1134 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 480. 1904, see. 427. 1894, ch. 481, sec. 276A.

531. The officers and board of directors of the Friendly Inn of Balti-
more City, and the officers and directors and managers of any other chari-
table corporation heretofore formed, or which may be hereafter formed,
under either the general incorporation law of this State or by special act,
for the charitable purpose, in whole or in part, of supplying food and lodg-
ing to the needy without demanding or receiving compensation in money
therefor, may, and the said officers, directors and managers are hereby
authorized and empowered to require any person applying to them for, and
receiving from them, either food or lodging in any house, home or build-
ing maintained by, the said charitable corporation, to perform within
twenty-four hours thereafter a reasonable amount of labor in return
therefor, provided that the performance of such labor, be accepted by such
person as a condition upon which said food or lodging is given and re-
ceived; and if any person refuses or neglects, when so required, to per-
form such labor suited to his age, strength and capacity, in return for the
food or lodging so asked for and received by him, within the time above
specified, he shall be deemed a vagrant and be punishable as such.

Wages—Payment of by Certain Corporations.

An. Code, sec. 481. 1904, sec. 428. 1902, ch. 589. 1904, ch. 93, secs. 1 and 2.

532. From and after a period of one month subsequent to the first
day of April, in the year 1904, every association or corporation doing busi-
ness in the State of Maryland employing wage-workers, whether skilled
or ordinary laborers, engaged in manual or clerical work, in the business
of mining, manufacturing, operating an electric railroad, street rail-
way, telegraph, telephone or express company, shall make payment in
lawful money of the United States semi-monthly to said employes, labor-
ers and wage-workers, or to their authorized agents, at their respective
places of employment, at intervals of not more than sixteen days and not
more than fourteen days.1 In case any of said corporations or associations,
doing business as aforesaid, or any of their officers, shall refuse to make
payment at the times above set forth, to their wage-workers, laborers or
other employees the wages due them, or any of them, said association, cor-
poration or officer so refusing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be
liable to indictment therefor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined a sum
not exceeding two hundred dollars for each offense.
This section is a duplicate of art. 23, sec. 151.

Water Supply—Pollution of Sources of.

An. Code, sec. 482. 1904, sec. 429. 1888, sec. 277. 1886, ch. 6.

533. If any person shall put, or cause to be placed, any dead animal,
or part of the carcass of any deal animal, or any decayed or filthy animal
or vegetable matter, into any stream, or the tributary of any stream, well,
spring, reservoir, pond or other source from which water or- ice is drawn,
taken or. used for drinking or domestic purposes, or shall knowingly suffer

1 This line is just as it appears in the official copy of the acts.