400 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

after at the same date. The said permit shall be posted in a conspicuous
place in the room, or one of the rooms to which it relates. Every person,
firm or corporation contracting for the manufacture of any of the arti-
cles mentioned in this section, or giving out the incomplete materials
from which they or any of them are to be made, or to be wholly or
partially finished, or employing persons in any tenement or dwelling-
house, or other building, to make, wholly or partly finish, the articles
mentioned in this section, shall keep a written register of the names and
addresses of all persons to whom such work is given to be made, or with
whom they may have contracted to do the same. Such register shall be
produced for inspection, and a copy thereof shall be furnished on
demand made by the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics or one
of his deputies.

This and the following sections held constitutional and valid, under the
police power, as health regulations. If a statute passed for the protection
of health, morals or safety has no real or substantial relations to those
objects, the courts will declare it void. The reasonableness of ordinances
passed by a municipality in pursuance of legislative authority may be
enquired into by the courts. This and the following sections apply to
tenements, etc., where garments are manufactured for sale. State v. Hy-
man, 98 Md. 611.

1904, art. 27, sec. 250. 1902, ch. 101, sec. 149FF.

273. The chief of the bureau of industrial statistics, or his assistant,
or any inspector, shall have authority to enter any room in any tene-
ment or dwelling house, workshop, manufacturing establishment, mill,
factory or place where any goods are manufactured, for the purpose of
inspection. The person, firm or corporation owning or controlling or
managing such places shall furnish access to and information in regard
to such places to the said chief of the bureau of industrial statistics or
his deputies at any and all reasonable times while work is being carried

on.

See notes to section 272.

Ibid. sec. 251. 1888, art. 27, sec. 149GG.

274. The chief of the bureau of industrial statistics shall appoint
two deputies as assistants, whose duty it shall be to make such inspection
of the tenements, dwelling-houses, factories, workshops, mills and such
other places as he may designate and to do such other work as the said
chief of the bureau of industrial statistics shall designate.
See notes to section 272.

1904, art. 27, sec. 252. 1902, ch. 101, sec. 149HH. 1914, ch. 779, 'sec. 252.

275. Any person, firm or corporation who shall in any manner vio-
late the provisions of Sections 272, 273. 274, 264, 268, 269, 270 and
273,* or who shall refuse to give such information and access to the
Chief of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics or his deputies, or secure
such permit as provided, shall, upon conviction in any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one

*These figures are all just as they are given in the act.