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oaths as may be called for in the issuance of certificates in this sub-title,
and are hereby forbidden to charge or receive a fee therefor.

An. Code, sec. 50. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 50. 1914, ch. 840, sec. 50.

53. The sum of Seventeen Thousand Dollars per annum is hereby
appropriated to carry out the provisions of this sub-title.

Hours of Labor for Females.1

An. Code, sec. 51. 1912, ch. 79, sec. 14. 1916, ch. 147.

54. No female shall be employed or permitted to work in any manu-
facturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing, baking or laundering establish-
ment more than ten hours in any one day, nor more than sixty hours
in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day, if any part
of her work is done before six o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock
in the evening of the said day, nor shall any female be employed or per-
mitted to work for more than six hours continuously at any one time in
any of the aforesaid establishments in which three or more such persons
are employed, without an interval of, at least, a half hour, except that
such female may be so. employed for not more than six and a half hours
continuously at one time, if she shall not be permitted to work during the
remainder of the day in her said employment. Provided, further, that
the invalidity of any portion of this sub-title, shall in no way affect the
validity of any other portion thereof, which can be given effect, without
such invalid part. But the provisions of this section shall not apply to
females employed in the canning or preserving, or preparing for canning
or preserving of perishable fruit and vegetables. And provided further that
in any retail mercantile establishments located outside of the city of Bal-
timore a female may be permitted to work on Saturdays and on Christmas
Eve and the five working days next preceding Christmas Eve not more than
twelve hours, if during each of such Saturdays and Christmas Eve and five
days aforesaid the female so employed shall have at least two rest intervals
of not less than one hour each, and this provision shall only apply to such
mercantile establishments as have during the remainder of the calendar
year a working day of not more than nine hours.2

An. Code, sec. 52. 1912, ch. 79, sec. 15.

55. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room of
any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing, baking or laundering
establishment in which any females are employed, a printed notice stating
the provisions of this law and the hours of beginning and stopping work.
The printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the Commissioner

of Labor and Statistics.

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1 No woman may work in or about a coal mine, art. 89, sec. 174.

2 The act of 1916, ch. 406 (see art. 89 of the Code), creates a commission to be
known as the state board of labor and statistics, and transfers to said board all powers
and duties now exercised by bureau of statistics and information and chief of
industrial bureau and inspector and assistant inspector of female labor under this and
following sections. Commissioner of labor and statistics superseded said board by ch. 29
of 1922. See art. 89.