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person for any child then in, or about to enter such person's own employ-
ment, or the employment of a firm or corporation of which said person is a
member, officer or employee. Employment certificates shall be of two
classes: General employment certificates and vacation employment certifi-
cates. 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 school under the provisions of the laws
now in force, or hereafter to be enacted.

An. Code, sec. 13. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 13. 1916, ch. 701. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 13.
1918, ch. 495, sec. 13.

14. The person authorized to issue a general employment certificate
shall not issue such certificate until he has received, examined, approved
and made a record of 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 author-
ized to issue such permit stating that such child has been examined by him
and, in his opinion, has reached the normal physical development of a child
of its age, and is in sufficiently sound health and physically able to be em-
ployed 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 according to
law with a register of vital statistics, or other officer charged with the duty
of recording births, which certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the
age of such child.

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

(c) A bona fide contemporary record of the date and place of the child's
birth kept in the Bible in which the records of the births in the family of
the child are preserved, a passport showing the age of the child, a certifi-
cate of arrival in the United States issued by the United States immigration
officers and showing the age of the child, or a life insurance policy; provided
that such other satisfactory documentary evidence has been in existence at
least one year prior to the time it is offered in evidence; and provided
further that a school record or a parent's, guardian's, or custodian's affi-
davit, certificate, or other written statement of age shall not be accepted
except as specified in paragraph (d).

(d) In case none of the proofs required by sub-divisions (a), (b) or (c)
of this Section can be produced, the officer issuing said permit may issue a
temporary permit allowing said child to work for ten days, and shall accept
as full proof of age the sworn affidavit of the child's parent, guardian, legal
custodian or next friend, such affidavit containing the name of said child,