JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

purchase their supplies, merchandise or goods from any private
or company stores owned and operated by the said employers;
nor shall said employers by means of such employment exer-
cise any influence whatever on said hands by promises or
threats to compel their employees to deal with any particular
merchant or storekeepers.

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186. Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed to
prevent any such corporation from demising to any of its em-
ployees the whole or any part of any tenement in said county
at any rent thereon reserved, or from contracting for or advanc-
ing money to supply him with medicine or medical attendance
needed for himself or family, 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, or deduction of dues for Miners'
Mutual Aid Society; but no such corporation shall have the
right to deduct any moneys from the wages of its employees
in payment for merchandise of any other character than those
hereinbefore in this section mentioned and specified, subject
to all the penalties prescribed by Section one hundred and
eighty-eight.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 454.
AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a Board of Com-
missioners to be known as Commissioners for the Revision
of the Laws of the State of Maryland relating to State
Banks, Savings Banks, Fidelity and Trust Companies and
Building and Loan Associations, and to define the duties of
said Board.

May deduct
from, pay
for medical
attendance,
rent, etc.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That within thirty days after the passage of this Act
the Governor shall appoint seven Commissioners, who are
hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners by the name and
style of Commissioners for the Revision of the Laws of the
State of Maryland relating to State Banks, Savings Banks,
Fidelity and Trust Companies and Building and Loan Asso-
ciations, one of which Commissioners shall be the president
of a State bank, one the president of a trust company, one the
president of a fidelity company, one the president of a savings

Commission'rs
for the revi-
sion of the
laws relating
to banks, etc.