband, or minor children, shall be entitled to the homestead; but in case there is neither widow, husband, nor minor children, the homestead shall be liable for the debts of the deceased.

SECTION 1635. The homestead mentioned in this act may consist of a house and lot or lots, in any town or city, or of a farm consisting of any number of acres, so that the value does not exceed two thousand dollars.

SECTION 1638. In case of the sale of said homestead, any subsequent homestead acquired by the proceeds thereof shall also be exempt from execution or attachment, nor shall any judgment or other claim against the owner of such homestead be a lien against the same in the hands of a bona fide purchaser.

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CHAPTER 54.-State Industrial School.

SECTION 1652. There shall be established in this State an institution under the name and style of the "State industrial school."

SECTION 1653. The general supervision and government of said industrial school shall be vested in a board of control, to consist of three members, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The members of said board of contrel shall constitute a body corporate under the name and style of the "board of control of the State industrial school." * * *

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SECTION 1663. When any boy under the age of 16 years, and over the age of 7 years, shall be convicted of any offense known to the laws of this State and punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, except such as may be punishable by imprisonment for life, the court or justice, as the case may be, before whom such conviction shall be had, may, at its discretion, sentence such boy to the State industrial school. * * * All commitments to the industrial school, of boys of whatever age when committed, shall be for a term not longer than during their minority, nor less than nine months, unless sooner discharged by the order of the board of control. *

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SECTION 1665. Any parent may indenture his or her boy, or any guardian may indenture a male ward, to the State industrial school for such length of time as may be agreed upon by such parent or guardian, and the board of control of said school, on condition that such parent or guardian shall pay the expenses of such boy or ward so indentured as aforesaid, while at said school.

SECTION 1668. No commitment or sentence of any person or persons to said industrial school shall be made for a greater period than three years, or of an age under ten years.

SECTION 1669. It shall be lawful for the board of control, whenever in their discretion they may deem any one of the boys detained in the said institution to have become so far reformed as to justify his discharge, to liberate such boy, or to bind him by articles of indenture for that purpose to be entered into, to any suitable person who will engage to instruct such boy in some proper art or trade, according to the terms of said indenture.

SECTION 1671. All the provisions of this act concerning boys shall be equally, [and] in like manner applicable to girls, and girls shall be received and cared for by the board of control of the State industrial school, as boys are received and cared for. * * *

CHAPTER 60.-Exemption from execution, etc.-Personal property.

SECTION 1865. The necessary wearing apparel of every person shall be exempt from execution, writ of attachment and distress for rent.

SECTION 1866. The following property, when owned by any person being the head of a family and residing with the same, shall be exempt from levy and sale upon any execution or writ of attachment, or distress for rent, and such articles

of property shall continue exempt while the family of such person are removing from one place of residence to another within this State:

First. Family pictures, school books, and library.

Second. A seat or pew in any house or place of public worship.

Third. The sites of burial of the dead.

Fourth. All wearing apparel of the debtor and his family; all beds, bedsteads, and bedding, kept and used for the debtor and his family; all s.oves and appendages, kept for the use of the debtor and his family; all cooking utensils; and all the household furniture not herein enumerated, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value.

Fifth. The provisions for the debtor and his family, necessary for six months, either provided or growing, or both; and fuel necessary for six months.

Sixth. The tools and implements, or stock in trade, of any mechanic, miner or other person, used and kept for the purpose of carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding two hundred dollars in value.

Seventh. The library and implements of any professional man, not exceeding three hundred dollars.

Eighth. Working animals to the value of two hundred dollars.

Ninth. One cow and calf, ten sheep, and the necessary food for all the animals herein mentioned, for six months, provided or growing, of both; also, one farm wagon, cart or dray, one plough, one harrow, and other farming implements, including harness and tackle for team. not exceeding fifty dollars in value. Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to exempt any property of any debtor from sale for the payment of any taxes whatever, legally assessed: And provided further, That no article of property above mentioned shall be exempt from attachment, or sale on execution for the purchase mon y for said ar icle of property: And provided also further, That the tools, implements, working animals, books and stock in trade, not exce ding three hundred dollars in value, of any mechanic, miner or other person not being the head of a family, us d and kept for the purpose of carrying on his trade and business, shall be exempt from levy and sale on any execution or writ of attachment while such person is a bona fide resident of this State.

SECTION 1867. Whenever in any case the head of a family shall die, desert, or cease to reside with the same, the said family shall be entitled to and receive all the benefit and privileges which are in this chapter conferred upon the head of a family residing with t e same.

SECTION 1869. If any debtor shall be engaged in removing his or her property from this State, such property shall not be exempt from levy and sale under execution or attachment: Provided, That nothing in this chapter contained shall be held to authorize the levying upon and selling the necessary wearing apparel or beds and bedding of any debtor, or of the family of any debtor, under any execution or attachment.

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CHAPTER 72.-Earnings of married women.

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SECTION 2271. Any married woman may * perform any labor or services, on her sole and separate account, and the earnings of any married woman, from her labor or services, shall be her sole and separate property, and may be used and invested by her in her own name; and she may sue and be sued as if sole, in regard to her * labor, services and earnings, and her property acquired by * * services, and the proceeds thereof, may be taken on any execution against her.

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CHAPTER 86.-Convict labor.

SECTION 2566. * * *he [the warden] shall employ such a number of convicts in making such improvements as said commissioners may deem advisable, and he shall employ the remainder of the convicts in such labor as may be most advantageous to the renitentiary: Provided, however, That he shall classify the convicts, and if it shall be more in the interest of the penitentiary to hire out the labor of the convicts, to be worked under the superintendence of the warden, he may hire out such labor with the consent of the commissioners.

SECTION 2576. The warden, under the direction of the board of commissioners, shall hire out the labor of the convicts to the best advantage, but in no case shall a convict be allowed to go out to labor without being under the custody of a guard or overseer of the penitentiary.

SECTION 2577. That no labor shall be performed by the convicts of the Colorado State Penitentiary off the grounds belonging to said penitentiary, except such as may be incident to the business and management of the penitentiary: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to affect any existing contract.

ACTS OF 1885.

Wages preferred-In assignments.

(Page 48.)

SECTION 25. The valid claims of servants, laborers and employés of the assignor, for wages earned during the six months next preceding the date of the assignment, not to exceed fifty dollars to any one person then unpaid, and still held by the person who earned the same, and all taxes assessed under the laws of this State, or of the United States, shall be preferred claims and be paid in full, prior to the payment of the dividends in favor of other creditors.

Certain employment of children forbidden.

(Page 124.)

SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years, to exhibit, use or employ, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give away, let out, or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person in or for the vocation or occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging or peduling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, riding or acrobat. in any place whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever, or for or in any business, exhibition or vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure or encourage any such child to engage therein. Nothing in this section contained shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any such child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or at any respectable entertainment, or the teaching or learning the science or practice of music.

SECTION 2. It shall also be unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or have in custody any child under the age and for the purpose prohibited in the first section of this act.

SECTION 4. Any person who shall be convicted of violating any of the provisions of the preceding sections, shall, for the first offense, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court; and upon conviction for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Exemption from garnishment, etc.-Wages.

(Page 262.)

SECTION 1, (as amended by act of March 19, 1889, page 463, acts of 1889). There shall be exempt from levy under execution or attachment or garnishment fifty per cent. of the wages or earnings of any debtor earned during the thirty days next preceding such levy under execution, attachment or garnishment of the same: Provided, That in no case shall the amount so exempted be less than thirty dollars; Provided further, Such debtor shall, at the time of such levy under execution, attachment or garnishments, be the head of a family or the wife of the head of a family, and such family is dependent, in whole or in part, upon such wages or earnings for support.

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Seats for female employés.

(Page 297.)

SECTION 1. Every person, corporation or company employing females in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishments in this State, shall provide suitable seats for the use of of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.

SECTION 2. Any person, corporation or company violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be punished by fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars for each offense.

ACTS OF 1887.
Blacklisting.
(Page 58.)

SECTION 1. No corporation, company or individual shall blacklist, or publish, or cause to be blacklisted or published, any employé, mechanic or laborer, discharged by such corporation, company or individual, with the intent and for

the purpose of preventing such employé, mechanic or laborer from engaging in or securing similar or other employment from any other corporation, company or individual.

SECTION 2. If any officer, or agent of any corporation, company or individual, or other person, shall blacklist, or publish, or cause to be blacklisted or pub lished, any employé, mechanic, or laborer, discharged by such corporation. company or individual, with the intent and for the purpose of preventing such employé, mechanic or laborer from engaging in or securing similar or other employment, from any other corporation, company or individual, or shall in any manner conspire or contrive by correspondence, or otherwise, to p.event such discharged employé from securing employment, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty (50), nor more than two hundred and fifty (250) dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty, nor more than ninety days, or both.

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

(Page 62.)

SECTION 1. That there is hereby established a separate and distinct bureau to be known as the bureau of labor statistics of the State of Colorado, which bureau shall be charged with the collection of statistics pertaining to the internal resources of the State, labor and agricultural. The secretary of state shall be designated the ex officio commissioner of said bureau. He shall appoint a deputy within ten (10) days after the approval of this act, who shall hold his office for the term of two years. He shall be an elector of this State, well versed in the collection of statistics, and matters relating thereto. The deputy of statistics shall, within twenty days after receiving his commission, and before entering upon the duties of his office, give bonds to the State of Colorado in the sum of two thousand (2,000) dollars, to be approved by the attorney-general. Said deputy shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred (1,800) dollars, payable as other State officers.

SECTION 2. The duties of the commissioner shall be to collect, systematize, and present in biennial reports to the legislature, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the State, such as the hours and wages of labor, cost of living, amount of labor required, estimated number of persons depending on daily labor for their support, the estimated number of persons employed by the several industries within the State, the operation of labor-saving machinery in its relation to hand labor, etc. Said statistics may be classified as follows: 1st. In agriculture.

2nd. In mining.

3rd. In mechanical and manufacturing industries.

4th. In transportation.

5th. In clerical and all other skilled and unskilled labor not above mentioned. 6th. The amount of cash capital invested in lands, in building and machinery, severally, and means of production and distribution generally.

7th. The number, age, sex and condition of persons employed; the nature of their employment; the extent to which the apprenticeship system prevails in the various skilled industries; the number of hours of labor per day; the average length of time employed per annum, and the net wages received in each of the industries and employments within the State.

8th. The number and condition of the unemployed, their age, sex and nation. ality, together with the cause of their idleness.

9th. The sanitary conditions of lands, workshops, dwellings; the number and size of rooms occupied by the workers, etc.; the cost of fuel, rent, food, clothing and water in each locality of the State; also the extent to which labor-saving processes are employed to the displacement of hand labor.

10th. The number and condition of the Chinese in the State; their social and sanitary habits; number of married and of single; the number employed and the nature of their employment; the average wages per day at each employment, and the gross amount yearly; the amount expended by them in rent, food and clothing, and in what propo tion such amounts are expended for foreign and home productions respectively; to what extent their labor comes in competition with the other industrial classes of the State.

11th. The number, condition and nature of the employment of the inmates of the State pri on, county jails and re ormatory institutions, and to what extent their employment comes in competition with the labor of mechanics, artisans and laborers outside of these institutions.

12th. All such other information in relation to labor as the commissioner may deem essential to further the objects sought to be attained by this statute.

13th. A description of the different kinds of labor organizations in existence in the State, and what they accomplish in favor of the class for which they were organized.

SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of all State, county and precinct officers to furnish, upon the written request of the commissioner, all the information in their power necessary to assist in carrying out the objects of this act.

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SECTION 4. Any person who wilfully impedes or obstructs the commissioner in the full and free performance of his duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten (10) nor more than fifty (50) dollars, or imprisonment not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30) days in the county jail, or both.

SECTION 6. The commissioner shall have power to send for persons whenever, in his opinion, it is necessary. And he may examine witnesses under oath, being hereby authorized to administer the same in the performance of his duty, and the testimony so taken must be filed and preserved in the office of said commissioner.

SECTION 9. If any difference shall arise between any corporation or person, employing twenty-five or more employés and such employés, threatening to result, or resulting in a strike on the part of such employés, or a lockout on the part of such employer, it shall be the duty of the commissioner, when requested so to do by fifteen or more of said employés, or by the employers to visit the place of such disturbance, and diligently seek to mediate between such employer and employés.

Employment of children.

(Page 76.)

SECTION 1. Any person who shall take, receive, hire or employ, any children under fourteen years of age in any underground works, or mine, or in any smelter, mill or factory, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace or court of record, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense: Provided, That a jury on the trial of any such case before a justice of the peace, shall be called and empanelled as in the case of assault and battery, and that the jury in such cases shall designate the amount of the fine in their verdict.

SECTION 2. Whenever any person shall before a justice of the peace make oath, or affirm that the affiant believes that this act has been, or is being violated, naming the person charged with such violation, such justice shall for thwith issue a warrant to a constable, or other authorized officer, and such officer shall arrest the person or persons so charged, and bring him or them before the justice issuing such warrant, for a hearing. And it shall be the duty of all constables and policemen to aid in the enforcement of this act.

SECTION 3. In default of the payment of the fine or penalty imposed under any of the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, or court of record before whom any person may be convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, to commit such person to the county jail, there to remain for not less than twenty days nor more than ninety days.

Convict labor.

(Page 232.)

SECTION 1, (as amended by act of April 19, 1889, page 91, acts of 1889). It shall be unlawful for the State of Colorado, its officers or representatives, to hire out the persons now confined, or who may hereafter be confined, as convicts in any penitentiary or prison that now is or hereafter may be established in the State of Colorado for the confinement of persons convicted of crimes or misdemeanors, to perform labor of any kind or description whatsoever outside of the prison walls or grounds owned or leased by the State of Colorado in the vicinity of such penitentiary or prison; such convicts shall not be hired out to perform labor of any description, for pay or gain of any description, nor shall their services be given free to any person or class, or association of persons, beyond the limits hereinbefore described, under penalty hereinafter provided: Provided, That said board of penitentiary commissioners shall not hire out any convict for the purpose of carrying on an industry that comes in competition with free labor in the State of Colorado; And, provided further, That all labor shall be done under the supervision of the said board and the warden of the penitentiary.

SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, or corporation, or association whatsoever, or any county, city or town within the State of Colorado, to hire or bring into the State to perform labor, any persons convicted of crimes or misdemeanors of any description whatsoever in any State or Territory of the United