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alleged age, place and date of birth and present residence and any other
matter that may assist in determining the age of the child, and the further
affidavit that the evidence of age required by sub-divisions (a) or (b) of
this Section cannot be produced by the applicant; and if upon investigation
by the officer no facts appear contradicting any of the material statements
of such application, the officer may, after 10 days, issue a regular permit
for such child; provided that the officer issuing permits shall not accept
the aforegoing affidavit unless said affidavit be accompanied by the written
certificate of the physician appointed by the officer authorized to issue such
permits, certifying that he has made a physical examination' and inspection
of said child and verily believes said child to be of the full age of fourteen
years, and whenever practical all information required by sub-division
(d) and Paragraph 2 of this Section shall be embraced in one certificate.

The officer issuing the certificate shall require the evidence of age speci-
fied in sub-division (a) in preference to that specified in sub-division (b),
(c) or (d), and evidence of age specified in sub-division (b) in preference
to that specified in sub-division (c) or (d), and shall not accept the evidence
of age permitted by sub-division (c) or (d) unless he shall receive and
file in addition thereto or as part thereof an affidavit of the parent, guardian,
legal custodian or next friend, showing that no evidence of age specified in
any preceding sub-division or sub-divisions of this Section can be produced
by the applicant.

(4) An Employment ticket signed by the prospective employer, stating
the occupation, industry and place in which such child is to be employed.1

An. Code, sec. 14. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 14. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 14.

15. No employment certificate shall be issued until the child in question
has personally appeared before and been examined by the officer issuing
the certificate, nor until such officer, after making such examination, has
signed and filed in his office a statement that the child can read intelligently
and write legibly simple sentences in the English language.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 15. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 15. 1918, ch. 495, sec. 15.

16. The person authorized to issue a vacation employment certificate
shall not issue such certificate until the child in question has personally
appeared before said person authorized to issue said certificates, and until
said person so authorized has received and approved the following papers
duly executed, viz:

(1) Evidence of age, showing that said child is fourteen years or up-
wards, which evidence of age shall consist of (a), (b), (c) or (d), as set
forth in Section 14 above, or in Keu of said evidence (a), (b), (c) or (d)
in case they cannot be presented, a statement from a regular physician

1 See foot-note to sec. 5.

Although the act of 1916, ch. 701—repealing sub-divisions (c) and (d) and re-
enacting the former—was approved later than act of 1916, ch. 222, since former dealt with
act of 1912, ch. 731, and not with any amendments thereof, and since latter seems to
have been intended substantially as a revision of the sub-title dealt with, ch. 222 is
codified. Those interested, however, should examine the two acts for themselves. See
also decision of the court of appeals in Baltimore v. German-American Fire Ins. Co.,
132 Md. 380.