780 ARTICLE 56.

The compensation of such part time inspectors, investigators, or field
workers shall be determined by co-operative arrangement with the depart-
ment head concerned, provided the total compensation of any such part
time inspector shall not be greater than that allowed in the budget of the
department in which such part time employee is regularly employed; and
the compensation of any full time inspector shall be that provided for the
Department of State Employment and Registration in the biennial
budget Act. All salaries and other legitimate expenses shall be paid by
the State Comptroller on proper requisition signed by the said Com-
missioner out of the license taxes provided by Section 232 and shall be
paid only from such license taxes. The said Commissioner is hereby
authorized and empowered to investigate, through the inspectors appointed
by him pursuant to the provisions of this section, the manner in which all
employment agents doing business within the State conduct such business,
and to examine at any time during business hours any and all of the books
and records of such employment agents, to the end that all such employ-
ment agents shall comply with the provisions of Sections 232 to 232-I,
inclusive, and with the rules and regulations made and published by the
said Commissioner.

1935, ch. 296, sec. 232H.

232H. The violation of any of the provisions of Sections 232 to 232-I,
inclusive, or of any rule or regulation issued and published by the Com-
missioner of State Employment and Registration, shall be a misdemeanor
punishable by a fine of not less than $25. 00 for the first offense and not
less than $100. 00 for each subsequent offense. It shall be the duty of said
Commissioner to institute proceedings through the State's Attorney of
Baltimore City and the State's Attorneys of the respective counties for the
prosecution of any employment agent violating any of the provisions of
Sections 232 to 232-I, inclusive, or of any regulations made and published
by him pursuant to the provisions of Section 232C.

1935, ch. 296, sec. 232-I.

232-I. The provisions of Sections 232 to 232-I, inclusive, are sever-
able, and, in the event that any provision thereof should be declared
unconstitutional, it is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that the
remaining portions would have been enacted notwithstanding such judicial
determination of the invalidity of any particular provision or provisions
in any respect. ¹

Trading Stamp Companies.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 235. 1912. sec. 173. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 173. 1935, ch. 360.

235. Every person, firm, association and corporation of this State or
carrying on business therein, who shall sell or deliver any stamps, cou-

¹ Sec. 3, ch. 296, acts of 1035, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent of
such inconsistency.