1966 STATISTICS AND INFORMATION. [ART. 89

5th. To keep a bureau of general information, and to this end all offi-
cers and institutions of this State, including officers of the general
assembly, are directed to transmit to the chief of the industrial bureau
all reports, as soon as published.

6th. To classify and arrange the information and data so obtained
and as soon as practicable after entering upon the duties of his office
publish the same in substantial book form and annually thereafter
revise and republish the same.

7th. The chief of the bureau of industrial statistics shall cause to
be organized and operated a free state employment agency for the free
use of citizens of the State of Maryland, for the purpose of securing
employment for unemployed persons who may register in said bureau
or agency and for the purpose of securing help or labor for persons reg-
istering as applicants for help or labor and to advertise and maintain
such office.

8th. The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is annually appropriated to pay the salary of the chief of the
bureau of industrial statistics, and the expenses incident to the execu-
tion of the duties of his office; but no part of said expenses shall be
paid until the same shall have been approved by the governor, and the
said official shall annually return to the comptroller of the treasury the
detailed statement of said expenses, and shall also print the same in
the book of statistics.

As to agriculture, see art. 2 A.

As to conservation of natural resources, see art. 19 A.

As to forestry, see art 39 A.

Arbitration of Labor Disputes.

1904, art. 89, sec. 3. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 1.

3. Upon information furnished by an employer of labor, whether
person, firm or corporation, or by a committee of employes, or from any
other reliable source, that a controversy or dispute has arisen between
employer and employes, involving ten or more persons, which contro-
versy may result in a strike or lock-out, the chief of the bureau of indus-
trial statistics of Maryland, or such person officially connected with said
bureau of industrial statistics as may be deputized in writing by the
said chief of said bureau of industrial statistics, shall at once visit the
place of controversy or dispute and seek to mediate between the parties,
if in his discretion it is necessary so to do.
As to arbitration and award, see art. 7.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 2.

4. If mediation can not be effected as provided for in section 1 of
this sub-title, the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics, or such
person officially connected with said bureau as may be by him depu-
tized in writing, may, at his discretion, endeavor to secure the con-
sent of the parties to the controversy or dispute to the formation of a