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the same in substantial book form and annually thereafter revise and repub-
lish the same.

As to agriculture, see art. 2A. As to forestry, see art. 39A.

As to conservation of natural resources, see art. 19A.

State Employment Agencies.

An. Code, sec. 2A. 1916, ch. 406, sec. 2A.

3. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics to
organize, establish and conduct free employment agencies, in such parts of
the State as said Commissioner may deem advisable, for the free use of
the citizens of the State of Maryland, for the purpose of securing employ-
ment for unemployed persons who may register in said agencies, and for
the purpose of securing help or labor for persons registering as applicants
for help or labor. The said Commissioner shall investigate the extent and
the cause or causes of unemployment in this State, and the remedies
therefor adopted and applied in the States of this country and in other
countries, and report thereon to the Governor, and shall do all in its power
to bring together employers seeking employees and working and laboring
people seeking employment.

Arbitration of Labor Disputes.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 1.

4. Upon information furnished by an employer of labor, whether per-
son, firm or corporation, or by a committee of employes, or from any other
reliable source, that a controversy or dispute has arisen between employer
and employes, involving ten or more persons, which controversy may result
in a strike or lock-out, the chief 1 of the bureau of industrial statistics of
Maryland, or such person officially connected with said bureau of indus-
trial statistics as may be deputized in writing by the said chief 1 of said
bureau of industrial statistics, shall at once visit the place of controversy
or dispute and seek to mediate between the parties, if in his discretion it
is necessary so to do.

As to arbitration and award, see art. 7.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1904, ch. 671, sec. 2.

5. If mediation can not be affected as provided for in section 4 of this
Article, the chief of the bureau of industrial statistics, or such person
officially connected with said bureau as may be by him deputized in
writing, may, at his discretion, endeavor to secure the consent of the parties
to the controversy or dispute to the formation of a board of arbitration,
which board shall be composed of one employer and one employe engaged
in the same or similar occupation to the one in which the dispute exists,
but who are not parties to the controversy or dispute, and to be selected
by the respective parties to the controversy; the third arbitrator may be
selected by the two first-named arbitrators, and said third arbitrator so

1 The commissioner of labor and statistics, as provided for in sec. 1 of this article, has
superseded this official.