1066 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 266. 1910, ch. 724 (p. 139).

299. The proprietors or managers of shirt factories in the State of
Maryland are hereby required to sprinkle the floors of said factories every
morning with water, and any proprietor or manager failing to comply
with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be fined the sum of ten dollars, and cost of
prosecution, for each and every offense, one-half of said fine to go to the
informer, balance to be paid into the treasury of the State.
This section is a duplicate of art. 43, sec. 101.

An. Code, sec. 267. 1914, ch. 81.

300. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or asso-
ciation engaged in the manufacture of cigars to cause or permit any per-
son, whether employee or member of such firm, corporation or associa-
tion or other person to stand or sit on or upon any mould, form or press
that may be used in the moulding, forming or pressing of cigars during
the course or process of manufacture while such mould, form or press
is being so used; and any such person, firm, corporation or association
violating or causing to be violated the provisions of this Section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not more than five dollars ($5.00) for the first
offense; and not more than fifty ($50.00) dollars for the second and
each subsequent offense.

Health—Workshops and Factories—Sweating System.

An. Code, sec. 268. 1904, sec. 245. 1894, ch. 302, sec. 149A. 1896, ch. 467.
1914, ch. 779, sec. 245.

301. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house, and
no part of any tenement or dwelling house, shall be used for the purpose
of manufacturing, in whole or in part, altering, repairing or finishing
therein, any articles whatsoever, except for the exclusive use of the person
so using any part of such tenement or dwelling house, or the immediate
members of his household, without a license therefor as provided in this
section.

Application for such license shall be made to the Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics and Information 1 by any member of a family desiring to do
such work in any room or apartment of a tenement or dwelling house.
Such application shall designate the location of the room or apartment,
the number of persons to be employed therein, the street and number of
and the full name and address of the owner of the building in which the
room or apartment is located, and shall be signed by the applicant. Appli-
cation blanks shall be prepared and furnished by the Bureau of Statistics
and Information in such form as the Chief thereof may determine.

Upon receipt of such application the Chief of .the Bureau of Statistics
and Information shall consult the records of the local health department
or board or other appropriate local authority charged with the duty of
sanitary inspection, and if such records show the presence of any in-

1 Now the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics—see art. 89.