EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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duty of the Judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County

to specially charge the grand jury of said county upon the
execution of the foregoing provisions, and the police authori-

Court to
charge grand
jury.

ties of said district are specially charged with the execution

thereof, and to that end shall direct such frequent examina-

tions by some of their officers as the County Commissioners

may require of all such places. It shall not be lawful in said

district for any person, agent, owner or proprietor of any

sweatshop, manufacturing establishment or factory where four

or more persons are employed, to use any coal oil, gasoline or

Pertaining to

any other explosive or inflammable compound for the purpose

use of coal oil,
etc., in fac-

of lighting or heating in any form, except under a special

tories.

permit from the County Commissioners of Baltimore County

granted for that purpose for a period not exceeding one year,

the same to be renewed from time to time by said County

Commissioners in their discretion; and any person, agent,

owner or proprietor violating this provision shall be guilty of

a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be fined by the court

before which such conviction is had, for every violation the

sum of one hundred dollars and costs, and stand committed

until such fine and costs be paid. The owner or owners of any

such house or building used as a sweatshop, manufacturing

establishment or factory where four or more persons are em-

ployed, on other than the first floor of such house or building,

and the owners or lessees of any public hall, church, school or

places of amusement where persons are supposed to congregate

on other than the first floor of the same, shall provide suitable

fire-escapes for the same ; and if any owner or owners, or les-

Fire escapes.

sees of any house or building so used fail to make or provide

a fire-escape as aforesaid, such owner or owners, or lessees,

shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars, to be paid to the County

Commissioners as aforesaid and recovered as other fines in this

Recovery of

State, or by imprisonment in the county jail for sixty days,

fines.

or subject to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of

the court.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 511.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the School Commissioners

of Washington County to appropriate a sum of money for

the purchase of a site and the erection of a school house for

the white children near Weverton, in said county.