2226 WORK——HOURS OF, IN FACTORIES. [ART. 100

the machinery ready for use in their works, which can not be done
during the limit of the ten hours; the extra compensation for all such
work to be settled between such corporation and manufacturing com-
panies and the employes; provided that nothing in this article shall be
so construed as to prohibit any employer from making a contract with
his male employes, over the age of twenty-one years, to work by the
hour for such time as may be agreed upon.

1904, art. 100. sec. 3. 1888. art. 100. sec. 3. 1888, ch. 455.

3. If any such corporation or manufacturing company within the
limits of this State or any officer, agent or servant of such corporation
or manufacturing company in this State shall do any act in violation
of any of the provisions of this article he or they shall be deemed to
have been guilty of misdemeanor and shall, on conviction thereof in a
court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not less than one hundred dol-
lars for each and every offense so committed, together with the cost of
such prosecution, one-half of said fine to go to the informer and one-
half to the school fund of the county in which said offense shall have
been committed.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1894. ch. 317. 1902. ch. 566. 1906. ch. 192, sec. 4.

4. No proprietor, owner, superintendent, manager or foreman, or
other subordinate or agent of any mill, factory, workshop, office, restau-
rant, hotel, apartment house, store, telephone or telegraph office, or
other establishment or business shall, after the first day of September,
in the year 1006, employ for wages or hire, or retain in employment
in any such mill, factory, workshop, office, restaurant, hotel, apartment
house, store, telephone or telegraph office, or other establishment or
business, any person or persons under twelve (12) years of age, except
in the counties, from June 1st to October 15th, in every year.

This section (as it stood in the code of 1004) held to be constitutional. Mt
Vernon Co. v. Frankford Co., 111 Md. 5F3.

As to the attendance at school of children between eight and twelve years
of age, see art. 77. sec. 153; see also, art. 77, sec. 161, et seq.

190R, ch, 192, sec. 5.

5. No child between the age of twelve (12) and sixteen (16) shall
be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any offices, establishment
or business mentioned in the preceding section unless the person or cor-
poration employing him or her produces and keeps on file and accessible
to the inspectors authorized by sections 4 to 13 and the attendance
officer of the public schools, an employment permit, and keep a com-
plete list of all such children employed therein on file, and in the case
of children employed in factories, workshops, mills or messenger service,
a duplicate of said list shall be conspicuously posted near the principal
entrance of the building in which such children are employed.

1906, ch. 192. sec. 6.

6. The employment permit for all employments in Baltimore city
under the provisions of sections 4 to 13 shall be issued by the Maryland