be
unlawful for any proprietor, agent, foreman, or other person in or
connected with a manufacturing establishment to hire or employ any child
under the age of sixteen years to work therein without there is first
provided and placed on file in the orifice an affidavit made by the
parent or guardian, stating the age, date, and place of birth of said
child; if said child have no parent or guardian, then such affidavit
shall be made by the child, which affidavit shall be kept on file by the
employer, and which said register and affidavit shall be produced for
inspection on demand made by the Inspector, Assistant Inspector, or any
of the deputies appointed under this act. There shall be posted
conspicuously in every room where children under sixteen years of age
are employed, a list of their names with their ages respectively. No
child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any
manufacturing establishment who cannot read and write simple sentences
in the English language, except during the vacation of the public
schools in the city or town where such minor lives. The Factory
Inspector, Assistant Inspector, and Deputy Inspectors shall have power
to demand a certificate of physical fitness from some regular physician,
in the case of children who may seem physically unable to perform the
labor at which they may be employed, and shall have power to prohibit
the employment of any minor that cannot obtain such a certificate.

Sec. 3. No person, firm, or corporation shall employ or permit any child
under the age of fifteen years to have the care, custody, management
of, or to operate any elevator, or shall employ or permit any person
under the age of eighteen years to have the care, custody, management,
or operation of any elevator running at a speed of over two hundred feet
a minute.

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, or lessee of any
manufacturing establishment where there is any elevator, hoisting-shaft,
or well-hole, to cause the same to be properly and substantially
inclosed or secured, if in the opinion of the Factory Inspector, or of
the Assistant Factory Inspector, or a Deputy Factory Inspector, unless
disapproved by the Factory Inspector, it is necessary to protect the
lives or limbs of those employed in such establishment. It shall also be
the duty of the owner, agent, or lessee of each of such establishments
to provide or cause to be provided, if, in the opinion of the Inspector,
the safet