PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1215

of this act shall require that the employment certificates and
lists provided for in this act be produced for their inspection.

11. On termination of the employment of a child under six-
teen years of age, the employment certificate issued to such child
shall be returned by registered mail by the employer to the offi-
cial issuing the same within twenty-four hours if said return is
demanded by said child and otherwise within fifteen days of
the termination of said employment, and the official to whom
said certificate is so returned shall file said certificate and pre-
serve the same, and on the return of said certificate shall notify
the chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of said
return. Any child whose employment certificate has been
returned as above provided shall be entitled to a new certificate
without re-examination except a physician's certificate that the
child is physically able to undertake the work for which the
new certificate is to be issued, and such reissue of a certificate
shall be subject to all conditions as to recording and reporting
governing the original issue.

12. An employment certificate shall be issued in Baltimore
City only by the chief of the Maryland Bureau of Statistics
and Information, and in the counties by said chief or by the
county superintendent of schools of the county in which said
child resides, or is employed, or -by some person designated
in writing by said superintendent. The employment certifi-
cate shall be issued only upon the application in person of
the parent, guardian or legal custodian of the child desiring
such employment, or if said child have no parent, guardian or
legal custodian, then by next friend, but no certificate shall be
issued by any person for any child then in, or about to enter
such person's own employment, or the employment of a firm
or corporation of which said person is a member, officer or
employee. Employment certificates shall be of two classes:
General employment certificates and vacation employment certi-
ficates. General employment certificates shall entitle the child
to work during the entire year; vacation employment certifi-
cates shall entitle the child to work during the entire year,
excepting during such time as said child is required to attend
public or private schools under the provisions of the laws now
in force, or hereafter to be enacted.

13. The person authorized to issue a general employment
certificate shall not issue such certificate until he has received,
examined, approved and filed the following papers, duly exe-
cuted, viz: