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ployment certificates. General employment certificates shall entitle the
child to work during the entire year; vacation employment certificates
shall entitle the child to work during the entire year, excepting during
such time as said child is required to attend public or private schools
rinder the provisions of the laws now in force, of hereafter to be enacted.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 13.

13. The person authorized to issue a general employment certificate
shall- not issue such certificate until he has received, examined, ap-
proved and filed the following papers, duly executed, viz:

(1) The school record of such child properly filled out and signed,
as provided in this sub-title, which school record shall be furnished
without charge to any child applying therefor by the superintendent
or teacher in charge of the school or schools attended by said child.

(2) A certificate signed by a physician appointed by the officer
authorized to issue such permit stating that such child has been exam-
ined by him, and, in his opinion, has reached the normal development
of a child of its age, and is in sufficiently sound health and physically
able to be employed in the occupation or process for which a permit is
applied for.

(3) Evidence of age showing that the child is fourteen years old or
upwards, which shall consist of one of the following proofs of age and
shall be required in the order herein designated as follows:

(a) A duly attested transcript of the birth certificate filed accord-
ing to law with a register of vital statistics, or other officer charged with
the duty of recording births, which certificate shall be prima facie evi-
dence of the age of such child.

(b) A passport or a duly attested transcript, of a. certificate of bap-
tism showing the date of birth and place of baptism of such child.

(c) In case none of the above proofs of age can be produced, other
documentary evidence of age which shall appear to be satisfactory to
the officer issuing the certificate (aside from 'the school record of such
child or the affidavit of parent, guardian, legal custodian or next
friend), may be accepted in lieu thereof. In such case a school census
or enumeration record, duly attested, may be used as proof of age in
the discretion of the officer issuing the certificate.

(d) In case no documentary proof of age of any kind can be pro-
duced, the officer issuing the certificate may receive and file an applica-
tion signed by the parent, guardian, legal custodian or next friend of
the child for physician's certificate. Such application shall contain the
name, alleged age, place and date of birth, and present residence of
the child, together with such further facts as may be of assistance in
determining the age of such child, and shall contain a statement cer-
tifying that the parent, guardian, legal custodian, or next friend, sign-
ing such application, is unable to produce any of the documentary
proofs of age specified in the preceding subdivisions of this section.
Such application shall be filed for not less than ten days to enable the