PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1369

house shall be used for the manufacture in whole or in part,
altering, repairing or finishing of any articles, unless such room
or apartment contain at least five hundred cubic feet of air space
for every person working therein.

Nothing contained in this Section shall prevent the employ-
ment of a tailor or seamstress by any person or family for the
purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing any article
of wearing apparel for the use of .such person or family. This
Section shall not apply to any workshop on the main or ground
floor of any tenement or dwelling house, which is not used for
sleeping or cooking, which has a separate entrance to the street,
and which is entirely separate from the rest of the building.

SEC. 246. No person, firm or corporation shall work in, or
hire, or employ any person to work in any loft, workshop or
factory in any building whatsoever, at making in whole or in
part any articles of clothing, hats, gloves, furs, feathers, artifi-
cial flowers, purses, cigars or cigarettes, without a license there-
for from the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Information
stating the maximum number of persons allowed to be employed
therein.

Application for such license shall be made to the Chief of the
Bureau of Statistics and Information upon blanks to be pre-
pared and furnished by him. Such application shall state the
location, street and number of the loft, workshop or factory to be
licensed, the number of persons to be employed therein, and
such other information as the Chief of the said Bureau may re-
quire, and shall be signed in ink by the person or firm or officer
of the corporation conducting the work in such loft, workshop
or factory.

No such license shall be granted until such premises have
been inspected by an Inspector of the Bureau of Statistics and
Information and a statement filed in said Bureau as a matter
of public record, showing the results of said inspection and
signed in ink by the inspector responsible therefor.

No such license shall be granted for such premises unless the
laws requiring fire-escapes and proper exits thereto and sepa-
rate privies for male and female employees, and all other laws
relating to the health and safety of employees in such establish-
ment have been fully complied with, and unless every such
loft, work-shop or factory sought to be licensed shall contain
at least five hundred cubic feet of air space for every person
employed therein.