SEC. 14. Be it further enacted, That the Chief or Deputies of the Bureau of Workshop and Factory Inspection shall have authority to ascertain the Weekly wages. average week by wages of all employees other than officers, and that the failure or refusal on the part of any manager, owner, foreman or other person in charge of any industry under inspection or investigation to furnish such information or answer any question pertaining to any inspection or investigation, shall constitute a violation of this Act, and said manager, owner, foreman or other person found guilty thereof shall be punished as provided for herein. Failure to com ders of Chief penalty for. SEC. 15. Be it further enacted, That any owner, ply with or manager, foreman, or other person who may refuse, or Deputies-fail or neglect to comply with the orders issued by said Chief or Deputies shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, and in addition thereto a fine of five ($5.00) dollars for each day after the time limit elapsed until said order is carried out acceptably to said Bureau Chief or said deputies. Safeguards. Any fine thus imposed shall through the County Court be paid to the State Treasurer and be credited to the Bureau of Workshop and Factory Inspection, and shall be used in paying the incidental expenses of said Bureau. SEC. 16. Be it further enacted, That no person shall remove or make ineffective any safeguard around or attached to any machinery, vats, pans or apparatus, except for the purpose of making repairs thereon, and all safeguards so removed shall be replaced promptly. Provided, when the machine or any part thereof is found to be in dangerous condition a notice shall be attached thereto, and such notice shall not be removed until the machinery is made safe, and the required safeguards are provided, and in the meantime, such unguarded or dangerous machinery shall not be in use. SEC. 17. Be it further enacted, That every person, firm or corporation operating a factory, workshop or other establishment, required to be inspected under the provisions of this Act, where there is installed and used machinery, or mechanical devices or apparatus, the use and operation of which are calculated to be hazardous in any degree, shall pay to the Comptroller of the State of Tennessee for the use of the State, an inspection fee for each inspection made by the Chief Inspector of Workshops or Factories or any of his Deputies according to the following schedule: Industries employing not less than 5 nor more than 9 persons Industries employing not less than 10 nor more than 24 persons- Industries employing not less than 25 Industries employing not less than 50 nor $5.00 Inspection 7.50 nor more than 49 persons 15.00 more than 99 persons 25.00 Industries employing not less than 100 nor more than 249 persons 35.00 Industries employing not less than 250 nor more than 499 persons 50.00 Industries employing not less than 500 nor more than 999 persons 75.00 fees. Industries employing more than 1,000 per sons 100.00 SEC. 18. Be it further enacted, That no person, firm or corporation shall be required to pay more than one inspection fee under the provisions of this Act, during any one year. The inspection fees herein prescribed shall be paid to the Comptroller of the State at the end of each year, and for the purpose of collecting the same, the persons, firms, and cor-operators, reporations liable to pay the fee, as provided in Section port of per1, shall prepare a sworn report and file same with ployed. the Comptroller of the State of Tennessee, on the first day of January of each year, beginning with January 1, 1920, showing the monthly average number of employees, of every character employed by sons em Inspector's report. fee. the person, firm or corporation making such report during the preceding year or any part thereof; and said report shall also contain the number of inspections made by the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, or his Deputies during that year. The inspection fees, payable as provided in Section 17 of this Act, shall be paid to the Comptroller with the report herein required. The Chief Mine Inspector shall also make a report to the Comptroller of the State on the first day of January of each year, containing the same information required to be contained in the reports to be filed by operators of factories, workshops, etc. In the event of the failure or refusal of any perFailure to pay sons, firm or corporation to pay the fees as prescribed herein, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to collect said fees by distress warrants or otherwise. Salary of In Deputies. an SEC. 19. Be it further enacted, That the salary of the Chief Inspector of Workshops and Factories shall be two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars per spector and num, payable monthly on the warrant of the Comptroller, as other salaries are paid. The salary of each Deputy Inspector shall be fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars per annum, payable monthly on the warrant of the Comptroller as other salaries paid. Mining Statis Chief Inspec are SEC. 20. Be it further enacted, That the Mining Statistician shall, in addition to the duties now imtican to be posed upon him by law, act as statistician and Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Workshop and Factory Inspection, and as such shall perform such duties as may be assigned him by the Chief Mine Inspector. tor. SEC. 21. Be it further stated, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed insofar as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and that this Act take effect from and after June 15, 1919, the public welfare (By Messrs. Gwinn, Hill and Patton.) AN ACT for the improvement of the system of public education of the State of Tennessee, providing an increase of revenue therefor, and for the disbursement of a part of the school funds now received under the provisions of Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1909, and Acts amendatory thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That sixteen (16) per cent of the funds provided by Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1909, the same being an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the improvement of the system of Public Education of the State of Tennessee, that is to say, to establish a General Education Fund by appropriating thereto annually twenty-five per cent of the gross revenue of the State; to provide for the apportionment of this fund and specifying what part shall be apportioned to the several counties of the State on the basis of scholastic population; what part shall be used to equalize more nearly, the school facilities of the several counties, and the conditions on which this part be apportioned; what sum shall tional fund. be used to assist in paying salaries of County Superintendents, and on what conditions; what part shall be used to encourage and assist in the establishment General Educa Fund-distribution of. and maintenance of public county high schools. and on what conditions; and providing for the grading and inspection of high schools; what part shall be used for the establishment and maintenance of school libraries and on what conditions; what part shall be used for the establishment and maintenance of three normal schools for white teachers, one in each Grand Division of the State, and one Agricultural and Industrial Normal School for negroes, and providing for the location, establishment, and control of said schools; and what part shall be apportioned to the University of Tennessee and its various stations; and to repeal Chapter 537 of the Acts of 1907," and an Act amendatory thereof, the same being Chapter 23 of the Acts of 1913, and entitled "An Act to amend Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1909, passed April 20, 1909, and approved April 27, 1909, by providing for an increase in the general education fund provided in said Act, and setting forth the basis for apportioning certain parts of said fund," shall be used in the maintenance and support of the following State educational institutions, the Normal Schools for the three Grand Divisions of the State provided for in said Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1909, and located in the Counties of Washington, Rutherford and Shelby respectively, the Agricultural and Industrial Normal for negroes, provided for in said Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1909, and located in the County of Davidson, and the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute located in the County of Putnam, established provisions of Chapter 35 of the Public Acts of 1915, and entitled "An Act to amend Chapter 264 of the printed Acts of the General Assembly of 1909, being entitled "An Act to provide for the improvement of the system of Public Education of the State of Tennessee, etc," and commonly known as the General Education Bill "by providing for the establishment and maintenance of a school of Technology in Tennessee, to be known as the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute." Said sixteen (16) per cent shall be distributed among these institutions in the following propor |