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748 WORK—HOURES OF. [ART. C
ment. Provided, further, that the invalidity of any portion of this
sub-title, shall in no way affect the validity of any other portion thereof,
which can be given effect, without such invalid part. But the provisions
of this section shall not apply to females employed in the canning or
preserving, or preparing for canning or preserving of perishable fruit
and vegetables. And provided further that in any retail mercantile
establishments located outside of the city of Baltimore a female may
be permitted to work on Saturdays and on Christmas Eve and the five
working days next preceding Christmas Eve not more than twleve
hours, if during each of such Saturdays and Christmas Eve and five
days aforesaid the female so employed shall have at least two rest inter-
vals of not less than one hour each, and this provision shall only apply
to such mercantile establishments as have during the remainder of the
calendar year a working day of not more than nine hours.*
53. Repealed. (Act 1916, ch. 406.)
Compulsory Work Law.
1917, ch. 33, sec. 1.
56. Whenever, because of the existence of a state of war, the Gov-
ernor determines that it is necessary, for the protection and welfare of
the people of the State, that all able-bodied male persons, between the
ages hereinafter mentioned, be employed in occupations carried on by
the State, the Counties or the City of Baltimore, or any of their agen-
cies, or be employed in occupations carried on by private persons, firms
or corporations, whether agricultural, industrial or otherwise, and which
occupations, whether carried on by the State, the counties, the City of
Baltimore, or by private employers, the Governor finds to be essential
for the protection and welfare of the people of the State and the United
States, and also finds that the same cannot be carried on as the protec-
tion and welfare of the people of this State and of the United States
require without resort to' this sub-title, then the Governor shall be
authorized, by proclamation, to require every able-bodied male person
between 18 and 50 years of age, inclusive, within the State, not then or
thereafter regularly or continuously employed or engaged in any law-
ful and useful business, occupation, trade or profession of any kind, to
register forthwith his name, address, age and any other information
which the Governor shall require, with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of the county in which such person may be, or with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, if such person be in Baltimore City.
It shall be the duty of said clerk, from time to time, upon request of
the Governor, to furnish him lists of the names, addresses, age and such
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*The act of 1916, chapter 406 (see article 89 of the code), creates a commission
to be known as the state board of labor and statistics, and transfers to said
board all the powers and duties now exercised by the bureau of statistics and
information and the chief of the industrial bureau and the inspector and assist-
ant inspector of female labor under this and the following sections.
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