ART. 100] EMPLOYMENT PERMIT. 2227

Bureau of Statistics and Information, and for employment in other
cities or in the counties of this Stale, by any member of the board of
health or principal health officer of the city or county in which the
employment is sought.

1906, ch. 102, sec. 7.

7. The employment permit shall not be issued unless satisfactory
evidence is furnished by duly attested transcript of the certificate of
birth or baptism of such child, or other religious records, or the register
of birlh, or the affidavit of the parent or guardian or custodian of the
child, which latter affidavit shall be required, however, only in case it
is certified by the proper authorities that the birth certificate showing
the place and date of birth of such child is not on record, which affidavit
must be taken before the officer issuing the employment permit, who is
hereby authorized and required to administer such oath and who shall
not demand or receive a fee therefor.

1003, ch. 192, sec. 8.

8. The employment permit shall read as follows:

EMPLOYMENT PERMIT.

The birth certificate giving the name, date and place of ————
(name of child) is attached hereto. (If there be no birth certificate,
then a certificate to that effect, i. e., that there is none from the proper
authorities of the city or county where said child was born, shall be
attached.) This certifies that I am the ———— father, mother, guar-
dian or custodian of ————— (name of child) and that (he or she) was
born at ———— (name of town or city) in the county of ———— (name
of county) and State of ————, on the ———— day of ————, in
year ————, and is now ———— (number of years and months) old.
Signature of (father, mother, guardian or ———— custodian).

Signature of ———— child.
(Date.)

There personally appeared before me the above-named (name of
father, mother, guardian or custodian of) and made oath that the afore-
going certificate by (him or her) signed, is true to the best of (his or
her) knowledge and belief.

I hereby approve the foregoirg certificate of (name of child), height
(feet and inches), eyes (color), complexion (fair or dark), hair (color) ;
having no sufficient reason to doubt that (he or she) is of the age therein
certified I hereby certify that (he or she) can read at sight and write
legibly simple sentences in the English language, and that (he or she)
has reached the normal development of a child of (his or her) age,
and is in sound health and is physically able to perform the work which
(he or she) intends to do.

This certificate belorgs to (name of child in whose behalf it is drawn)
and is to be surrendered to (him or her) whenever (he or she) leaves