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blanks and forms receiving applications, statements, certificates, papers,
and information, making inspections and entries, issuing and revoking
licenses, consulting records and giving information, as said powers and du-
ties are conferred by said sections 297 to 308, inclusive, of said Article 27,
upon the Bureau of Statistics and Information, or its Chief, or any inspec-
tors, deputies, assistants, officers or employees thereof, shall thereupon be
transferred to and imposed and devolved upon the Commissioner of Labor
and Statistics, together with all records, documents, papers, monies, and
all property and things of or appertaining to the said Bureau of Statistics.
and Information, all in like manner and to the same extent and with the
same effect as if the said Commissioner of Labor and Statistics had been
originally named in said sections as the body upon which said powers and
duties were conferred.

Appropriation.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1916, ch. 406, sec. 14.

15. The sum of Eleven thousand, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and
sixty-six cents ($11,666.66) for the portion of the present fiscal year
intervening between the first day of June, 1916, and the first day of
October, 1916, and the sum of Thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00)
annually for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1917, and September
30, 1918, respectively, or so much thereof as may be necessary annually
for the maintenance of the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, and the
performance of the duties placed upon him by existing law or laws, or by
any law or laws passed at the present session of the General Assembly
of Maryland, and by all laws hereafter to be passed and the payment of
the salaries and expenses of said Commissioner and its officers, deputies,
assistants, inspectors and employees, is hereby appropriated, and shall be
payable on the order or orders of the said Commissioner from time to time,
as in law provided; and the Comptroller shall draw his warrant upon the
Treasurer of Maryland, as in law provided, for the said appropriation.

Fines and Penalties.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1916, ch. 406, sec. 15.

16. That all violations of any of the provisions of any of the laws
the enforcement of which is by the act of 1916, chapter 406, transferred
to the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, which may be committed
before June 1, 1916, shall be prosecuted and punished as if said Act had not
been passed.

All violations of any of the provisions of such laws which may be com-
mitted after June 1, 1916, shall be prosecuted and punished in accordance
with the terms thereof; and whenever such laws confer any rights or
privileges of any kind upon any of the boards, commissions, bureaus,
inspectors or officials whose powers and duties are by said Act transferred
to the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, and whenever such laws im-
pose any duties or obligations of any kind upon any corporations, firms or
individuals with respect to any of the said boards, commissions, bureaus,