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number of employes, and such other data as the Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics and Information may require. Such registration of exist-
ing establishments shall be made within six months after April 16,
1914; those hereafter established shall be so registered within thirty
days after the commencement of business. Within thirty days after a
change in the location of any such establishment the owner thereof
shall file with the Bureau of Statistics and Information the new address
of the business, together with such other information as the chief of
said bureau may require. The registration required by this section
shall be made upon blanks supplied by the Bureau of Statistics and
Information.

As to the Bureau of Statistics and Information, see article 89.

1904, art. 27, sec. 244. 1888, art. 27, sec. 349. 1884. ch. 265, ch. 2.
1914, ch. 779, sec. 244.

265. The owner, operator, manager or lessee of any factory, work-
shop, warehouse, elevator, foundry, machine shop, store or other mer-
cantile, manufacturing or mechanical establishment, or any agent,
superintendent, subordinate, or employe thereof, or any person employ-
ing or directing any labor of any kind whatsoever, shall, when requested
by the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Information, furnish any
information in his possession or under his control which the Chief of
said Bureau is authorized to require, and for the purpose of inspection
shall admit the Chief of said Bureau or his authorized representative
to any place which is affected by this sub-title or which is required by
law to be inspected. Any person who refuses to admit the Chief of
said Bureau, or person authorized by him, to any such establishment, or
to furnish any such information, or who refuses to answer or untruth-
fully answers questions lawfully put to him by the Chief of said Bureau.
or any deputy of said Chief, in a circular or otherwise, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by a court of competent
jurisdiction shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty
dollars for each offense.

1910, ch. 724 (p. 139).

266. The proprietors or managers of shirt factories in the State of
Maryland are hereby required to sprinkle the floors of said factories
every morning with water, and any proprietor or manager failing to
comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined the sum of ten dollars,
and cost of prosecution, for each and every offense, one-half of said fine
to go to the informer, balance to be paid into the treasury of the State.
This section is a duplicate of article 43, section 102.

1914, ch. 81.

267. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or asso-
ciation engaged in the manufacture of cigars to cause or permit any
person, whether employee or member of such firm, corporation or asso-
ciation or other person to stand or sit on or upon any mould, form or