ART. 100] EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS. 927

person authorized to issue certificates to investigate the truth of the
statements contained in said application, and in case no facts appear
within such period of ten days discrediting or contradicting any ma-
terial statement of such application, the person authorized to issue cer-
tificates 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 physician 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 specified in any subse-
quent subdivision and shall not accept the evidence 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 sub-
division or subdivisions of this section can be produced. Such affidavit
shall contain the age, date and place of birth, and present residence of
such child.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 14.

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.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 15.

15. The person authorized to issue a vacation employment certifi-
cate shall not issue such certificate until the child in question has per-
sonally 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.

*Probably a typographical error in the act.