made by a registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged with the duty of recording births.

(b) A baptismal certificate, or a duly attested transcript thereof, showing the age and date of baptism of the child.

(c) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates may accept in lieu thereof a passport or a duly attested immigration record, or transcript thereof, showing the age of the child, or other official or religious record of the child's age: provided, that it shall appear to the satisfaction of said person that the same is good and sufficient evidence of the child's age.

(d) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates may accept in lieu thereof a record of age as given on the register of the school which the child first attended in the commonwealth: provided, that such record was kept for at least two years during the time when such child attended school.

(e) In case none of the aforesaid proofs of age is obtainable, and only in such case, the person issuing employment certificates may receive the signed statement of the school physician, or of the physician appointed by the school committee, stating that, after examination, it is the opinion of such physician that the child is at least fourteen years of age. Such physician's statement shall be accompanied by a statement signed by the child's parent, guardian or custodian, or in case such child has no parent, guardian or custodian, the signed statement of the next adult friend. Such signed statement shall contain the name, date and place of birth and residence of the child, and shall certify that the parent, guardian, custodian or next friend signing the statement is unable to produce any of the proofs of age specified in this section. Such statement shall be signed in the presence of the person issuing employment certificates by the parent, guardian, custodian, or next friend. The person issuing employment certificates may, before issuing a certificate, require the parent, guardian, custodian, or next adult friend of the child to appear and approve in writing the issuance of said certificate.

Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 18.

Contents. - The employment certificate required by this act shall state the name, sex, date and place of birth and the place of residence of the child and describe the color of the hair and eyes and any distinguishing facial marks of the child. It shall certify that the child named in such certificate has personally appeared before the person issuing the certificate and has been examined and found to possess the educational qualifications enumerated in section one of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of this act, and that all the papers required by section fifty-eight have been duly examined, approved and filed and that all the conditions and requirements for issuing an employment certificate have been fulfilled. It shall state the grade last completed by said child. Every such certificate shall be signed in the presence of the person issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. It shall state the name of the employer for whom, and the nature of the employment in which, the certificate authorizes the child to be employed. It shall bear a number, show the date of its issue and shall be signed by the person issuing it. No fee shall be exacted for an employment certificate or for any of the papers required by this act. Duplicate employment certificates shall not be issued until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the person authorized to issue certificates that the original certificate has been lost. A record giving all the facts contained on every employment certificate issued shall be filed in the office issuing the same, together with the papers required by section fifty-eight as amended. A record shall also be kept of the names and addresses of all children to whom certificates have been refused, together with the names of the schools which said children should attend and the reasons for refusal. All the aforesaid records and papers shall be preserved until such children, if living, shall have become sixteen years of age. Such records and statistics concerning the issuance of employment certificates as may be prescribed by the board of education shall be kept and shall be open to the inspection of said board, its officers or agents. The blank certificates and other papers required in connection with the issuing of employment certificates and educational certificates under this act shall be designed by and furnished to the local school committees by the state board of labor and industries after conference with the board of education, and the approval of the forms thereof by the attorney-general. Said certificates and papers may bear such further and explanatory matter as may be needed to facilitate the enforcement of this act or to comply with future legislative requirements.

Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 15.

Employment Certificates. - No child between fourteen and sixteen years of age shall be employed or be permitted to work in, about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment unless the person, firm or corporation employing such child procures and keeps on file accessible to the attendance officers of the city or town, to agents of the board of education, and to the state board of labor and industries or its authorized agents or inspectors, the employment certificate as hereinafter provided issued to such child, and keeps a complete list of the names and ages of all such children employed therein conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the building in which such children are employed: provided, however, that children who are over fourteen but under sixteen years of age shall be permitted to work in mercantile establishments on Saturdays between the hours of seven in the morning and six in the evening, without such certificate. On termination of the employment of a child whose employment certificate is on file, said certificate shall be returned by the employer within two days after said termination to the office of the superintendent of schools from which it was issued.

Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 22.

Inspection of Employment Certificates. - Inspectors appointed by the state board of labor and industries, agents of the board of education and attendance officers may require that the employment or educational certificates and lists of children who are employed in factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishments shall be produced for their inspection. A failure to produce to any person authorized by this section who requests the same an employment or educational certificate or list required by law shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any person whose certificate is not produced or whose name is not so listed. A corporation or other employer, or any agent or officer thereof, who retains an employment or educational certificate in violation of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

Acts of 1914, Chapter 316.

Charging of Fees for Certificates prohibited. - It shall be unlawful for any city or town clerk or other official to charge any fee for a certificate relating to the age or place of birth of any minor or to any other fact sought to be established in relation to school attendance, but such certificates shall be issued, upon request, by any city or town clerk.

EMPLOYMENT.

Acts of 1909, Chapter 514, Section 56, amended by Acts of 1913, Chapter 779, Section 14, and by Acts of 1913, Chapter 831.

Minors under Fourteen. - SECTION 1. No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in or about or in connection with any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, barber shop, bootblack stand or establishment, public stable, garage, brick or lumber yard, telephone exchange, telegraph or messenger office or in the construction or repair of buildings, or in any contract or wage-earning industry carried on in tenement or other houses. No minor under fourteen years of age shall be employed at work performed for wage or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools are in session or shall be employed at work before half-past six o'clock in the morning or after six o'clock in the evening.

Minors under Sixteen. - SECTION 2. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in operating or assisting in operating any of the following machines: (1) circular or band saws, (2) wood shapers, (3) wood jointers, (4) planers, (5) picker machines or machines used in picking wool, cotton, hair or any other material, (6) paperlace machines, (7) leather burnishing machines, (8) job or cylinder printing presses operated by power other than foot power, (9) stamping machines used in sheet metal and tinware or in paper or leather manufacturing or in washer and nut factories, (10) metal or paper cutting machines, (11) corner staying machines in paper box factories, (12) corrugating rolls such as are used in corrugated paper or in roofing, or washboard factories, (13) steam boilers, (14) dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description, (15) wire or iron straightening or drawing machinery, (16) rolling mill machinery, (17) power punches or shears, (18) washing or grinding or mixing machinery, (19) calender rolls in paper and rubber manufacturing or other heavy rolls driven by power, (20) laundering machinery, (21) upon or in connection with any dangerous electrical machinery or appliances.

SECTION 3. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity in adjusting, or assisting in adjusting any hazardous belt to any machinery, or in oiling or cleaning hazardous machinery, or in proximity to any hazardous or unguarded belts, machinery or gearing while such machinery or gearing is in motion; nor on scaffolding; nor in heavy work in the building trades; nor in stripping, assorting, manufacturing or packing tobacco; nor in any tunnel; nor in a public bowling alley; nor in a pool or billiard room.

SECTION 4. The state board of labor and industries may from time to time, after a hearing or hearings duly held, determine whether or not any particular trade, process of manufacture or occupation in which the employment of minors under the age of sixteen years is not already forbidden by law, or any particular method of carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or occupation, is sufficiently dangerous or is sufficiently injurious to the health or morals of minors under sixteen years of age to justify their exclusion therefrom. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any trade, process or occupation thus determined to be dangerous or injurious to such minors.