Child Labor Laws; the Steam Boiler Inspection and the State Mine
Inspection Laws.

The Child Labor Law applies to all children between the ages of
fourteen and sixteen years, who must pass an educational test and
also a physicial examination made by the physicians connected with
the Bureau, before receiving employment certificates.

BOARD OF BOILER RULES.

This Board for 1936-36 consists of:
Chairman:

Henry Lay Duer, Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, 16 W.
Saratoga Street, Baltimore.

Members:
William F. Broening, Chairman of the State Industrial Accident

Commission, 741 Equitable Building, Baltimore.
Herbert R. O'Conor, Attorney-General, Baltimore Trust Building,

Baltimore.

By the Act of 1920, Chapter 676, a Board of Boiler Rules was
created consisting of the Commissioner of the State Bureau of Labor
and Statistics, who shall be Chairman; the Attorney-General and the
Chairman of the State Industrial Accident Commission.

This Board is created for and charged with the duty of formulating
rules and regulations governing the proper construction and installa-
tion of boilers of over fifteen pounds to the square inch, for sale or use
in this State, and to enforce such rules and regulations and the con-
tinued maintenance of them on a basis of proper safety.

INSPECTIONS.

The total number of inspections made by this department during
the year 1935 was 25,577 first regular inspections; and of this num-
ber 9l were special inspections made in connection with activities in
the field of industrial hygiene. Of the first regular inspections, 89
were child labor inspections; 6,128 were ten-hour law inspections for
women; 1,845 were factory inspections; 124 were homeworker inspec-
tions, and 17,515 were general inspections, including establishments
where no women or children were found employed, and other estab-
lishments to which the ten-hour law does not apply. The total number
of persons found employed under the various inspections was 257,577.

One hundred and seventy-six (176) boilers were inspected during
the year ending September 30, 1935.

The total number of cases handled in the Permit Department was
6,230.

BUREAU OF MINES.

Chief Mine Engineer:
John J. Rutledge....................................22 Light Street, Baltimore

District Mine Inspectors:

Frank T. Powers..............................................................................................Frostburg
Clyde J. Rowe..................................................................................................Westernport