said Commissioner may deem advisable for the free use of citizens of
the State for the purpose of securing employment for the unemployed
and for the purpose of securing help or labor for persons applying
for such. Inspectors from this Department are also loaned to the
Commissioner of State Employment and Registration in administering
the law which regulates activities of fee charging employment
agencies.

To arbitrate all dispute between employer and employee. This Depart-
ment cooperate with the Federal Government in the enforcement of the
Walsh-Healy Act, the compiling of the monthly volume of employ-
ment and payroll reports and the issuance of age certificates to minors
over sixteen years of age employed by firms engaged in interstate
commerce and coming under the jurisdiction of the Federal Fair
Labor Standards Act.

To enforce the hours of labor for females; to enforce the Factory
Inspection and Child Labor Law; and the Steam Boiler 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

Chairman:

John M. Pohlhaus, Commissioner of Labor and Statistics,
120 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore-1, Md.

Members:
A. L. Penniman, Chief Engineer of Power, Consolidated Gas

Electric Light & Power Company, Baltimore, (1945)
Firmadge King, 609 Edgewood Street, Baltimore, (1946)

By the Act of 1939, Chapter 718, a Board of Boiler Rules was
created consisting of the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, who
shall be the Chairman at his discretion and two members to be
appointed by the Governor.

This Board is created for and charged with the duty of formulat-
ing rules and regulations governing the proper consruction and in-
stallation of boilers over fifteen pounds to the square inch, for sale
or use in this State, and to enforce such rules and regulations and
the continued maintenance of them on a basis of proper safety.

THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
EMPLOYMENT AND REGISTRATION

22 Light Street, Baltimore-2
Commissioner:

Walter D. Owens (Term expires 1949) Baltimore
Chief Examiner;
Margaret Dambly Frank. ......................... Baltimore