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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be paid not later than the loth day of the succeeding month,

unless said 25th day or loth day of any month shall fall on

Sunday or a legal holiday, in which case the time for payment

shall be extended to the next day.

Penalty for

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any such corporation, re-

violation of
this Act.

fusing to make said payment of wages at the time hereinbe-

fore specified, or wilfully withholding said wages from said

employees beyond said times, shall be deemed guilty of a

misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction thereof,

shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than three

hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court.

Approved March 9, 1904.

CHAPTER 38.

AN ACT to prohibit the County Commissioners of Queen

Anne's County from hereafter paying any pension and from

hereafter levying any sum of money upon the taxable

property of Queen Anne's County for the purpose of paying

any pension to any person who is now, or who shall here-

after become a non-resident of Queen Anne's County afore-

said and to repeal all Acts inconsistent with this Act.

Prohibiting

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

paying of

land, That the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County

pensions to
non-residents.

shall not hereafter pay any pension, or levy any sum of money

upon the taxable property of said county for the purpose of

paying any pension, to any person who is now or who shall

hereafter become a non-resident of said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts inconsistent with

this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 9, 1904.

CHAPTER 39.

AN ACT to provide payment for the publishing of the Annual

Report and official blanks, and for an anemometer for the

State Mine Inspector, as required by Chapter 124 of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1902, January Session.

Mine Inspec-

WHEREAS, In Chapter 124 of the Acts of the General As-

tor.

sembly of 1902, at the January Session, it was provided that

the State should furnish the Mine Inspector with printed blanks