o accept,
or attempt to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any
other person, any gift, gratuity or consideration as an
inducement to perform or as a reward for having performed any
duty or service for which such employee or servant has been
employed or is to be paid by the employer or master, firm or
corporation of such employee or servant.

"No employer or master, firm or corporation shall permit or
allow any of his or their employees or servants to solicit or to
accept any gift, gratuity or consideration as an inducement to
perform or as a reward for having performed any duty or service
for which such employee or servant has been or is to be paid by
such employer or master, firm or corporation.

"Each and every employer or master, firm or corporation who
carries on business as the keeper of a hotel, inn, restaurant,
cafe, place for the sale of alcoholic beverages, barber shop or
place for polishing boots and shoes, or who operates a railroad
dining, buffet, sleeping or parlor car, shall post up or cause
to be posted up in at least two conspicuous places in the
premises in which such business is carried on, or in such car, a
notice that tipping, or the giving of any gift or gratuity to
any servant or employee, is forbidden under penalty of fine or
imprisonment.

"No employer or master, firm or corporation shall give or agree
to give or offer to any employee or servant any gift, gratuity
or consideration as an inducement to perform or as a reward for
having performed any duty or service for which such employer or
servant has been or is to be paid by the employer, master, firm
or corporation employing such servants.

"Each and every employer, master, firm or corporation who shall
violate any of the provisions herein made shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be liable in each and
every case to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail of
the proper county not less than ten nor more than sixty days, or
to both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the
court."

THE TENNESSEE LAW

The Tennessee law was adopted upon the especial solicitation of the
traveling salesmen of the State. These men live constantly in touch with
the itching palm and find the tribute no