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hands of the said treasurer to meet the expenses of the ensuing year.
The comptroller shall thereupon make and file in his office an estimate
of the amount of such balance necessary to be held by said board for
the purpose hereinbefore stated, which sum may be retained by said
board for said purposes, and the balance of said surplus paid by the
treasurer of said board into the state treasury.

1904, art. 43, sec. 181. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 12.

220. Upon the report of a member of the state board of examiners,
duly appointed as herein provided, or a member of a sub-board of
examiners in a city or village of the State, that a barber shop is in an
unsanitary condition, said state board of examiners shall be empowered
to call upon the State or local board of health to declare such shop a
public nuisance, and should the proprietor of said shop fail to abolish
said nuisance within a period of thirty days after a notice to do so
by either the State or local board of health, the board of examiners
provided for in this sub-title shall be empowered to call upon the
aforesaid board to abolish the aforesaid public nuisance.

Ibid. sec. 182. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 13.

221. To shave, trim the beard or cut the hair of any person for
hire or reward received by the person performing such service, or
any other person, shall be construed as practising the occupation of a
barber within the meaning of this sub-title, which provisions shall not
in any way apply to or affect any person who is now occupied or
working as a barber in this State, nor any person employed in a
barber shop, or an apprentice, except that a person so employed less
than three years prior to April 1, 1904, shall be considered an appren-
tice, and at the expiration of such three years of such employment
shall be subject to the provisions of this sub-title.

There is a conflict between this section and sections 214 and 216. This
section exempts from the operation of sections 214 and 216 all who were
occupied or working as barbers in this State at the time the act of 1904,
ch. 26, was passed. This section is not limited in its application to appren-
tices. State v. Tag. 100 Md. 589.

Ibid. sec. 183. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 14.

222. Any person violating any of the provisions of this sub-title
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars or imprisonment
in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days or by both
such fine and imprisonment.

Plumbing.

1910, ch. 436, sec. 184 (p. 156).

223. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm or corporation to
employ as workmen to do plumbing work in the State of Maryland
any persons except those qualified to work at the plumbing business,
as provided in this subdivision of this article; and no person shall be