936 . WORK——HOURS OF, IN FACTORIES. [ART. 100

tics and Information on the warrant of the Superintendent of Schools
of said County.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 48. 1914, ch. 840, sec.. 48.
48. The Chief of the Maryland Bureau of Statistics and Informa-
tion is hereby authorized to appoint seven inspectors at a compensation
not exceeding one thousand dollars each per annum, and one officer,
whose duty it shall be to issue employment certificates at a compensa-
tion not exceeding twelve hundred dollars per annum, to carry out the
provisions of this sub-title; they shall also be allowed their actual
expenses when away from the City of Baltimore in the biisiness of their
office; they shall be attached to and be part of the Maryland Bureau of
Statistics and Information, and be subject to the order of the Chief of
said Bureau, whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of this
sub-title are enforced; and said Chief of said Bureau is further em-
powered to designate one or more regular physicians, who shall be
attached to and be part of the Maryland Bureau of Statistics and In-
formation and be subject to the order of the Chief of said Bureau, who
shall have such duties and receive such compensation as shall be deter-
mined upon by said Chief; provided, however, that the total compensa-
tion of all physicians so employed by said Chief of the Maryland Bureau
of Statistics and Information shall not exceed Twenty-five hundred
dollars per annum.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 49.

49. All persons authorized to issue employment certificates under
this sub-title, are hereby authorized to take such affidavits or administer
such oaths as may be called for in the issuance, of certificates in this
sub-title, and .are hereby forbidden, to charge or receive a fee therefor.

1912, ch. 731, sec. 50. 1914, ch. 840, sec. 50.

50. The sum of Seventeen Thousand Dollars per annum is hereby
appropriated to carry out the provisions of this sub-title.

Hours of Labor for Females.

1912, ch. 79, sec. 14.

51. No female shall be employed or permitted to work in any manu-
facturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing, baking or laundering estab-
lishment more than ten hours in any one day, nor more than sixty
hours in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day if
any part of her work is done before six o'clock in the morning or after
10 o'clock in the evening of the said day; nor shall any female be em-
ployed or permitted to work for more than six hours continuously at
any one time in any of the aforesaid establishments in which three or
more such persons are employed without an interval of, at least, a half
hour, except that such female may be so employed for not more than six
and a half hours continuously at one time if she shall not be permitted