386 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ ART. 27

1904, art. 27, sec. 224. 1890, ch. 317, sec. 4B

. 238. If any person shall be injured by the use of any such adulter-
ated or poisonous candy or lozenges, he shall be entitled to recover in
an action to be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction not less
than fifty dollars as liquidated damages and such other and further
actual damages as he may prove.

Health—Hours of Labor of Children.

Ibid. sec. 225. 1888, art. 27, sec. 130. 1874, ch. 3. 1876, ch. 125. 1892, ch. 443.

239. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed in
laboring more than ten hours a day in any manufacturing business or
factory established in any part of the State, or in any mercantile busi-
ness in the city of Baltimore.

As to "Hours of Labor," the employment of children, etc., see article 100.

Ibid. sec. 226. 1888, art. 27, sec. 140. 1892, ch. 443. 1910, ch. 607 (p. 91).

240. Any person who shall so employ a child or suffer or permit
such employment shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars; one-half of which shall
be paid to the Maryland State Bureau of Statistics and Information,
which is hereby invested with the general duty and power of enforcing
this law.

Ibid. sec. 227. 1888, art. 27, sec. 141. 1892, ch. 443.

241. The word "suffer or permit," includes every act or omission
whereby it becomes possible for the child to engage in such labor.

Health—Hours of Labor of Street Car Employes.

Ibid. sec. 28. 1888, art. 27, sec. 142. 1886, ch. 163, sec. 1.

242. No horse railway company, incorporated under the laws of
this State, and no officer, agent or servant of such corporation, and no
person or firm owning or operating any line or lines of horse railways
within the limits of this State, and no agent or servant of such firm
or firms shall require, permit or suffer its, his or their conductors or
drivers, or any of them, or any employes in its, his or their service, or
under his, its or their control, to work more than twelve hours during
each or any day of twenty-four hours, and shall make no contract or
agreement with such employes, or any of them, providing that they or
he shall work for more than twelve hours during each or any day of
twenty-four hours.

Ibid. sec. 229. 1888, art. 27, sec. 143. 1886, ch. 163, sec. 2.

243. Any corporation which shall in any manner violate any of
the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed to have misused
or abused its corporate powers and franchises, and the attorney-general
of the State, upon application in writing made by any citizen of this
State, accompanied by sufficient proof of such violation, shall forth-