ixteen years of
age and has satisfactorily passed a test for the completion of the
work of the seventh grade, provided that residents of other states
who work in Ohio must qualify as aforesaid with the proper school
authority in the school district in which the establishment is
located, as a condition of employment or service.

Any such age and schooling certificate may be issued only upon
satisfactory proof that the employment contemplated by the child is
not prohibited by any law regulating the employment of such
children; and when the employer of any minor for whom such age and
schooling certificate shall have been issued shall keep such age and
schooling certificate on file as provided by law, the provisions of
section 6245-2, General Code, shall not apply to such employer in
respect to such child while engaged in an employment legal for a
child of the given sex and of the age stated therein.

Age and schooling certificate forms shall be formulated by the
superintendent of public instruction, and except in cases otherwise
specified by law must be printed on white paper. Every such
certificate must be signed in the presence of the officer issuing it
by the child in whose name it is issued. Blank certificates shall be
furnished by the superintendent of public instruction upon request.

Sec. 7766-1. The superintendent of schools shall not issue such
certificate until he has received, examined, approved and filed the
following papers duly executed:

(1) The written pledge or promise of the person, partnership or
corporation to legally employ the child, to permit him to attend
school as provided in section 7767, General Code, and to return to
the superintendent of schools the age and schooling certificate of
the child or give notice of the non-use thereof within two days from
the date of the child's withdrawal or dismissal from the service of
that person, partnership or corporation, giving the reasons for such
withdrawal or dismissal.

(2) The school record of the child, properly filled out and signed
by the person in charge of the school which the child last attended;
giving the recorded age of the child, his address, standing in
studies, rating in conduct, and attendance in days during the school
year of his last attendance, and if that was not a full year, during
the preceding school year.

(3) Evidence of the age of the child as follows:

(a) The birth certificate of the child (or duly attested transcript