398 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Application for such license shall be made to the chief of the Bureau
of Statistics and Information upon blanks to be prepared and furnished
by him. Such application shall state the location, street and number
of the loft, workshop or factory to be licensed, the number of persons to
be employed therein, and such other information as the Chief of the
said Bureau may require, and shall be signed in ink by the person or
firm or officer of the corporation conducting the work in such loft, work-
shop or factory.

No such license shall be granted until such premises have been
inspected by an inspector of the Bureau of Statistics and Information
and a statement filed in said Bureau as a matter of public record, show-
ing the results of said inspection and signed in ink by the inspector
responsible therefor.

No such license shall be granted for such premises unless the laws
requiring fire-escapes and proper exits thereto and separate privies for
male and female employes, and all other laws relating to the health and
safety of employes in such establishment have .been fully complied with,
and unless every such loft, workship or factory sought to be licensed
shall contain at least five hundred cubic feet of air space for every
person employed therein.

1904, art. 27, sec. 247. 1804. ch. 302, sec. 149C. 1914, ch. 779, sec. 247.
270. Every employer or manufacturer, whether a person, firm or
corporation, contracting for the manufacture in whole or in part, alter-
ing, repairing or finishing of any articles in a tenement or dwelling
house, or in any room .or workshop outside of his, their or its own estab-
lishment, or giving out of materials from which they or any part of
them are to be manufactured, altered, repaired or finished, in a tene-
ment or dwelling house, or in any room or workship outside of his, their
or its own establishment, shall keep a register of the names and ad-
dresses, plainly written in English, of the persons to whom such articles

or materials are given to be so manufactured, altered, repaired or fin-
ished or with whom such employer or manufacturer has contracted to

do the same, and shall issue with all such articles or materials a label
bearing the name and place of business of such employer or manufac-
turer legibly written or printed in English.

It shall be the duty of every employer or manufacturer and of every
person contracting for the manufacture, altering, repairing or finishing
of any articles or giving out any such articles or materials to ascertain
from the Bureau of Statistics and Information whether or not the room
or apartment in which such articles or materials are to be manufactured,
altered, repaired or finished is licensed as provided in this Act; and
none of the said articles nor any material from which they or any part
of them are to be manufactured, altered, repaired or finished shall be
given out or sent to any person to be so worked upon in any room or
apartment of a tenement or dwelling house or worship outside of his,
their or its own establishment which is not licensed as provided in this
sub-title.