Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1911 — Stores and Factories Come Under State Inspection Law. [ARTICLE]

Stores and Factories Come Under State Inspection Law.

All stores employing more than five persons, as well as manufacturing establishments, come under the jurisdiction of theaew st&fee-bnresu of Inspection which began operations Saturday. A license fee of |1 per year must be paid. This is the interpretation placed on the law by Elliott R. Hooton, chief of the bureau. Only farmers and those employing more than five persons as domestic help are excepted, he holds. Under Mr. Hooten’s interpretation of the law it Is believed the new department will earn a revenue of more than 8100,000 annually. There are 40,000 factories in the state which have been subject to inspection under the old law.