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 LABOR LAWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 State of Wyoming 
 
 PUBUSHED BY 
 
 WYOMING LABOR JOURNAL COMPANY 
 
 CHEYENNE 
 
 1916 
 
 .Bliilii 
 
THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL 
 
 OF 
 
 INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR 
 
 RELATIONS 
 
 AT 
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
LABOR LAWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 / 
 
 Compiled by 
 
 FRANK L. HOUX 
 
 Secretary of State 
 
 PUBUSHED BY 
 
 WYOMING LABOR JOURNAL COMPANY 
 
 CHEYENNE 
 
 1916 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 In addition to the constitutional and statutory provisions which, 
 under a strict classification, naturally belong in a compilation of labor 
 laws, there are included in this work some of the fundamental prin- 
 ciples of the constitution guaranteeing and protecting the rights of 
 all citizens alike ; a number of statutory provisions closely connected 
 with the administration of labor laws; some of the laws for the pro- 
 tection of women and children, and one or two measures not in any 
 sense labor laws, but championed by the labor organizations. 
 
 Practically all the laws are given in full. In a few chapters, in 
 order to save space, one or more sections have been condensed into 
 a brief summary. Reference to certain statutes which do not appear 
 to have a place in such a compilation as this, but which are all of 
 more or less interest to employers and employees, are given in the 
 body of the work. 
 
Labor Laws of the State of Wyoming 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Article I. — ^Declaration of Rights. 
 
 Sec. 2. In their inherent right to life, liberty and =«"»!"? "f *"■ 
 the pursuit of happiness, all members of the human 
 race are equal. 
 
 Sec. 3. Since equality in the enjoyment of natural f^g^tg.'^''"*"'*^ 
 and civil rights is made sure only through political 
 equality, the laws of this state affecting the political 
 rights and privileges of its citizens shall be without 
 distinction of race, color, sex, or any circumstance or 
 condition whatsoever other than individual incompe- 
 tency, or unworthiness duly ascertained by a court of 
 competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 4. The right of the people to be secure in their slS^ Against 
 persons, houses, papers and effects against unreason- 
 able searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no 
 warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported 
 by affidavit, particularly describing the place to be 
 searched or the person or thing to be seized. 
 
 Sec. 5. No person shall be imprisoned for debt ex- Deb^-impris- 
 
 „ „ , onment for. 
 
 cept m cases of fraud. 
 
 Sec. 6. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty propeJ^^"^^' 
 or property without due process of law. 
 
 Sec. 7. Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, bura^^Power.'*'' 
 liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a 
 republic, not even in the largest majority. 
 
 Sec. 8. All courts shall be open and every person ^JJ"*^ °p*" *" 
 for an injury done to person, reputation or property 
 shall have justice administered without sale, denial or 
 delay. Suits may be brought against the state in such 
 manner and in such courts as the legislature may by 
 law direct. 
 
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 Trial by Jury 
 Inviolate. 
 
 Bight of Accused 
 to Defend 
 
 Accused Shall 
 Noti Incriminate 
 Himself. 
 
 Bail — Not Ex- 
 cessive. 
 
 Free Speech- 
 Libel. 
 
 Petition — Bight 
 of. 
 
 Iiabor — Protec- 
 tion of. 
 
 Sec. 9. The right of trial by jury shall remain in- 
 violate in criminal cases, but a jury in civil cases in all 
 courts, or in criminal cases in courts not of record, may 
 consist of less than twelve men, as may be prescribed 
 by law. Hereafter a grand jury may consist of twelve 
 men, any nine of whom concurring may find an indict- 
 ment, but the legislature may change, regulate or abol- 
 ish the grand jury system. 
 
 Sec. 10. In all criminal prosecutions the accused 
 shall have the right to defend in person and by counsel, 
 to demand the nature and cause of the accusation, to 
 have a copy thereof, to be confronted with the wit- 
 nesses against him, to have compulsory process served 
 for obtaining witnesses, and to a speedy trial by an 
 impartial jury of the county or district in which the 
 offense is alleged to have been committed. 
 
 Sec. 11. No person shall be compelled to testify 
 against himself in any criminal case, nor shall any per- 
 son be twice put in jeapordy for the same offense. If 
 the jury disagree, or if the judgment be arrested after 
 a verdict, or if the judgment be reversed for error in 
 law, the accused shall not be deemed to have been in 
 jeopardy. 
 
 Sec. 14. All persons shall be bailable by sufficient 
 sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is 
 evident or the presumption great. Excessive bail shall 
 not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor smII 
 cruel or unlawful punishment be inflicted. 
 
 Sec. 20. Every person may freely speak, write and 
 publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse 
 of that right; and in trials for libel, both civil and crim- 
 inal, the truth, when published with good intent and 
 for justifiable ends, shall be a sufficient defense, the 
 jury having the right to determine the facts and the 
 law, under direction of the court. 
 
 Sec. 21. The right of petition, and of the people 
 .peaceably to assemble to consult for the common good, 
 and to make known their opinions, shall never be de- 
 nied or abridged. 
 
 Sec. 22. The rights of labor shall have just pro- 
 tection through laws calculated to secure to the laborer 
 proper rewards for his service and to promote the in- 
 dustrial welfare of the state. 
 
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 Sec. 29. No distinction shall ever be made by law A'i*"^' Kie^s. 
 between resident aliens and citizens as to the posses- 
 .sion, taxation, enjoyment and descent of property. 
 
 Article IX. — Mines and Mining. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be established and main- inspector of 
 tained the office of inspector of mines, the duties and 
 salary of which shall be prescribed by law. When said 
 office shall be established, the governor shall, with the 
 advice and consent of the senate, appoint thereto a per- 
 son proven in the manner provided by law to be com- 
 petent and practical, whose term of office shall be two 
 years. 
 
 Sec. 2. The legislature shall provide by law for the Laws Must Be 
 proper development, ventilation, drainage and opera- 
 tion of all mines in this state. 
 
 Sec. 3. No boy under the age of fourteen years and ^nes— iiestrio- 
 no woman or girl of any age shall be employed or per- tions. 
 mitted to be in or about any coal, iron or other danger- 
 ous mines for the purpose of employment therein ; pro- 
 vided, however, this provision shall not affect the em- 
 ployment of a boy or female of suitable age in an office 
 or in the performance of clerical work at such mine or 
 colliery. 
 
 Sec. 4. For any injury to person or property caused ^^^'Jujl^ri^"""" 
 by wilful failure to comply with the provisions of this 
 article, or laws passed in pursuance hereof, a right of 
 action shall accrue to the party injured, for the damage 
 sustained thereby, and in all cases in this state, when- 
 ever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful 
 act, neglect or default, such as would, if death had not 
 ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an 
 action to recover damages in respect thereof, the per- 
 son who, or the corporation which would have been lia- 
 ble, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action 
 for damages notwithstanding the death of the person 
 injured, and the legislature shall provide by law at its 
 first session for the manner in which the right of action 
 in respect thereto shall be enforced. 
 
 Article X. — Corporations. 
 
 Sec. 4. No law shall be enacted limiting the amount Ltait^^^~^° 
 of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or 
 death of any person. Any contract or agreement with 
 
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 Workmen's 
 pensation. 
 
 Corn- 
 
 Amendment in 
 Force Dec. 26, 
 1914. 
 
 any employe waiving any right to recover damages for 
 causing the death or injury of any employee shall be 
 void. 
 
 As to all extra hazardous employments the legisla- 
 ture shall provide by law for the accumulation and 
 maintenance of a fund or funds out of which shall be 
 paid compensation as may be fixed by law according to 
 proper classifications to each person injured in such 
 employment or to the dependent families of such as 
 die as the result of such injuries, except in case of in- 
 juries due solely to the culpable negligence of the in- 
 jured employee. Such fund or funds shall be accumu- 
 lated, paid into the state treasury and maintained in 
 such manner as may be provided by law. The right of 
 each employee to compensation from such fund shall 
 be in lieu of and shall take the place of any and all 
 rights of action against any employer contributing as 
 required by law to such fund in favor of any person 
 or persons by reason of any such injuries or death. 
 
 Eight-bonr Day. 
 
 Aliens Not to Be 
 Employed on 
 Public Works. 
 
 Courts of Arbi- 
 tration for La- 
 bor Disputes. 
 
 Importing Police 
 Force ProWbited. 
 
 Article XIX. — Miscellaneous. 
 
 Section 1. Eight (8) hours actual work shall con- 
 stitute a lawful day's work in all mines, and on all 
 state and municipal works. 
 
 Section 1. No person not a citizen of the United 
 States or who has not declared his intentions to be- 
 come such, shall be employed upon or in connection 
 with any state, county or municipal works or employ- 
 ment. 
 
 Sec. 2. The legislature shall, by appropriate legis- 
 lation, see that the provisions of the foregoing section 
 are enforced. 
 
 Section 1. The legislature shall establish courts of 
 arbitration, whose duty it shall be to hear, and deter- 
 mine all differences, and controversies between organi- 
 zations or associations of laborers, and their employers, 
 which shall be submitted to them in such manner as the 
 legislature may provide. 
 
 Section 1. No armed police force, or detective 
 agency, or armed body, or unarmed body of men, shall 
 ever be brought into this state, for the suppression of 
 domestic violence, except upon the application of the 
 
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 legislature, or executive, when the legislature cannot 
 be convened. 
 
 Section 1. It shall be unlavrful for any person, com- certata^'Kinds*^' 
 pany or corporation, to require of its servants or em- ProhiMted. 
 ployees as a condition of their employment, or other- 
 wise, any contract or agreement, whereby such person, 
 company or corporation shall be released or discharged 
 from liability or responsibility, on account of personal 
 injuries received by such servants or employees, while 
 in the service of such person, company or corpora- 
 tion, by reason of the negligence of such person, com- 
 pany or corporation, or the agents or employees there- 
 of, and such contracts shall be absolutely null and void. 
 
 Section 1. The legislature may provide by law for Arbitration, 
 the voluntary submission of differences to arbitrators 
 for determination, and said arbitrators shall have such 
 powers and duties as may be prescribed by law, but 
 they shall have no power to render judgment to be 
 obligatory on parties, unless they voluntarily submit 
 their matters of difference and agree to abide by the 
 judgment of such arbitrators. 
 
 STATUTES. 
 
 Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1910; Session LaAvs. 
 1911, 1913, and 1915. 
 
 Section numbers refer to the Compiled Statutes, 
 1910, unless otherwise indicated. 
 
 MINES AND MINING. 
 
 Eight-Hour Day. 
 
 Sec. 3499. The period of employment of working ^"*j?s °w- 
 men in all underground mines or workings shall be 
 eight (8) hours per day, except in case of emergency 
 where life or property is in imminent danger. 
 
 Sec. 3500. The period of employment of working Keduction 
 men in smelters, stamp mills, sampling works, conceu- 
 traters and all other institutions for the reduction of 
 ores, and refining of ores or metals, shall be eight 
 (8) hours per day, except in cases of emergency where 
 life or property is in imminent danger. 
 
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 Penalty. 
 
 Day Defined. 
 
 Time Defined. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Sec. 3501. Any person or persons, body corporate, 
 agent, manager or employer who shall violate any of 
 the provisions of Sections 3499 or 3500 shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
 shall for each offense, be subject to a fine of not less 
 than one hundred dollars or more than five himdrcd 
 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county iail for a 
 period of not less than one (1) month or more than six 
 (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 3502. In all contracts hereafter made between 
 any owner, lessee or operator of any coal mine, with 
 any such miner or laborer for his services as such, the 
 word day when used shall be construed to be eight 
 hours; Provided, That nothing in this section nor in 
 Sections 3502 or 3503 contained shall be construed to 
 prohibit or prevent any such owner, lessee or operator 
 from operating his or its coal mine more than eight 
 hours in any twenty-four. 
 
 Sec. 3503. The eight hours in this and the preced- 
 ing section provided for, shall be construed to mean 
 eight hours of actual labor and shall not include the 
 time consumed in going to and returning from v/ork. 
 
 Sec. 3504. Any owner, lessee or operator, his or "ts 
 agent, employees or servants, violating any of the pro- 
 visions of the two preceding sections shall be fined not 
 less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred 
 dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or 
 both. 
 
 Where Explos- 
 ives Shall Be 
 Stored. 
 
 Storage of Explosives. 
 
 Sec. 2964. It shall be unlawful for any person or 
 company to store any gunpowder or any other ex- 
 plosive material at a less distance than one thousand 
 feet from any house or habitation, when more than 
 fifty pounds are stored at the same place, except with 
 the sanction of the board of county commissioners of 
 the county in which storage place may be located ; but 
 it shall be unlawful to place or to keep more than five 
 pounds of such powder, or other explosive material, in 
 any house or building occupied as a residence, or in 
 any outbuilding pertaining thereto. 
 
 How^con^tST Sec. 2965. Hereafter, any powder magazine that 
 may be built, shall be so constructed as to provide and 
 
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 maintain the storage room thereof, entirely below the 
 natural surface of the ground adjacent; and it shall be 
 unlawful to store such powder or explosives in any 
 other than such storage room. 
 
 Sec. 2966. Anyone violating the provisions of Sec- penautes— 
 tion 2964 shall be, on conviction, fined in any sum not Nuisance, 
 exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every of- 
 fense, and may be imprisoned not exceeding thirty 
 days, or both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion 
 of the court having jurisdiction. Any violation of the 
 provisions of the preceding section shall be a public 
 nuisance, and shall be abated at the suit of any person, 
 in any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 2967. All nitro-glycerine, powder or other high saie of Expio- 
 explosive sold in the State of Wyoming shall be prop- 
 erly marked with the date of manufacture on each stick 
 of powder, and no nitro-glycerine, powder or other high 
 explosive shall be sold after twelve months from date 
 of manufacture. 
 
 Sec. 2968. Explosives must be stored in a magazine storage of ex- 
 
 ^ . ° plosives. 
 
 provided for that purpose alone ; said magazine to be 
 placed far enough from the open cutting or working 
 shaft, tunnel or incline to insure the same remaining 
 intact, in the event the entire stock of explosives in 
 said magazine be exploded ; that all explosives in ex- 
 cess of the amount required for a shift's work be kept 
 in said magazine; that no powder or other explosives 
 be stored in underground workings where men are em- 
 ployed; that each mine shall provide and employ a 
 suitable device for thawing or warming powder and 
 keep the same in condition for use that oils or other 
 combustible substances shall not be kept or stored in 
 the same magazine with explosives. 
 
 Sec. 2969. Oils and other inflammable materials Mal.lSSs.'''* 
 shall be stored or kept in a building erected for that 
 purpose, and at a safe distance from the main build- 
 ings, and at a safe distance from the powder magazine, 
 and their removal from said building for use shall be 
 in such quantities as are necessary to meet the require- 
 ments of a day only. 
 
 Sec. 2970. No person shall, whether working for ?=«■ "l steei or 
 
 Iron xAmpinEC 
 
 himself or in the employ of any person, company or Bar ProwiJited. 
 corporation, while loading or charging a hole with 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Inspectoi of 
 Mines — ^Author- 
 ity. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 nitro-glycerine, powder or other explosives, use or em- 
 ploy any steel or iron tamping bar; nor shall any mine 
 manager, superintendent, foreman or shift boss, or 
 other person having the management or direction of 
 mine labor, allow or permit the use of such steel, iron 
 or other metal tamping bar by employees under his 
 management or direction. 
 
 Sec. 2971. The inspector of mines shall have au- 
 thority to regulate and limit the amount of nitro pow- 
 der stored or kept in general supply stores in mining 
 camps or mining towns where there is no municipal 
 law governing the same; he shall have authority to 
 enforce the provisions of this act and to prosecute any 
 violation thereof as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec. 2972. Any person or persons violating any of 
 the provisions of the five preceding sections shall be 
 liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars or not more 
 than one hundred dollars for each violation. 
 
 Intoxicating 
 Iiiquor — Use in 
 Mines. 
 
 Sec. 5890. "Whoever shall, while under the influence 
 of intoxicating liquor enter any mine, smelter or metal- 
 lurgical works, or any of the buildings connected with 
 the operation of the same in Wyoming, where miners 
 or other workmen are employed, or carry any intoxi- 
 cating liquor into the same shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in 
 any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to which 
 may be added imprisonment in the county jail for a 
 term not exceeding one year. 
 
 state Geologist 
 Is Inspector. 
 
 Metalliferous Mines. 
 Sec. 3483. The state geologist shall act ex-offieio as 
 inspector of mines until otherwise provided by law, 
 and under this act shall have power to make such ex- 
 amination and inquiry as is deemed necessary to as- 
 certain whether the provisions of this act are com- 
 plied with ; to examine into, and make inquiry into the 
 condition of any mine, mill or part thereof, and all mat- 
 ters or things connected with or relating to the safety 
 of the persons employed in or about the same; to ex- 
 amine into and make inquiry respecting the condition 
 of the machinery or mechanical device, and- if deemed 
 necessary have same tested; to appear at all coroners' 
 
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 inquest [s] held respecting accidents, and if necessary, 
 call, examine and cross-examine witnesses; to exercise 
 suc'h other powers as are necessary for carrying this 
 chapter into effect. 
 
 Sec. 3484. Every owner, agent, manager or lessee Admission to 
 of any metalliferous or metallurgical plant in this 
 state shall admit the inspector on the exhibition of his 
 badge or certificate of appointment, for the purpose 
 of making examination and inspection provided for in 
 this act, whenever the mine is in active operation and 
 render any necessary assistance for such inspection. 
 But said inspection shall not necessarily obstruct the 
 working of said mine or plant. The refusal of the 
 owner, agent, manager or lessee to admit the inspector 
 to such mine or plant to lawfully inspect the same, 
 shall, upon conviction, be deemed a misdemeanor and 
 shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars 
 ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) 
 or be imprisoned not less than one (1) nor more than 
 three (3) months. 
 
 Sec. 3485. The inspector shall exercise a sound dis- Dangerous Mines, 
 cretion in the enforcement of this act and if he shall *^° 
 find any matter, thing or practice in or connected with 
 any metalliferous mine or metallurgical plant to be 
 dangerous or defective so as to, in his opinion threaten 
 or tend to the bodily injury of any person, the inspector 
 shall give notice in writing thereof to the owner, agent, 
 manager or lessee of such mine or plant, stating in such 
 notice the particulars in which he considers such mine, 
 plant or part thereof, or practice to be dangerous or 
 defective; and he shall order the same to be remedied, 
 a copy of said order shall be filed and become a part 
 of the records of the inspector of said mines, and said 
 owner, agent, manager or lessee shall, upon, compliance 
 of said order, immediately ndtify the inspector of 
 mines in writing. Upon the refusal or failure of said 
 owner, agent, manager or lessee to report within a rea- 
 sonable length of time, said owner, agent, manager or 
 lessee shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty 
 dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars 
 ($300.00) for each and every such refusal or failure. 
 
 Sec. 3486. Any owner, lessee, manager, superin- MSsrepresenta- 
 tendent or foreman in charge of any metalliferous mine """■ ^®"*i*y- 
 who shall willfully misrepresent or withhold facts or 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Accidents. 
 
 information from the inspector regarding the mine, 
 such as length of time timbers have been in place, or 
 making any misrepresentation tending to show safetj' 
 when the reverse is true, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court 
 of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum rot 
 less than one hundred ($100.00) nor more than three 
 hundred dollars ($300.00) for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 3487. Any owner, agent, manager or lessee 
 having charge or operating any metalliferous mine or 
 metallurgical plant, whenever loss of life or accident 
 serious enough in character to cause the injured party 
 to stop work for thirty consecutive days and being 
 under the care of a physician and connected with the 
 workings of such mine or metallurgical plant, shall oc- 
 cur, shall give notice immediately and report all the 
 facts thereof to the inspector of mines. The refusal or 
 failure of the said owner, agent, manager or lessee to 
 so report within reasonable time shall be deemed a 
 misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be subject to 
 a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not more than 
 three hundred dollars, , or be imprisoned for not less 
 than one and not more than three months. The in- 
 spector of mines upon receipt of notice of accident shall 
 investigate and ascertain the cause and make or cause 
 to be made a report, which shall be filed in his office 
 for future reference. 
 
 Sec. 3488. Any person or persons operating any 
 metalliferous mine or mill and employing five or more 
 men, shall report the same to the inspector of mines 
 and state when work is commenced and when stopped, 
 and mines working continuously shall report on or be- 
 fore December 1 of each year, together with the names 
 of the owners and managers or lessee in charge of said 
 work, together with the postoffice address, the name of 
 the elami or claims to be operated, the name of the 
 county and mining district, together with the number 
 of men. employed, directly or indirectly, the same being 
 classified into miners, trammers, timbermen or assort- 
 ers, millmen, teamsters, etc.. The necessary blanks to 
 carry out the provisions of this section shall be fur- 
 nished upon application by thq inspector of mines, 
 code Of Signals. gee. 3489. There is hereby established the follow- 
 ing code of signals for use in the metalliferous mines of 
 
 Seports of 
 Operators. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING IS 
 
 this state, which shall be securely posted in a clear and 
 legible form in the engine room, at the collar of the 
 shaft and at each level or station: 
 
 Signals. 
 
 1 Bell Hoist. (See Rule 2.) 
 
 1 Bell — Stop if in motion. 
 
 2 Bells— Lower. (See Rule 2.) 
 
 3 Bells — Men on, run slow. (See Rule 2.) 
 
 7 Bells — Accident. Hoist or lower by verbal orders 
 
 only. 
 
 3-2-1 Bells— Ready to shoot. (See Rule 3.) 
 Engineer Signal — Engineer shall, after signal 3-2-1, 
 
 raise the bucket or cage two feet and lower again, and 
 
 shall remain at his post until final signal is given and 
 
 command executed. 
 
 Rules Governing Signals. 
 
 Rule 1. In giving ordinary signals make strokes suies. 
 on bell at regular intervals. In signals similar to 
 "Ready to shoot" 3-2-1 bells each bar (-) must take the 
 same time as one stroke of the bell. 
 
 Rule 2. "When men are to be hoisted or lowered, 
 give the signal for "Men on, run slow," (3 bells). Men 
 must then get on bucket or cage, then give signal to 
 hoist or lower. (1 or 2 bells.) 
 
 Rule 3. After signal "Ready to shoot" (3-2-1 bells) 
 engineer must reply as above. Miners must then give 
 signal "Men on" (3 bells), then spit fuse, get on 
 bucket or cage and give signal to hoist. 
 
 Rule 4. All timbers, tools, etc., longer than the 
 depth of bucket or placed within a cage, must be se- 
 curely lashed before being hoisted or lowered. 
 
 Rule 5. Signals to meet local demand and not in 
 conflict with above may be added by individual oper- 
 ators, but same must be posted in clear and legible 
 form in connection with above code. 
 
 Sec. 3490. The inspector of mines shall have power Enforcement, 
 to enforce the adoption of this code of signals in all 
 metalliferous mines using hoisting machinery, and all 
 persons giving or causing to be given false signals or 
 riding upon any cage, skip or bucket upon signals 
 that designate to the engineer that no employees are 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Hoisting Engl- 
 neei. 
 
 Visitors. 
 
 Coal Mines 
 Exempt. 
 
 Maps. 
 
 aboard, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor under 
 this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 3491. No person addicted to the use of intoxi- 
 cating liquors or under eighteen years of age shall be 
 employed as hoisting engineer. 
 
 Sec. 3492. Strangers or visitors shall not be allowed 
 underground in any mine unless accompanied by some 
 owner, official, or employee deputized to accompany 
 same. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to coal 
 mines. 
 
 Goal Mines. 
 Sec. 3505. The owner, operator or superintendent 
 of every coal mine shall make, or cause to be made, an 
 accurate map or plan of such coal mine, on a scale not 
 exceeding two hundred feet to the inch ; which map or 
 plan shall exhibit all the openings or excavations, the 
 shafts, tunnels, slopes, planes, gangways, entries, cross 
 headings, rooms, etc., and shall show the direction of 
 the air currents therein, and shall accurately delineate 
 the boundary line between said mine and adjoining 
 mines, and show its relation and proximity thereto. 
 The said map or plan, or a true copy thereof, shall be 
 kept at such mine by the said owner, operator or super- 
 intendent, for th,e use of the State inspector of coal 
 mines, and for the inspection of any miner working in 
 said mine, whenever said miner shall have cause to fear 
 that the place where he is working is becoming dan- 
 gerous by reason of its proximity to other workings, 
 which may be supposed to contain water or dangerous 
 gases. The said owner, operator or superintendent 
 shall as often as once in every six months, accurately 
 place or cause to be placed on a map or plan of said 
 coal mine, a plan of the excavations made of all the 
 working places or other parts of such coal mine during 
 the preceding six months, and whenever the workings 
 or excavations of said coal mine, or any part of the 
 same have been driven to within ten feet of the boun- 
 dary line, or when said coal mine, or any part of the 
 same is abandoned, the owner, operator or superin- 
 tendent thereof shall furnish the State inspector of coal 
 mines, within three months thereafter, the proximity 
 to the boundary line as aforesaid, or after the abandon- 
 ment of the said mine, or any part of the same, with a 
 correct copy on tracing muslin or blue print of the map 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING IS 
 
 or plan of said mine, which shall accurately show all 
 excavations and workings of such mines to date, ex- 
 hibiting clearly the part or parts abandoned, and the 
 part or parts in proximity to the boundary line afore- 
 said. The several coal maps or plans of mines in the 
 State which are furnished to the State inspector of 
 coal mines, as last aforesaid, shall be the property of 
 the State, and shall remain in the care of 
 the said State inspector of coal mines, to be 
 transferred by him to his successor in office, 
 and in no case shall any copy of the same be 
 made without the consent of the owner, operator or 
 his agent. If the said State inspector of coal mines 
 shall find or have good reason to believe that any map 
 or plan of any coal mine made or furnished in pursu- 
 ance of the provisions of this chapter, is materially in- 
 accurate or imperfect, he is hereby authorized to cause 
 a correct plan or map of said coal mine to be made at 
 the expense of the owner or operator thereof, the cost 
 of which shall be recovered from the said owner or 
 operator, in the name of the State, as other debts are 
 recoverable by law: Provided, however, That if the 
 map or plan which is claimed to be inaccurate shall 
 prove to have been correct, then the inspector shall be 
 held liable for the expenses incurred in making such 
 test survey, and the same shall be paid by the said in- 
 spector. 
 
 Sec. 3506. It shall not be lawful for the owner, ^^^^p^ Shafts, 
 operator, contractor, lessee or agent of any coal mine, 
 or for any firm, company, corporation or association, 
 their clerks, servants, agents or employees to employ 
 any person at work within any coal mine, or permit 
 any person to be in any coal mine for the purpose of 
 working therein, unless such mine is in communication 
 with at least two openings, if the mine be worked by 
 shaft or slope, which two shafts or slopes shall be sepa- 
 rated by natural strata at all points by a distance of Proviso, 
 not less than fifty feet, except in drift mines heretofore 
 opened, where the mine inspector shall deem it im- 
 practicable : Provided, however. An aggregate number 
 not exceeding twenty persons may be employed in the 
 mine at any one time until the second opening shall be 
 readied and made available, which said second open- 
 ing the said inspector of coal mines shall cause to be 
 made without unnecessary delay, and in case of fur- 
 nace ventilation being used before the second opening 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Same Subject. 
 
 Ventilation. 
 
 is reached, the furnace shall not be placed within forty- 
 feet of the foot of the shaft, slope or drift, and shall 
 be well secured from danger from fire by brick or Ptone 
 walls of sufficient thickness. 
 
 Sec. 3507. When a second opening or outlet is made 
 which does not exceed seventy-five feet i]i verticiil 
 depth, from the surface to the seam or strata of coal 
 that is being mined, it shall be set apart exclusively 
 for the purpose of ingress and egress to or from the 
 mine, by any person or persons employetl therein, and 
 it shall always be kept clear of any obstruction, and 
 if the opening is a shaft it shall be fitted M'ith safe fiiid 
 convenient stairs not less than two fset wide, ^.-nd not 
 to exceed an angle of sixty degrees descent, and land- 
 ings of not less than eighteen inches wid^ avid four feet 
 long, at easy and convenient distances: and iJl vaier 
 coming from the surface, or out of the strata in the 
 shaft, shall so be conducted as to be prevetited fi'om 
 falling down the shaft or the stairs, or on persons .is- 
 eending or descending the stairway of the shaft. If 
 the second opening is a slop.3 for a traveling way and 
 has a greater angle of deseeat than twenty-five de- 
 grees, it shall be provided with suitable stairs not less 
 than two feet wide, but when the seam or stratum of 
 coal at main outlet or escapement share in connection 
 with any mine exceeds seventy-five feet in vertical 
 depth from the surface, the miners or other employees 
 in the mine shall be lowered into or raised from said 
 mine by machinery; and when the employees are low- 
 ered into or raised from said mine at th-; main outlet, 
 the escapement shall be fitted with safe .and .available 
 machinery, or safe and convenient stall's, by which per- 
 sons employed in the mines may readily escape m case 
 of accident. The hoisting machinery and stairs used 
 for lowering or raising the employees into or out of 
 the mine shall be kept in a safe condition and inspected 
 once each twenty-four hours by a competent person 
 employed in whole or in part for that purpose, and 
 such machinery and the methods of its inspection shall 
 be approved by the State inspector of coal mines. 
 
 Sec. 3508. The owner, lessee, or agent of any coal 
 mine, whether shaft, slope or drift, shall provide and 
 maintain for every such mine, ample means of ventila- 
 tion affording not less than one hundred and fifty cubic 
 feet of pure air per minute for each and every 'person 
 
Examination. 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 17 
 
 employed in said mine, and as much more as ihe cir- 
 cumstances may require, which Shall be circulated 
 around the main headings and across headings and 
 working places to an extent that will dilute, carry off 
 and render harmless the noxious or dangerous gases 
 generated therein ; the main current of air shall be so 
 split, or subdivided as to give a separate current of 
 reasonably pure air to every hundred men at work, and 
 the inspector shall have authority to jrder s>^parate 
 currents for smaller groups of men, if, in his judgment, 
 special conditions make it necessary; and the air cur- 
 rent for ventilating the stabh^ shall not pass into the 
 intake air current for ventilating rho working parts 
 of the mine. In mines generatin,? fire damp, Avorked- 
 out or abandoned parts thereof shall be kept free of 
 standing gas, or properly walled off and the entrance 
 thereto properly closed, and cautionary notice pusted 
 on the stoping to warn persons from danger, and e\ery 
 wo;'king place and all other places where gas is known 
 or supposed to exist shall be carefully examined bj' 
 the fire boss within two hours immediately before each 
 shift, with a safety lamp, and in making said exami- 
 nation it shall be the duty of the fire boss at each ex- 
 amination to leave at the face of every place examined, 
 I evidence of his presence ; and it shall not be lawful for 
 any miner to enter any mine or 'part of a mine generat- 
 ing fire damp until it has been examined by the fire 
 boss aforesaid, and by him reported to be safe. No 
 working place shall be driven more than fifty feet in 
 advance of a breakthrough or airway. All crosscuts in 
 rooms and entries, except the one nearest to the work- 
 ing face, shall be sealed in such manner that the air 
 current shall be directed across the working place. 
 
 Sec, 3509. Any person or persons, or association of violations, 
 persons, or corporation or agent, lessee or owner of any 
 coal mine in this State, .or any fire boss or miner who 
 shall violate any of the provisions of Section 3508 shall, 
 upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less 
 than two hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 3510. It shall be unlawful for any miner, fire Brushing Fire 
 boss, employee in any mine, or other person, to brush °»"'i'- 
 fire damp from any place in a coal mine by means of 
 a coat, sack, sail cloth, or any like article or material ; 
 and any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Mining Boss. 
 
 Secords. 
 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be impris- 
 oned for a term not exceeding six months, and fined in 
 any sum not to exceed one hundred dollars. And any 
 owner or superintendent, mine boss or fire boss, who 
 shall knowingly permit the same to be done, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, subject to the same 
 penalties as hereinbefore prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 3511. In order to better secure the proper ven- 
 tilation of every coal mine, and promote the health and 
 safety of the persons employed therein, the owner or 
 agent shall employ a competent and practical inside 
 overseer, to be called mining boss, who shall be an ex- 
 perienced coal miner, and shall have taken and passed 
 the examination before, and received a certificate of 
 competency from the examining board hereinafter pro- 
 vided for, and who shall keep a careful watch over the 
 ventilating apparatus and the airways, traveling ways, 
 pumps and drainage, and shall see that as the miners 
 advance their excavations, all loose coal, slate and 
 rock overhead are carefully secured against falling on 
 the traveling ways, and that sufficient props, caps and 
 timbers are furnished upon order of the miner, of suit- 
 able size and cut square at both ends, and as near as 
 practicable to a proper length for the places where they 
 are to be used, and such props, caps or timber and the 
 necessary rails and ties shall be delivered at the mouth 
 of the rooms. He shall see that all water be drained 
 or hauled out- of all working places before the miner 
 enters, and as far as practicable, kept dry while the 
 miner is at work; and it shall be the further duty of 
 the mining boss to see that the proper eut-throughs are 
 made in the room pillars of the miners ' places at inter- 
 vals of not more than sixteen yards for the purpose 
 of ventilation, and in all hauling roads, holes for shel- 
 ter shall be made every thirty yards, and be kept 
 whitewashed, when a space two feet and six inches be- 
 tween the wagon and rib shall be deemed sufficient for 
 shelter ; and the mining boss shall measure the air cur- 
 rent at least once a week at the inlet and outlet and 
 at or near the face of the headings. 
 
 Sec. 3512. The mining boss shall keep a record of 
 such measurements, which shall be placed by him in a 
 book kept for that purpose; said book to be open for 
 the examination of the said State inspector. He shall 
 also, on or about the fifteenth day of each month, mail 
 
Doors. 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 19 
 
 to the State inspector of coal mines, a true copy of the 
 air measurements given, stating also the number of 
 persons employed in or about said mine, the number 
 of mules and horses used, and the number of days 
 worked in each month, for which purpose blanks shall 
 be furnished by the said inspector. It shall be the 
 further duty of the mining boss to immediately notify 
 the owner or agent of the mine of his inability to com- 
 ply with the provisions of this chapter. It shall then 
 become the duty of the said superintendent, operator, 
 owner or agent, at once to attend to the matter com- 
 plained of by the mining boss, and to comply with the 
 provisions hereof. 
 
 Sec. 3513. The safety lamps used for examining safety Lamps, 
 mines, or which may be used in working therein, shall 
 be furnished by and be the property of the owner of 
 said mine, and shall be in charge of the agent of such 
 mine, and in all mines the doors used in assisting or 
 directing the ventilation of the mine shall be so hung 
 and adjusted that they will close themselves, or be 
 supplied with springs or pulleys so that they can not Bore Holes, 
 be left standing open, and bore holes shall be kept not . 
 less than twelve feet in advance of the face of every 
 working place, and when necessary on the sides of the 
 same when they are being driven towards and in dan- 
 gerous proximity to an abandoned mine or part of a 
 mine, suspected of containing inflammable gases, or 
 which is inundated with water. 
 
 Sec. 3514. The mining boss, or his assistant, shall inspections, 
 visit and examine every working place in the mine at 
 least once every alternate day, while the miners of such 
 place are, or should be at work, and shall direct that 
 each and every working place is properly secured by 
 props or timber, and that safety in all respects is as- 
 sured, and that no person shall be .permitted to work 
 in an unsafe place, unless it be for the purpose of mak- 
 ing it safe! 
 
 Sec. 3515. All owners and operators of coal mines 5"'!%*° ^® 
 shall keep posted in a conspicuous place about their 
 mine printed rules, submitted to and approved by the 
 State inspector, defining the duties of all persons em- 
 ployed in or about said coal mines, which said notices 
 shall be printed in the language or languages used by 
 the miners working therein. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Injuring Ap- 
 paratus. 
 
 Guards foi 
 Macbinery. 
 
 Side Cuts. 
 
 Inspectors to 
 Have Access. 
 
 Notice of Defec- 
 tive Conditions. 
 
 Sec. 3516. Any miner, workman or other person 
 who shall intentionally injure any shaft, lamp, instru- 
 ment, air course or brattise [brattice], or obstruct or 
 throw open airways, or carry lighted pipes or matches 
 into places that are worked by safety lamps, or handle 
 or disturb any part of the machinery, or open a door 
 and not close it again, or enter any place of the mine 
 against caution, or disobey any order given in carrying 
 out the provisions of this chapter, or do any other act 
 whereby the lives or the health of persons or security 
 of the mines or machinery is endangered, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished 
 in a manner provided in Section 3528. 
 
 Sec. 3517. All machinery about mines shall be prop- 
 erly fenced off, and there shall be cut in the side of 
 every hoisting shaft, at the; bottom thereof, a traveling 
 way sufficiently wide and high to enable persons to 
 pass the shaft in going from one side of the mine to 
 the other, without passing over or under the cage, or 
 other hoisting apparatus. 
 
 Sec. 3518. Any State inspector of coal mines or his 
 deputy or deputies shall have the right to enter at all 
 times any coal mine within his district in this State, or 
 wherever he may lawfully act in said State, to make 
 examination thereof or to obtain information relating 
 to the working of the same, and the owner, lessee or 
 superintendent of such mine shall afford any assistance 
 required by said inspector or his deputy or deputies 
 in making such examination or obtaining such informa- 
 tion. Said inspector or his deputy or deputies shall 
 immediately notify the owner, lessee, superintendent 
 or mining boss of the discovery of any violation of the 
 mining laws of this State, and of the penalty thereby 
 imposed for such violation; and in case such notice is 
 disregarded, such inspector or deputy or deputies shall 
 have power to stop immediately the working and opera- 
 tion of any mine or any part thereof where any dan- 
 gerous or unlawful conditions are found: Provided, 
 however, That where conditions justify him in so do- 
 ing, he may grant a reasonable length of time for mak- 
 ing repairs or for putting such mine in proper condi- 
 tion: And, provided further. That where any stops 
 or cessation of work are enforced, such inspector or 
 deputy or deputies shall have the power thereafter to 
 allow such mine or part of a mine to be reopened when 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 21 
 
 the dangerous or unlawful conditions therein existing ^g^'Jo^"® ^"' 
 are removed or remedied so that they no longer exist. 
 Every person, company or corporation who willfully 
 obstr.uets the State inspector of coal mines or his dep- 
 uty or deputies in the execution of his or their duties 
 under this act, and every owner, agent, officer, lessee 
 ■or manager of a coal mine who refuses or neglects to 
 furnish to the said inspector or his deputy or deputies 
 the means, information, or opportunity necessary for 
 making any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry 
 of or relating to any coal mine in this State as herein 
 provided for, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of 
 not less than two hundred dollars, and not exceeding 
 five hundred dollars at the discretion of the court try- 
 ing said offender. Every State inspector of coal mines 
 in this State and his deputy or deputies is and are Enforcement, 
 hereby empowered to act as police officers and deputy 
 sheriffs, with full powers to arrest and detain any per- 
 son found violating any provision of this section, or 
 of any of the coal mining laws of this State, or any 
 part thereof, or who shall be engaged in any attempt 
 to violate such law or laws, or against whom there is 
 found any evidence of a previous violation thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3519. Whenever, by reason of any explosion, ^3%^"^° *" ^^ 
 or any other accident, in any coal mine or the ma- 
 chinery connected therewith, loss of life or serious per- 
 sonal injury shall occur, it shall be the duty of the per- 
 sons having charge of such mine or colliery to give a 
 notice thereof forthwith to the State inspector of coal 
 mines, and if any person is killed thereby, to the cor- 
 oner of the county, who shall give due notice of the 
 inquest to be held. If the coroner shall determine to 
 hold an inquest, the said inspector shall be allowed to 
 testify and offer such testimony as he shall deem neces- 
 sary to thoroughly inform the said inquest of the causes 
 of the death, and the said inspector shall have author- 
 ity at any time to appear before said coroner and jury 
 and question or cross-question any witness, and in 
 ■choosing a jury for the purpose of holding such in- 
 quest, it shall be the duty of the coroner to impanel at 
 least one experienced miner on such jury. It shall be 
 the duty of the said inspector, upon being notified as 
 herein provided, to immediately repair to the scene of 
 the accident and make such suggestions as may appear 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Enfoicement. 
 
 Appeals. 
 
 necessary to secure the future safety of the men, and 
 if the results of the explosion or accident do not re- 
 quire an investigation by the coroner, he shall proceed 
 to investigate and ascertain the cause of the explosion 
 or accident and make a record thereof, which he shall 
 file as provided for, and to enable him to make the 
 investigation he shall have the power to compel the 
 attendance of persons to testify, and to administer 
 oaths or affirmations. The cost of such investigation 
 shall be paid by the county in which the accident oc- 
 curred in the same manner as costs of coroners' in- 
 quests are paid by law. 
 
 Sec. 3520. The inspector shall exercise his sound 
 discretion in the enforcement of the provisions of this 
 chapter, and if the operator, owner or miner shall not 
 be satisfied with any decision of the inspector rendered 
 in the discharge of his duties under this chapter, which 
 said decision shall be in writing, and signed by said 
 inspector, the said owner, operator, miner or miners 
 may, within fifteen days after such decision is rendered, 
 appeal to the district court of the county in which the 
 mine concerned is located, and said court shall speed- 
 ily determine the point involved in said decision and 
 appeal, which said decision shall be binding and conclu- 
 sive, subject only to an appeal to the supreme court of 
 the State. The court, in its discretion, may appoint 
 three practical, competent and disinterested persons, 
 whose duty it shall be, under instructions of the said 
 court, to forthwith examine such mine and make report 
 under oath of the facts as they exist or may have been, 
 together with their opinion thereon, which report of 
 said board shall become absolute, unless exceptions 
 thereto shall be filed within ten days after the notice 
 of the filing thereof, to the owner, operator, miner or 
 miners, or inspector, and if exceptions be filed, the 
 court shall at once hear and determine the same, and 
 the decision shall be final and conclusive, subject only 
 to appeal as aforesaid. If the court shall finally sus- 
 tain the decision of the inspector, then the appellants 
 shall pay all costs of such proceedings, and if the court 
 shall not sustain the decision of the inspector, then 
 such costs shall be paid by the county or by the appel- 
 lants and county in such proportion as the court shall 
 determine. No appeal from any decision made by any 
 inspector shall work as a supersedeas during the pen- 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 23 
 
 dency of such appeal, but all such decisions shall be in 
 full force until reversed or modified by the court. 
 
 Sec. 3521 (as amended by Chapter 82, Session Laws, i^|^°'"« 
 1913). On the petition of the inspector of coal mines 
 the district court in any county in this State shall ap- 
 point an examining board for such county, consisting 
 of the State inspector of coal mines, an operator of a 
 coal mine, and a coal miner, who shall be citizens of 
 the United States, and the latter two of which board 
 shall have at least ten year's [years'] experience in 
 coal mines and mining, whose duty it shall be to exam- 
 ine any person applying thereto as to his competency 
 and qualifications to discharge the duties of mining 
 boss, assistant mine boss and gas watchman: Pro- 
 vided, further. That the State inspector of coal mines 
 be empowered to issue a temporary permit to an appli- 
 cant for certificate for mine boss, assistant mine boss 
 or gas watchman, pending a meeting of the board of 
 examiners, if in his judgment the person applying has 
 a practical knowledge sufficient to warrant such per- 
 mit. 
 
 Section 3522 (as amended by Chapter 67, Session Mh^g'sosses."* 
 Laws, 1915). Said board of examiners shall meet at 
 the call of the inspector of the district, and they shall 
 grant proper certificates to all persons whose exami- 
 nation shall disclose their fitness for the duties of min- 
 ing boss, assistant mining boss, and fire boss, and such 
 certificates shall be sufficient evidence of the compe- 
 tency and qualifications of the holders for the duties 
 of said offices. Provided, however. That it shall be the 
 duty of the inspector of each district to arrange for 
 and call at least three meetings of boards of examiners 
 each year, and to see that an opportunity is given in 
 his district, on at least three different occasions in each 
 year, to applicants for mining boss, assistant mining 
 boss and fire boss certificates, to be examined by a duly 
 authorized board. Provided, further. That when a. 
 State mine inspector from his inspection of any mine 
 shall become satisfied that the mine boss, assistant mine 
 boss or fire boss is incompetent in the performance of 
 his duties, he may request him to undergo a re-exami- 
 nation before the examining board, and in the event 
 of his refusal to undergo said examination he is hereby 
 authorized to cancel his certificate of competency, and 
 <3ause the same to become null and void. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Compensation, 
 Etc. 
 
 Bosses to Have 
 Certificates. 
 
 Special Inspec- 
 tions. 
 
 Sec. 3523. The members of the examining board, 
 other than the inspector, shall hold their office for the 
 period of two years from the date of their appointment 
 and shall receive five dollars per day for each day 
 necessarily and actually employed, and mileage at the 
 rate of fifteen cents per mile for each mile necessarily 
 traveled, to be paid by the State. Vacancies in the 
 membership of the board shall be filled by the court 
 of the proper county, except the vacancy in the office 
 of inspector. Sessions of the examining board shall 
 not exceed three days in each quarter, and for any cer- 
 tificate granted the board shall receive the sum of one 
 dollar, the same to be paid into the State treasury. 
 
 Sec. 3524 (as amended by Chapter 22, Session Laws, 
 1913). No person shall act as fire boss or mining boss, 
 assistant mine boss, unless he shall have had at least 
 five years' practical experience working in coal mines, 
 be at least twenty-three years of age, and have been 
 granted a certificate of competency by the State in- 
 spector of coal mines. No owner, operator, contractor, 
 lessee or agent shall employ any mining boss, assistant 
 mine boss or fire boss who does not have the certificate 
 of competency herein required. Said certificate shall 
 be posted up in the office of the mine, and if any acci- 
 dent shall occur in any mine in which a mining boss, 
 assistant mine boss or fire boss shall be employed who 
 has no certificate of competency, as required by this 
 chapter, by which any miner shall be killed or injured, 
 he or his estate shall have a right of action against 
 such operator, owner, lessee or agent and shall recover 
 the full damages sustained; in case of death, such ac- 
 tion to be brought by the administrator of his estate 
 within three years from the date of accident, the pro- 
 ceeds recovered to be divided among the heirs of the 
 deceased according to law. 
 
 Sec. 3525. At any time upon the request of the 
 _ miners employed in any coal mine, the State inspector 
 ■may appoint a committee of two miners employed in 
 said mine, which committee shall be assisted by the 
 mine boss to make an inspection of said mine and re- 
 port the result of said inspection to the State mine in- 
 spector, for which services said committee shall be 
 paid by the miners employed in said mine. The State 
 inspector is hereby made the legal adjuster of all weigh 
 scales, measures or other mechanical machine bv which 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 25 
 
 the miners ' coal is weighed or measured, and shall bal- 
 ance and adjust said scales or measures at any time he 
 may consider it necessary in his official visits to the 
 mines. 
 
 Sec. 3526. For any injury to person or property ^r^YnjSries""''" 
 occasioned by any violation of this chapter, or any 
 willful failure to comply with its provisions, a right of 
 action against the party at fault shall accrue to the 
 party injured for the direct damages sustained thereby, • 
 
 and in any case of loss of life, by reason of such viola- 
 tion or willful failure, a right of action against the 
 party at fault shall accrue to the administrator of the 
 estate of the person whose life shall be lost, for like 
 recovery of damages for the injuries sustained: Pro- 
 vided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed 
 as to prevent the recovery of any lawful damages 
 against the person or company operating mines if said 
 company should be found in fault or shall have con- 
 tributed to any accident by means of carelessness on 
 their part : And provided further, That in no ease 
 shall the State be liable for damages under this chap- 
 ter. 
 
 (Note. — Partially repealed by Sec. 2 of Workmen's 
 Compensation Law.) 
 
 Sec. 3527. It shall be the duty of owners, operators, stretchers, 
 lessees, superintendents and agents of coal mines to 
 keep at the mouth of the drift, shaft or slope, or at any 
 such other place or places as shall be designated by 
 the inspector, stretchers in such number as the in- 
 spector shall designate, properly constructed for the 
 purpose of carrying away any miner or employee 
 working in and about such mines, who may in any way 
 be injured in and about his employment. 
 
 Sec. 3528. The neglect or refusal to perform the Penalties, 
 duties required to be performed by any section of this 
 chapter [Sees. 3505 to 3529] by the parties therein re- 
 quired to perform them, or the violations of any of the 
 provisions or requirements thereof, shall be deemed a 
 misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, except where- 
 in otherwise provided, be punished by a fine of not less 
 than two hundred dollars and not exceeding five hun- 
 dred dollars, at the discretion of the court : Provided, 
 That in case the neglect, or failure or violation occurs 
 in the case of the State inspector of coal mines, if such 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 violation, failure or neglect is shown to have been will- 
 ful, such punishment shall be by a fine of not less than 
 five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dol- 
 lars, or by imprisonment not less than six months, nor 
 more than one year, or by both; and. in default of pay- 
 ment of any fine imposed upon any person under this. 
 'Chapter, such person may be committed to jail until 
 the same shall be paid. 
 
 Application of 
 Law. 
 
 Sec. 3529. The provisions of this chapter [Sees. 
 3505 to 3529] shall not apply to any mine employing- 
 an average of less than ten persons during any one 
 twenty-four hours. 
 
 Unused Cross- 
 cuts. 
 
 Sec. 3530. It shall be the duty of every person, 
 company or corporation, owning or operating coal 
 mines, to shut off all unused crosscuts between main 
 entries and air courses, with a tightly built wall of 
 suitably rock; said wall may be built of waste rock 
 from said mine, the face of such wall to be plastered 
 with mud, or lime and sand; said wall to be kept at 
 all times in perfect condition and repair. 
 
 Cable to Be At- 
 tached to Cars. 
 
 Violation. 
 
 Sec. 3531. It shall be the duty of every person, 
 company or corporation, owning or operating coal 
 mines, to provide a wire cable which shall, in all cases 
 and under all circumstances, be attached to the lead 
 car on all trains of coal cars going into a coal mine, 
 and to the last car of coal cars coming out of a mine, 
 which train of cars are commonly known as "man 
 trips;" and which said wire cable shall be attached to 
 the hoist cable in such way, that if any coupling of the 
 cars on said "man trips" should become broken or un- 
 fastened, the said wire cable, so attached to the hoist 
 cable, would prevent the cars becoming uncoupled and 
 running back into the mine. And such train of cars, 
 known as "man trips," shall not be run at a greater 
 speed than five miles an hour. 
 
 Sec. 3532. Any person, company, or corporation, 
 violating any of the provisions of the two preceding 
 sections shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than 
 one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dol- 
 lars, for each offense. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 27 
 
 Sec. 3533. It shall be the duty of the State mine Enforcement, 
 inspector to enforce the provisions of Sections 3530, 
 8531 and 3532. 
 
 Sec. 3534. The owner, lessee or agent or operator sprinkling, 
 of any coal mine, whether shaft, slope or drift, shall 
 sprinkle with water at least twice a week all dry and 
 dusty places within said coal mines, and all accumu- 
 lations of dust shall be loaded up and taken outside of . 
 the said mines, at least once each month while such moved, 
 mine is in operation: Provided, That all accumula- 
 tions of slack, machine slack, track cleanings and other 
 waste materials incident to coal mining shall be con- 
 sidered as dust within the meaning of this section. 
 
 Sec. 3535. Any person or persons, or association of violations, 
 persons, or corporations or agent, operator, lessee or 
 owner of any coal mine in this State who shall violate 
 any of the provisions of the preceding section shall, 
 upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less 
 than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars 
 for each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 3536. The governor shall nominate and by and po°iL"'inspectOTs'. 
 with the consent of the senate appoint two State in- 
 spectors of coal mines, who shall hold their respective 
 oifices for terms of two years and until their successors 
 are duly appointed and qualified. They shall each have Q^aiacations. 
 a thorough knowledge of practical mining and mining 
 engineering, neither of whom shall be an employee, 
 owner or part owner in any coal mine or coal-mining 
 company in the State. Said inspectors shall not be less 
 than thirty (30) years of age, citizens of the United 
 States, and qualified electors of this State, of good 
 repute and temperate habits. The State inspectors of 
 coal mines shall receive an annual salary of two thou- 
 sand dollars ($2,000) and actual traveling expenses 
 when in the discharge of their duties, and shall keep 
 their respective offices at some convenient point within 
 the district for which they may be appointed. Said in- 
 spectors are hereby authorized to procure such instru- 
 ments, chemical tests and stationery, and to incur such To Procure in- 
 expense of communication from time to time as may be 
 necessary to the discharge of their duties: Provided, 
 That such expenses shall not exceed the contingent 
 fund provided for that office, at the cost of the State, 
 subject to the approval of the governor of the State, 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Districts. 
 
 Bonds. 
 
 Duties. 
 
 Bepoits. 
 
 which shall be paid out of the State treasury upon ac- 
 counts duly certified by him, audited by the State 
 auditor. All instruments, plans, books, memoranda, 
 notes and other property, pertaining to the ofBces 
 hereby created, shall be the property of the State and 
 shall be delivered by each inspector to his successor in 
 office, and said inspector shall be allowed all expenses 
 necessarily incurred in enforcing the provisions of this 
 chapter, in the courts of this State when such expenses 
 are certified to be correct by the courts before which 
 the proceedings were heard. 
 
 Sec. 3537. The State shall be divided into two in- 
 spection districts, one to be known as district No. 1, 
 comprising the counties of Laramie, Albany, Carbon, 
 Sweetwater and Uinta, the other to be known as dis- 
 trict No. 2, comprising the counties of Converse, Na- 
 trona, Fremont, Big Horn, Johnson, Sheridan, Crook 
 and Weston. In the appointment of inspectors the gov- 
 ernor shall designate the district for which each in- 
 spector is appointed, ■ and the jurisdiction of such in- 
 spector shall extend to, and be confined to the particu- 
 lar district for which he has been appointed: Pro- 
 vided, That in ease of the inspector of either district 
 being unable to attend to the duties of his office, 
 through sickness, absence from the State or any other 
 cause, the inspector of the other district shall have full 
 authority and jurisdiction to act in the place and stead 
 of the regularly appointed inspector of such district. 
 
 Sec. 3538. Said inspectors of coal mines shall each, 
 before entering upon the discharge of their duties, give 
 bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) 
 to the State of "Wyoming with sufficient sureties which 
 bonds shall be conditioned on the faithful discharge of 
 their duties. Each of said inspectors shall devote the 
 whole of his time to the duties of his office. It shall 
 be the duty of each inspector to examine the coal mines 
 within his district not less frequently than once during 
 every three months, and more often if conditions re- 
 quire special examination for the protection of life and 
 property. It shall be the further duty of each inspector 
 to make a detailed report of each examination in writ- 
 ing and to file the same in the office of the governor 
 within one week after making such examination. And 
 each of said inspectors shall make up a general annual 
 written report in detail showing the number of times 
 
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 each mine has been inspected during the year, and file 
 the same in the office of the governor not later than 
 December 1st of each year ; it shall be the further duty 
 of each of said inspectors to faithfully execute the pro- 
 visions of this chapter, and cause its provisions to be 
 observed and strictly carried out. 
 
 Sec. 3539. It shall be the duty of each inspector to Eeords. 
 make records of all examinations of mines within his 
 district, showing the condition in which he finds them, 
 especially in reference to ventilation and drainage, the 
 number of mines in his district, the number of persons 
 employed in each mine, the extent to which the laws 
 are obeyed, the progress made in the improvements 
 sought to be secured, the number of accidents and 
 deaths resulting from injuries received in and about 
 the mines, with cause of such accident or death ; said 
 reports to be made quarterly. 
 
 Sec. 3540. The district court within the proper Eemovai of m- 
 eounty, or judge thereof, in vacation or recess, upon a 
 petition signed by not less than fifteen (15) reputable 
 citizens, who shall be miners, owners or lessees of 
 mines, and with the affidavit of one or more of said 
 petitioners attached setting forth that the State in- 
 spector of coal mines for that district neglects his duty 
 or is incompetent, or that he is guilty of malfeasance 
 in office, shall issue a citation in the name of the State 
 to the said inspector to appear upon a day, to be there- 
 in fixed and stated, before said court, which notice 
 shall be served at least fifteen (15) days before the 
 time fixed to appear, at which time the court, or judge 
 thereof in vacation or recess, shall proceed to inquire 
 into, and investigate the allegations of the petitioners ; 
 and if the court find that said inspector is neglectful 
 of his duties or is incompetent to perform the duties 
 of his office, or if he is guilty of malfeasance therein, 
 the court or judge shall certify the same to the gov- 
 ernor, who shall thereupon declare the office of said 
 inspector vacant and proceed to supply said vacancy 
 by appointment. And all vacancies in said office shall 
 be filled by appointment by the governor. The cost of 
 said investigation shall, if the charges are sustained, 
 be taxed against the said inspector, but if the charges 
 be not sustained, they shall be taxed against the county 
 in which the investigation is instituted. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Bepoit to Be 
 Posted. 
 
 Owners' Reports . 
 
 Sec. 3541. It shall be the duty of each State in- 
 spector of coal mines on each visit to any mines within 
 his district, to make out a written or partly written 
 and partly printed report of the condition in which he 
 finds such mines, and post the same in the office at the 
 mine ; also on the dump of such mine, the said report 
 shall give the date of visit, the number of visits during 
 the year, the total number of mines in the State, the 
 number of feet of air in circulation at the face of each 
 and every entry, and such other information as he sha,ll 
 deem necessary, and the report shall remain posted in 
 the office and also on the dump of such mine for one 
 year and said report may be examined by any miner 
 or person employed in and about such mine. 
 
 Sec. 3542. On or before the 30th day of October in 
 each year the owner, operator or superintendent of any 
 mine or coalery [colliery] shall send to the" State in- 
 spector of coal mines for the district in which said mine 
 is situated, a correct report, specifying with respect to 
 the year ending the 30th day of September, the name 
 of the owner, operator and officers of the mine, and the 
 quantity of coal mined, and the number of men em- 
 ployed. The report shall be in such form and give such 
 information as may be from time to time required and 
 prescribed by the inspector; blank forms for such re- 
 port shall be furnished by the State. 
 
 Sec. 3543. Whenever in the Statutes or laws of "Wy- 
 oming, not specifically referred to in this chapter, any 
 duty or obligation is imposed upon the State inspector 
 of coal mines, said duty shall become and is hereby 
 made a part of the duties of the inspectors of coal 
 mines provided for in this chapter, and the inspectors 
 appointed under the provisions of this chapter shall 
 have the same jurisdiction, power and authority to act 
 in the premises, and to enforce the laws of this State 
 within the bounds of their respective districts as the 
 State inspector of coal mines has heretofore possessed 
 throughout the State. 
 
 Annual Heports. Scc. 3544. Each State inspector of coal mines in 
 this State shall make an annual report to the governor 
 on the first Monday in December of each year, contain- 
 ing the substance of the matters embodied in his quar- 
 terly reports now provided for by law, and setting 
 forth fully the number of fatal and nonfatal accidents 
 
 Duties of Former 
 Inspector. 
 
 Accidents. 
 
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 occurring within his jurisdiction, the name of the mine 
 and its location, the names of all persons injured and 
 killed thereby, the nature and causes thereof and ^uch 
 recommendations as he may suggest that would pre- 
 vent such accidents in the future ; and such report shall 
 •contain statistical and other information which may 
 tend to promote the development of the coal-raining 
 resources of this State and afford a better knowledge 
 of the proper method in mining, blasting and handling 
 of coal, in order that those engaged in the coal-mining 
 industry may be informed fully of methods that may 
 secure their safety. 
 
 Sec. 3545. The governor shall cause a sufficient distribution, 
 number of such reports to be published (iirectly after 
 receiving the same in order to supply coal mine opera- 
 tors, coal miners and the public generally, who shall 
 be furnished such reports upon application therefor 
 without expense ; and such report shall be submitted to 
 the legislature following their rendition, by the gov- 
 ernor, with such recommendations for legislation there- 
 on as he shall see fit to make. 
 
 See. 3546. Any State inspector of ?oal mines in this violations. 
 State who shall fail to make the annual report required 
 of him in section 3544, or who shall violate any of the 
 provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a- misde- 
 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fin/^d in 
 any sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more ihan two 
 hundred and fifty dollars, in the discretion of the 
 •court. 
 
 Sec. 3547. The State coal mine inspector fhallhave fH'^^ °^p"" 
 .a,uthority to appoint, from time to time, special depu- 
 ties for the purpose of reporting and investigating 
 mine accidents, making examinations and reporting 
 the same, and performing such other duties as they 
 may be directed to perform by the coal mine inspector, 
 in cases where it is impossible for the coal iriine in- 
 spector to be present in person. 
 
 (Sec. 3548 fixes the salary of such deputies at four 
 dollars per day.) 
 
 Sec. 3549. All wages or compensation of coal iidii- send-Monthiy 
 ers and laborers, now employed, or who may hereafter 
 be employed, in or about any coal mine in the State, 
 shall be due and payable semi-monthly, and such pay- 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Action foi 
 Wages. 
 
 Set-OfE. 
 
 Employer May 
 Fumislb Certain 
 Supplies. 
 
 Miners and Load- 
 ers Sball Beceive 
 Credit for All. 
 
 ment shall be made in lawful monej ol; the Uipted 
 States, or by a good and valid check or draft, payable 
 on presentation thereof, in lawful mone/ of the United 
 States, and not otherwise; that is to say, all such 
 money earned prior to the first day of any month, shall 
 be due and payable on or before the fifteenth day of 
 such month, and any such money earned prior to the six- 
 teenth day of any month shall be due and payable on 
 or before the last day of such month. Any person, 
 company or corporation operating coal mines within 
 this State who fails to comply with the provisions of 
 this section, shall be fined in the sum of not less than 
 twenty -five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars 
 for each and every offense. 
 
 Sec, 3550. In case any employer of any such miner 
 or laborer shall fail or refuse to make payment as 
 aforesaid, the same shall be recoverable in an action 
 at law, together with legal interest from the date when 
 such amount was due, as provided herein. 
 
 Sec. 3551, No account for goods, wares or mer- 
 chandise, nor any claim, except for money loaned or 
 advanced by such employer, to such miner or laborer, 
 except as hereinafter provided, shall be allowed as a 
 set-off or counter-claim in such action, and any i-undi- 
 tion of employment whereby any of the provisions of 
 this chapter are sought to be avoided, shall be utterly 
 null and void. 
 
 Sec, 3552. Nothing in this chapter contained shall 
 be held to interferfi with any contract or agreement, 
 in writing, for the furnishing by such employer to 
 such employees,! of medicine, medical attendance, fuel 
 or house rent. 
 
 (Chapter 74, Session Laws, 1911.) 
 
 Section 1, It shall be unlawful for any mine owner, 
 lessee, operator, agent or company in this State, em- 
 ploying miners at bushel or ton rates, or other quanti- 
 ties, in mining coal, to pass the output of coal mined 
 by said miners over any screen or any device which 
 shall take any part of the marketable coal from the 
 amount thereof, before the same shall have been 
 weighed and duly credited to the employees sending 
 the same to the surface, unless otherwise agreed upon 
 between miners and their employers. In ease of any 
 
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 agreement where coal is credited to miners after hav- 
 ing been screened and weighed, said miner or em- 
 ployees shall receive compensation for all marketable 
 or saleable coal sent by them to the surface, and ac- 
 counted for at the customary rate of weights ; provided, 
 that this section shall also apply to the class of workers 
 in mines known as loaders engaged in mines where 
 mining is done by machinery wherever the workers are 
 under contract to load coal by the bushel, ton or quan- 
 tity. 
 
 Sec. 2. The weighman employed at any mine shall weigtman. 
 subscribe an oath or affirmation before a justice of the 
 peace or other officer authorized to administer oaths, 
 to do justice between employer and employee and to 
 weigh the output of coal from miners in accordance 
 with the provisions of Section 1 of this act. Said oath 
 or affirmation shall be kept conspicuously posted in 
 the weigh office and any weigher of coal or person so 
 employed who shall knowingly violate any of the pro- 
 visions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a 
 fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars for each offense, or by imprison- 
 ment in the county jail for a period of not to exceed 
 thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 3. The miners employed by or engaged in check woigi- 
 working for any mine owner, lessee, operator, agent 
 or company in this State shall have the privilege, if 
 they so desire, of employing at their own expense a 
 check weighman, who shall have like rights and privi- 
 leges in the weighing of coal as the regular weighman 
 and be subject to the same oath and penalties as the 
 regular weighman. 
 
 Sec. 4 (as amended by Chapter 16, Session Laws, scales. 
 1913). The owner, lessee, operator, agent or company 
 operating any coal mine in this state, at which miners 
 are paid by weight, shall provide suitable and accu- 
 rate scales of standard manufacture for weighing of 
 coal which may be procured from such mines; such 
 owner, lessee, operator, agent or company shall be re- 
 quired to keep United States standard weights to test 
 said scales. 
 
 At every mine where the coal mined is paid for by 
 weight it shall be the duty of the weighman and the 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Fraudulent 
 WelgUng 
 ■ — Penalty 
 
 Loaders In- 
 cluded. 
 
 cheek weighman to examine and balance the scales 
 each morning, and in no case shall any coal be weighed 
 until such scales are tested by the United States stan- 
 dard weights and found correct; provided, that if the 
 weighman and check weighman shall disagree, work 
 may continue until the inspector of mines can be pres- 
 ent, and any erroneous weights made during such time 
 shall be rectified. When differences shall arise be- 
 tween the weighman and the check weighman, or oper- 
 ator, of any mine, as to the correctness of the scales, 
 the same shall be referred to the inspector of mines, 
 whose duty it shall be to see and regulate the same 
 at once. The inspector of mines upon each regular 
 visit to each mine, shall test the scales used for the 
 weighing of coal. The inspector of mines and miners 
 emploj'ed in the mine and others personally interested 
 shall at all proper times have full right of access to 
 and examination of scales or apparatus used for weigh- 
 ing coal in or about said mine ; provided, however, the 
 provisions of this act shall not apply to mines classed 
 as prospects, but only to those having regular output. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any person or persons having or using any 
 scale or scales for the purpose of weighing the output 
 of coal at mines so arranged or constructed that fraud- 
 ulent weighing may be done thereby, or who shall 
 knowingly resort to or employ any means whatever by 
 reason of which such coal is not correctly weighed and 
 reported in accordance with the provisions of this act, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall 
 upon conviction for each offense be punished by a fine 
 of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than 
 three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the 
 county jail for a period not to exceed sixty days, or by 
 both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 6. The provisions of this act shall also apply 
 to the class of workers in mines known as loaders, en- 
 gaged in mines wherein mining is don« by machinery. 
 Whenever the workmen are under contract to load coal 
 by the bushel, ton, or any quantity, the settlement of 
 which is by weight, the output shall be weighed in ac- 
 cordance with the provisions of this act. 
 
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 35 
 
 When Conrened- 
 Compensatlon. 
 
 Board of Examiners for Mine Inspector. Governor Shall 
 
 Appoint — Qnall- 
 
 (Chapter 101, Session Laws, 1911.) flcations. 
 
 Section 1. That the Governor of this State is hereby 
 ithorized to appoint five persons to constitute a Board 
 ' Examiners to investigate and pass upon the char- 
 ter and qualifications of all applicants for appoint- 
 ent to the office of State Mine Inspector, which said 
 ire persons, so to be selected by the Governor, shall 
 iclude one regularly graduated mining engineer, three 
 ractical miners from different counties of the State, 
 id one ex-state mine inspector. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said Board of Examiners shall convene 
 [ the capitol of the State, upon the call of the Gov- 
 ■nor, once in each year, and remain in session, not to 
 ceeed one week, and shall receive, as pay for their 
 irviees the same per diem salary, from the time they 
 ave their homes in this State, until they return there- 
 I, and the same mileage in traveling to and from their 
 Dmes to the capitol of the state, by the most feasible 
 id convenient route, that is provided by law for mem- 
 ;rs of the State Legislature. 
 
 Sec. 3. Members of the said Board of Examiners, oath. 
 jfore they shall assume the duties of their office, shall 
 ike and subscribe the following oath, viz: We, the 
 udersigned, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that we 
 ill perform the duties of examiners into the character 
 id' qualifications of applicants for appointment as 
 tate Coal Mine Inspector to the best of our abilities, 
 id that in recommending or rejecting said applicants, 
 e will be governed by the evidence of the qualification 
 [•escribed in this act, excluding from consideration all 
 Dlitical, religious or personal affiliations ; and that we 
 ill certify to the Governor of the State, as qualified 
 )r the position of State Coal Mine Inspector, only 
 Lose persons so found to be fully qualified for the 
 aties of the office. 
 
 Sec. 4. The qualifications of applicants for State Quaifflcations of 
 oal Mine Inspector shall be as follows, viz: They Applicants, 
 tail be citizens of the United States and of the State 
 ' Wyoming, of temperate habits, of good reputation, 
 tail have the age of thirty years, and shall have had 
 ; least one year's experience in the working of coal 
 iues in the State of Wyoming, and five years of prac- 
 eal experience in the working of coal mines in the 
 
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 United States, and they shall have practical knoAvledge 
 of mining engineering, and of the different systems of 
 working and ventilating of coal mines, and of the prop- 
 erties and nature of the noxious and poisonous gases 
 of coal mines, especially of fire damp. 
 
 Vacancies. Sec. 5. As often as a vacancy in the office of In- 
 
 spector of Coal Mines occurs from death, resignation 
 or removal by the Governor, he shall appoint a suc- 
 cessor from the list of eligibles, certified to him as 
 qualified for the position, by the Board of Examiners 
 herein provided for. 
 
 List of EiigiMes. gee. 6. The list of persons certified to the Gov- 
 ernor of the State by the Board of Examiners, herein 
 created, as eligible for appointment as Inspector of 
 Coal Mines, shall be kept on file, as a public document, 
 in the office of the Secretary of State for Wyoming, 
 subject to the inspection of any and everybody. 
 
 Telephone Eciulp- 
 ment Sequlred. 
 
 Cliange of Loca- 
 tion. 
 
 Mine Regulations Telephones. 
 
 (Chapter 68, Session Laws, 1913.) 
 Section 1. There shall be a system of party line 
 telephones installed, and kept in working condition by 
 the coal company installing same, in each coal mine in 
 operation in the State of Wyoming. 
 
 Said telephone equipment shall include one tele- 
 phone, on the surface and not to exceed one hundred 
 feet from the mine tipple, . and one at the bottom' of 
 each hoisting shaft and in drift or slope mines at the 
 first cross entry or parting in operation where men 
 are liable to congregate or be stationed, and in addition 
 thereto there shall be one telephone on each side of the 
 mine, if such side is in more than one thousand feet 
 from the bottom of the hoisting shaft or in beyond 
 one thousand feet beyond the first cross entries or part- 
 ing in operation in drift or slope mines. 
 
 Sec. 2. Telephones inside any coal mine may be 
 changed to more convenient locations, other than as 
 described in Section 1 of this act, if in the opinion of 
 the State inspector of coal mines, in whose district the 
 mine is located, it would make for greater safety of the 
 men employed therein. 
 
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 Check Numbers on Cars. Cbanglng Num- 
 
 bers. 
 
 (Chapter 89, Session Laws, 1913.) 
 Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
 change, exchange, substitute, alter or remove any num- 
 ber or cheek number placed upon any car or pit car in or 
 about any mine in the State of Wyoming, with the 
 intent to cheat or defraud any other person out of the 
 value of his services in mining and loading the coal or 
 mineral contained in such car or pit ear; and it ^hall 
 be unlawful for any person, with the intent to cheat 
 or defraud another, to place any number or check num- 
 ber upon any car or pit car loaded by any other person 
 in or about any mine. 
 
 Sec. 2. Every person who shall violate any of the Penalty, 
 provisions of Section 1 of this act shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 
 shall be fined in the sum of not more than one hundred 
 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a 
 term not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and 
 imprisonment. 
 
 Miners' Hospital. 
 
 Sec. 504. The State charitable institution located at Location and 
 Eock Springs, Wyoming, originally known and desig- 
 nated as the Wyoming State Miners' Hospital, shall be 
 known and designated as "The Wyoming General Hos- 
 pital." 
 
 Sec. 505. The object of said hospital shall be to object, 
 provide sustenance, care and medical and surgical at- 
 tention for all miners who shall become disabled or in- 
 capacitated to labor while working in the mines of the 
 State, and who shall be in need of such sustenance, care 
 or medical or surgical attention, and to such other per- 
 sons as may be admitted under the laws, rules and reg- 
 ulations established for the government thereof. 
 
 Sec. 506. A board of visitors for said hospital, to Board of visit- 
 consist of three persons, shall be appointed by the gov- 
 ernor of the State in January of each year. Tt shall 
 be the duty of the board of visitors to make a personal 
 examination into the state and condition of said hos- 
 pital and all its affairs twice at least in each year, and 
 to report the result to the governor, suggesting such 
 improvements as they may deem proper, which report 
 shall be submitted to the legislature at its next session. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Charges for 
 Treatment 
 
 Revenues. 
 
 Such board of visitors shall receive no compensation 
 for their services. 
 
 Sec. 507. It shall be the duty of the board of chari- 
 ties and reform to establish a schedule of charges for 
 care and treatment of patients which all persons 
 treated at said hospital shall be required to pay, except 
 in cases where such person or persons shall be adjudged 
 a subject of charity under such rules as said board 
 may adopt, for the government of said institution: 
 Provided, however. Said board shall have power, and is 
 hereby empowered to establish a schedule of charges 
 so that members of any society, or any class of indi- 
 viduals may, by the payment of an annual sum, be 
 entitled to the benefits of care, and treatment at said 
 institution, and any person who shall comply with the 
 requirements of this section, and the rules of the board, 
 adopted in conformity to the provisions of this section, 
 shall be entitled to the benefits of said institution. 
 
 Sec. 508. All revenues derived from the said hos- 
 pital and all moneys received for the care of patients 
 therein, shall be turned over to the State treasurer, and 
 shall become a part of the fund known as the "State 
 hospital maintenance fujid, " and all such sums shall 
 be and the same are hereby appropriated and shall be 
 used for the payment of the salaries and wages of 
 officers and employees of the "Wyoming General Hos- 
 pital, and to pay other expenses incurred in the con- 
 duct, maintenance and support of the said hospital and 
 for the care of patients therein. 
 
 Eight-liour Day. 
 
 Mines and Mining 
 
 Article IX, Sections 1-4, page 5. Article XIX, 
 Section 1, Eight-hour day, page 6. 
 
 Miners' liens. Sections 3778-3798. 
 
 Women and children in mines. Section 3107, page 
 46, 
 
 HOURS OF LABOR. 
 
 Public Works. 
 
 (Chapter 90, Session Laws, 1913.) 
 Section 1. The time of service of all laborers or 
 workmen or mechanics employed upon any public 
 works of the State of Wyoming, or of any county, city 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 39 
 
 and town or any other political subdivision thereof, 
 whether said work is done by contract or otherwise, 
 shall be limited and restricted to eight hours in any one 
 calendar day, except in cases of emergency caused by 
 fire, flood, or danger to life or property ; or except to 
 work upon public or military works or defenses in 
 time of war. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person, or persons, body corporate, violations, 
 agent, manager or employer who shall violate any of 
 the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall for 
 each offense, be subject to a fine of not less than one 
 hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or 
 imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less 
 than one month or not more than six months, or both 
 such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the 
 court. 
 
 For constitutional provision, see Article XIX, Sec- 
 tion 1, Eight-hour day, page 6. 
 
 Hours of labor in mines and smelters. Sections 3499 
 and 3500, page 7. 
 
 Hours of labor for females. Chapter 45, Session 
 Laws, 1915, page 40. 
 
 Hours of labor for children, Section 4, Chapter 77, 
 Session Laws, 1915, page 48. 
 
 Hours for convicts on highways, Section 4, Chapter 
 44, Session Laws, 1911. 
 
 Hours for working out road poll tax. Section 2562, 
 Compiled Statutes. 
 
 Sec. 3581. The first day of January, the twelfth 
 day of February, the twenty-second day of February, 
 the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the 
 day that may be appointed by the president of the 
 United States as the annual thanksgiving day, the 
 twenty -fifth day of December of each and every year, 
 all days upon which general elections are held and 
 arbor day, are hereby declared legal holidays in and 
 for the State of Wyoming. If the first day of January, 
 the twelfth day of February, the twenty-second day of 
 February, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of 
 July or the twenty-fifth day of December, fall upon a 
 Sunday, the Monday following shall be a legal holiday. 
 
 Legal Holidays. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Business Places 
 to Be Closed. 
 
 Exceptions. 
 
 Sunday Labor. 
 
 Sec. 5980. It shall be unlawful for any person or 
 persons, company or corporation, to keep open any 
 barber shop, store, shop or other place of business for 
 the transaction of Wsiness therein, upon the first day of 
 the week, commonly called Sunday: Provided, This 
 section shall not apply to newspaper printing oifices, 
 railroads, telegraph companies, hotels, restaurants, 
 drug stores, livery stables, news depots, farmers, cat- 
 tlemen and ranchmen, mechanics, furnaces or smelters, 
 glass works, electric light plants and gas works, the 
 vendors of ice, milk, fresh meat and bread, except as 
 to the sale of liquors and cigars. Any person, com- 
 pany or corporation who shall violate the provisions 
 of this section, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in 
 a sum of money not less than twenty-five dollars, nor 
 more than one hundred dollars, for each offense. 
 
 Occupations- 
 Hours. 
 
 Exceptions. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 WOMEN. 
 
 Hours of Labor for Female Employees. 
 
 (Chapter 45, Session Laws, 1915.) 
 Section 1. No female shall be employed, or suffered 
 or permitted to work in any manufacturing, mechani- 
 cal, mercantile, printing, baking, laundering, or canning 
 establishment or hotel, or telephone exchange, restau- 
 rant, theater or place of public amusement, more than 
 fifty-six hours in any one week, nor more than ten 
 hours in any one day, and such working hours shall 
 not extend over a longer period than twelve hours in 
 any one day, and the continuous period of employment 
 without rest shall not be for a period of hours longer 
 than six, and that the period specified by the word 
 "lunch" shall not be less than one-half hour nor more 
 than for two hours ; nor shall there be included in any 
 one week more than two days of ten hours each. 
 
 Sec. 2. The provisions of Section 1, of this Act 
 shall not apply to telephone offices or exchanges, em- 
 ploying three females or less, or to hotels and restau- 
 rants operated by railroad companies. 
 
 Sec. 3. The employment of any female for a longer 
 time in any day or in any week than as so provided in 
 Section 1, of this Act, shall be deemed a violation of 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 41 
 
 this aet, and any person, firm or corporation so violat- 
 ing the provisions hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than twenty -five dollars 
 ($25.00), nor more than one hundred dollars ($300.00), 
 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of 
 not less than thirty (30) days or more than ninety (90) 
 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Pro- 
 vided further that each and every violation shall con- 
 stitute a separate offense. 
 
 Sec. 5815. Every person or corporation employing ^.^"^"^ *P ^"" 
 females in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercan- Female Em- 
 tile establishment in the State of Wyoming shall pro- pi°y«®^' 
 vide suitable seats for 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. Any person or corporation who 
 shall violate the provisions of this section shall, upon 
 conviction thereof, be considered guilty of a misde- 
 meanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 ten dollars nor more than thirty dollars for each and 
 every offense. 
 
 Sec, 2837. It shall be lawful for any married Protection of 
 
 , 1 1. J 11- ■ 1. Married Woman. 
 
 woman* whose husband spends his earnings at any game 
 of chance, or for intoxicating drinks to the extent that 
 herself or family are deprived of the common neces- 
 saries of life, to serve a written notice by herself, or 
 by some person authorized by herself, upon the keepers 
 of places wherein games of chance are played for 
 money, or for any article or articles representing 
 money, forbidding them to allow, by themselves or by 
 any person in their employ, the person named within 
 the notice to participate in any such game ; it shall also 
 be lawful in the same manner to serve notice upon 
 saloon keepers and upon the keepers of bars or other 
 places where intoxicating drinks are sold, to be drunk 
 upon the premises, forbidding the keeper or keepers 
 of such places to barter, give, sell or in any manner to 
 furnish any vinous, fermented, spirituous or malt liq- 
 uors, by himself, agent, employee or other person, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, to the person named within the 
 notice, and any person who shall fail to comply with 
 such request shall be liable for any and all damages 
 thereby sustained by the wife, or wife and children of 
 the person so allowed to participate in gaming, or so 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 furnished any intoxicant, or intoxicants. The action 
 for such damages shall be prosecuted in the name of 
 such wife for her own use, if there are no children who 
 suffer injury, and for the use of herself and children 
 if there are such. 
 
 Separate Estate Sec. 3908 (as amended by Chapter 15, Session Laws, 
 
 Women!"*'* 1915). All the property, both real and personal, be- 
 
 longing to any married woman as her sole and separate 
 property, or which any woman hereafter married owns 
 at the time of her marriage, or which any married 
 woman during coverture acquires in good faith from 
 any person whomsoever, by descent or otherwise, to- 
 gether with all the rents, issues, increases and profits 
 thereof, shall, notwithstanding her marriage, be and 
 remain during eo\ srture her sole and separate prop- 
 erty under her sole control and be held, owned, pos- 
 sessed and enjoyed by her the same as though she were 
 sole and unmarried, and shall not be subject to the dis- 
 posal, control or interference of her husband, and shall 
 be exempt from execution or attachment for the debts 
 of her husband; provided that the same shall not have 
 been conveyed to her by her husbtod in fraud of his 
 creditors. 
 
 Bower of Mar- 
 ried Women to 
 Contract. 
 
 May Carry on 
 Business. 
 
 Sec. 3909. Any married woman may grafat, bar- 
 gain, sell, remise, release, convey, transfer and assign 
 to whom, and upon such terms, as to her may seem 
 meet and proper, the whole or any portion of her prop- 
 erty of every kind, character and description, whether 
 real, personal or mixed, in the same manner and to the 
 same extent as if she were unmarried, and she may 
 likewise make contracts and incur obligations and lia- 
 bilities, _ all of which may be enforced against her to 
 the same extent and in the same manner as if she were 
 unmarried. 
 
 Sec, 3912. Any married woman may carry on any 
 trade or business and perform any labor or services on 
 her sole and separate account and the earnings of any 
 married woman from her trade, business, labor or ser- 
 vices, shall be her whole and separate property and may 
 be used and entrusted by her in her own name, and 
 she may sue and be sued as if sole in regard to her 
 trade, business, labor, services and earnings, and her 
 property acquired by trade, business and services and 
 the proceeds thereof, may be taken on any execution 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 4J 
 
 against her, except where the same shall be exempt 
 under the exemption laws of the State. 
 
 Note. — For wife desertion, see Chapter 72, Session 
 Laws, 1915. 
 
 PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN. 
 
 (Chapter 32, Session Laws, 1915.) 
 Section 1. Whenever any woman whose husband is who EUgiwe 
 dead or has become permanently disabled for work by ""'"°*°- 
 reason of physical or mental infirmity or is a prisoner, 
 or has deserted her and such desertion has continued 
 for a period of one year, and such woman is poor and is 
 the mother of children under the age of 14 years, and 
 such mother and children have been legal residents in 
 any county of the State for one year, the District Court 
 or the judge thereof may make an allowance to such 
 woman as follows : 
 
 First, not to exceed $20.00 a month, when she has 
 but one child under the age of 14 years, and if she has 
 more than one child under the age of 14 years, such 
 allowance shall not exceed $20.00 a month for the first 
 child and $10.00 a month for each of the other children 
 under the age of 14 years. The order making such 
 allowance shall not be effective for a longer period 
 than 6 months, but upon expiration of such period 
 said court may from time to time extend such allow- 
 ance for a period of 6 months or less. The home of 
 such woman shall be visited from time to time by a 
 Probation Officer, agent of an Associated Charity Or- 
 ganization, Humane Agent, or such other agent as the 
 court may direct ; provided, that the person who ac- 
 tually makes such visits shall be thoroughly trained in 
 charitable relief work, and the report or reports of 
 such visiting agent shall be considered by the court -in 
 making such order. 
 
 Sec. 2. Such allowance may be made by the Dis- conditions. 
 trict Court or the judge thereof only upon the follow- 
 ing conditions : 
 
 First. The child or children for whose benefit the 
 allowance is mp.de must be living with the mother of 
 such child or children. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Duty of Board 
 of County Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Warrants. 
 
 Petition and 
 Hearing. 
 
 Second. The allowance shall be made only when in 
 the absence of such allowance the mother would be re- 
 quired to work regularly away from her home and chil- 
 dren, and that by means of such allowance she shall be 
 able to remain at home with her children except by 
 absence for work for such time as the court deems ad- 
 visable. 
 
 Third. The mother must in the judgment of the 
 District Court or the judge thereof be a proper person 
 morally, mentally and physically for the bringing up of 
 her children. 
 
 Fourth. Such allowance shall, in the judgment of 
 the court, be necessary to save the child or children 
 from neglect and to avoid the breaking up of the home 
 of such woman. 
 
 Fifth. It must appear to be for the benefit of the 
 children to remain with such mother. 
 
 Sixth. A careful preliminary examination of the 
 home of such mother must first have been made by the 
 Probation Officer, an Associated Charities Organiza- 
 tion, Humane Agent, or such other competent person 
 or agent as the court may direct, and a written report 
 of such examination filed. 
 
 Sec, 3. It shall be the duty of the Board of County 
 Commissioners to make an appropriation of such sum 
 as may be recommended by the District Court or the 
 judge thereof for the purpose of paying such allow- 
 ances as may be made during the year. 
 
 Sec. 4. All payments of allowances as herein pro- 
 vided shall be made on warrants drawn as other county 
 warrants are drawn and paid by the county treasurer 
 out of such fund. 
 
 Sec. 5. A petition for such an allowance may be 
 inade by any woman coming under the purview of this 
 act, or it may be made on her behalf by any Probation 
 Officer, Associated Charities Organization, or Humane 
 Agent, and when such petition is filed it shall be set 
 down for hearing at a time fixed by the court, and the 
 report of the Probation Officer, Associated Charities 
 Organization, or Humane Agent designated by the 
 court to make tlie examination and report as required 
 by Section 2 of this act shall be filed on or before such 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 4S 
 
 hearing, and upon the date fixed by the court shall 
 hear said report and any other evidence that may be 
 offered, and at the conclusion of the same make such 
 order as to the court seems proper in such matters. 
 
 Protection of Children. 
 
 Sec. 3101. It shall be unlawful for any person hav- Acrobatic ana 
 
 , , , , J. 1 i! 1 -1 J J ii Mendicant Occu- 
 
 ing the care, custody or control oi any child under the pations. 
 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 occupa- 
 tion, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical 
 instruments, dancing, rope or wire walking, begging or 
 peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acro- 
 bat, in any place whatsoever; or as an actor or per- 
 former in any concert hall or room where intoxicating 
 liquors are sold or given away, or in any variety thea- 
 ter, or for any illegal, 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 such child to engage 
 therein. Nothing in this section contained shall apply 
 to or affect the employment or use of any 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. It shall be 
 unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, employ, 
 use, or exhibit or have in custody any child, under the 
 age, and for the purposes prohibited in this section. 
 
 Sec. 3102. Any person who shall retain, harbor, in Houses of 
 employ or permit the presence of any child, under the 
 age of twenty-one years, in or about any assignation 
 house, brothel or house of ill-fame, or in any place 
 where any indecent or obscene or illegal exhibition 
 takes place shall be fined not less than one hundred 
 nor more than five hundred dollars to which may be 
 added imprisonment in the county jail not more than 
 twelve months, and the district courts and justices of 
 the peace shall have jurisdiction concurrently of such 
 offenses. 
 
 Sec. 3103. It shall be unlawful for any person hav- a°„*^''i.ife ot°' 
 ing the care, or custody of any child, wilfully to cause Heaitii of chu- 
 or permit the life of such child to be endangered, or "*""' 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 the health of such child to be injured, or wilfully to 
 cause or permit such child to be placed in such a situa- 
 tion that its life or health may be endangered, or wil- 
 fully, or unnecessarily to expose to the inclemency of 
 the weather, or wilfully to abandon such child, or to 
 ill-treat, abuse, overwork, torture, torment, cruelly 
 punish, and negligently or wilfully deprive of neces- 
 sary food, clothing or shelter or in any other manner 
 injure such child. [L. 1890-91, ch. 20, Sec. 1 ; L". 1895, 
 ch. 46, Sec. 3; R. S. 1899, Sec. 2291.] 
 
 Unlawful to Sell Sec. 3104. It shall be unlawful for any person or 
 uJf^fTobiJ'cco— persons to give or sell cigarettes, spirituous liquors or 
 ■'"'^"- tobacco to any person or persons under the age of six- 
 
 teen years. [L. 1895, ch. 46, Sec. 4; R. S. 1899, Sec. 
 2292.] 
 
 Sec. 3105. Any person who shall be convicted of 
 violating any of the provisions of Sections 3101, 3103 
 and 3104 shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dol- 
 lars, or be imprisoned 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 not exceeding two hundred dol- 
 lars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding 
 six months. [L. 1895, ch. 46, Sec. 5 ; R. S. 1899, Sec. 
 2293.] js- 
 
 Sec. 3107. Any person who shall take, receive, hire 
 or employ, either in his or her own behalf, or as the 
 agent, servant or employee of any person, persons, as- 
 sociation of persons, copartnership, company, corpora- 
 tion, any boy or male child under the age of fourteen 
 years, or any woman or girl of any age, or shall allow 
 or permit the said persons to be in or about any coal, 
 iron or other dangerous mine, or underground works 
 or dangerous place whatsoever in this State, for the 
 purpose of employment therein or thereabouts, shall 
 be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than 
 one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprison- 
 ment in the county jail not more than six months : Pro- 
 vided, however, Tha,t the provisions of this section shall 
 not affect or apply to the employment of a boy or fe- 
 male of suitable age in an office, or in the performance 
 of clerical work at such mine, colliery or place. 
 
 Note. — See Constitution, Article IX, Section 3, 
 page 5. 
 
 Smployment of 
 Women and Chil- 
 dren In Mines. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 47 
 
 Employment of Children. > 
 
 (Chapter 77, Session Laws, 1915.) 
 Section 1. That no child under eighteen (18) years p^^^t^"^"* 
 of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any 
 brewery, distillery, saloon, concert hall or other estab- 
 lishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufac- 
 tured, packed, wrapped, bottled or sold ; no child under 
 fourteen (14) years of age employed in. the public mes- 
 senger service, shall be required to deliver any message, 
 package or any other thing whatsoever to any brewery, 
 distillery, saloon, concert hall, or other establishment 
 where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, 
 packed, wrapped, bottled or sold, or to any premises 
 used for immoral purposes. 
 
 Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person improper Exiii- 
 having the care, custody or control, of any child under oua'oceavatums.' 
 the age of sixteen (16) years to exhibit, use or employ 
 such child as an actor or performer in any concert hall 
 or room where intoxicating liquors are sold or given 
 away, or for any illegal, obscene, indecent or immoral 
 purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever, or for any 
 business or in any place, situation, or exhibition, or 
 vocation injurious to the morals or health, or danger- 
 ous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure 
 or encourage such child to engage therein; nothing in 
 this section contained shall apply to or affect the em- 
 ployment or use of any such child as a singer or musi- 
 cian in any church, school or academy, or the teaching 
 or learning the science or practice of music, or in the 
 physical development of its body in any respectable 
 gymnasium or natatorium; nor shall anything in this 
 section be construed to prevent children taking part in 
 what are known as amateur entertainments or theatri- 
 cals for charity, or not for profit, in schools, churches, 
 settlement houses, or boys' or girls' clubs. 
 
 Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person. Mines, smeiters 
 
 „ , ■ , , ^ • 1 ■ 1 and Machine 
 
 firm or corporation, to take, receive, hire . or employ stops, 
 any child or children under fourteen (14) years of age, 
 in any underground works, or mine, in or about the 
 surface workings thereof, or to any smelter, coke oven, 
 or to adjust any belt to any machinery, or to operate, 
 or assist in operating, circular or band saws, wood 
 shapers, wood joiners, planers, sand paper or wood pol- 
 ishing machinery, emery or polishing wheels used for 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Nine-hour Day. 
 
 Seats for Girls. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 polishing metal, wood turning or boring machinery, 
 stamping machines in sheet metal and tin ware manu- 
 facturing, stamping machines in washer and nut fac- 
 tories; nor shall they be employed in operating any 
 passenger or freight elevators, steam boiler, steam ma- 
 chinery, or other steam generating apparatus, or auto- 
 mobiles, wire or iron straightening machinery ; nor shall 
 they operate, or assist in operating, rolling mill ma- 
 chinery, punchers or shears, nor shall they operate, or 
 assist in operating laundry machinery, nor shall they 
 be employed in any capacity in preparing any composi- 
 tion in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used, 
 and they shall not be employed in any capacity in the 
 manufacture of paints, colors, or white lead; nor shall 
 they be employed in any capacity whatever in the man- 
 ufacture of goods for immoral purposes. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no person under the age of fourteen 
 (14) years shall be employed, or suffered, or permitted, 
 to work at any gainful occupation, except farm work 
 or domestic service, more than fifty-six (56) hours in 
 any one week, or more than nine (9) hours in any 
 one day. 
 
 Sec. 5. That no female under eighteen (18) years 
 of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to 
 work in any capacity where such employment compels 
 her to remain standing constantly. Every person who 
 shall employ any female under eighteen (18) years of 
 age shall provide suitable seats, chairs, or benches, for 
 the use of the females so employed, which shall be so 
 placed as to be accessible to such employees, and shall 
 permit the use of such seats, chairs, or benches, by 
 them in so far as the nature of their work allows, and 
 there shall be provided at least one seat to every three 
 (3) female employees. 
 
 Sec. 6. That any person, firm or corporation, em- 
 ploying any child in violation of the provisons of this 
 act, or permitting, or conniving at such violation, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
 tion thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dol- 
 lars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars 
 ($100.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not less than 
 thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by 
 both such punishments, in the discretion of the court. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 49 
 
 For compulsory education, see Section 1956. 
 
 Truancy, Sections 1957, 1958. 
 
 Dependent and delinquent children, Chapter 99, 
 Session Laws, 1915. 
 
 Desertion of wife or children, Chapter 72, Session 
 Laws, 1915. 
 
 Hypnotizing children. Chapter 87, Session Laws, 
 19l:i 
 
 Sec. 3430. It shall be unlawful for any person, com- contract ex- 
 
 ,. , . £ -i. i empting Em- 
 
 pany or corporation to require or its servants or em- pioyer from li- 
 ployees, as a condition of their employment or other- *''''^*y '^o'*- 
 wise, any contract or agreement whereby such person, 
 company or corporation shall be released or discharged 
 from liability or responsibility on account of personal 
 injuries received by such servants or employees while 
 in service of such person, company or corporation, by 
 reason of the negligence of such person, company or 
 corporation, or the agents or employees thereof, and 
 such contracts shall be absolutely null and void. 
 
 Note. — See Constitution, Article X, Section 4, page 
 5, and Article XIX, Section 1, Labor Contracts, 
 page 7. 
 
 Sec. 4291. Whenever the death of a person shall be ^■^""j"^ '". . 
 caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, survive, 
 neglect or default is such as would (if death had not 
 ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an 
 action to recover damages in respect thereof; then, and 
 in every such case, the person who, or the corporation 
 which, would have been liable if death had not ensued, 
 shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstand- 
 ing the death of the person injured, and although the 
 death shall have been caused under such circumstances 
 as amount in law to murder in the first or second de- 
 gree, or manslaughter. 
 
 Sec. 4292. Every such action shall be brought by. Action m Name 
 and in the name of, the personal representative of such fiL?m?t'ation!**''* 
 deceased person ; and the amount received in every 
 such action shall be distributed to the parties and in 
 the proportions provided by law, in relation to the dis- 
 tribution of personal estates left by persons dying in- 
 testate. In every such case, the jury shall give such 
 damages as they shall deem fair and just, and the 
 amount so recovered shall not be subject to any debts 
 
so 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Injaiy oi Death 
 of Employee. 
 
 Contributory 
 Negligence. 
 
 or liabilities of the deceased; Provided, That every 
 such action shall be commenced within two years after 
 the death of such deceased person. 
 
 Notes. — See Constitution, Article IX, Section 4, 
 page 5. For partial repeal of Sections 4291 and 4292, 
 see Section 2, Chapter 124, Session Laws, 1915, page 
 52, of this pamphlet. 
 
 For limits to actions, see Sections 4297-4303, Cora- 
 piled Statutes. 
 
 Liability of Railroad Companies to Employees. 
 
 (Chapter 132, Session Laws, 1913.) 
 
 Section 1. Every person or corporation operating a 
 railroad in the State shall be liable in damages to any 
 person suffering injury while he is employed by such 
 person or corporation so operating any such railroad, 
 or, in case of the death of such employee, instantane- 
 ously, or otherwise, to his or her personal representa- 
 tive, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband 
 and children of such employee ; and, if none, then of 
 such employee 's parents ; and, if none, then of the next 
 of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury 
 or death resulting in whole or in part from the negli- 
 gence of any of the officers, agents or employers, of 
 such person or corporation so operating such railroad 
 in or about the handling, movement or operation of any 
 train, engine, or car, on or over such railroad or by 
 reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negli- 
 gence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, 
 roadbed, works, or other equipment.- 
 
 Sec. 2. In all actions hereafter brought against any 
 such person or corporation so operating such railroad, 
 under and by virtue of any of the provisions of this 
 act, the fact the employee may have been guilty of con- 
 tributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the 
 damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion 
 to the amount of negligence attributable to such em- 
 ployee; provided, that no such employee who may be 
 injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of 
 contribitory negligence in any case where the violation 
 by such person or corporation so operating such rail- 
 road of any statute enacted for the safety of employees 
 contributed to the injury or death of such employee. 
 
Servant. 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 51 
 
 Sec. 3. Any employee of any such person or corpo- Hgence"of*Em?^ 
 ration so operating such railroad shall not be deemed ^°jj'^_°^ FeUow- 
 to have assumed any risk incident to his employment 
 when such risk arises by reason of the negligence of his 
 employer or of any person in the service of such em- 
 ployer. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any contract, rule, or regulation or device ^tc'^E'^t i^t^*^' 
 whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to Liability void, 
 enable any such person or corporation so operating 
 such railroad to exempt itself from any liability cre- 
 ated by this act shall, to that extent, be void. Nor shall 
 any contract of insurance, relief, benefit or indemnity 
 in case of injury or death, entered into prior to the 
 injury, between the person so injured and such corpo- 
 ration, or any person or association acting for such 
 corporation, nor shall the acceptance of any such in- 
 surance, relief, benefit, or indemnity by the person in- 
 jured, his widow, heirs, or legal representatives after 
 the injury, from such corporation, person or associa- 
 tion, constitute any bar or defense to any cause of ac- 
 tion brought under the provisions of this chapter, but 
 nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent 
 or invalidafe any settlement for damages between the 
 employer and the employees subsequent to injuries re- 
 ceived. 
 
 visions. 
 
 THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW. 
 
 (Chapter 124, Session Laws, 1915.) 
 
 Section 1. This act shall be known as the "Work- 
 men's Compensation Law." 
 
 Sec. 2. Compensation herein provided for shall be General Pro 
 payable to persons injured in extra-hazardous employ- 
 ments, as herein defined, or the dependent families of 
 such, as die, as the result of such injuries, except in 
 case of injuries due solely to the culpable negligence 
 of the injured employee. Said compensation shall be 
 payable from funds in the State treasury to be accumu- 
 lated and maintained in the manner herein provided. 
 The right of each employee to compensation from such 
 funds shall be in lieu of and shall take the place of any 
 and all rights of action against any employer contribut- 
 ing, as required by law, to such fund in favor of any 
 
52 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Provisions Ex- 
 clusive, Compul- 
 sory and Obliga- 
 tory. 
 
 Eztra-liazard- 
 ous Occupations. 
 
 such person or persons by reason of any such injury 
 or death. Sections 3526, 4291 and 4292 and all other 
 laws or parts of laws relating to damages for injuries 
 or death from injuries or in anywise in conflict with 
 this act are hereby repealed, as to the employments, . 
 employers and employees coming within the terms of 
 this act. 
 
 Note.— For Sections 3526, 4291 and 4292, see pages 
 25 and 49. 
 
 Sec. 3. The rights and remedies provided in this 
 act for an employee on account of an injury shall be 
 exclusive of all other rights and remedies of such em- 
 ployee, his personal or legal representatives or depen- 
 dent family at common law or otherwise on account of 
 such injury; and the terms, conditions and provisions 
 of this act for the payment of compensation and the 
 amount thereof for injuries sustained or death result- 
 ing from such injuries shall be exclusive, compulsory 
 and obligatory upon both employers and employees 
 coming within the provisions hereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. The extra-hazardous occupation^ to which 
 this act is' applicable are as follows : factories, mills 
 and workshops where machinery is used; foundries, 
 blast furnaces ; mines, . oil wells ; gas works ; natural 
 gas plants ; water works ; reduction works ; breweries ; 
 elevators ; dredges ; smelters ; powder works ; laundries 
 operated by power ; quarries ; engineering works ; log- 
 ging; lumbering and saw mill operations; street and 
 interurban railroads not engaged in interstate com- 
 merce; buildings being constructed, repaired, moved 
 or demolished; telephone, telegraph, electric light or 
 power plants or lines ; steam heating or power plants ; 
 railroads not engaged in interstate commerce; bridge 
 building and all employments wherein a process re- 
 quiring the use of any dangerous explosive or inflam- 
 mable materials is carried on, which is conducted for 
 the purpose of business, trade or gain, each of which 
 employments is hereby determined to be extra-hazard- . 
 ous and in which from the nature, conditions or means 
 of prosecution of the work therein required risks to 
 the life and limb of the workmen engaged therein are 
 inherent, necessary or substantially unavoidable. This 
 act shall not apply in any case where the injury oc- 
 curred before this act takes eflPect and all rights, which 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING S3 
 
 have accrued by reason of any such injury prior to 
 the taking effect of this act shall be saved the reme- 
 dies now existing therefor. This act shall only apply 
 to the employers by whom five or more workmen have 
 been employed continuously for more than one month 
 at the time of the accident; provided, that this act 
 shall apply to the employments wherein dangerous ex- 
 plosives are used or where the employment requires 
 the performance of services upon derricks, scaffolding, 
 poles or other structures ten feet or more above the 
 surface of the ground without regard to the number of 
 workmen employed. 
 
 Sec. 5. This act shall not be construed to apply to Exceptions, 
 business or employments, which according to law are 
 so engaged in interstate commerce, as to be not subject 
 to the legislative power of the State nor to persons in- 
 jiired while they are so engaged. 
 
 Sec. 6. In this act unless the context otherwise re- Definitions, 
 quires : 
 
 (a) "Factories" mean any premises wherein 
 power is used in manufacturing, making, altering, 
 adapting, ornamenting, finishing, repairing or renovat- 
 ing any article for the purpose of trade or gain or the 
 business carried on therein, including expressly any 
 brick yard, meat-packing house, foundry, smelter, ore 
 reduction works, lime-burning plant, stucco plant, 
 steam heating plant, electric lighting or power plant 
 including all work in or directly connected with the 
 construction, installation, operation, alteration, re- 
 moval or repair of wires, cables, switch-boards or ap- 
 paratus used for the transmission of electric current, 
 and water power plant, including towers and stand 
 pipes, powder plant, blast furnace, paper mill, printing 
 plant, flour mill, glass .factory, cement plant, artificial 
 gas plant, machine or repair shop, salt plant, oil re- 
 finery plant and chemical manufacturing plant. 
 
 (b) "Work shop" means any yard, plant, prem- 
 ises, room or place where power driven machinery is 
 employed and manual labor is exercised by way of 
 trade or gain or otherwise incidental to the process of 
 making, altering, repairing, printing, or ornamenting, 
 finishing or adapting for sale or otherwise any article 
 or part of article, over which premises, room or place 
 
54 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 the employer of the person working therein has the 
 right of access or control. 
 
 (c) "Mill" means any plant, premises, room or 
 place where machinery is used, any process of ma- 
 chinery, changing, altering or repairing any article or 
 commodity for sale or otherwise together with the 
 yards and premises, which are part of the plant includ- 
 ing elevators, warehouses and bunkers, saw mill, sash 
 factory or other work in the lumber industry. 
 
 (d) "Mine" means any opening in the earth for 
 the purpose of extracting iron, oil, coal or other min- 
 erals and all underground workings, slopes, drifts, 
 shafts, galleries, wells and tunnels, and other ways, 
 cuts and openings connected therewith, including those 
 in the course of being opened, sunk or driven, and in- 
 cludes all the appurtenant structures or machinery, at 
 or about the openings of the mine, and any adjoining 
 adjacent work place where the material from a mine is 
 prepared for use or shipment. 
 
 (e) "Quarry" means any place, not a mine, 
 where stCne, slate, clay, sand, gravel or other solid ma- 
 terial is dug or otherwise extracted from the earth for 
 the purpose of trade or bargain or of the employer's 
 trade or business. 
 
 (f) "Building work" means any work in the 
 erection, construction, extension, decoration, altera- 
 tion, repair or demolition of any building or structural 
 appurtenances. 
 
 (g) "Engineering work" means any work in the 
 construction, alteration, extension, repair or demoli- 
 tion of a railway (as hereinbefore defined) bridge, 
 jetty, dike, dam, reservoir, underground conduit, 
 sewer, oil or gas well, oil tank, gas tank, water tank 
 or tower, any caisson work or work in artificially com- 
 pressed air, any work in dredging, work on log or lum- 
 ber rafts or booms; pile driving, moving buildings, 
 moving safes, or in laying, repairing or removing, un- 
 derground pipes and connections, the erection, install- 
 ing, repairing, or removing of boilers, furnaces, en- 
 gines and power machinery (including belting and 
 other connections) and any work in grading or exca- 
 vating where shoring is necessary or power machinery 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 5 5 
 
 or blasting powder, dynamite or other high explosives 
 is in use (excluding mining and quarrying). 
 
 (h) "Employer" includes any person, or body of 
 persons corporate or incorporate, and the legal repre- 
 sentatives of a deceased employer or the receiver or 
 trustee of a person, corporation, association or partner- 
 ship. 
 
 (i) "Workman" means any person, who has en- 
 tered into the employment of or works under contract 
 of service or apprenticeship with an employer, except 
 a person whose employment is purely casual and not 
 for the purpose of the employer's trade or business or 
 those engaged in clerical work, and not subject to the 
 hazards of the business, or one holding an official posi- 
 tion or standing in a representative capacity of the em- 
 ployer. The term "workman" shall include "em- 
 ployee' and shall include the singular and plural of 
 both sexes. Any reference to a workman, who has been 
 injured shall, where the workman is dead, include a 
 reference to his ' ' dependent family, ' ' as hereinafter de- 
 fined, or to his legal representative or where the work- 
 man is a minor or incompetent to his guardian or next 
 friend. 
 
 (j) "Dependent families" as used in this act 
 means such members of the workman's family, as were 
 wholly or in part dependent upon the workman for 
 support at the time of the injury and shall include 
 widow or husband, as the case may be, and children, 
 or if no widow, husband or children, the parents of 
 the injured workman, if actually dependent upon him 
 for support at the time of the injury; if it be shown 
 that the surviving spouse wilfully deserted deceased 
 without fault upon the part of the deceased, such sur- 
 viving spouse will not be regarded, as a dependent in 
 any degree. No surviving spouse shall be entitled to 
 the benefits of this act unless she shall have been mar- 
 ried to the deceased at the time of the injury. 
 
 (k) "Child or children" means such that are un- 
 der sixteen (16) years of age (and over said age, if 
 physically or mentally incapacitated from earning), 
 and shall also include legitimate children of the in- 
 jured workman born after his death from injury. In 
 other cases questions of family dependency in whole or 
 
S6 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 in part shall be determined in accordance with the fact, 
 as the case may be at the time of the injury ; the fore- 
 going definition of "dependent families" shall not in- 
 clude any of the persons named, who are aliens resid- 
 ing beyond the jurisdiction of the United States of 
 America, except a surviving widow, or children under 
 sixteen (16) years of age and as to such non-resident 
 aliens the rate of compensation shall not exceed twen- 
 ty-five per cent (25%) of the rates of compensation 
 herein provided. 
 
 (1) The words "injuries sustained in extra-hazard- 
 ous employment," as used in this act shall include 
 death resulting from injury, and injuries to employees, 
 as a result of their employment and while at work in 
 or about the premises occupied, used or controlled by 
 the employer, and injuries occurring elsewhere while 
 at work in places where their employer's business re- 
 quires their presence and subjects them to extra-haz- 
 ardous duties incident to the business, but shall not 
 include injuries of the employee occurring while on 
 his way to assume the duties of his employment or 
 after leaving such duties, the proximate cause of which 
 injury is not the employer's negligence. 
 
 ( m ) The words ' ' injury and personal injury ' ' shall 
 not include injury caused by the wilful act of a third 
 person directed against an employee for reasons per- 
 sonal to such employee, or because of his employment; 
 nor a disease, except as it shall directly result from an 
 injury incurred in the employment. 
 
 (n) "Invalid" means one who is physically or 
 mentally incapacitated from earning wages. 
 
 Sec. 7. . In case an injured workman is mentally in- 
 competent or a minor, or where death results from the 
 injury, in ease any of his dependents, as herein defined 
 be mentally incompetent or a minor, at the time when 
 any right or privilege accrues to him under this act, his 
 guardian may, in his behalf, claim and exercise such 
 right or privilege and no limitation of time, in this act 
 provided for, shall run, so long as such incompetent or 
 minor has no guardian. 
 
 Empi?|er'?s*" . .^ec 8. Where an employee coming under the pro- 
 
 liaMe. visions of this act received an injury under circum- 
 
 stances creating a legal liability in some person other 
 
 Guardian Ma7 
 Act. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 5 7 
 
 than the employer to pay damages in respect thereof, 
 and no legal liability attaching to the employer, then 
 and in such case such employee shall be left to his 
 remedy at law against such other person, and compen- 
 sation shall not be payable under this act. 
 
 Sec. 9. No contract, rule, regulation or device tus Act 
 whatsoever shall operate to relieve the employer, in 
 whole or in part, from any liability created by this act 
 except as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the State treasurer li^^ed"bT the 
 to prepare, cause to be printed and supplied free for ^***« Treasurer 
 use in the administration of this law such blank forms, 
 as may be needed by employers for reporting and cer- 
 tifying pay-rolls of persons employed by them in extra- 
 hazardous employments and for reporting injuries ; and 
 forms for use of injured persons in making claims for 
 compensation; also to provide himself with such other 
 books, records or forms, as may be deemed necessary 
 to expedite the transaction' of business under the pro- 
 visions of this act. 
 
 Sec. 11. Whenever an accident occurs causing in- Employer's Ee- 
 
 , , . J! ii i 1 port of Accident. 
 
 jury to any workman engaged m any ot the extra-haz- 
 ardous employments defined by this act, it shall be the 
 duty of the employer within 20 days thereafter to make 
 a report of such accident and the injury resulting 
 therefrom and to file said report in the office of the 
 clerk of the District Court of the county wherein such 
 accident occurred, which report shall state: 
 
 (1) The name of the injured workman and the 
 time, cause and nature of the accident and injury ; also 
 whether the injury has disabled the workman from con- 
 tinuing the performance of his duties. 
 
 (2) "Whether the accident occurred while the 
 workman was engaged in the duties of his emploj^ment, 
 and grew out of the employment. 
 
 (3) The nature of the employment and duties and 
 how long the workman had been engaged in the service 
 of such employer. 
 
 (4) "Whether the accident was or was not due 
 solely to the culpable negligence of the injured em- 
 ployee and if so, a statement of the facts. 
 
58 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 (5) Whether the injured workman is married or 
 single; if married whether he has a dependent family 
 and, if so, the names of the persons comprising such 
 dependent family and their place of resid.ence. 
 
 (6) "Whether the injured workman claims compen- 
 sation under this act, and whether his right to compen- 
 sation or the amount of compensation is disputed by 
 his employer. 
 
 Said report may be made upon a printed form pre- 
 pared by the State treasurer for such purposes, and 
 shall be verified as- pleadings in civil actions. Failure 
 or neglect on the part of any employer whose business 
 or occupation is one enumerated and defined herein, as 
 being extra-hazardous, to report accidents causing in- 
 jury to anj^ of his employees, shall be a misdemeanor 
 and upon conviction such employer shall be punished 
 by a fine of not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) 
 dollars. 
 
 Investigation by Sec. 12. Whenever an injury or death resulting 
 
 Judge — Procedure from an injury is reported to the clerk of the District 
 in Disputed Cases Qq-^^i ^f ^j^g county wherein such injury occurred, in 
 accordance with the preceding section, it shall be the 
 duty of said clerk to at once notify the judge of said 
 court, that such injury report has been filed in his 
 office. It shall thereupon be the duty of said judge to 
 investigate the nature of said injury and claim for 
 compensation at the earliest possible date, in such a 
 manner, as he may deem necessary to ascertain whetli«r 
 the claim for compensation or the amount thereof is 
 disputed by the employer, and if there be no dispute, 
 as to the right of the injured workman to receive coiri- 
 pensation, or as to the amount thereof and the cliiim 
 appear to be free from collusion, said judge shall there- 
 upon make an order directing payment for such com- 
 pensation from the State Industrial Accident Fund in 
 accordance with the facts by him ascertained and the 
 terms of this law. If there be a dispute, as to the right 
 of said injured employee or his dependent family tcv 
 receive compensation, or as to the amount thereof, 
 then it shall be the duty of said judge to set the ease 
 down for a hearing at the earliest possible date and to 
 direct notice of such hearing to be issued by the clerk 
 of said court for service upon the employer and the 
 employee at least seven (7) days before the date fixed 
 for said hearing, which said notice shall be served by 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 59 
 
 the sheriff of said county without expense to either 
 party, except that his actual traveling expenses shall 
 be allowed and taxed, as costs. The hearing shall be 
 conducted upon the statement and report filed by the 
 employer and such formal claims as may be presented 
 and filed with the clerk of the District Court by or on 
 behalf of the injured workman. If the employer in 
 his report of the injury alleges that the injury was 
 due solely to the culpable negligence of the injured 
 employee, or that the claim for compensation is one 
 not coming within the provisions of this law, then a 
 jury may be demanded by either party and the cause 
 shall be tried, as a court proceeding. If a jury is de- 
 manded, it may be selected from names drawn from 
 the five mile jury box, as in civil cases at any time in 
 term time or vacation unless a regular jury panel be 
 in attendance at court on the date any such hearing 
 may occur. The taking of evidence shall be summary, 
 giving a full opportunity to all parties to develop the 
 facts fully. The official reporter of the district shall 
 attend the hearing and make a stenographic report of 
 the evidence without cost to either party. The court 
 or judge shall direct the county and prosecuting at- 
 torney, or other competent attorney appointed by the 
 court to conduct the examination of witnesses on be- 
 half of the injured workman, and it shall be the duty 
 of said attorney to appear and perform such service 
 without expense to either party. The employer may 
 appear in person or by counsel and introduce evidence 
 at the same hearing. No costs shall be taxed by the 
 clerk except fees for witnesses, who may be subpoenaed 
 and who shall be allowed the same fees for attendance 
 and mileage, as is fixed by law in civil actions, and 
 jury costs shall also be taxed to and paid from the 
 accident fund, if the verdict and judgment be in favor 
 of the employer, but if against the employer then he 
 shall pay the costs. At the conclusion of the hearing, 
 the court shall enter an order pursuant to the verdict 
 of the jury, if a jury be called, and if no jury be called, 
 the court or judge shall render a decision upon the 
 facts and law of the case pursuant to the provisions of 
 this act, and make an order allowing or disallowing 
 compensation, as the law and the evidence may war- 
 rant. In any proceeding before a court or judge, as 
 aforesaid, the court or judge shall have authority to 
 
 flrvnninf a r]'n^\r rtnolifior? iTnriPT'+inl nVivfiipifln in p"v- 
 
Appeal to Su- 
 preme Court. 
 
 60 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 amine the injured employee and give testimony. T 
 fee for such service shall be five ($5.00) dollars, imlc 
 otherwise ordered by the court, with mileage allowanc 
 as is allowed to other witnesses, which shall be taxe 
 as costs, and paid as other witness fees are paid. T: 
 employer or employee may at his own expense al 
 appoint a qualified physician, who may attend and 
 present at any such examination of an injured employ 
 and give testimony at such hearing or investigation. 
 
 Sec. 13. Any order given and made in any inves 
 gation or hearing by a court or judge pursuant to tl 
 provisions of this act shall be reviewable by the Sta 
 Supreme Court on proceedings in error in the mann 
 prescribed by the code of civil procedure; provide 
 however, that the petition in error, bill of exceptioi 
 and record on appeal must be filed in the Supren 
 Court within thirty (30) days from the date of d 
 cision or order on motion for new trial by a court or 
 judge; unless the time be extended by order of ecu 
 or judge, and thirty (30) days shall be allowed s 
 parties thereafter for filing briefs and said appeal she 
 be advanced on the calendar and disposed of as promp 
 ly as possible. In case an appeal to the Supreme Cou 
 is prosecuted on behalf of the injured workman, tl 
 county and prosecuting attorney, or other attorm 
 representing said workman shall order a transcript ^ 
 the record of the hearing and proceeding to be pr 
 pared by the official court reporter of the distri 
 wherein said injury occurred and duly certified -wit 
 out cost to Said injured workman, and said county ai 
 prosecuting attorney or other attorney shall order tl 
 papers on file in the office of the District Court to 1 
 by said clerk prepared, transcripted, certified and fo 
 warded to the clerk of the Supreme Court without co 
 to the injured workman, and the proceedings in tl 
 Supreme Court shall be conducted on behalf of the i 
 jured workman by the attorney general of the Sta 
 as a part of his official duties, and by other attorn( 
 representing said workman. In case an appeal 1 
 prosecuted on behalf of the employer, the record of tl 
 proceedings at the original hearing shall be supplit 
 without cost to such employer, but such employer mi 
 employ counsel to conduct such appeal on his behal 
 
 Sec. 14. Every order given and made by a Distri 
 Court or judge awarding payment from the Industri 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 61 
 
 Accident Fund to an injured employee or his dependent co'rded^o*pief°" 
 family, shall be entered of record by the clerk of the to Auditor and 
 court where given and true copies thereof shall be im- '■'"*™"'^- 
 mediately made and certified by said clerk and for- 
 warded to the state auditor and state treasurer, re- 
 spectively, of Wyoming, and shall be by each of said 
 oiBcers entered upon a record to be known as the Com- 
 pensation Docket and shall be the authority and direc- 
 tion of the state auditor to issue warrants for com- 
 pensation awards against the Indsutrial Accident Fund 
 and for the state treasurer to pay such compensation 
 awards from said fund. 
 
 Sec. 15. There is hereby created a fund to be ient^F'^a_^4°'" 
 known as the "Industrial Accident Fund, "which shall propriation, 
 be held by the state treasurer and by him deposited 
 in such banks as are authorized to receive deposits of 
 funds of the State. All moneys received by the State 
 treasurer under the provisions of this act shall become 
 a part of the Industrial Accident Fund and there is 
 hereby appropriated out of the funds in the State 
 treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of thirty 
 thousand dollars ($30,000.00), which shall be paid into 
 and become a part of such fund. There is also appro- 
 priated annually, until otherwise provided by law, out 
 of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise ap- 
 propriated a sum equal to one-fourth of the total sum, 
 which shall be received by the State treasurer from 
 employers under the provisions of Section 16 hereof 
 not, however, to exceed the sum of forty thousand dol- 
 lars ($40,000.00), per annum, and the moneys so ap- 
 propriated shall be credited to and become a part of 
 such fund. All fees or mileage of witnesses, jurors 
 and physicians adjudged to be paid from the accident 
 fund in any court proceeding under this act, and all 
 contingent expenses incurred in preparing for and in 
 the administration of this act shall be paid from the 
 Industrial Accident Fund on proper vouchers and war- 
 rants. 
 
 Sec. 16. Every employer engaged in any of the oc- Employers' as- 
 cupations herein defined, as extra-hazardous, is hereby 
 required to pay into the State treasury for the benefit 
 of the Industrial Accident Fund a sum of money equal 
 to two per cent (2%) of the moneys earned by each of 
 his employees engaged in such extra-hazardous employ- 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 from and after April 1st, 1915. Such payment shall 
 be so made on or before the 15th day of the month 
 following the month for which such payments are com- 
 puted and paid. The State treasurer shall keep a sepa- 
 rate account for each employer so contributing to said 
 fund. Each employer shall continue to make monthly 
 contributions as above provided, unless the sum there- 
 fore contributed by him, after deducting all payments 
 made on account of injuries to his employees and all 
 allowances made on account of such injuries, shall 
 equal full two per cent (2%) of his annual pay-roll 
 computed by multiplying his current month's pay-roll 
 of workmen engaged in extra-hazardous employment 
 by twelve, and shall likewise be not less than five thou- 
 sand ($5,000.00) dollars. Such employer shall not be 
 compelled to contribute when his contributions in the 
 fund, after making deductions as aforesaid, shall equal 
 two per cent (2%) of his annual pay-roll, and shall 
 likewise be not less than five thousand ($5,000.00) dol- 
 lars. 
 
 to »tatf TiiLf-"^^ ^^^- ^'^- ^^ ^^^^^ ^® ^^® ^^^y °^ ^^'^^ employer to 
 Tirer. forward to the State treasurer on a blank form pro- 
 
 vided by said State treasurer, a true copy of his pay- 
 roll of persons in his employ engaged in extra-hazard- 
 ous employment during the current calendar month, on 
 the tenth day of the next succeeding calendar month, 
 sworn to either by himself or the person having knowl- 
 edge of said pay-roll, and any statement contained in 
 such verified copy, which can be shown to have been 
 made falsely and with a wilful intention to evade the 
 provisions of this act shall constitute a misdemeanor 
 punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred 
 (.$500.00) dollars. 
 
 Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of the county assessors 
 in each of the counties of the State to make a list of all 
 employers within their respective counties, who are 
 engaged in extra-hazardous industries, as defined by 
 this act, and to forward such list of extra-hazardous 
 employments and industries to the State treasurer 
 within thirty (30) days after the passage and approval 
 of this act. It shall be the duty of county assessors of 
 each of the counties of the State to make monthly re- 
 ports to the State treasurer, showing what, if any, ex- 
 tra-hazardous industries have suspended business per- 
 manently, and what if any new extra-hazardous Indus- 
 
 Duty of County 
 Assessor, State 
 Treasurer and 
 Attorney General. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 63 
 
 tries have been established and commenced in their 
 respective counties during the preceding month, and 
 it shall be the duty of the State treasurer to imme- 
 diately proceed in the collection of assessments from 
 said extra-hazardous industries, as is provided in Sec- 
 tion 16 of this act, and in ease any employer engaged 
 in an extra-hazardous business or industry, as defined 
 by this act, shall -fail or refuse to pay the assessment 
 upon his current monthly pay-roll, as is required by 
 this act, then it shall be the duty of the attorney gen- 
 eral of the State to immediately bring suit in the name 
 of the State for the benefit of the Industrial Accident 
 Fund against such employer for the collection of such 
 assessment, and if a judgment for the recovery of said 
 assessment be given in favor of the State for the use 
 and benefit of the Industrial Accident Fund, said judg- 
 ment shall be for double the amount of the pay-roll 
 assessment provided by Section 16 hereof, together 
 with costs. 
 
 Sec. 19. Each employee, who shall be injured in fcSidiue**'"" 
 any of the extra-hazardous employments, as herein de- 
 fined, or the dependent family of any such injured 
 . workman, who may die as a result of such injuries, 
 except in case of injuries due solely to the culpable 
 negligence of such injured employee, shall receive out 
 of the Industrial Accident Fund, compensation in ac- 
 cordance with the following schedule, and such pay- 
 ment shall be in lieu of and take the place of any and 
 all rights of action against any employer contributing, 
 as required by this act to the Industrial Accident 
 Fund in favor of any person or persons by reason of 
 any such injuries or death : 
 
 (a) "Permanent, partial disability" means the 
 loss of either one foot, toe leg, one hand, one arm, one 
 eye, one or more fingers, one or more toes, any disloca- 
 tion where ligaments are severed, or any other injury 
 known in surgery to be permanent, partial disability. 
 For any permanent, partial disability resulting from 
 any injury, the workman shall receive a lump sum as 
 hereinafter specified . 
 
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 64 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 For the loss of a thumb $ 150.00 
 
 first finger 125.00 
 
 second finger 100.00 
 
 third finger 100.00 
 
 fourth finger 75.00 
 
 palm (metacarpal 
 
 bone) 400.00 
 
 " " " " " hand 800.00 
 
 " " " " " an arm at or be- 
 low elbow 900.00 
 
 " " " " " " above elbow 1000.00 
 
 For Anky-losis (total stiffness of) or contractures 
 (due to scars or injuries) which makes the fingers more 
 than useless, the same amounts apply to such finger oi 
 fingers (no thumb) as given above. 
 
 The loss of the second finger or distal phalange oi 
 the thumb shall be considered to be equal to the loss 
 of one-half of such thumb ; the loss of more than one- 
 half of such thumb shall be considered to be equal tc 
 the loss of the whole thumb. 
 
 The loss of the third or distal phalange of any fingei 
 shall be considered to be equal to the loss of two-thirds 
 of such finger. 
 
 The loss of more than the middle and distal pha- 
 langes of any finger shall be considered to be equal tc 
 the loss of the whole finger ; provided, however, that in 
 no case shall the amount received for more than one 
 finger exceed the amount provided in this schedule foi 
 the loss of a hand. 
 
 For the loss of a great toe $100.00 
 
 " " " " one of the toes other than 
 
 great toe 50.00 
 
 The loss of more than two-thirds of any toe shall 
 be considered to be equal to the loss of the whole toe 
 
 The loss of less than two-thirds of any toe shall be 
 considered equal to the loss of one-half of the toe. 
 
 For the loss of a foot $ 800.00 
 
 For the loss of a leg below the knee 900.00 
 
 For the loss of a leg above the knee 1000.00 
 
 For the loss of an eye 700.00 
 
 For any other injury known to surgery to be per 
 manent partial disability, the workman shall receive i 
 lump sum in an amount proportioned to the extent ol 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 65 
 
 such permanent partial disability based as near as may 
 be upon the foregoing schedule. 
 
 (b) "Permanent total disability" means the loss 
 of both legs, or both arms, or one leg and one arm; 
 total loss of eyesight, paralysis or other condition per- 
 manently incapacitating the workman from perform- 
 ing any work at any gainful occupation. Where there 
 has been a previous disability, as the loss of one eye, 
 one hand, one foot, or any other previous permanent 
 disability, the percentage of disability for a subsequent 
 injury shall be determined by deducting therefrom the 
 percentage of the previous disability, as it existed at 
 the time of the subsequent injury. When permanent 
 total disability results from the injury, the workman 
 shall receive : 
 
 (1) If unmarried at the time of injury a lump sum 
 of $1000.00. 
 
 (2) If the workman had a wife or invalid husband, 
 but no child under the age" of sixteen (16) years, a 
 lump sum of $1,200.00. 
 
 (3) If the workman had a wife or husband and a 
 child or children under the age of sixteen (16) years 
 of age, or being a widow or widower, for any such 
 child or children the lump sum provided in the preced- 
 ing paragraph shall be increased by adding thereto a 
 sum equal to sixty ($60.00) dollars, per year for each 
 child for each year until each child shall be of the age 
 of sixteen (16) years, but the total amount of such in- 
 creased sum allowed for children under sixteen (16) 
 years of age shall not exceed in the aggregate a sum 
 equal to one and one-half the sum allowed to the widow 
 or widower in any such case. 
 
 (c) "Temporary total disability" means an injury 
 which temporarily incapacitates the injured person 
 from performing any work at any gainful occupation 
 for the time, but from which injury such person may 
 recover by medical or surgical treatment and be able 
 to resume work. In such cases, if the workman be un- 
 married at the time of the injury, he shall receive the 
 sum of fifteen ($15.00) dollars per month, so long as 
 the total disability shall continue. If he have a wife 
 with whom he is living at the time of the injury, he 
 shall receive twenty ($20.00) dollars per month, and 
 
66 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 if he have children under sixteen (16) years of age, he 
 shall receive five ($5.00) dollars per month for each 
 child under sixteen (16) years of age, but the total 
 monthly payment shall not exceed thirty-five ($35.00) 
 dollars per month. No compensation shall be allowed 
 for the first ten days of disability, but if the incapacity 
 extends beyond the period of ten days, compensation 
 shall begin on the eleventh day after such injury. As 
 soon as recovery is so complete that the earning power 
 of the workman at any kind of work is re- 
 stored, the payments shall cease ; but in no case shall 
 the total payments made in such cases exceed in the 
 aggregate the lump sum amount herein specified to be 
 paid an injured workman for injuries causing perma- 
 nent total disability. 
 
 (d) "Where death results from an injury, the ex- 
 pense of burial shall be paid not to exceed fifty ($50) 
 dollars in any case ; unless other arrangements exist 
 between employer and employee, under agreement. 
 
 (1) But if the workman leaves a widow or invalid 
 widower, such surviving spouse shall receive a lump 
 sum payment of $1,000.00, to which shall be added a 
 lump sum aggregating the present worth of sixty 
 .($60.00) dollars per year for each surviving child un- 
 der sixteen (16) years of age until the time when each 
 of said surviving children shall become sixteen (16) 
 years of age, provided that the aggregate sum so added 
 on account of children under sixteen (16) years of age 
 shall in no ease exceed an amount equal to the lump 
 sum provided to be paid the surviving spouse, and pro- 
 vided further that if it be shown that the surviving 
 spouse wilfully deserted deceased without fault upon 
 the part of the deceased, such surviving spouse shall 
 not be regarded as a dependent in any degree, but in 
 such cases the right of children under sixteen (16) 
 years of age to compensation shall not be defeated, 
 but the aggregate sum allowed them shall not exceed 
 in any case the amount which would have been pay- 
 able to the surviving spouse if there had been no de- 
 sertion of the deceased. In all cases where an order 
 of compensation is made on account of children under 
 sixteen (16) years of age or to persons incompetent, 
 said fund shall be disbursed under a proper guardian- 
 ship to lie created by the court or judge making such 
 an order. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 67 
 
 (2) If the injured workman die during a period 
 of temporary total disability and after receiving com- 
 pensation therefor, as herein provided, and his death 
 be shown to have resulted from such injuries, the total 
 amount of payments received by him during such dis- 
 ability and prior to his death will be deducted from 
 the lump sum amount herein provided to be paid to 
 the surviving widow and children under sixteen (16) 
 years of age in case of death resulting from injuries. 
 
 (3) If the workman leaves no widow, widower or 
 child under the age of sixteen (16) years, but leaves a 
 parent or parents surviving, who were actually depend- 
 ent upon him for support, such surviving parent or 
 parents shall receive a lump sum which shall be com- 
 puted at the rate of fifty per cent (50%) of the average 
 monthly support actually received by such parent or 
 parents from the workman during the twelve months 
 next preceding the occurrence of the injury calculated 
 as near as may be over the probable period such sup- 
 port would have continued, but in no case exceeding the 
 sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars. 
 
 Sec. 20. If any injured employee shall persist in Forfeiture by in- 
 unsanitary or injurious practice, which tends to im- ^aymen^^^witti^ 
 peril or retard his recovery, or if he shall refuse to iieM. 
 submit to such medical or surgical treatment, as is 
 reasonably essential to promote his recovery, he shall 
 forfeit all right to compensation under this act ; and 
 where an injured employee is under care and treat- 
 ment of a physician, he shall not be permitted to per- 
 sonally receive or use any compensation payments al- 
 lowed him under this act, except upon the order of 
 such physician, but such payments shall be withheld 
 and delivered to such injured workman upon his re- 
 covery or discharge by such physician. 
 
 Sec. 21. No money paid or payable under this act |^|^„»Jj,°„" J^°^^_ 
 out of the Industrial Accident Fund shall, prior to is- tachment. 
 suanee and delivery of the warrant therefor be capable 
 of being assigned, charged or ever be taken in execu- 
 tion or attached or garnished, or shall the same pass 
 to any other person by operation of law, any such as- 
 signment or charge shall be void. 
 
 Sec. 22. A minor working at an age legally per- Minor workman, 
 mitted under the laws of this State shall be deemed sui 
 juris for the purpose of this act and no other person 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Estia-hazardous 
 Public Work — 
 Contract Work. 
 
 Safety Devices. 
 
 shall have any cause of action or right to compensa- 
 tion for injury to such minor workman, except as ex- 
 pressly provided in this act, but in the event of a lump 
 sum payment becoming due under this act to such 
 minor workman, the management of same shall be with- 
 in the probate jurisdiction of the courts, the same as 
 any other properties of minors. 
 
 Sec. 23. Whenever the State, county or any muni- 
 cipal corporation shall engage in any extra-hazardous 
 work in which workmen are employed for wages, this 
 act shall be applicable thereto. The employer's pay- 
 ments into the Industrial Accident Fund shall be made 
 from the treasury of the State, county or municipality. 
 If said work is being done by contract, the pay-roll of 
 the contractor and the sub-contractor shall be the basis 
 of computation, and in the case of contract work con- 
 suming less than one year in performance the required 
 payment into the accident fund shall be subject to 
 the provisions of this act and the State for its general 
 fund, the county or municipal corporation shall be en- 
 titled to collect from the contractor the full amount 
 payable to the Industrial Accident Fund and the eon- 
 tractor, in turn, shall be entitled to collect from the 
 sub-contractor his proportionate amount of payment; 
 the provisions of this section shall apply to all extra- 
 hazardous work done by contract, except that in pri- 
 vate work the contractor shall be responsible, pri- 
 marily and directly, to the Industrial Accident Fund 
 for the proper percentage of the total pay-roll of the 
 work and for the amounts due it, and the owner of the 
 property affected by the contract shall be surety for 
 such payments. Whenever and so long as the State 
 law, city charter or municipal ordinance, provision is 
 made for municipal employees injured in the course 
 of employment, such employee shall not be entitled to 
 the benefits of this act and shall not be included in the 
 pay-roll of the municipality under this act. 
 
 Sec. 24. Nothing in this act contained shall repeal 
 any existing law providing for the installation or main- 
 tenance of any device, means or method for the pre- 
 vention of accidents in extra-hazardous work or for a 
 penalty or punishment for failure to install or main- 
 tain any such protective device, means or method. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 69 
 
 Sec. 25. It shall be unlawful for any person or any T^^ ^<" services 
 number of persons acting together or separately or in co:5enBa^n 
 any way, including attorneys, agents, interpreters, and ^*"***'*- 
 all other persons, to receive or agree to receive either 
 directly or indirectly from any beneficiary or benefi- 
 ciaries under this act, for services rendered or to be 
 rendered, either jointly or separately, in relating to 
 procuring any benefit or benefits under this act, any 
 sum or sums aggregating more than fifty dollars or 
 more than five per centum of the whole amount re- 
 ceived or to be received by such beneficiary or benefi- 
 ciaries oh account of injuries to any employee. Every 
 person violating or concerned in the violation of the 
 provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not 
 less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dol- 
 lars, to which may be added imprisonment in the coun- 
 ty jail for a term not exceeding ninety days. 
 
 Sec. 26. Any physician having attended an em- ^''?^°!5'?°^_^«".^ 
 
 , . / • , .. , • T , quired to Testify. 
 
 ployee m a protessional capacity may be required to 
 testify before any court or judge when so directed in 
 cases, coming within the provisions of this act, and the 
 law of privileged communication between physician 
 and patient, as fixed by statute shall not apply in such 
 cases. 
 
 Sec. 27. Any employee or workman who shall make Jaise statement 
 
 i -u J I,- -u -u ij: ■ 4- *y Employee. 
 
 or cause to be made on his behalt any misrepresenta- 
 tion or false statement for the purpose of receiving 
 compensation under this act to which he is not law- 
 fully entitled shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 shall on conviction, be fined not more than three hun- 
 dred ($300.00) dollars or imprisoned for not more than 
 ninety (90) days. 
 
 Sec. 28. It shall be the duty of the State treasurer statistics com- 
 to secure and compile statistical information concern- Treasurer, 
 ing accidents occurring in the extra-hazardous employ- 
 ment defined by this act, showing the number of acci- 
 dents or fatalities occurring in each of said employ- 
 ments, the amount paid in by each employer coming 
 within the provisions of this act; the amount paid out 
 on account of injuries, or death resulting from injuries 
 in such employments and any other information relat- 
 ing to the operation or administration of this law that 
 may be of interest and to make a full report thereof. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 State Examiner 
 May Examine 
 Employer's 
 Books. 
 
 Disabled Work- 
 man Examined 
 by Employer's 
 Physician — Re- 
 covery Beported 
 to Court. 
 
 together with such recommendations as he may deem 
 proper for changes or amendments herein, and to pub- 
 lish a full report thereof, to the legislature on or -before 
 each succeeding session following the passage and ap- 
 proval of this act. 
 
 Sec. 29. The State treasurer may direct the State 
 examiner to examine the books, accounts or pay-rolls 
 of any employer at any time for the purpose of secur- 
 ing any information desired in the administration of 
 this act, and it shall be the duty of the State examiner 
 to perform such service when called upon by the State 
 treasurer. 
 
 Sec. 30. Any workman awarded compensation for 
 temporary total disability under this act, as defined by 
 clause (c) of Section 19 hereof shall, if thereafter re- 
 quested by his employer, submit himself for medical 
 examination by a physician licensed to practice medi- 
 cine in this State, at a place designated by the em- 
 ployer and which shall be reasonably convenient for 
 the workman, and said workman may have a licensed 
 physician present of his own selection. The purpose 
 of such examination shall be to determine whether the 
 workman has i-ecovered so that his earning power at 
 any kind of work is restored. If it be agreed that the 
 workman has recovered so that his earning power ai 
 any kind of work is restored, the fact shall be reported 
 by the employer and said physician to the .iudge of the 
 District Court who made the award in the first in- 
 stance, or if there be a dispute, as to the recovery of 
 the workman and his restoration to earning power, it 
 shall be likewise reported to said judge by filing a 
 statement in either case in the office of the clerk of 
 the District Court of the county where the award was 
 made and the matter shall be disposed of in such man- 
 ner as said judge may deem proper under the facts. 
 Tf said judge find that said workman has recovered and 
 has been restored to his earning power and that com- 
 pensation should be discontinued, his decision and 
 judgment in the premises shall be certified to the State 
 auditor and State treasurer and shall be authority and 
 direction to said officers to discontinue compensation 
 payments. Tf the workman in such case refuse to sub- 
 mit to such examination or obstructs the same, his right 
 to monthly payments shall be suspended until such ex- 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 71 
 
 amination has taken place, and no compensation shall 
 be payable during or for account of such period or 
 refusal. 
 
 Sec. 31. All employees or workmen coming within fj^timent^f 
 the provisions of this act shall be required upon enter- Dependent Ber- 
 ing service in any of the extra-hazardous employments 
 herein defined to make and sign a written statement 
 setting forth the names of the persons dependent upon 
 them for support or constituting members of their de- 
 pendent families, in each case giving the names and 
 ages of their children under the age of sixteen (16) 
 years. 
 
 Sec. 32. All payments made into the Accident Fund Payments of Em- 
 by any and every employer under the provisions of this Refunded, 
 act shall be taken as paid and received in considera- 
 tion of the indemnity to such employer by reason of 
 his contributing to the Industrial Accident Fund and 
 in consideration of the payments made by the State to 
 such fund, and no part of any moneys so paid in by 
 any employer shall ever be refunded to him either dur- 
 ing the time when he continues in business as such em- 
 ployer, or after he ceases such business. Provided, 
 however, if this act shall be hereafter repealed or held 
 invalid, all moneys which are in the Industrial Fund 
 at the time of the repeal or final holding of invalidity 
 shall be subject to such dispositon as may be provided 
 by the legislature and in default of such legislative 
 provision, distribution thereof shall be in accordance 
 with the justice of the matter, due regard being had 
 to obligations of compensation incurred and existing. 
 
 Sec. 33. This act shall not affect any contract en- Existing con- 
 
 in . . tracts and Pend- 
 
 tered into and existing before- its passage or any ac- ^^ Actions Not 
 tion pending or cause of action existing prior to April Affected. 
 1st, 1915. 
 
 Sec. 34. This act shall take eifect and be in force 
 from and after the 1st day of April, 1915. 
 
 Note.— See Constitution, Article X, Section 4, 
 page 6. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Wages preferred 
 Claims in Assign- 
 ments. 
 
 Assignments of 
 Claims to Evade 
 Exemptions. 
 
 Aiding. 
 
 Evidence. 
 
 WAGES 
 
 Sec. 3390. No assignment for the benefit of cred- 
 itors shall give any preference of one debt or class of 
 debts over any other debt or class of debts, and any 
 sue~h provision in any assignment for the benefit of 
 creditors shall be null and void; save and except that 
 in all cases of assignment under this chapter, the wages 
 of employees of the assignor for the period of three 
 months prior to the date of assignment shall be and 
 constitute preferred claims over all and singular other 
 claims against such estate, and shall be first paid out 
 of the assets of the estate of the assignor. * * • 
 
 Sec. 3424. It is hereby declared unlawful for any 
 creditor or other holder of any evidence of debt, book 
 account, or claim of any name or nature against any 
 laborer, servant, clerk or other employee of any cor- 
 poration, firm or individual in this State for the pur- 
 pose below stated, to sell, assign, transfer, or by any 
 means dispose of any such claim, book account, bill 
 or debt of any name or nature whatever, to any other 
 person or persons, firm, corporation or institution, or 
 to institute elsewhere than in this State, or prosecute 
 any suit or action for any such claim or debt against 
 any such laborer, servant, clerk or employee, by any 
 process seeking to seize, attach or garnishee the wages 
 of such person or persons earned within sixty days 
 prior to the commencement of such proceedings for the 
 purpose of avoiding the effect of the laws of the State 
 of Wyoming concerning exemptions. 
 
 Sec. 3425. It is hereby declared unlawful for any 
 person or persons to aid, assist, abet or counsel a viola- 
 tion of the foregoing section for any purpose what- 
 ever. 
 
 Sec. 3426. In any proceeding, civil or criminal, 
 growing out of a breach of the provisions of this chap- 
 ter, proof of the institution of a suit or service of gar- 
 nishment summons by any persons, firm or individual 
 in any court of any State or Territory other than this 
 State, to seize by process of garnishment or otherwise, 
 any of the wages of such person as defined in the two 
 preceding sections shall be deemed prima facie evi- 
 dence of an evasion of the laws of the State of Wyom- 
 ing, and a breach of the provisions of this chapter on 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 73 
 
 the part of the creditor or resident in "Wyoming caus- 
 ing the same to be done. 
 
 Sec. 3427. Any person, firm, company or corpora- P»"a,i*y- 
 tion, or business institution guilty of a violation of any 
 of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to the 
 party so injured for the amount of the debt sold, as- 
 signed, transferred, garnished, or sued upon, with all 
 costs and expenses, and a reasonable attorney's fee to 
 be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in 
 this State, and shall further be liable by prosecution 
 to punishment by a fine not exceeding the sum of one 
 hundred dollars and costs of prosecution. 
 
 Sec. 3432. No assignment of, or order for, wages ^^^^Ij'^^jjm- 
 to be earned in the future to secure a loan of less than pioyer's Accopt- 
 two hundred dollars, shall be valid against an employer *'"'® ecessary. 
 of the person making said assignment or order until 
 said assignment or order is accepted in writing by the 
 employer, and said assignment or order and the accept- 
 ance of the same have been filed and recorded with the 
 clerk of the city or town where the party making said 
 assignment or order resides, if a resident of this State, 
 or in which he is employed, if not a resident of the 
 commonwealth. 
 
 Sec. 3433. No such assignment of, or order for, consent of wife, 
 wages to be earned in the future shall be valid, when 
 made by a married man, unless the written consent of 
 his wife to the making of such assignment is attached 
 thereto. 
 
 Sec. 3434. National banks and all banking institu- ^anks Exempt, 
 tions which are under the supervision of the bank ex- 
 aminer shall be exempt from the provisions of this 
 chapter. (Sections 3432 and 3433.) 
 
 Sec. 4787. The plaintiff, or his agent or attorney, ^^'^"ifS^^'-Baii. 
 in a judgment against a railroad company, rendered in road Employees, 
 any court, upon a claim due to common laborers for 
 work performed for the company, or for crossties, lum- 
 ber or wood furnished thereto, to- be used in the con- 
 struction, repair or operation of its road, or for the 
 erection of fences along the line of its road, required 
 by law to be erected, or upon a note or other evidence 
 of indebtedness, given for the considerations aforesaid, 
 may file with a precipe for execution upon such judg- 
 ment his affidavit, setting forth the claim upon which 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Garnishment of 
 Wages, Etc. — 
 Public Em- 
 ployees. 
 
 Exemptior of 
 Wages from Ex- 
 ecution. 
 
 the judgment is founded, that he has no knowledge of 
 any property of the defendant liable to levy and sale 
 upon the execution, and that a person or corporation, 
 to be therein named, and within the jurisdiction of the 
 officer to whom the execution is to be directed, is in- 
 debted to the defendant, or has property or claims of 
 the defendant in his possession or under his control, 
 as agent of the defendant or otherwise ; and thereupon 
 the clerk shall issue a notice to each person or corpora- 
 tion named, to the effect that he is required to pay 
 over and deliver to the officer holding such writ, the 
 money, property and claims of the defendant, in his 
 possession, or under his control, at any time before the 
 satisfaction of the judgment, not exceeding an amount 
 sufficient to pay the same and costs. 
 
 Note. — For procedure, see Sections 4788-4793, 
 
 Sec. 4797 (as amended by Chapter 56, Session Laws, 
 1911). The salary or wages due any State, county, city, 
 town or school district officer or employee, shall be lia- 
 ble and subject to garnishment in civil actions in the 
 same manner and for the same causes as the salary or 
 wages of any private individual now is, or may here- 
 after be, liable and subject to garnishment under the 
 laws of this State. This act shall apply to the salary 
 or wages due to any officer or employee of the State 
 or of any county, city, town or school district of the 
 State, whether said officer or employee shall have been 
 elected or shall have been appointed to the office or 
 position which he holds. 
 
 Sec. 4810. The judge may order any property of 
 the judgment debtor, or money due him, not exempt by 
 law, in the hands of either himself or other person or 
 of a corporation to be applied toward the satisfaction 
 of a judgment ; but one-half of the earnings of the judg- 
 ment debtor for his personal services, rendered' at any 
 time within sixty days next preceding the levy of exe- 
 cution or levy of attachment, and due and owing at 
 the time of such levy of execution or attachment are 
 exempt when it appears by the debtor's affidavit, or 
 otherwise, that such earnings are necessary for the use 
 of his family residing in this State, supported wholly 
 or in part by his labors. 
 
 This section shall apply to proceedings in judgment; 
 and to proceedings in all courts in this State. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 75 
 
 Sec. 5595. All demands against the estate of any SaSI— ta'Ad-*^ 
 deceased person shall be divided into the following ministration, 
 classes : 
 
 1. Funeral expenses and expenses of administra- 
 tion. 
 
 2. Expenses of the last sickness and of any sums of 
 money that may be due by decedent personally to serv- 
 ants and employees for services rendered within the 
 sixty days next preceding his death. * * * 
 
 For protection of wages of aliens, see Sections 3429 
 and 5976. 
 
 Semi-monthly pay day in mines, Section 3549, page 
 31. 
 
 LIENS. 
 
 Personal Property. 
 
 Sec. 3753 (as amended by Chapter 100, Session Laborers- Liens. 
 Laws, 1913). Any mechanic, artisan, civil engineer or 
 laborer who shall make, alter, repair or bestow labor 
 upon any article of personal property, or upon the con- 
 struction of any ditch, canal or reservoir or appurte- 
 nances thereto, or who shall furnish materials from 
 which the same is made or repaired at the request of 
 the owner or his agent shall have a lien upon such 
 articles of personal property, ditch, canal or reservoir 
 or appurtenances thereto for his reasonable charges for 
 labor performed or materials furnished and used in 
 such making, repair or improvements. 
 
 [If any such charges for which a lien is given be not 
 paid within thirty days after the same becomes due, appraisers 
 may be appointed by a justice of the peace, who under oath 
 appraise the value of the property on which the lien is claimed. 
 After due notice to the owner, such property may be sold at 
 public auction, at not less than two-thirds of the appraised 
 value. The holder of the lien may purchase. The justice of 
 the peace who appointed the appraisers keeps a record of the 
 bills of sale of the articles sold. Appraisers, clerks, and criers 
 receive three dollars per day, and the justice receives twenty 
 cents per hundred words for warrants of appraisements and 
 records of bills of sale. Chattel mortgages are subject to such 
 liens. Sections 3757-3766.] 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Liens. 
 
 Timber Liens to Scc. 3767. All lien claims for labor performed in 
 
 llt^*'*^" cutting or manufacturing railroad cross ties, wood, 
 poles, or lumber, or for doing any labor in reference 
 thereto, shall be concurrent liens upon the same, and 
 shall be paid, pro rata, out of the proceeds arising 
 from the sale thereof, if the same shall be sold. 
 
 Identification of Scc. 3768. Persons entitled to a lien for labor per- 
 
 autoid*fn ^Timber formed in cutting or manufacturing any railroad cross 
 ties, wood, poles, or lumber, shall not be required to 
 identify any particular tie or ties, or sticks, poles or 
 boards, but may maintain their lien against any or all 
 of that class of property owned and held by the per- 
 son or persons from whom their pay for such labor is 
 due, and may seize and sell the same as provided in 
 this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 3769. No lien upon personal property shall be 
 valid as against an innocent and bona fide purchaser, 
 unless the person having the right of such lien shall 
 notify said purchaser before he makes payment for 
 such property, of the existence of such lien, in which 
 case, the purchaser shall be responsible to the person 
 having such lien claim against said property, for the 
 full amount of his claim, and all legitimate costs and 
 expenses, and payment made on such lien claim shall 
 apply on payment for such personal property. 
 
 When Lien Not to 
 Affect Bona Fide 
 Purcbasers. 
 
 Miners' Liens. 
 
 Coal Mines. Section 1 (Chapter 26, Session Laws, 1911). That 
 
 every laborer, or miner, who shall perform labor in 
 opening or developing any coal mine, including sink- 
 ing shafts, constructing slopes, or drifts, mining coal 
 and the like, shall have a lien upon all of the property 
 of the person, firm or corporation owning, construct- 
 ing or operating such mine, used in the construction 
 or operation thereof, including real estate, buildings, 
 engines, cars, mules, horses, scales and all other per- 
 sonal property, for the value of such labor for the full 
 amount thereof, upon the same terms, with the same 
 rights and to be secured and enforced as mechanics 
 and builders' liens are secured and enforced. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 7 7 
 
 Sec. 3778. Every miner or other person who, at the ^'«" °^ Laborer, 
 request of the owner of any ledge or lode of quartz 
 bearing gold, silver, lead, cinnabar or copper, or of 
 any coal bank or mine, shall work in or upon said mine 
 or bank, or do assessment work upon or in any mining 
 claim, lode or placer, or upon or in any soda well or 
 lake, oil well or spring, shall have a lien upon such 
 vein or lode, mine, bank, well, lake or spring, to the 
 amount due at any time, when a demand shall be made 
 upon such owner or his or their agent, for money due 
 for such labor, and payment shall be refused. 
 
 Sec. 3779. Any person who shall labor as a me- ^ien for Mate- 
 
 rials. 
 
 chanic or otherwise, or who shall furnish timber, lum- 
 ber, rope, nails or any other material for timbering 
 shafts or levels for the mine, or who shall furnish any 
 kind of materials for erecting windlass, whim or other 
 hoisting apparatus upon any vein, mine or coal bank, 
 referred to in the preceding section, shall also have a 
 lien upon the mine or coal bank for which such mate- 
 rials, or upon which he performed such labor. 
 
 Sec. 3780. The party seeking a lien shall proceed. Enforcement of 
 so far as the proceedings are applicable, in the same 
 manner, to enforce a lien as by law required in the 
 ease of mechanics and other persons seeking to enforce 
 a lien upon dwelling houses and other buildings, ex- 
 cept when other provisions are made by this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 3781. When any sum, exceeding ten dollars, *^''"'=' °' ^*'"- 
 for labor performed by any miner or other person, upon 
 or in any mine or coal bank specified in this chapter, 
 shall be due and unpaid for ten days, it shall be com- 
 petent for the person or persons to whom such sum 
 of money shall be due, to file a notice in the office of 
 the county clerk in the county where such mine is 
 situated, at any time within six months after the last 
 day upon which work was done by him; which said 
 notice shall in substance set forth the fact that the 
 party performed labor (naming the kind), for a party 
 or company (naming the party or company), that such 
 labor was performed under a contract (stating the 
 substance) ; also, the time wheii the party commenced 
 and when ceased to work, the amount still due and 
 unpaid, together with a description of the mine or coal 
 bank upon which such work was performed, which 
 statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the party 
 
78 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Application of 
 Last Section. 
 
 Against Whom 
 Iiien Holds. 
 
 Time of Bring- 
 ing Action. 
 
 Iiien On Oil 
 Lands. 
 
 Claim of Sub- 
 contractor or 
 Laborer. 
 
 SO filing it, and when filed, the county clerk shall 
 record the same in a "lien book," the same as required 
 in the case of "mechanics' notices of lien." 
 
 Sec. 3782. The provisions of the last preceding sec- 
 tion shall apply to persons who shall furnish materials 
 or work upon any shaft, whim, or other hoisting works, 
 who, by complying with the general provisions of such 
 section, shall have a like lien. 
 
 Sec. 3783. When notices, as provided in the last 
 two preceding sections, shall be filed, the lien shall 
 hold, not only against the owner of the mine or bank 
 from the time when the miner or other person began 
 work, but against all persons or company who shall 
 have purchased such mine or coal bank while such 
 miner or other person was employed therein, or fur- 
 nished materials used therein or thereon. 
 
 Sec. 3784. Suit to enforce such lien may be com- 
 menced at any time within one year after filing such 
 notice. 
 
 Sec. 3785. Any owner of any oil well or spring, who 
 shall employ any person to perform any work of any 
 kind around, or about, any oil well or spring, either in 
 building derricks, buildings, or any kind of machinery, 
 or in boring or drilling, shall be deemed within the 
 provisions of this chapter ; and all persons performing 
 labor or furnishing materials, shall have like liens 
 upon oil territory upon which they labored or for 
 which they furnished materials or the improvements 
 thereon, as miners or other laborers upon, or in, mines 
 as provided in this chapter and shall proceed in the 
 same manner to enforce a lien. " 
 
 Sec. 3786. Every miner or other person doing or 
 performing any work or furnishing any material, as 
 specified in this chapter, under a contract or agreement, 
 expressed or implied between the owner or owners 
 thereof, or his or their agent, whether such work shall 
 be performed or material furnished as miner, laborer, 
 sub-contractor or otherwise, whose demand for work 
 so done or material so furnished has not been paid, may 
 deliver to the owner or owners of such mine or his or 
 their agent an attested account of the amount and 
 value of the work and labor thus performed or the 
 material thus furnished and remaining unpaid, and 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 79 
 
 thereupon such owner or owners, or his or their agent, 
 shall retain out of his subsequent payments to the con- 
 tractors the amount of such work and labor or material 
 furnished for the benefit of the person so performing 
 or furnishing the same. 
 
 Sec. 3787. Whenever any account of labor per- Liatmty of own- 
 formed or material furnished, as referred to in the 
 preceding section, shall be placed in the hands of the 
 owner or owners of any mine or his or their agent, as 
 above stated, it shall be the duty of such owner or 
 owners or his or their agent to furnish his or their 
 contractor with a copy of such papers, so that if there 
 be any disagreement between such contractor and his 
 creditor they may by amicable adjustment "or by arbi- 
 tration ascertain the true sum due, and if the con- 
 tractor shall not, within ten days after the receipt of 
 such papers, give the owner or owners or his or their 
 agent written notice that he intends to dispute the 
 claim, or if for ten days after giving notice he shall 
 refuse or neglect to have the matter adjusted as afore- 
 said, he shall be considered as assenting to the demand, 
 and the owner or owners or his or their agent shall be 
 justified in paying the same when it becomes due. 
 
 Sec. 3788. The amount which may be due from any fj^^m^b^^ Actfon. 
 contractor to his creditor may be recovered from said 
 owner or owners or his or their agent by the creditor 
 of said contractor, in an action at law to the extent in 
 value of any balance due by the owner or owners or 
 his or their agent, to his or their contractor, under the 
 contract with him at the time of the notice first given 
 as aforesaid, or subsequently, according to such con- 
 tract or under the same. 
 
 Sec. 3789. Any person entitled to a lien under this fataing"Lieli° °^' 
 chapter shall make an account in writing of the items 
 of labor, skill, machinery and material furnished, or 
 either of them, as the case may be ; and after making 
 oath thereto, shall, within sixty days from the time of 
 completing such labor and skill, or furnishing the last 
 item of such machinery or material, file the same in the 
 ofiice of the register, of deeds of the county in which 
 the ledge, lead or lode, or bank may be situated, for 
 which such labor, skill, machinery or material shall 
 have been furnished, and shall also file at the same 
 time a correct description of the property to be charged 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 with said lien, which account and description of said 
 property so made and filed, shall be recorded in a sep- 
 arate book to be provided for that purpose, and shall, 
 for the time of the completion of the work, or furnish- 
 ing material, and for one year thereafter, operate as a 
 lien on the several descriptions of ledges, leads, lodes, 
 mines or banks named in Section 3778, when any labor 
 has been done or material furnished, on a written con- 
 tract, the same, or a copy thereof, shall be filed with 
 the account herein required to be filed ; Provided, That 
 all lien claims for labor performed, or material fur- 
 nished shall be concurrent liens upon the same, and 
 shall be paid pro rata out of the proceeds arising from 
 the sale thereof, if the same shall be sold. 
 
 Action to Enforce gcc. 3790. Every person holding such lien may pro- 
 ceed to obtain a judgment for the amount of his ac- 
 count thereon, by civil action, and when any suit or 
 suits shall be commenced on such accounts within the 
 time of such lien, the lien shall continue until such 
 suit or suits be finally determined and satisfied, and 
 in all actions instituted under this chapter, all persons, 
 claiming liens upon the property sought to be affected, 
 shall be made parties to such action or proceeding; 
 and the rights of all parties to such action shall be de- 
 termined by the court and such order made therein as 
 shall preserve and protect the rights of all such parties 
 under the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 Fees for Kecord- Sec. 3791. The county register of deeds, for filing 
 '"^' and recording all papers under this chapter shall be 
 
 paid the same fees as are, or hereafter may be allowed 
 by law for filing and recording deeds. 
 
 Sec. 3792. When any person who shall have filed 
 his account and perfected his lien, pursuant to the pro- 
 visions of this chapter, shall have received satisfac- 
 tion for his claim and the legal costs of his proceed- 
 ings therein, he shall, upon the request of any person 
 interested, and within six days, enter satisfaction of 
 his lien in the office where such account and lien is of 
 record, which shall forever thereafter discharge, defeat 
 and release the same. 
 
 fng"to%aHJfy^*"" ^^^- ^793. If any person, having received satisfac- 
 tion as specified in the preceding section, or having 
 been tendered the amount due on his claim with legal 
 
 Entry of Satis- 
 faction. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 81 
 
 costs, shall not, within six days after request, enter 
 satisfaction as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay to 
 the person aggrieved, double the amount of damages 
 which may have been sustained in consequence of such 
 refusal or neglect. 
 
 Sec. 3794. The provisions of this chapter shall ap- iron Mines, 
 ply to iron mines, so far as the same may be applicable, 
 and to all mines not herein specified, within this State. 
 
 Sec. 3795. The suits or actions provided for by this where Actions 
 chapter shall be brought in the county in which the ° ^ ^°^^ 
 lien provided for by this chapter is filed or recorded. 
 
 Sec. 3796. When the owner or owners of the mine JJ"*!"?* *" ^on- 
 
 ,., ,. .^,,.. Residents Dy 
 
 upon which the lien is filed, being a person or persons, Puwication. 
 shall reside out of the state, or being a corporation shall 
 have its place of business outside the state and it shall 
 be impossible to make service of process within the 
 state, service may be made by publication in the man- 
 ner now provided by law. 
 
 Sec. 3797. When the owner or owners of the mine service May Be 
 upon which the lien is filed, shall reside in the State co^unty! "'^ 
 but in a county other than that in which the suit or 
 action is brought, or being a corporation, shall have 
 its place of business in the State but in a county other 
 than that in" which the suit or action is brought, and 
 it shall be impossible to make service of process within 
 the county in which the suit or action is brought, it 
 shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in which 
 the suit or action is brought, upon an affidavit being 
 filed in his office showing such facts, to transmit the 
 summons or other process to the sheriff of the county 
 in which the defendant resides or has its place of busi- 
 ness, and the summons or other process shall be served 
 by such sheriff and returned as in other cases, except 
 that the time for making such service and return and 
 the time of answering in such action may be extended 
 one week. 
 
 Sec. 3798. The provisions of this chapter shall ap- Application ^ot 
 ply to all persons who shall do any work in and about we^us.*"^ 
 the mines or oil wells mentioned in this chapter, or in 
 hauling and transporting the products of such mines 
 or oil wells at the request of the owner or owners there- 
 of, or of his or their agent. 
 
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 Who Entitled to, 
 and Extent of 
 Lien. 
 
 Extent of Lien. 
 
 Priority of Lien. 
 
 Mechanics' and Builders' Liens. 
 
 Sec. 3799. Every mechanic or other person, who 
 shall do or perform any work or labor upon, or fur- 
 nish any material, fixtures, engines, boilers or ma- 
 chinery for any biailding, erection or improvement 
 upon land, or for repairing the same, under or by vir- 
 tue of any contract with the owner or proprietor there- 
 of, or his 9r her agent, trustee, contractor, or sub-eon- 
 tractor, upon complying with the provisions of this 
 chapter, shall have for his work, or labor done, or 
 materials, fixtures, boiler or machinery furnished, a 
 lien upon such building, erection or improvements, and 
 upon the land belonging to such owner or proprietor 
 on which the same are situated, to the extent of one 
 acre, or if such building, erection or improvements be 
 upon any lot of land in any town, city, or village, then 
 such lien shall be upon such building, erection or im- 
 provement and the lot or land upon which the same 
 are situated, to secure the payment for such work or 
 labor -done, or materials, fixtures, engine, boiler or ma- 
 chinery furnished. 
 
 Sec. 3800. The entire land, to the extent aforesaid, 
 upon which any such building, erection or other im- 
 provement is situated, including as well that part of 
 the said land which is not covered with such building, 
 erection or other improvement, as that part thereof 
 which is covered with the same, shall be subject to 
 all liens created by this chapter, to the extent of all 
 the right, title and interest owned therein by the pro- 
 prietor or owner of such building, erection or improve- 
 ment for whose immediate use and benefit the labor 
 was done, or things or material fuimished. 
 
 Sec. 3801. The lien for the things or materials fur- 
 nished or work and labor performed shall attach to 
 the building, erection or improvements for Avhich they 
 were furnished, or the work and labor was done, in 
 preference to anj^ prior lien or incumbrance or mort- 
 gage upon the land upon which said buildings, or erec- 
 tion, improvements or machinery have been erected or 
 put, and any person enforcing such lien may have such 
 building, erection or improvements sold under execu- 
 tion, and the purchaser thereof may remove the same 
 within a reasonable time thereafter; and such lien shall 
 be preferred to all other incumbrances which may he 
 
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 attached to or upon such building or other improve- 
 ments or the ground, lot or land upon which they are 
 situated or located, or either of them, subsequent to 
 the commencement of such buildings or improvements. 
 
 [Sec. 3802. Liens attach to buildings and other im- 
 provements on leased lands, and also to the leasehold 
 term of such lands.] 
 
 Sec. 3803. It shall be the duty of every original l^'^^fgi^ef of 
 contractor, within four months, and every sub-eon- Lien, 
 tractor, and every journeyman and day laborer, and 
 every other person seeking to obtain the benefits of the 
 provisions of this chapter, within ninety days after 
 the indebtedness shall have accrued, to file in the office 
 of the register of deeds of the proper county, a just 
 and true account of the demand due him, her, or them, 
 after all just credits shall have been given, which is to 
 be a lien upon such building or improvements, and a 
 true description of all the property, or so near as to 
 identify the same, upon which said lien is intended to 
 apply with the name of the owner or owners, con- 
 tractor or contractors, or both, if known to the person 
 filing the lien, which in all cases shall be verified by 
 the oath of the person filing the lien, or by some re- 
 liable person for him ; Provided, That the original con- 
 tractor shall not file a lien prior to the expiration of 
 sixty days after the completion of his contract, and 
 no provision contained in any contract made between 
 the owner and the original contractor shall be con- 
 strued to in any way affect or restrict the right of any 
 sub-contractor, journeyman or day laborer, to file his 
 lien in the manner provided by this section. 
 
 [Sec. 3804. The register of deeds is required to 
 make an abstract of all liens filed; the fees for filing 
 and abstracting are the same as for deeds.] 
 
 Sec. 3805. (Sec. 1, Chapter 68, Session Laws, 1911.) ^i^a^ings and 
 The pleadings, practice, process and other proceedings 
 in cases arising under this chapter shall be the same 
 as in ordinary civil actions and civil proceedings in 
 the courts of this State, except as herein otherwise pro- 
 vided. The petition among other things shall allege 
 the facts necessary for securing a lien under this chap- 
 ter and a description of the property to be charged 
 therewith. Provided, however, that in any action be- 
 
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 Lien Account as 
 Evidence. 
 
 Improper Charges 
 Shall Not Invali- 
 date. 
 
 gun by any laborer, material man, sub-contractor or 
 other person, to enforce a lien under the provisions of 
 this chapter, if the petition shall state and the evidence 
 shall show that the work and labor was done and the 
 materials furnished for the use and benefit of the party 
 or parties designated in the petition, and for use in, 
 upon or about the property therein described and 
 against which the lien is sought to be enforced, and 
 shall also state and show that the owner or proprietor 
 of said property or his agent, had knowledge of the 
 fact that said work and labor was being done and said 
 materials were being furnished for use, in, upon and 
 about said property, then and in that case any and all 
 defects in the statement of said lien account as filed 
 or notice given as provided in this chapter shall be 
 disregarded; provided, that said lien account as filed 
 shall state the amount for which, the property against 
 which, and the labor or materals for which, a lien is 
 claimed, so as to enable the owner or his agent to 
 identify the same; provided, further, that said notice 
 shall be given and said lien account filed within the 
 time limited by statute for so doing. 
 
 Sec. 2. In all cases arising under the provisions of 
 this chapter, the lien account as filed shall be admitted 
 in evidence and it shall be a question of fact for the 
 jury, or for the court sitting as a jury, whether the 
 said lien account as filed is sufficient to charge the 
 owner of the property or his agent with knowledge 
 of the amount for which, the property against which, 
 and the work and labor done or materials furnished 
 for which a lien is claimed. If the jury, or court sit- 
 ting as a jury, shall find that said account as filed is 
 sufficient so as to charge the owner or his agent with 
 such knowledge, then said lien account shall be held in 
 all respects sufficient and valid and enforceable. 
 
 Sec. 3. If any sub-contractor, material man, laborer 
 or other person entitled to a lien under the provisions 
 of this chapter, shall include in his lien account as 
 filed, charges not properly belonging therein, or 
 charges for which the law gives no lien, or charges en- 
 tered therein by mistake, or charges arising under two 
 separate contracts, such charges shall not invalidate 
 the lien, but in his petition to enforce said lien, he may 
 omit any or all such charges incorrectly entered or 
 
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 entered by mistake, and may proceed to enforce a 
 lien for tlie balance. 
 
 Sec. 3806. In all suits under this chapter the parties ^constnicttve*"" 
 to the controversy shall, and all other persons inter- senrice. 
 ested in the matter in controversy, and in the property 
 charged in the lien, may be made parties, but such as 
 are not made parties shall not be bound by any such 
 proceeding, and constructive service may be had upon 
 any defendant in suits brought under this chapter who 
 may be non-residents of the State and cannot be per- 
 sonally served with the summons within the State in 
 the same manner as constructive service is had in other 
 cases at law. 
 
 [Sec. 3807. The amount of indebtedness is ascer- 
 tained by trial in the usual way. Twenty-five dollars 
 for attorney's fees is taxed as costs.] 
 
 Sec. 3808. Judgment by default shall be rendered Judgment by De- 
 against every defendant who, after being duly sum- 
 moned or notified, according to law, shall not appear 
 and plead or answer within the time allowed by law in 
 . ordinary civil actions. 
 
 Sec. 3809. When the debtor has not been person- judgment on 
 ally served with process according to law, but has been fe^*^™""''* 
 lawfully notified by publication, the judgment, if for 
 the plaintiff, shall be that he recover the amount of the 
 indebtedness found to be due and the cost of suit, to 
 be levied out of the property charged with the lien 
 therefor, which said property shall be correctly de- 
 scribed in said judgment. 
 
 Sec. 3810. When the debtor has been served with ^o"*^|^i^°e.^"' 
 summons, or appears at the action without service of 
 summons, the judgment, if for the plaintiff, shall be 
 against such debtor, as in ordinary cases, with the 
 addition that if no sufficient property of the debtor 
 can be found to satisfy said judgment and costs of 
 suit, then the residue thereof to be levied as provided 
 in the next preceding section. 
 
 Sec. 3811. The execution to be issued shall be a |f„"e"*i°rrNot 
 special fieri facias and shall be in conformity with the Exempt, 
 judgment, and such writ shall be returnable as in ordi- 
 nary executions, and the advertisement, sale and con- 
 veyance of real and personal estate, under the same. 
 
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 Duration of Lien. 
 
 Entry of Satis- 
 faction. 
 
 Failure to Sat- 
 isfy — Penalty. 
 
 Notice of Intend- 
 ed Filing of Lien. 
 
 Contractor to De- 
 fend — Lia bility 
 to Owners 
 
 shall be made as in ordinary executions; and in no 
 case shall a homestead or building thereon be exempt 
 as against any lien which may be taken under the pro- 
 visions of this chapter. 
 
 Note. — For homestead exemption, see Chapter 104, 
 Session Laws, 1915. 
 
 Sec. 3812. All actions under this chapter shall be 
 commenced within six months after the filing of the 
 lien, and prosecuted without delay to final judgment, 
 and no lien shall continue to exist by virtue of the pro- 
 visions of this chapter for more than six months after 
 the lien shall be filed, unless within that time an action 
 shall be instituted thereon, as hereinbefore described. 
 
 Sec. 3813. Whenever any debt, which is a lien on 
 any building or other improvement, shall be paid and 
 satisfied, the lien creditor, if required, shall acknowl- 
 edge such satisfaction upon the record or on the mar- 
 gin thereof, in the ofiice of the register of deeds of the 
 proper county, for which said acknowledgment he shall 
 be allowed the sum of fifty cents. 
 
 Sec. 3814. If any creditor refuses or neglects to 
 enter satisfaction within ten days after payment and' 
 request as aforesaid, he shall be liable to any person 
 injured to the amount of such injury and cost of suit. 
 
 Sec. 3815. Every person, except the original eon- 
 tractor, who may wish to avail himself of the benefits 
 of the provisions of this chapter, shall give ten days' 
 notice, in writing, before filing the lien, as herein re- 
 (luired, to the owner, owners or agent, or either of 
 them, that he or they hold a claim again such building 
 or improvement, stating in said notice the amount of 
 the same and from whom it is due. 
 
 Sec. 3816. In cases where a lien shall be filed un- 
 der the provisions of this chapter, by any person other 
 than a contractor, it shall be the duty of the contractor 
 to defend any action brought thereon at his own ex- 
 pense, and during the pendency of such action the 
 owner or agent may withhold from the contractor the 
 amount of money for which said lien shall be filed, and 
 in ease of judgment being rendered against the owner 
 or his property upon the lien, he shall be entitled to 
 deduct from any amount due by him to the contractor 
 the amount of such judgment and costs, and if he shall 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 have settled in full with the contractor he shall be en- 
 titled to recover back from the contractor any amount 
 so paid by the owner for which the contractor was 
 originally liable. 
 
 Sec. 3818. The liens for work and labor done or con"u«eirt.* 
 material furnished, as specified in this chapter, shall 
 be upon an equal footing, without reference to the 
 dates of the filing of the account or lien, and in all 
 cases where a sale shall be ordered and the moneys 
 arising from such sale be not sufficient to discharge in 
 full all of the liens against the same, without reference 
 to the dates of filing, said accounts or liens shall have 
 been filed and suit brought thereon, as provided in this 
 chapter. 
 
 Recovery for Labor and Supplies — Irrigation Works. 
 
 Sec. 3823, Whenever any ditch or canal company, lond!*"*""' 
 or other owner or owners, shall contract with any per- 
 son, persons or corporations, for the construction of 
 its, his or their ditch, canal or reservoir, or any part 
 thereof, such company, owner or owners, shall take 
 from the person, persons or corporation with whom 
 such contract is made, a good and sufficient bond in 
 some guarantee or surety company authorized to do 
 business in this State, conditioned that such contractor 
 or contractors shall pay or cause to be paid all labor- 
 ers, mechanics, material men, ranchmen, farmers, mer- 
 chants and other persons who supply such con- ■ 
 tractor or contractors, or any of his or 
 their sub-contractors with labor, work, mate- 
 rial, ranch or farm products, provisions or goods 
 of any kind, all just debts incurred therefor in carrying 
 on such work, which bond shall be filed by such com- 
 pany or other owner in the office of the county clerk 
 and ex-officio register of deeds in the county where 
 the principal work of such contractor shall be carried 
 on; and if any such ditch or canal company, or other 
 owner or owners, shall fail to take such bond, such 
 ditch or canal company or other owner or owners shall 
 be liable to the persons herein mentioned to the full ex- 
 tent of all such debts so contracted by such contractor, 
 or contractors, or any of his or their sub-contractors. 
 Any such contractor or contractors may take a similar 
 bond from each sub-contractor to secure the payment 
 
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 of all debts of the kind above mentioned incurred by 
 him, and file the same as above provided. All such 
 persons mentioned in this section to whom any debt 
 of the kind above mentioned shall be due from any 
 contractor or sub-contractor shall severally have a 
 right of action upon any such bond covering such debt 
 taken as herein provided for the recovery of the full 
 amount of such debt. Provided, hoAvever, That in 
 order that the right of action upon such bonds may 
 exist, such persons or parties herein granted such right 
 shall comply with either of the following conditions, 
 to-wit: First, an action in a court of competent juris- 
 diction, in the county where such bond is filed, shall 
 be commenced within ninety days after the last item 
 of indebtedness shall have accrued; or, second, an 
 itemized statement of the indebtedness duly verified, 
 shall, within ninety days after the last item of such 
 indebtedness shall have accrued, be filed in the office 
 of the county clerk of the proper county ; and an action 
 shall be brought in any court of competent jurisdic- 
 tion of such county within three months after the filing 
 of such statement. In case an action is commenced 
 upon the bond of a contractor liable for the claim, and 
 in such case the result of such action shall be binding 
 upon the sub-contractor, and. his sureties, and in any 
 ease when a contractor has paid a claim for which a 
 sub-contractor is liable, such contractor shall bring 
 action against the sub-contractor and his sureties with- 
 in sixty days after the payment of such claim. 
 
 lien statement. gee. 3824. Every laborer, mechanic, ranchman, 
 
 farmer, merchant or other person performing any work 
 or labor or furnishing any material, ranch or farm 
 products, provisions, goods or supplies to any con- 
 tractor or sub-contractor in the construction of any 
 ditch, canal or reservoir, or any part thereof used by 
 such contractor or sub-contractor in carrying on said^ 
 work of construction, whose demand for work, labor, 
 material, ranch or farm products, goods or supplies 
 so furnished has not been paid, may deliver to the 
 owner or owners of such ditch, canal or reservoir, or 
 to its, his or their agent, a verified account of the 
 amount and value of the work and labor so performed 
 or the material, ranch or farm products, provisions, 
 goods or supplies so furnished, and thereupon such 
 owner or owners or its, his or their agent, shall retain 
 
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 out of the subsequent payments to the contractor or 
 contractors the amount of such unpaid account for the 
 benefit of the person to whom the same is due. 
 
 Sec. 3825. Whenever any verified account men- fe^duM."^""^"' 
 tioned in the last preceding section shall be placed in 
 the hands of any such owner or owners or its, his or 
 their agent, as above stated, it shall be the duty of 
 such owner or owners to furnish the contractor with 
 a copy of such verified account, so that if there be any 
 disagreement between the debtor and creditor as to the 
 amount due the same may be amicably adjusted, and 
 if the contractor, or sub-contractor if he be the debtor, 
 shall not, within ten days after the receipt of such ac- 
 count, give the said owner or owners or its, his or 
 their agent, written notice that the claim is disputed, 
 he shall be considered as assenting to its payment, and 
 the owner or owners, or its, his or their agent, shall 
 be justified in paying the same when due and charging 
 the same to the contractor. The person or persons to 
 whom any such debt is due and who shall deliver a 
 verified account thereof as above provided, may re- 
 cover the amount thereof in an action at law, to the 
 extent of any balance due by such owner or owners 
 to the contractor at or after the time of delivering the 
 verified account. Provided, That nothing contained in 
 this section or in Section 3824 shall interfere with the 
 right of action upon the bond or bonds provided for 
 in Section 3823, or against the company or other owner, 
 for the full amount of any such debt in case of a failure 
 to take a bond. 
 
 Note. — Practically identical provisions for recovery 
 for labor and supplies used in railroad construction 
 are given in Sections 3826-3828. 
 
 For lien for labor on partnership irrigation ditches, 
 see Section 823, Compiled Statutes. 
 
 LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 
 Incorporated. 
 
 Sec. 4186. Any number of persons, not less than what societies 
 seven, may voluntarily associate themselves together ^^^ incorporate, 
 for either of the following purposes: * * * lodges 
 or assemblies of the Knights of Labor, * * * or any 
 other secret or benevolent society, subject to the regu- 
 
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 Certificate of 
 IncoTporation. 
 
 lations of their respective grand bodies, according to 
 the constitutions and usages of such * * * knights of 
 labor or other fraternity or society, as the case may 
 
 "Up # # # 
 
 Sec. 4187. Any such society that may wish to be- 
 come incorporated under and by virtue of this chap- 
 ter, shall file in the office of the secretary of state and 
 the office of the register of deeds of the county in 
 which such society shall be located, a certificate in writ- 
 ing, setting forth the name of such society, together 
 with its number (according to usage) and the place 
 where, the same shall be held, which certificate shall 
 be signed by the presiding officer and secretary, and 
 attested by the seal of such society, and such society 
 or association having filed the certificate required by 
 this chapter, shall be deemed and held a body corporate 
 and politic, under the name and style stated in such 
 certificate, and may sue and be sued in all courts of 
 record in this State, and shall have power to contract 
 and be contracted with, and use a common seal. 
 
 Sec. 4188. Any society incorporated under this 
 chapter, may take, by purchase, grant, devise, gift or 
 otherwise, any town lot or tract of land, may sell and 
 dispose of the same, and execute deeds of conveyance, 
 signed by the presiding officer, secretary and treasurer, 
 or by such officers or persons as may be prescribed by 
 the by-laws or rules and regulations of such body, 
 whenever authorized by such society, and all such 
 deeds of conveyance shall have attached thereto the 
 seal of such body. 
 
 Sec. 4189. Any such society organized under the 
 provisions of this chapter may make all needful by- 
 laws and regulations necessary to carry out the pro- 
 visions of this chapter, and not inconsistent with the 
 laws and regulations of such bodies, or their respective 
 grand bodies under which the same may be holden, and 
 not inconsistent with the constitution of the United 
 States and the constitution and laws of this State. 
 
 pe«o"arpro°p- Sec. 4190. Any such society may hold and possess 
 
 ^'^^- persona] property, and sell and dispose of the same. 
 
 Powers as to 
 Real Property. 
 
 By-Iiaws. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 9t 
 
 LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. certain Unincor- 
 
 TT • ^ , porated Bodies 
 
 Unincorporated. May Hold and 
 
 Convey Bealty. 
 
 Sec. 4192 (as amended by Chapter 37, Session Laws, 
 1913). Any unincorporated body, society, association 
 or organization within the State, not being seditious, 
 political, or revolutionary in character, and not or- 
 ganized for the purpose of carrying on, conducting or 
 operating any business or branch of business in this 
 State or elsewhere, or for the purpose of evading any 
 laws of this State now or hereafter in force, providing 
 for the formation, organization, control or regulation 
 of corporations, and not desiring to become a corpo- 
 rate body under the provisions of this chapter, may 
 acquire, take, hold, lease and convey, real, personal 
 and mixed property, not exceeding in value the sum 
 of twenty-five thousand dollars, for their use and bene- 
 fit, by purchase, grant, donation, gift, devise or other- 
 wise, in the name and by the number of said body, so- 
 ciety, association or organization, according to the re- 
 spective registers of the grand body, department or 
 jurisdiction under which the same be holden, if there 
 be any, or if there be no such grand body, department 
 or jurisdiction, then by and in' the name by which such 
 body, society, organization or association may be 
 known and designated ; and the presiding officer of the 
 same, together with the clerk thereof, may make leases 
 or conveyances of real, personal or mixed property 
 thereto belonging, when so authorized to do by a ma- 
 jority of the members present, and constituting a quo- 
 rum of the said body, society, association or organiza- 
 tion, at any regular meeting thereof, under such rules 
 and regulations as such body, society, association or 
 organization, or its grand body, department or juris- 
 diction, if there be any, may make or ordain, and all 
 such leases and conveyances shall state that such body, 
 society, association or organization is of the kind and 
 character permitted to acquire, take, hold, lease and 
 convey property under the provisions of this section, 
 and shall be attested by the seal thereof, if it have a 
 seal. 
 
 Sec. 4193. If it shall become necessary at any time g°^g|f*|„4 ^e- 
 to protect the rights of any body, society, association fended ty snch 
 or organization, as defined in the last preceding sec- 
 tion, of, in or to any of the real, personal and mixed 
 
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 estate and property thereof, the presiding officer there- 
 of may bring suit in his own name for the benefit of 
 the body, society, association or organization, over 
 which he presides, in any court of competent jurisdic- 
 tion in this State, and he may appear and prosecute 
 the same in any court of original and appellate juris- 
 diction in this State. Any such body, society, associa- 
 tion or organization, as defined in the last preceding 
 section and in this section, may sue and be sued in the 
 name by which it is generally known and designated, 
 and by its name and number, if it have any, in any 
 court of competent jurisdiction in this State. 
 
 For the provisions in regard to Trade Marks, in 
 accordance with which union labels may be registered, 
 see Sections 3439-3445, Compiled Statutes. 
 
 Contiacts for La- 
 bor — Terms Lim- 
 ited. 
 
 Eecovery by 
 Alien. 
 
 ALIENS. 
 
 Sec. 3428. No contract made for labor or services 
 with any alien or foreigner previous to the time that 
 such alien or foreigner may come into the State shall 
 be enforced within this State for any period after six 
 months from the date of such contract. 
 
 Sec. 3429. Any alien or foreigner who shall here- 
 after perform labor or services for any person or per- 
 sons, company or corporation within this State, shall 
 be entitled to recover from such person or persons, 
 company or corporation, a reasonable compensation for 
 such labor or services, notwithstanding such person or 
 persons, company or corporation may have paid any 
 other party or parties for the same ; and in actions for 
 the price of such labor or services, no defense shall be 
 admitted to the effect that the defendant or defendants 
 had contracted with other parties who had, or pre- 
 tended to have, power or authority to hire out the labor 
 or services of such party or parties, or to receive the 
 pay or price for such labor or services. 
 
 Eeceiving Money ggg, 4976. Any person, whether he or she acts for 
 
 for Labor of Allen ,.,«,,« , 
 
 trnder Contract, himselt or herselt, or as agent, attorney or employee 
 for another or others, who shall, in pursuance of, or 
 by virtue of, any contract made with any alien or for- 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 93 
 
 eigner, made before such alien or foreigner came into 
 this State, receive or offer to receive any money, pay 
 or remuneration for the labor or services of any alien 
 or foreigner, excepting the person so performing such 
 labor or services, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a 
 sum not less than five hundred dollars, and not more 
 than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the coun- 
 ty jail for not less than three nor more than twelve 
 months, for each and every offense. 
 
 For constitutional provisions in regard to aliens, 
 see Article I, Section 29, page 5, and Article XIX, 
 Section 1 (Labor on Public Works), page 6 of this 
 pamphlet. 
 
 Sec. 2214. 8. No person shall attempt to influence 
 the vote of any elector by means of * * * threats 
 of * * * discharging from employment, * * * influence" ¥©"6. 
 
 [22. Penalty. Pine or imprisonment, or both.] 
 
 Sec. 3431. Any company, corporation or individual, pio^y^e^^M^CMidi- 
 who shall discharge or cause to leave his or her or their dacy. 
 employ, temporarily or permanently, any person or 
 persons because they have been nominated as a candi- 
 date for any position of honor, trust or emolument, to 
 be voted for at any election held in pursuance of the 
 laws of this State ; or any person, agent or officer of 
 any company or corporation who shall cause or attempt 
 to cause any person or persons nominated as candidates 
 at any election, to withdraw or refrain from accepting 
 such nomination by threatening loss of employment, 
 business or patronage, if they accept such candidacy, 
 or shall make it a condition of employment, business 
 or patronage, that such candidacy shall not be accepted, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not 
 less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 21 (Chapter 23, S. L., 1911). Any person en- ^Xng''"'"'"' """ 
 titled to vote at such primary election shall, on the 
 day of such election, be entitled to absent himself from 
 any service or employment in which he is then engaged 
 or employed for a period of one hour, other than meal 
 hours, between the time of opening and closing the 
 
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 polls; and such primary elector shall not, because of 
 so absenting himself be liable to any penalty, nor shall 
 any deduction be made on account of such absence 
 from his usual salary or wages. 
 
 POLL TAXES. 
 School. 
 Employers ' gec. 5 (Chapter 33, Session Laws, 1915). Every 
 
 person, corporation or association employing one or 
 more persons subject to poll taxes are liable for any 
 and all poll taxes that may be due from such em- 
 ployees, and may deduct the amounts paid out for such 
 poll taxes from any sum due to the extent of any 
 moneys due to such employees at the time when served 
 with notice by the assessor, as provided in Section 4 
 of this act, or that may afterwards become due, for 
 such employees, whether the wages are payable directly 
 to the employees or other persons who furnish such 
 employees under contract. The assessor may require 
 the person or his agent or any officer or agent or man- 
 ager of any association to make a verified statement 
 showing the number and giving the names of the em- 
 ployees of such person, association or corporation. The 
 person, association or corporation refusing to make 
 such verified statement shall forfeit the sum of one 
 hundred dollars which may be recovered in an action 
 brought in the name of the county. 
 
 Road. 
 
 S™h' Us" of "ehi- Sec. 2558. Any person having in his employment 
 pioyees— Penalty, any other person liable for the special road tax of two 
 dollars mentioned in this chapter, must, at the request 
 of the road supervisor, give to him a complete list of 
 all persons so employed; and if any person neglects, 
 or refuses to furnish said list for thirty days after de- 
 mand, made as above provided, shall forfeit to the 
 county the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered by an 
 action brought in the name of the road supervisor in 
 any justice court having jurisdiction thereof, and the 
 further sum of fifty dollars for each refusal or neglect 
 to furnish said list as aforesaid, to be collected as in 
 this chapter provided, said forfeitures to go to the road 
 fund of the county, and if any person required to pay 
 the special road tax mentioned in this chapter does not 
 pay the same, and has no property subject to taxation, 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 and the person owning the same is in the employment 
 of any other person, the road supervisor must deliver 
 to the employer a written notice, stating the amount 
 of tax owing by such employee, and from the time of 
 receiving said notice, the employer is liable to pay said 
 tax, and the tax so paid. may be deducted by such em- 
 ployer from the amount then due or to become due to 
 such employee. 
 
 LICENSES. 
 
 Sec. 1681. They (i. e., cities of the first class) shall Licenses, 
 have power * * * to regulate, license and tax ped- 
 dlers, plumbers, bill-posters, itinerant doctors, itinerant 
 physicians and surgeons, junk and second-hand dealers, 
 scavengers, pawnbrokers and' persons receiving actual 
 possession of personal property as security for loans ; 
 to prohibit pawnbrokers and junk or second-hand deal- 
 ers purchasing or receiving from minors any property, 
 and provide for the examination of premises of such 
 persons for the purpose of discovering stolen property ; 
 to license and regulate employment offices and intelli- 
 gence offices ; to raise revenue by levying and collect- 
 ing a license tax on any business, or calling, or any 
 corporation, and regulate the same by ordinance ; * * * 
 
 Sec; 1796. For the purpose of raising revenue, any oocipat'o" t»^' 
 city or town incorporated under special or general laws 
 of the State of Wyoming, is hereby authorized to levy 
 and collect a license tax on any business whatsoever 
 conducted, carried on, or trafficked in within the limits 
 of such city or town and the city or town council is 
 hereby authorized to enact an ordinance carrying into 
 effect the provisions of this section. All such license 
 tax shall be uniform in respect to the class of business 
 upon which imposed ; Provided, That all scientific and 
 literary lectures and entertainments shall be exempt 
 from such license tax, as well as concerts and musical 
 entertainment given exclusively by the citizens of such 
 municipality. 
 
 For miscellaneous county licenses, see Chapter 187, 
 Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1910, and Chapter 21, 
 Session Laws, 1911.. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 For transient merchant's license, see Chapter 68, 
 Session Laws, 1915, and Section 1617, Compiled Stat- 
 utes. 
 
 For beef peddler 's license, see Chapter 103, Session 
 Laws, 1915. 
 
 Sanitary Condi- 
 tion of Buildings 
 
 Toilet Booms. 
 
 INSPECTION AND REGULATION OF FACTORIES, 
 
 ETC., WHERE FOOD PRODUCTS ARE MADE, 
 
 SOLD, OR STORED. 
 
 (Chapter 108, Session Laws, 1913.) 
 Section 1. Every building, room, basement, cellar, 
 occupied or used as a bakery, cannery, confectionery, 
 creamery, cheese factory, packing house, slaughter 
 house, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat market or other 
 place or apartment used for the preparation for sale, 
 manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of 
 any food shall be properly lighted, plumbed and ven- 
 tilated, and conducted with strict regard to the influ- 
 ence of such condition upon the health of the opera- 
 tives, employees, clerks or other persons therein em- 
 ployed, and the purity and wholesomeness of the food 
 therein produced; and for the purpose -of this act the 
 term "Food" as used herein shall include all articles 
 used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment, 
 whether simple, mixed or compound, and all substances 
 or ingredients used in the preparation thereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. Every building, room, basement or cellar 
 occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, 
 packing, canning, sale or distribution of food, shall 
 have convenient toilet or toilet rooms, separate and 
 apart from the room or rooms where the process of 
 production, manufacture, packing, canning, selling or 
 distributing is conducted. The floors of such toilet 
 rooms shall be of cement, tile, wood, brick or other non- 
 absorbent material and shall be furnished with sepa- 
 rate ventilating flues or pipes, discharging into soil 
 pipes, or on outside of the building in which they are 
 situated. Lavatories and wash-rooms shall be adjacent 
 to toilet rooms, and shall lie supplied with soap, run- 
 ning water and towels, and shall lie maintained in a 
 sanitary condition. Operatives, employees, clerks and 
 all other persons who handle material from which food 
 is prepared, or the finished product, before beginning 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 97 
 
 work or after visiting toilet or toilets shall wash their 
 hands and arms thoroughly with soap and clean water. 
 
 Sec. 7. The aprons, smocks, or other outer cloth- ciotwng. 
 ing worn by employees who handle meat or meat food 
 products shall he of a material that is readily cleansed 
 and made sanitary, and only clean garments shall .be 
 worn. Persons who handle meat or meat products shall 
 have to keep their hands clean, and that they shall be 
 required also to pay particular attention to the cleanli- 
 ness of their boots and shoes. 
 
 Sec. 8. Cuspidors for the use of operatives, em- cuspidors, 
 ployees, clerks or other persons, shall be provided 
 whenever necessary and each cuspidor shall be thor- 
 oughly emptied and washed out daily with disinfectant 
 solution and five ounces of such solution shall be left 
 in each cuspidor while it is in use. No operatives, em- 
 ployee, or other person shall expectorate on the floor 
 or side 'w^alls of any building, room, basement or cellar 
 where the production, manufacture, packing or stor- 
 ing, preparation or sale of any food is conducted. 
 
 Sec. 9. No person or persons shall be allowed to |oo^^s"|rlMM"(L 
 live or sleep in any room of a bakeshop, kitchen, and 
 meat market, dining room, confectionery or place 
 where food is prepared, served or sold. 
 
 Sec. 10. No employer shall require, permit or suf- D'^^a^^i ^^^^°^^- 
 fer any person to work, nor shall any person work, in 
 a building, room, basement, cellar or vehicle occupied 
 or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, 
 packing, storage, sale, distribution and transportation 
 of food who is affected . with any venereal disease, 
 smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, tuber- 
 culosis, or consumption, bubonic plague, Asiatic chol- 
 era, leprosy, trachoma, typhoid fever (epidemic), epi- 
 demic dysentery, measles, mumps, German measles 
 (Rothein), whooping cough, chicken pox or any other 
 infectious or contagious disease. Any person convicted 
 of the violation of the provisions of this section shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more 
 than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in coun- 
 ty jail of not less than ninety days nor more than one 
 year or both. 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Inspection — 
 Prosecution. 
 
 Violations 
 
 Sec. 22. The State Dairy, Pood and Oil Commis- 
 sioner and his assistants or agents by him appointed, 
 shall have full power at all reasonable times to enter 
 and inspect every building, room, basement or cellar 
 occupied or used for the production for sale, manufac- 
 ture for sale, storage, sale, distribution or transporta- 
 tion of food and all utensils, fixtures, furniture and 
 machinery used as aforesaid, and if upon inspection 
 any food producing or distributing establishment, con- 
 veyance, employer, operative, employee, clerk, driver, 
 or other person is found to be violating any of the pro- 
 visions of this act, or if the production, preparation, 
 manufacture, packing, storing, sale, distribution or 
 transportation of food is being conducted in a manner 
 detrimental to the health of the employees and opera- 
 tives and the character or quality of the food therein 
 being j^roduced, manufactured, packed, stored, sold, 
 distributed or conveyed, the officer or inspector making 
 the examination or inspection shall furnish evidence of 
 said violation to the county attorney of the county in 
 which the violation occurs, and it shall be the duty of 
 all prosecuting attornej's to represent and prosecute in 
 behalf of the people, when called upon by the Dairy, 
 Food and Oil Commissioner to do so, all such cases of 
 "ffpnse arising under the provisions of this act. 
 
 Sec. 23. Any person who violates any of the pro- 
 visions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and on conviction shall be punished for the first offense 
 ))y a fine of not less than ten ($10) dollars, nor more 
 than fifty ($50) dollars; and upon conviction for each 
 subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty dol- 
 lars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), 
 or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty 
 (30) days, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 ARBITRATION. 
 
 Provisions for submitting to arbitration any con- 
 troversy, except in regard to the possession or title of 
 real estate, are contained in Sections 4928-4940, appli- 
 cable to matters in courts of record, and in Sections 
 5:373-5376, Compiled Statutes, applicable to civil eases 
 pending before a justice of the peace. 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 99 
 
 PUBLIC PRINTING. 
 
 Provisions recjuiring certain public printing to be 
 done within the State are found in Section 55, as 
 amended by Chapter 97, Session Laws, 1911, relating 
 to legislative printing, and in Section 902, relating to 
 the reports of the Supreme Court. 
 
 CONVICT LABOR. 
 
 The reformatory and penal institutions established 
 and supported by the State are under the general su- 
 pervision and control of the State Board of Charities 
 and Reform, consisting of the governor, the secretary 
 of state, the state treasurer, the state auditor, and the 
 state superintendent of public instruction. (Sections 
 436 and 437.) 
 
 Sec. 441. It shall be the duty of the board, either by Duties as to care 
 direct expenditure or contract, to provide for the care, " """^ ^' 
 maintenance and employment of all inmates confined, or 
 thatmay hereafter be confinedin the penitentiary, reform 
 school, or any penal or reformatory institution in this 
 State, or without this State, used for such purposes, 
 but the board may, by direct expenditure, provide for 
 the care and maintenance of all inmates confined in the 
 insane asylum, deaf, dumb and blind institute, poor 
 farm or charitable institute of this state; Provided, 
 That no convict shall be used or contracted to be used 
 in any coal mine, or occupation, when the products of 
 his labor may be in competition with that of any citi- 
 zen of the State; Provided, however, that when the 
 cost of maintaining said convicts can be reduced to 
 the State by their employment in some occupation, not 
 unreasonably laborious or unhealthy, or when said con- 
 victs can be employed to complete or repair the place 
 or surroundings of the place in which they are con- 
 fined, they shall be so employed. 
 
 Sec. 6398. Any person confined in any county jail ^^^"^^ pSt "to*^ 
 in this State may be compelled to work in any way work, 
 that the county commissioners may direct, for the 
 benefit of the county. 
 
 Sec. 6399. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of each sv^p^rfntendence 
 and every county, under the direction of the chairman whUe at work, 
 of the board of county commissioners, and he may do 
 
100 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 SO of his own will when he deems it necessary, hy him- 
 self or deputy, to employ each and every, prisoner un- 
 der his charge and under sentence, who is able to work, 
 to do such work as the chairman of the board shall 
 direct, and to keep such prisoner at such work during 
 the working hours of every week day, unless said sher- 
 iff and his deputy shall be necessarily engaged in other 
 employment in the service of the county, in which case, 
 if there are more than three prisoners to be employed, 
 it shall be lawful for such chairman to employ a com- 
 petent guard to superintend and watch such prisoners, 
 at a charge not exceeding two dollars per day, to be 
 paid out of the county treasury upon a warrant duly 
 drawn by order of the board of county commissioners. 
 But nothing in this and the last preceding section con- 
 tained shall be construed as allowing any extra com- 
 pensation, fee or reward to such sheriff or his deputy 
 for such services as are required of him by said section. 
 
 Hiring of Convict ggc. 6400. The person or persons in charge of any 
 
 Labor Projubited. ^ .'^ . "^ 
 
 penitentiary or reformatory, ]ail or other prison m the 
 State of Wyoming, wherein state convicts are confined, 
 shall not, nor shall any authority whatsoever, make any 
 contract for the employment of any State convict in 
 any of the prisons, penitentiaries or reformatories in 
 this State, either by the letting of the labor of such 
 convicts at a fixed price per diem, or by what is known 
 as the "piece-price plan" or in any other manner, 
 whereby the labor of such convicts is let to or eon- 
 trolled by any outside person or persons; and such 
 convicts shall not be employed by any authority what- 
 ever upon any public work or contract outside of the 
 prison, penitentiary or reformatory in which such con- 
 victs may be confined. 
 
 Note. — See Chapters 44 and 61, Session Laws, 1911, 
 pages 101 and 106 of this pamphlet. 
 
 Sec. 6401. No person or persons confined in any. 
 county jail, or in any jail or prison in any city, town, 
 village or municipality, charged with any offense and 
 awaiting the action of the grand jury, or any person 
 who is charged with any offense and is awaiting trial 
 therefor, shall be employed or put to work upon any 
 public work or improvement, or upon the highways, 
 streets, alleys, parks or public places of any county, 
 city, town or village or municipality; Provided, That 
 
 Employment of 
 Jail Prisoners — 
 When Permitted, 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 101 
 
 all persons convicted by a court of competent jurisdic- 
 tion, and sentenced to confinement at hard labor in 
 any jail or prison of any county, city, town, village or 
 municipality, may be employed or put to work upon 
 any public work of improvement, or upon the high- 
 ways, streets, alleys, parks or any public places of any 
 such county, city, town, village or municipality, in the 
 State. 
 
 See also Section 1768, working prisoners, in cities 
 of the first class ; Section 6036, working out fines. 
 
 (Chapter 61, Session Laws, 1911.) 
 Section 1. All prisoners sentenced to the state pen- state-use 
 itentiary shall be employed for the State, or in any ^'"Pioy'"''"*- 
 productive industry for the benefit of the State, or for 
 the use of public institutions owned and controlled by 
 the State, under the rules for the distribution and di- 
 versification thereof, to be established by the commis- 
 sion hereinafter designated to be provided for such 
 purposes. 
 
 Sec. 2. The State Board of Charities and Reform ?.'**^„''?S?'^- 
 
 . sion on Fnson 
 
 and the warden of the State Penitentiary of the State Labor, 
 of Wyoming are hereby constituted a commission which 
 shall be known as the State Commission on Prison La- 
 bor, with full power and authority to carry into effect, 
 to its fullest extent, the provisions of this act. The 
 office of warden of the State Penitentiary is hereby 
 created. Said office to be filled by appointment by the 
 Board of Charities and Reform. The warden to be sub- _ . 
 ject to removal by the board. The warden shall re- 
 ceive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, pay- 
 able in equal monthly installments, upon vouchers ap- 
 proved by the Board of Charities and Reform sub- 
 mitted to the State auditor in the same manner as other 
 accounts against the State are paid. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said commission shall have the power Powers of com- 
 
 , . • j_i mission. 
 
 to make and adopt rules and regulations governing the 
 employment, conduct and management of the prisoners 
 in the State penitentiary when employed on the work 
 provided for them by the said commission. It shall 
 direct that each convict shall be employed at such work 
 as shall make it possible for him to acquire trade 
 knowledge and skill in the industry for which he is 
 most adapted; and at which he can best earn a liveli- 
 hood when paroled or discharged from the institution 
 
102 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WY0MIN(3 
 
 Manufacture Ar- 
 ticles for State 
 Institutions. 
 
 Officials Sball 
 Heport. 
 
 Commission Sball 
 Fix Prices. 
 
 SO far as such provision can be made practicable by said 
 commission, using its best judgment therein. The su- 
 pervision of all such vi'ork shall be under such persons 
 as may be selected by said commission. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said Commission on Prison Labor are 
 herel)y airthorized and directed as far as possible to 
 cause to be manufactured by the convicts in the State' 
 penitentiary such articles, including wearing apparel, 
 as are needed and used therein and also such articles 
 as are required by the State, including materials to be 
 used in the erection of buildings; all such articles man- 
 ufactured in the State penitentiary and not required 
 for use therein, may be fvmiished to the State, or for, 
 or to any public institution owned or managed and 
 controlled by the State, at and for such price as. shall 
 he fixed and determined as herein provided upon 
 requisition of the proper officials, trustees and man- 
 agers thereof. No article so manufactured shall be 
 purchased from any other source for the State or the 
 public institutions of the State, unless said State Com- 
 mission on Prison Labor shall certify that the same can 
 not be furnished upon such requisition; provided, how- 
 ever, that articles so manufactured and furnished ' for 
 the erection or use of buildings and institutions can 
 be laid down where needed at the same or less cost 
 than said articles may be purchased elsewhere, and no 
 claim therefor shall be audited or paid without suC'h 
 certificate. Provided, however, that all such materials 
 furnished for the erection of buildings shall hot be in 
 competition with established local industries. 
 
 Sec. 5. On or before October first in each year, the 
 proper officials of the penal or charitable institutions 
 of the State, shall report to the State Commission on 
 Prison Labor estimates for the ensuing year of the 
 amount of supplies of different kinds required to be 
 purchased by them, that can be furnished by the labor 
 of the convicts in the State penitentiary. The said 
 commission is authorized to make regulations for said 
 reports, to provide for the manner in which requisi- 
 tions shall be made for supplies and to provide for the 
 proper diversification of the industries in said peni- 
 tentiary. 
 
 Sec. 6. The said State Commission ou Prison La- 
 bor shall fix and determine the price at which all labor 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 103 
 
 performed and all articles manufactured and furnished 
 to the State or to the public institutions thereof, shall 
 be furnished, which price shall be uniform to all. The 
 price shall be as near the usual market price for such 
 labor and supplies as is possible. The said commission 
 shall devise and furnish to all institutions of the State, 
 a proper form for such requisitions, and shall devise 
 and furnish a proper system of accounts to be kept for 
 &\\ such transactions. It shall also be the duty of said 
 commission to classify the buildings, offices or institu- 
 tions owned or managed or controlled by the State, 
 and it shall fix and determine the styles, patterns, de- 
 signs and qualities of the articles to be manufactured 
 for such buildings, offices and public institutions, in- 
 cluding articles and materials to be used in the erec- 
 tion or repairing of the penal institutions in the State. 
 So far as practicable, all supplies used in such build- 
 ings, offices and public institutions shall be uniform for 
 each class, and of the styles, patterns, designs and 
 qualities that can be manufactured in said peniten- 
 tiary. 
 
 Sec. 7. Every prisoner confined in the State peni- Prisoners May 
 tentiary, who shall be entitled to diminution of his penlatfon^"™" 
 term of sentence by good conduct, may in the discre- 
 tion of said commission, receive compensation from the 
 earnings, under the provisions of this act, of the peni- 
 tentiary -in which he is confined, such compensation to 
 be graded by said commission for the prisoners therein, 
 for the time such prisoners may work, but in no case 
 shall the compensation allowed to such convicts or 
 prisoners exceed in amount ten per centum of the earn- 
 ings of the State penitentiary in which they are con- 
 fined. The difference in the rate of compensation shall 
 be based on the pecuniary value of the work per- 
 fo;pmed, and also upon the willingness, industry and 
 good conduct of such prisoner; provided, that when- 
 ever any prisoner shall forfeit his good time for mis- 
 conduct or violation of the rules and regulations of the 
 penitentiary, he shall forfeit out of the compensation 
 allowed by this section, not more than fifty cents for 
 each day of such time so forfeited ; and, provided, that 
 prisoners serving life sentence shall be entitled to the 
 benefit of this section, when their conduct is such as 
 would entitle other prisoners to a diminution of sen- 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Fines Go to Dis- 
 charged and Pa- 
 roled Frisoneis, 
 
 tence, subject to forfeiture of good time for misconduct 
 as herein provided. 
 
 The said commission may institute and maintain a 
 uniform system of fines to be imposed at their discre- 
 tion, in place of other penalties and punishments, to be 
 deducted from such compensation standing to the credit 
 of any prisoner for the misconduct of such prisoner. 
 
 Sec. 8. All moneys received for fines under this 
 act shall be credited to a general fund, to be disbursed 
 by the direction of the commission, as a special aid to 
 discharged and paroled prisoners, who are infirm or 
 in any way incapable of earning a sufficient subsistence 
 after their release. 
 
 sul?iu"'°" °' Sec. 9. The amount of such surplus standing on the 
 
 books of the penitentiary to the credit of any prisoner, 
 may be drawn by the prisoner during his imprison- 
 ment only upon the certified approval of said commis- 
 sion, for the purpose of aiding dependent relations of 
 such prisoner, or may, with the approval of said com- 
 mission, be so disbursed without the consent of 
 such prisoner, but no portion thereof shall 
 be disbursed for any indulgences, for food, 
 clothing or ornament beyond the common condition of 
 others of his class in the penitetniary at the time ; and 
 any balance to the credit of any prisoner at the time 
 of his release as provided by law, shall be subject to 
 the draft of the prisoner in such sums 'and at such 
 times as the commission may approve; provided, how- 
 ever, that upon the final discharge of such prisoner, 
 the whole amount or credit balance to him, as afore- 
 said, shall be subject to his draft at his pleasure ; and 
 provided, further, in case any prisoner shall be condi- 
 tionally released from said penitentiary, in any manner 
 that .may be now or hereafter provided by law, shall 
 violate the conditions of his release, when such vio- 
 lation is formally declared by said commission, shall 
 thereby forfeit any credit balance, and the amount 
 thereof shall be transferred to the fund for the aid of 
 discharged prisoners as hereinbefore provided for, for 
 fines, excepting such portion thereof as may be ap- 
 plied by said commission to pay the expenses of his re- 
 capture. Provided, further, that each and every pris- 
 oner upon his or her final departure from the peniten- 
 tiary shall receive one suit of clothes and the sum of 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING lOS 
 
 thirty -five ($35.00) dollars in money; provided, how- 
 ever, that said payment of thirty-five ($35.00) dollars 
 shall not apply, to prisoners sentenced for a term not 
 exceeding six months. 
 
 Sec. 10. The warden of the State Penitentiary shall, Eep'ort°Monai 
 on the first of each month, make a full detailed state- 
 ment of all materials, machinery or other property 
 procured, and the cost thereof, and of the expenditures 
 made during the last preceding month for manufac- 
 turing purposes, together with a statement of all ma- 
 terials then on hand to be manufactured, or in the 
 process of manufacturing, or manufactured, and all 
 machinery, fixtures, or other appurtenances for the pur- 
 pose of carrying on the labor of the prisoners, and of 
 the kinds of work done and the total amount of moneys 
 coming into his hands, as such warden, during such last 
 preceding month, as the proceeds of the labor of the 
 prisoners in the penitentiary, which statement shall 
 be verified by the oath of such warden to be just and 
 true, and shall file the same with said commission. He 
 shall at said time pay into the State treasury all sums 
 . of money so raised by him to be credited to the gen- 
 eral fund. 
 
 Sec. 11. The said warden of the State Penitentiary MoutMy Esti- 
 shalLalso, on the first day of each month, make an esti- 
 mate, in detailed statement, of materials, machinery, 
 fixtures, tools, or other appurtenances, and the cost 
 thereof, which will, in his judgment, be necessary for 
 carrying on the labor of the prison for the next ensu- 
 ing month, which estimate shall be forwarded to the 
 said State Commission on Prison Labor, which com- 
 mission may approve, alter, revise or reject the same. 
 
 Sec. 12. The said commission is hereby authoi-ized, shaii Advertise 
 within the appropriations which may be placed at its ^°^ supplies, 
 disposal by the State, to procure, or cause to be pro- 
 cured and maintained, all the necessary machinery, 
 tools or appurtenances needful for the purpose of car- 
 rying on and conducting the work, authorized by this 
 act, of the prisoners in the penitentiary. 
 
 All purchases and contracts for materials to be used 
 in the manufacture of articles in said penitentiary, 
 shall be made by advertising for sealed proposals, ex- 
 cepting when, in the judgment of said commission, it 
 
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 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 is for the best interest of the State to purchase the 
 same in open market. Whenever proposals for furnish- 
 ing materials shall be solicited, the parties responding 
 to such solicitations shall be duly notified of the time 
 and place of opening bids, and may be present, either 
 in person or by an agent or agents, and a record of each 
 bid shall then and there be made. The said commis- 
 sion shall advertise for such proposals or bids daily for 
 at least one week in some nevpspaper of general circula- 
 tion published in the State of Wyoming, specifying 
 the class and (|uality of material required, and shall 
 furnish bidders, on demand, with printed schedules 
 giving a full description of all materials required, with 
 date and place of delivery and all other necessary in- 
 formation. The person offering to furnish such mate- 
 rials, upon the terms most advantageous to the State,, 
 and who will give satisfactory security for the per- 
 formance thereof (in case immediate delivery is not 
 required), shall receive the contract to furnish the said 
 materials, unless such commission shall deem it to the 
 best interests of the State to decline all proposals and 
 advertise anew. 
 
 Work on Public Highways. 
 
 Under Super- 
 vision of state 
 Commission. 
 
 Convicts Em- 
 ployed. 
 
 Supervisors. 
 
 (Chapter 44, Session Laws, 1911.) 
 Sec. 2. The construction, repair and maintenance 
 of said public highways shall be done under the au- 
 thority and control of the said State Commission on 
 Prison Labor, subject to the provision of Section 6 of 
 this act, who are hereby authorized and required to 
 construct said highways by the labor of the convicts 
 in the State penitentiary, as well as also in like man- 
 ner to construct such extensions of said highways and 
 such other roads leading to said highways as may from 
 time to time be provided by law. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said commission is hereby authorized 
 and required to use and employ all such convicts in the 
 State penitentiary as it may deem practicable in the 
 construction of said highways. 
 
 Sec. 4. The supervision of all such work shall be 
 under such competent persons as may be selected by 
 the said commission; provided, that no supervisor 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 107 
 
 thereof shall cause or permit any prisoner under his 
 direction or control to be employed for more than eight 
 hours of any day. 
 
 Sec. 5. The said commission shall have power and mission. "' *^°™' 
 they are hereby authorized to adopt rules and regula- 
 tions providing for the granting of privileges to pris- 
 oners employed upon the highways above mentioned, 
 which shall especially refer to the granting of an ad- 
 ditional ' ' good time ' ' allowance in the case of prisoners 
 serving short sentences, and better food for prisoners 
 serving life sentences, such privileges to be conditioned 
 upon the good behavior and eificient work of such 
 prisoners upon said highways. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Boards of County Commissioners of ^""^ses. 
 the several counties of the State -of Wyoming, through 
 which said public highways pass, are hereby author- 
 ized and required to secure the right of way of such 
 highway or highways, wherever necessary, and to con- 
 struct the necessary bridges over any and all rivers 
 over which said highway or highways pass in said 
 county; provided, that all bridges over said rivers shall 
 be made in accordance with the plans of said State en- 
 gineer; and provided, further, that so far as practi- 
 cable, bridges across small streams shall be constructed 
 by said convict labor. Any material necessary to be 
 purchased for said bridges shall be paid for by the re- 
 spective counties in which the same are located. 
 
 The Wyoming Industrial Institute. 
 
 (Chapter 63, Session Laws, 1913.) 
 
 Sec. 9. The discipline to be observed in said Insti- Employment, 
 tute shall be reformatory, and the State Board of Char- 
 ities and Reform shall have power to use such means of 
 reformation consistent with the improvement of the 
 inmates, as they may deem expedient. Crimmals in 
 such Institute may be employed in agriculture, horti- 
 culture, or mechanical labor, as a means of their sup- 
 port and reformation, and the Board is hereby author- 
 ized in its expenditures to provide and install such 
 machinery and mechanical appliances as may be re- 
 quired for these purposes. 
 
INDEX 
 
 A 
 
 Sections Page 
 Accidents. (See also Workmen's Compensation Law) 
 
 In mines ; 3487 12 
 
 3519 21 
 
 3544 30 
 
 Actions, — For death 4291, 4292 49 
 
 Aliens 
 
 Compensation of non-resident 6(k) 56 
 
 Contracts for labor, limited 3428 92 
 
 On public work 1 6 
 
 Receiving money for 4976 92 
 
 Recovery for labor 3429 92 
 
 Rights of 29 5 
 
 Arbitration 1, 1 6, 7 
 
 Note 98 
 
 Assignments to evade exemptions 3424-3427 72, 73 
 
 Assignment of wages ._3432-3434 73 
 
 B 
 
 Sections Page 
 
 Bail, not excessive ^ 14 4 
 
 Board of Examiners for Mine Inspector 1—6 35, 36 
 
 c 
 
 Sections Page 
 Children 
 
 Employment of 1-6 47, 48 
 
 In mines 3 5 
 
 3107 46 
 
 3 47 
 
 Nine-hour day 4 48 
 
 Pensions for 1-5 43, 44 
 
 Protection of* 3101-3107 45, 46 
 
 References 49 
 
 Coal Mines 
 
 Accidents reported 3519 21 
 
 Appeals from inspector's decisions 3 520 22 
 
 Bore holes 3513 19 
 
no LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Boss. See Mining boss, below 
 
 Cable attaciied to cars 3531 26 
 
 Check numbers, changing 1, 2 37 
 
 Cross cuts, unused 3 530 26 
 
 Defective conditions 3518 20 
 
 Doors : 3513 19 
 
 Escape shafts 3506,3507 l5, 16 
 
 Examiners for inspector 1—6 35, 36 
 
 Examining board 3521,3523 23, 24 
 
 Fire damp 3508, 3510 16, 17 
 
 Guards for machinery , 3517 20 
 
 Hospital 504-508 37, 38 
 
 Injuries, action for 3526 25 
 
 Injuring apparatus 35l6 20 
 
 Inspectors. (See State Mine Inspectors.) 
 
 Inspections, special 3 525 24 
 
 Loaders 1, 6 33, 35 
 
 Maps 3505 14 
 
 Mining boss 3511,3512 18 
 
 Mining boss, inspections 3514 19 
 
 Mining boss, examination for 3 522 24 
 
 Mining boss, certificate 3524 24 
 
 Owner's reports 3542 30 
 
 Payday, semi-monthly 3549 31 
 
 Rules 35l5 19 
 
 Safety lamps 35l3 19 
 
 Scales : 4 33 
 
 Small mines excepted 3529 26 
 
 Sprinklings 3534 27 
 
 Stretchers 3527 25 
 
 Supplies employers may furnish ■ 3 5 52 32 
 
 Telephones 1, 2 36 
 
 Ventilation 3S08 16 
 
 Wages, action, set-off 3550, 3551 32 
 
 Weighing, fraudulent 5 35 
 
 Weighing, total output 1 32 
 
 Weighman' and check-weighman 2, 3 33 
 
 Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation Law. 
 
 Constitutional provisions 1-7 
 
 Contracts, releasing from liability, void 1 7 
 
 , 3430 49 
 
 4 51 
 
 Convict labor 99-107 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 111 
 
 D 
 
 Sections Page 
 
 Damages 4 5 
 
 3526 25 
 
 Contracts releasing, void 3430 49 
 
 For sale of intoxicants 283 7 41 
 
 (See also Worlcmen's Compensation Law.) 
 
 Day. Eight hour 1 6 
 
 3499-3504 7, 8 
 
 Defined 3502 8 
 
 Convicts on highways 4 io7 
 
 E 
 
 Sections Page 
 
 Employer's liability. See Workmen's Compensation Law. 
 
 Explosives. Storage of 2964-2972 8-10 
 
 Date of manufacture 2967 9 
 
 Inflammable materials 2969 9 
 
 Tamping bars 2970 9 
 
 Extrahazardous occupations 4 52 
 
 F 
 
 Sections Page 
 
 Factory inspection (sanitary) 1-23 96-98 
 
 Females. (See also Women.) 
 
 Hours of labor 1-3 40 
 
 In mines 3 5 
 
 3107 46 
 
 Seats for ; 58i5 4i 
 
 5 48 
 
 H 
 
 Sections Page 
 
 Holidays - 3581 39 
 
 Hospital, Miners' 504-508 37, 38 
 
 Hours of labor 
 
 Children 4 48 
 
 Convicts on highways 4 107 
 
 Females 1-3 40 
 
 Mines, smelters, etc 3499,3500 7 
 
 Public works 1. 2 38, 39 
 
 I 
 
 Sections Page 
 
 Incorporation of labor organizations 4187 90 
 
 Inspection of factories 1-23 96-98 
 
 Inspector of Mines. (See also State Mine Inspectors.) 
 
 State Geologist 3483-3490 10-14 
 
112 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Intoxicants 
 
 In mines, smelters, etc 5890 10 
 
 3491 14 
 
 Protection for married women 2837 41 
 
 Sale to cliildren 3104 46 
 
 Iron mines, — Liens for labor 3 794 81 
 
 L 
 
 Sections Page 
 
 Labor unions 4186-4193 89-92 
 
 Liability. (See also Damages, Workmen's Compensation Law.) 
 
 Railroad companies to employees 1—4 So, 5l 
 
 Licenses 1681 95 
 
 Liens 
 
 Irrigation works 3823-3825 87-89 
 
 Laborers' 3753 75 
 
 Mechanics' and builders' 3799-3818 82-87 
 
 Miners' 1-3798 76-81 
 
 Oil wells 3785, 3798 78, 81 
 
 Personal property 3753 75 
 
 Purchaser not affected 3769 76 
 
 Railroad construction Note 89 
 
 Timber 3767,3768 76 
 
 Appeals from inspector's decisions 3 520 22 
 
 M 
 
 Mechanics' liens 3799-3818 82-87 
 
 Mines and mining 
 
 Children 3 5 
 
 3107 46 
 
 3 47 
 Coal mines. (See Coal mines.) 
 
 Constitutional provisions 1—4 5 
 
 Day, eight hours 3499-3504 7, 8 
 
 Explosives, storage of 2964-2972 8-10 
 
 Females in mines 3 5 
 
 Inspector. (See State Inspector.) 
 
 Regulate explosives 2971 10 
 
 State geologist 3483 11 
 
 Intoxicants 5890 10 
 
 3491 14 
 
 Liens, miners' 1-3798 76-81 
 
 Metalliferous mines 3483—3492 10—14 
 
 Mothers' pensions 1_5 43 44 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 113 
 
 N 
 
 Negligence 
 
 Contributory 2 50 
 
 Of employers and employees 3430 49 
 
 J 51 
 
 Of employees ^ 2 51 
 
 o 
 
 Occupational tax 1796 95 
 
 Oil wells, — Labor liens 3798 81 
 
 Organizations, labor 4186-4193 89-92 
 
 P 
 
 Pensions for mothers and children l_5 43 44 
 
 Political rights 
 
 Attempt to influence vote 2214 93 
 
 Discharging for candidacy 3431 93 
 
 Time allowed for voting , 21 93 
 
 Poll taxes 
 
 Employers liable 5 94 
 
 Employers to furnish list 2558 94 
 
 Printing, public Note 99 
 
 Prison labor, state commission 2 101 
 
 R 
 
 Railroad companies 
 
 Garnishment, to secure wages 4787 73 
 
 Liability to employees ^ 1—4 50, 51 
 
 Lien for construction Note 89 
 
 s 
 
 Safety 
 
 Coal mines 3506-3508 l5-l7 
 
 3517 20 
 
 3531 26 
 
 Metalliferous mines 3485 11 
 
 Devices 24 68 
 
 Signals, metalliferous mines 3489, 3490 12-14 
 
 State Geologist, Inspector 3483-3490 10-14 
 
 State Mine Inspectors 
 
 Access to mines 3518 20 
 
 Accidents 3544 30 
 
 Appointment and qualifications 3536 27 
 
 4 35 
 
114 
 
 LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 
 
 Bonds 
 
 Deputies, special 
 
 Districts 
 
 Duties 
 
 Eligibles, list of 
 
 Enforcement of law _ 
 
 Records 
 
 Removal 
 
 Reports 
 
 Reports, posted at m' 
 
 Reports, annual 
 
 Reports, owners' 
 
 Salary 
 
 Violations by 
 
 Sunday closing 
 
 3538 
 
 28 
 
 3547 
 
 31 
 
 3537 
 
 28 
 
 3538 
 
 28 
 
 5, 6 
 
 36 
 
 3533 
 
 27 
 
 3539 
 
 29 
 
 3540 
 
 29 
 
 3538 
 
 28 
 
 3541 
 
 30 
 
 3544 
 
 30 
 
 ■3542 
 
 30 
 
 3536 
 
 27 
 
 3546 
 
 31 
 
 5980 
 
 40 
 
 w 
 
 Wages 
 
 Action for — (coal mines) 3550, 
 
 Assignment, — banks excepted 
 
 Assignment, — consent of wife- 
 
 Assignment, — employer's acceptance 
 
 Exemption from execution 
 
 Preferred claims, administration 
 
 Preferred claims, assignments 
 
 Railroad employees, garnishment 
 
 Workmen's Compensation Law 
 
 Accidents, employer's report ^ 
 
 Aliens, non-resident 
 
 Appropriation 
 
 Attorney General's duty 
 
 Building work : 
 
 Child, defined 
 
 Compensation schedule 
 
 Compulsory, this act 
 
 County assessors' duty .' 
 
 Court, District, jurisdiction 
 
 Court orders recorded 
 
 Court, Supreme, appeal to 
 
 Death, compensation 
 
 Definitions 
 
 Dependent families, defined 
 
 Dependent persons, employee's statement 
 
 3551 
 
 32 
 
 3434 
 
 73 
 
 3433 
 
 73 
 
 3432 
 
 73 
 
 4810 
 
 74 
 
 5595 
 
 75 
 
 3390 
 
 72 
 
 4787 
 
 73 
 
 1-34 
 
 51-57 
 
 11 
 
 57 
 
 6k 
 
 56 
 
 15 
 
 61 
 
 13 
 
 60 
 
 18 
 
 63 
 
 6(f) 
 
 55 
 
 6(k) 
 
 55 
 
 19 
 
 63-67 
 
 2, 3 
 
 51, 52 
 
 18 
 
 62 
 
 12 
 
 58 
 
 30 
 
 70 
 
 14 
 
 60 
 
 13 
 
 60 
 
 19(d) 
 
 66 
 
 6 
 
 53 
 
 6(h) 
 
 55 
 
 31 
 
 71 
 
LABOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF WYOMING 115 
 
 Disability, permanent partial _^ 
 
 Disability, permanent total 
 
 Disability, temporary total 
 
 Employees, number of 
 
 Employer, defined 
 
 Employer's assessment 
 
 Employer's assessment not refunded 
 
 Employer's report of accident 
 
 Employer's books examined 
 
 Engineering work, defined 
 
 Exemption from execution, etc 
 
 Existing contracts 
 
 Extrahazardous occupations 
 
 Factories defined : 
 
 False statements by employees 
 
 Fees for procuring compensation 
 
 Forfeiture of rights by injured 
 
 Forms for reports, etc ' 
 
 General provisions 
 
 Guardian- may act 
 
 Industrial accident fund 
 
 Injuries in extrahazardous work 
 
 Interstate commerce, excepted 
 
 Invalid 
 
 Liability governed by this act 
 
 Liability, other than employer's 
 
 Mill defined 
 
 Mine defined 
 
 Minor workman 
 
 Payroll report 
 
 Physicians, required to testify 
 
 Physicians, examination by 
 
 Public extrahazardous work 
 
 Quarry defined 
 
 Safety devices 
 
 State Treasurer, to supply forms 
 
 State Treasurer, to compile statistics 
 
 State Treasurer, may examine employer's books 
 
 Workman defined 
 
 Workshop defined 
 
 Women, Married. (See also Females.) 
 
 Carry on business 
 
 Pensions 
 
 Power to contract 
 
 Protection 
 
 Separate estate 
 
 19(a) 
 
 63 
 
 19(b) 
 
 65 
 
 19(c) 
 
 65 
 
 4 
 
 53 
 
 6(h) 
 
 55 
 
 16 
 
 61 
 
 32 
 
 71 
 
 11 
 
 57 
 
 29 
 
 70 
 
 6(g) 
 
 54 
 
 21 
 
 67 
 
 33 
 
 71 
 
 4 
 
 52 
 
 6(a) 
 
 53 
 
 27 
 
 69 
 
 25 
 
 69 
 
 20 
 
 67 
 
 10 
 
 57 
 
 2 
 
 51 
 
 7 
 
 56 
 
 15 
 
 61 
 
 6(1) (m) 
 
 56 
 
 5 
 
 53 
 
 6(n) 
 
 56 
 
 9 
 
 57 
 
 8 
 
 56 
 
 6(c) 
 
 54 
 
 6(d) 
 
 54 
 
 22 
 
 67 
 
 17 
 
 62 
 
 26 
 
 69 
 
 30 
 
 70 
 
 23 
 
 68 
 
 6(e) 
 
 54 
 
 24 
 
 68 
 
 10 
 
 57 
 
 28 
 
 69 
 
 29 
 
 70 
 
 6(i) 
 
 55 
 
 6(b) 
 
 53 
 
 3112 
 
 42 
 
 1-5 43, 
 
 44 
 
 3909 
 
 42 
 
 2837 
 
 41 
 
 3908 
 
 42 
 
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