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this State for trial, and such justices are given jurisdiction in the case. In
default of payment of fine and costs any party so convicted shall be sen-
tenced to jail for not more than five days; provided, however, that smoking
cars in which cuspidors are not placed by the company operating the same
shall be exempt from the operation of this section.

Health—Salesladies, Chairs for.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 293. 1912, sec. 260. 1904, sec. 239. 1896, ch. 147, sec. 151A.
1904, ch. 287, sec. 147A.

365. All proprietors or owners of any retail,, jobbing or wholesale dry
goods store, notion, millinery or any other business where any female
salespeople or other female help are employed for the purpose of serving
the public, shall provide a chair or stool for each one of such female help,
in order that when they are not actively engaged in making sales or taking
stock or in performing such other duties as they may have been engaged to.
perform, they shall have an opportunity to rest, and they shall not be for-
bidden to avail themselves of such opportunity. Any such owner or pro-
prietor who shall neglect or refuse to obey the provisions of this section
shall be considered to have committed a misdemeanor, and shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined in an amount not less than ten dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars for the first offense; and in the event that such
proprietor or owner shall continue to disobey the provisions of this section,
he shall be subject to a fine at the rate of one dollar a day, daily, for every
chair or stool he fails to so furnish his said employes.. It shall be the duty
of the board or department of health or health commissioner or commis-
sioners of the cities and towns in the State to cause this section to be en-
forced, and whenever any of its provisions are violated, to cause all viola-
tors thereof to be prosecuted, and for that purpose the health commissioner
or commissioners and the officer or officers of the board of health of every
city and town in the State, or the inspectors thereof, or any other persons
designated by such board, of health or health commissioner or commis-
sioners are authorized, and empowered to visit and inspect at all reasonable
hours and as often as shall be practicable and necessary all mercantile
establishments in the city or town in which the office of the said board or
department of health or health commissioner or commissioners is situated,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with or obstruct, any
such inspecting official while in the performance of his or her duties or to
refuse to properly and truthfully answer questions made pertinent by this
section when asked by such, inspecting official.

Health—Slaughter of Animals.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 296. 1912, sec. 263. 1904, sec. 242. 1902, ch. 69, art. 43, sec. 55A.

366. No person shall kill for human food, or shall carry or offer to
any butcher, or at any slaughter-house to be killed for human food, any
female animal within 30 days before the time for the delivery of its young,
or within 30 days thereafter, or any animal that is so far disabled by sick-
ness as to be unable to walk, or any animal known to said person, by reason
of disease or injury, to be unfit for human food; and whenever any of said
animals shall be found at any place where animals are usually killed for
human food, the burden of proving that such animal was not intended
for human food shall rest on the party charged, and any person violating