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cation, and in case no facts appear within such period of
ten days discrediting or contradicting any material statement
of such application, the person authorized to issue certificates
shall direct the physician hereinbefore provided for to add
to his statement as to the physicial condition of said child a
certificate stating whether said child is, in the opinion of said
physician, of the full age of 14 years; and in case said physi-
cian shall so certify that said child is, in his opinion, at least
of the full age of fourteen years, said person authorized to
issue certificates shall accept said physician's certificate as
sufficient proof of the age -of such" child for the purposes of
this section.

The officer issuing the certificate shall require the evidence
of age specified in subdivision (a) in preference to that speci-
fied in any subsequent subdivision and shall not accept the evi-
dence of age permitted by any subsequent subdivision unless
he shall receive and file in addition thereto an affidavit of the
parent, guardian, legal custodian or next friend, showing that
no evidence of age specified in any preceding subdivision or sub-
divisions of this section can be produced. Such affidavit shall
contain the age, date and place of birth, and present residence
of such child.

14. No general employment certificate shall be issued until
the child in question has personally appeared before and been
examined by the officer issuing the certificate, nor until such
officer, after making such examination, has signed and filed
in his office a statement that the child can read intelligently
and write legibly simple sentences in the English languages.

15. The person authorized to issue a vacation employment
certificate shall not issue such certificate until the child in ques-
tion has personally appeared before said person authorized to
issue said certificate, and until said person so authorized has
received and filed the following papers duly executed, viz:

(1) Evidence of age, showing that said child is 12 years old
or upwards, which evidence of age shall consist of A, B or C
as set forth in section 13 above, or in lieu of said evidence
A, B or C, in case they cannot be prevented, a statement from
a regular physician designated by said person authorized to
issue said certificate, certifying that he has examined said
child, and that in his opinion said child is of the age of 12
years or upward, together with the affidavit of the parent,
guardian, legal custodian or next friend of such child, that such
child is above the age of 12 years.
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