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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

calculated to attract permanent settlers from Eu-
rope or from any part of the United States ; and
said descriptive maps shall be printed in such lan-
guages as the said Superintendent may direct.

Distribute
maps.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said Super-
intendent be and he is hereby authorized to em-
ploy two intelligent agents, who shall speak the
languages of the people among whom they are to
labor, whose duty it shall be to judiciously dis-
tribute the maps and other information sent to
them by said Superintendent, and who shall exert
themselves by personal intercourse with the people,
and in such ways as the Superintendent may direct
in advising and aiding useful and industrious per-
sons to immigrate to Maryland ; one of said agents
shall have his office in Bremen and the other in
Liverpool ; they shall be subject to the orders of
the Superintendent, and shall be discharged by
him whenever in his judgment they have ceased
to be useful agents of his department.

Register
names.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That said Superin-
tendent of Labor and Agriculture shall and he is
hereby required to keep in his office a book, in
which he shall cause to be registered the names
and places of residence of such citizens of Mary-
land as may desire to obtain the assistance of his de-
partment in procuring European or other white la-
borers, together with the number and description of
laborers required, and also the nature of the em-
ployment and the rate of wages and other neces-
sary information ; and the said Superintendent
shall transmit from time to time to his agents in
Europe a list of such registered demands for labor,
and also of such lands as may be registered in his
office as for rent or sale, agreeably to the provis-
ions of the first Section of this Act, and the said
Superintendent at home and his agents abroad
shall invite the attention of immigrants to the offers
extended by our citizens, and when necessary shall
furnish written directions to all applicants for em-
ployment or lands, to such places within the State
as may be selected by them.

Special requi-
sition.

See. 7. And be it enacted, That whenever any
citizen of Maryland may desire to send to the said
agent in Bremen or Liverpool a special requisition
for laborers or artizens of any description, and