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or his or its duly authorized agent, shall fail, refuse or neglect to comply
with any of the conditions under which same was granted, or with
any law relating to the premises licensed, or if the health of the community
or of the persons employed thereunder requires it.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 305. 1912, sec. 272. 1904, sec. 249. 1902, ch. 101, sec. 149EE.

375. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling-house shall
be used except by the immediate members of the family living therein,
which shall be limited to a husband and wife, their children, or the children
of either, for the manufacture of coats, vests, trousers, knee-pants, overalls,
cloaks, hats, caps, suspenders, jerseys, blouses, waists, waistbands, under-
wear, neckwear, furs, fur trimmings, fur garments, shirts, purses, feathers,
artificial flowers, cigarettes, or cigars. No room or apartment in any tene-
ment or dwelling-house shall be used by any family or part of family until a
permit shall first have been obtained from the Commissioner of Labor and
Statistics, stating the maximum number of persons allowed to be em-
ployed therein. Such permit shall not be granted until an inspection of such
premises has been made by the inspector or his assistant, named by the
Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, and such permit may be revoked by
the said Commissioner of Labor and Statistics at any time the health
of the community or those employed or living therein may require it. No
person, firm or corporation shall work in, or hire or employ any person to
work in any room or apartment in any building, rear building, or building
in the rear of a tenement or dwelling-house, at making in whole or in part,
any of the articles mentioned in this section, without first obtaining a
written permit from the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics stating
the maximum number of persons allowed to be employed therein. Such
permit shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises has been
made by the factory inspector or his assistant, named by the Commissioner
of Labor and Statistics, and such permit may be revoked by the Com-
missioner of Labor and Statistics at any time the health of the com-
munity or of those so employed may require it. All families, persons,
firms or corporations now engaged in such manufacture in such tenement
or dwelling-house or other building, shall apply for such permit on or before
July 1, 1902, and annually thereafter at the same date. The said permit
shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the room, or one of the rooms to
which it relates. Every person, firm or corporation contracting for the
manufacture of any of the articles mentioned in this section, or giving out
the incomplete materials from which they or any of them are to be made, or
to be wholly or partially finished, or employing persons in any tenement
or dwelling-house, or other building, to make, wholly or partly finish, the
articles mentioned in this section, shall keep a written register of the names
and addresses of all persons to whom such work is given to be made, or with
whom they may have contracted to do the same. Such register shall be pro-
duced for inspection, and a copy thereof shall be furnished on demand made
by the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics or one of his deputies.

This and the following sections held constitutional and valid, under the police power,
as health regulations. If a statute passed for protection of health, morals or. safety
has no real or substantial relations to those objects, the courts will declare it void.
The reasonableness of ordinances passed by a municipality in pursuance of legislative
authority may be enquired into by courts. This and the following sections apply to
tenements, etc., where garments are manufactured for sale. State v. Hyman, 98 Md. 611.
And see State v. Hyman, cited in dissenting opinion in Goldman v. Crowther, 147
Md. 323.

¹ While the title of act of 1914, ch. 779, calls for a sec. "249," no such section appears
in the act.