ing and limiting the jurisdiction of coarts sitting in equity in cases
involving labor disputes, and for other purposes. To enforce the
hours of labor for females; to enforce the Factory Inspection and
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 physical examination made by the physicians connected with
the Bureau, before receiving employment certificates.

BOARD OF BOILER RULES.
This Board for 1936-37 consists of:
Chairman:
Harry T. Phoebus, 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 1936 was 22,417 first regular inspections. Of the first regular
inspections, 1,296 were factory inspections, 196 were child labor inspec-
tions; 5,840 were ten..hour law inspections for women, and 15,085
were general inspections, including establishments where no women
or children were found employed, and other establishments to which
the ten..hour law does not apply. In addition to these inspections, 369
regular reinspections were made, 224 homeworker licenses were issued,
and 1,863 workshop licenses were issued in Maryland. The total
number of persons found employed under the various inspections was
276,514.

Three hundred and sixty-two (362) boilers were inspected during
the year ending September 30, 1936.

The total number of cases handled in the Permit Department was
7,012.

There were 2,163 newsboy and street traders' licenses issued in
Baltimore City in 1936, 208 in Cumberland and 125 in Hagerstown.

BUREAU OF MINES.

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

District Mine Inspectors:

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