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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

Regulating the

land, That from and after a period of one month subsequent to

payment of
wages by cor-

the first day of April, in the year 1904, every association or cor-

porations.

poration doing business in the State of Maryland employing

wage-workers, whether skilled or ordinary laborers, engaged

in manual or clerical work, in the business of mining, manu-

facturing, operating- a steam or electric railroad, street railway,

telegraph, telephone or express company, shall make payment

in lawful money of the United States semi-monthly to said em-

ployees, laborers and wage-workers, or to their authorized

agents, at their respective places of employment, at intervals

of not more than sixteen days and not more than fourteen days.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in case of any said corpora-

Refusal to com-

tions or associations mentioned in Section 1 of this Act, and

ply with law a
misdemeanor.

doing business as aforesaid, or any of their officers, shall re-

fuse to make payment at the times set forth in Section i of this

Act to their wage-workers, laborers or other employees the

wages due them, or any of them, said association, corporation

or officer so refusing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be

liable to indictment therefor, and, upon conviction, shall be

fined a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for each offense.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 17, 1904.

CHAPTER 94.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Myersville, in Frederick

County, Maryland.

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

Village incor-

land, That the inhabitants of the village of Myersville and its

poration.

vicinity, in Frederick County, are a body corporate by the name

of "Burgess and Council of Myersville," and by that name may

have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and have and use

a common seal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the taxable limits of the said

Boundary of

town of Myersville begin at the northwest end of the village

same.

of Myersville boundary line according to plat filed of the lands

of the U. B. Church, Lydia Routzahn and Masheim Metzger,

where the said lands and the road leading from Myersville

to St. John's Church intersect the old Hagerstown road.

From said point running the entire length of Main street, with

the following courses and distances, as surveyed by Charles