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The register mentioned in this section shall be subject to inspection
by any inspector of the Bureau of Statistics and Information, and a
copy thereof, as well as such other information in regard thereto as
such inspector may require shall be furnished upon demand.
See notes to section 272.

1904, art. 27, sec. 248. 1894, ch. 302, sec. 140D. 1914, ch. 779, sec. 248.

271. Any license granted under Sections 268 and 269 may be
revoked by the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Information if
the licensee thereunder, or his or its duly authorized agent, shall fail,
refuse or neglect to comply with any of the conditions under which same
was granted, or with any law relating to the premises licensed, or if the
health of the community or of the persons employed thereunder requires
it*

Ibid. sec. 249. 1902, ch. 101, sec. 149EE.

272. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling-house shall
be used except, by the immediate members of the family living therein,
which shall be limited to a husband and wife, their children, or the
children of either, for the manufacture of coats, vests, trousers, knee-
pants, overalls, cloaks, hats, caps, suspenders, jerseys, blouses, waists,
waistbands, underwear, neckwear, furs, furtrimmings, furgarments
shirts, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, cigarettes, or cigars. No room
or apartment in any tenement or dwelling-house shall be used by any
family or part of family until a permit shall first have been obtained
from the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics, stating the maxi-
mum number of persons allowed to be employed therein. Such permit
shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises has been made
by the inspector or his assistant, named by the chief of the bureau of
industrial statistics, and such permit may be revoked by the said chief
of the bureau of industrial statistics at any time the health of the com-
munity or those employed or living therein may require it. No person,
firm or corporation shall work in, or hire or employ any person to work
in any room or apartment in any building, rear building, or building
in the rear of a tenement or dwelling-house, at making in whole or in
part, any of the articles mentioned in this section, without first obtain-
ing a written permit from the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics
stating the maximum number of persons allowed to be employed therein.
Such permit shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises
has been made by the factory inspector or his assistant, named by the
chief of the bureau of industrial statistics, and such permit may be
revoked by the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics at any time
the health of the community or of those so employed may require it.
All families, persons, firms or corporations now engaged in such manu-
facture in such tenement or dwelling-house or other building, shall
apply for such permit on or before July 1, 1902, and annually there-

*While the title of the act of 3914, chapter 779, calls for a section "249," no
such section appears in the act.