EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 670.

AN ACT to provide for rebinding the. Land Record Books

of Washington County, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington

To rebind
Land Record

County, Maryland, be and he is hereby authorized and em-

Books.

powered to cause the books in his office used for the record of

deeds, mortgages and other evidences of title to real estate,

to be rebound in some substantial manner approved by said

clerk ; and the County Commissioners of Washington County,

Maryland, are hereby authorized to pay the costs and ex-

pense incident to rebinding said books as above provided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 671.

AN ACT providing for means for the settlement of disputes

between employers and employees by mediation or voluntary

arbitration, and the investigation of the causes of such dis-

pute.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That upon information furnished by an employer of:
labor, whether person, firm or corporation, or by a committee

Settlement of
labor disputes

of employees, or from any other reliable source, that a contro-

versy or dispute has arisen between employer and employees,

involving ten or more persons, which controversy may result

in a strike or lock-out, the Chief of the Bureau of Industrial

Statistics of Maryland, or such person officially connected with

said Bureau of Industrial Statistics as may be deputized in

writing by the said Chief of said Bureau of Industrial Sta-

tistics, shall at once visit the place of controversy or dispute

and seek to mediate between the parties, if in his discretion

it is necessary so to do.