FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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part of such wages in any other manner than herein pro-

vided, shall be and is hereby declared illegal, null and void ;

and that every such employee shall be entitled to recover

from any such corporation employing him the whole or so

much of the wages earned by him as shall not have been

actually paid to him in legal tender money of the United

States, without set off or deduction of his demand for or in

respect of any account or claim whatever.

SEC. 2 Be it further enacted, That nothing in this act

shall be construed to prevent any such corporation from

Deductions

demising to any of its employees the whole or any part of

for rent,
medicine

any tenement in said county of any rent thereon reserved or

&c.

from contracting for or advancing money to supply him with

medicine or medical attendance needed for himself or fam-

ily, or smithing or fuel, and deducting from the wages of

any such employee for and in respect of such rent, medicine,

medical attendance, smithing or fuel or money advanced as

aforesaid.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this act

Payment

contained shall be construed to prevent the payment in

in bank
notes.

whole or in part of the wages of any such employee, in the

notes of any bank payable to bearer on demand that shall

be current at par in this State at the time of such payment

but all payments made in such notes with consent of such

employees shall be as valid and effective as if made in legal

tender money of the United States.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That any corporation before

Illegal con-

mentioned which shall directly or indirectly enter into any

tract or
payment.

contract, or make any payment hereby declared illegal,

shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction thereof

in any court or competent jurisdiction, shall for the first

offence be fined one hundred dollars, and for each succeed-

ing offence not less than five hundred dollars or more than

one thousand dollars.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Effective

Approved April 7th, 1892.