1224 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 731]

37. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of
any firm or corporation, who, whether for himself or for such
firm or corporation, or by himself, or through agents, servants
or foremen, employs any child, and whoever having under his
control as parent, guardian, custodian or otherwise, any child,
permits or suffers such child to be employed or to work, in
violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall, for a first
offense be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars;
for a second offense by a fine of not more than two hundred dol-
lars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by
both such fine and imprisonment.

38. Whoever continues to employ any child in violation of
any of the provisions of this act, after being notified thereof in
writing by a factory inspector, attendance officer or other officer
charged with the enforcement of this act, shall, for every day
thereafter that such employment continues, be fined not more
than twenty dollars.

39. Any person, firm or corporation retaining an employ-
ment certificate in violation of section 11 of this act shall be
fined not more than fifty dollars.

40. Every employer who fails to procure and keep on file
employment certificates for all children employed under the age
of sixteen years, or who fails to keep and post lists, as provided
in section 9 of this act, shall be fined not more than one hun-
dred dollars.

41. Any employer who fails to post and keep posted the
printed notices required by section 25 of this act in the manner
therein specified shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.

42. Any person, firm or corporation who hinders or delays
any factory inspector, attendance officer, or any other officer
charged with the enforcement of any of the provisions of this
act in the performance of his or her duties, or refuses to admit
or locks out any such inspector or officer from any place which
said inspectors or officers are authorized to inspect shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine
and imprisonment.

43. Any inspector of factories, or other authorized inspector,
attendance officer, superintendent of schools or other person
authorized to issue employment certificates or permits and
badges as required by this act, or other person charged with the
enforcement of any 'of the provisions of this act, who know-
ingly and wilfully violates or fails to comply with any of the
provisions of this act, shall be fined not more than one hundred