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ART. C] COMPULSORY WORK LAW. 749
other information aforesaid as may have been obtained and registered.
The Governor shall thereupon assign, or cause to be assigned, and, if
necessary, reassign or cause to be reassigned, such persons to occupa-
tions as aforesaid, carried on by the State, the counties or the City of
Baltimore, or to private employers engaged in occupations of the char-
acter above mentioned, and who accept the services of such persons, for
a period which shall not in the case of any person exceed six continuous
months at any one time. Persons so assigned must in every case be
physically able to perform the work to which they are assigned. As
soon as the proclamation has been issued, as herein provided, it shall be
the duty of the Governor to prepare and publish such rules and regu-
lations governing the assignment of persons to work under this sub-
title as will assure that all persons similarly circumstanced shall, as far
as it is possible to do so, be treated alike. In fixing the period of work
to which anyone is assigned, and in determining its nature, the Gov-
ernor shall take into consideration the age, physical condition and any
other appropriate circumstances of the person so assigned. The rules
and regulations adopted under the provisions of this sub-title shall make
allowances for such facts and circumstances. Any such person failing
or refusing to do or to continue to do the work assigned to him, and
who, in the meanwhile, has not become regularly or continuously em-
ployed in some business, occupation, trade or profession, shall, upon
conviction before any Justice of the Peace having criminal jurisdiction,
be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned
not more than six months, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the dis-
cretion of the Court or Justice.
1917, ch. 33, sec. 2.
57. All persons able to support themselves by reason of ownership
of property or income and those supported by others, shall be included
among those required to register under this sub-title. All students and
all persons fitting themselves to engage in trade or industrial pursuits
shall not be included within the provisions of this sub-title.
1917, ch. 33, sec. 3.
58. After the issuance of the proclamation hereinbefore provided
for, it shall be the duty of the Sheriffs of the respective counties and
of the Police Department of Baltimore City, and of any other officer,
State, county or municipal, charged with enforcing the law, to seek and
to continue to seek diligently the names and places of residence of able-
bodied male persons within their respective jurisdictions, between the
ages aforesaid, not regularly or continuously employed as aforesaid, who
have failed to register as aforesaid, and to obtain warrants for their
arrest from any Justice of the Peace having criminal jurisdiction.
Failure of such persons to register shall be a misdemeanor and shall
be punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00). The
names of all those convicted before any Justice of the Peace of failing
to register, together with all other information as aforesaid, shall be
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