warrants on the State treasury, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same from time to time as the said commission shall certify to the Comptroller to be necessary, and to such persons as they may designate, but not more than twenty-five thousand dollars shall be drawn from the State treasury in any one year for the purpose aforesaid.

8. This act shall take effect immediately. Passed June 18, 1907.

CHAPTER 255.

A Supplement to an act entitled "A supplement to 'An act to regulate the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and brewed liquors and to repeal an act entitled "An act to regulate the sale of intoxicating and brewed liquors," passed March seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight,' approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine," which supplement was approved April thirteenth, one thousand nine hundred and six.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

applicant.

I. It shall not be necessary hereafter for any applicant Residence of for a license to keep an inn or tavern or other house of public entertainment to be a resident of the city, town, township or other municipality in which such inn, tavern or other house of public entertainment exists, for at least one year excepting in counties of the first class.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Repealer. hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.

Passed June 18, 1907.

Section 47 amended.

Freight delivered elsewhere

than station.

Demurrage.

Proviso.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 256.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning railroads (Revision of 1903)," approved April fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Section forty-seven of the act mentioned in the title hereof be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

47. When any freight has been carried on the railroad and delivered by the company at any point specified by the consignor, other than a station of the company, the company shall not, after such delivery, be responsible for the safety and security thereof. Where the consignee of property transported by railroad to any point in this State cannot be found, or refuses to receive and pay charges and remove such property, the company may make and collect a reasonable charge not exceeding one dollar per day, for the detention of any railroad car containing such property, or for the use of the railroad track, occupied by such car or for both such detention and use; provided, no railroad company shall be entitled to impose, demand or collect any charge for delay in unloading goods from any railroad car, or for any detention of such car, commonly called demurrage or car service, until after the expiration of three whole days, at least, exclusive of Sundays, from the time such car has been placed in proper position for unloading, and has, except removal for convenience of railroad operation, not exceeding one working hour daily, so remained; and provided further, that notice is given to the consignee or owner or to the shipper in cases where the consignee or owner cannot be found on whom to serve such notice, and to add such charge to the charge for the transportation of such property.

freight.

Such company shall have a lien upon such property, or Lien on so much thereof as has not been taken, for the charges. for such detention and use; provided, that in all cases Proviso. where a claim made by any railroad company for detention of any car, or for demurrage, or car service charges is disputed, the consignee or owner or the agent of either shall, on the giving to said railroad company of a bond Bond given. with sufficient surety, in double the amount of such disputed charge (in no case, however, to be less than fifty dollars), conditioned for the payment of such sum as shall be found to be due, by agreement of the parties, or by judgment of any court in any suit for the same, with costs, be entitled to delivery of the goods transported in the car for the detention of which such demurrage charge is claimed free from any lien or claim for such charge; and, by memorandum of agreement signed by both principal and surety, any such bond may be extended or continued to cover other disputed demurrage charges claimed thereafter.

Approved June 26, 1907.

CHAPTER 257.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act regulating the age, employment, safety, health and work hours of persons, employes and operatives in factories, workshops, mills and all places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on, and to establish a department for the enforcement thereof," approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and four.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

amended.

1. Section forty-five of an act entitled "An act regu- Section 45 lating the age, employment, safety, health and work hours of persons, employes and operatives in factories,

Department of labor.

Consists of.

and assistants;

their salaries

workshops, mills and all places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on, and to establish a department for the enforcement thereof," approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and four, be amended to read as follows:

45. For the purpose of carrying into effect and enforcing the provisions of this act, there shall be and hereby is established a department to be known as the department of labor; the department shall have its main office in Trenton, and shall consist of a commissioner, an assistant commissioner and eleven inspectors; the Governor shall, immediately after the passage of this act, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint some suitable person who shall be a resident and citizen Commissioner of this State, as head of the said department, at a salary of thirty-five hundred dollars per year, to be paid monthly, whose term of office shall be three years and until his successor is appointed, and whose title shall be Commissioner of Labor; the commissioner shall, with the approval of the Governor, appoint the assistant commissioner, who shall be an experienced machinist; he shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per year, to be paid monthly; the Governor shall appoint eleven suitable persons as inspectors, two of whom shall be women, whose salary shall be one thousand five hundred dollars per year each, to be paid monthly; the terms of office of the assistant and the inspectors shall be three years unless sooner removed by the commissioner; the assistant and the inspectors shall each be furnished with certificates of authority by the Secretary of State, and they shall produce the same if so required by any manufacturer; the commissioner shall have the power, out of the appropriation made for the purpose of carrying on the work of the department, to purchase badges for the assistant, the inspectors and himself; the commissioner may divide the State into districts, assign inspectors to such districts, and may, in his discretion, transfer them from one district to another; the commissioner, assistant and inspectors may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters relating to the enforcement of this act; the commissioner shall have the right

State divided tion districts.

into inspec

to employ such department clerks for carrying on the Clerical help. work of the department as may, in his judgment, be necessary; such clerks shall receive such salaries as the commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, shall fix, to be paid by the Treasurer on warrant of the Comptroller in equal monthly installments; when the work of the department shall necessitate the employment of additional inspectors, the commissioner shall have the power to employ such inspectors at such compensation Extra help. and for such length of time as he may deem necessary, and such extra inspectors shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as the inspectors appointed by the Governor; all salaries and expenses incurred by the commissioner, assistant and all inspectors, in the discharge of their duties, and all salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, shall be paid from the funds of the State, out of the moneys appropriated for that purpose, by the Treasurer, upon warrant of the Comptroller, upon presentation of proper vouchers for the same, approved by the commissioner; it shall be the duty of the commissioner to enforce the Duties. provisions of this act and to exercise supervision and control over the assistant and the inspectors, and to cause inspections to be made of the factories, mills, workshops, and places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on, by the assistant and the inspectors, as often as practicable, and to make a report Annual of the work of the department to the Governor of the report. State on or before the thirty-first day of October in each year; to prosecute violations of the provisions of this act in any district court, recorders' courts of cities and before any justice of the peace having due jurisdiction, or in any other court of competent jurisdiction. in this State; the commissioner, the assistant commissioner and the inspectors shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter and inspect factories, mills, Right to enter workshops and places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on, and each inspector shall make a report in writing of such inspections to the commissioner at least once in each week; inspectors shall make out a list of minors discharged, with the name of child

for inspection.

Inspector's school officers.

list furnished