1098 ARTICLE 4.

constituting a day's work, and it shall be unlawful for any such person
or persons or corporation to require or permit any laborer, workman or
mechanic to work more than eight hours per calendar day in doing such
work, except in the cases and upon the conditions provided in Section 516
of this Article.

1910, ch. 94, sec. 4,

516B. That any officer of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
or any person acting under or for such officer, or any contractor or sub-
contractor or other person acting for them, violating any of the provisions
of this Act, shall for each and every offense be fined not less than ten dol-
lars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense, one-half of such
fine to go to the informer; said fines to be collected as other fines are col-
lected by law.

1910, ch. 94, sec. 5.

516C. That the provisions of this Act should not apply to the em-
ployees of the Fire Department, Bay View Asylum or the Baltimore
City Jail.

REFORMATORIES.

1878, ch. 267. 1880, ch. 111. 1880, ch. 323. 1890, ch. 61. 1890, ch. 392. P. L. L.

(1888), Art. 4, sec. 410. 1902, ch. 391. 1906, ch. 469. 1908, ch. 246.

1910, ch. 271. 1912, ch. 332. 1918, ch. 262. 1927, ch. 310.

517. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may annually appro-
priate a sufficient sum of money to pay for the support and maintenance
of each minor committed from the City of Baltimore by legal process, not
exceeding three hundred dollars per annum for each minor so committed
to the following reformatories: Maryland School for Boys, St. Mary's,
Industrial School, Colored House of Reformation, House of Good Shep-
herd for Colored Girls, Industrial Home for Colored Girls, and to any
other reformatories to which such minors may be so committed; and may
appropriate in conformity with the requirements of Section 105-107 of
this Article annually, a sum of money not exceeding five thousand dollars
($5,000) to the Boys' Home Society of Baltimore City; and to St. Vin-
cent's Male Orphan Asylum of Baltimore City any sum now due said
institution for care of destitute or other minors committed by the Courts
or other police magistrates to its care, or who may hereafter be committed,
not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars per year and the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are further authorized and em-
powered to appropriate for repairs, permanent improvements and addi-
tions to the buildings and grounds now used or hereafter to be used by
the Maryland School for Boys and its successors, such additional sum or
sums of money as in their judgment shall from time to time be required
for those purposes.

The female House of Refuge stands in loco parentis to the inmates thereof. As
to rights of such inmates, see Cole v. Female House of Refuge, Daily Record.
December 20, 1895.