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Comptroller on proper requisition signed by the said Commissioner out
of the license taxes provided by Section 268 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 em-
ployment 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 268 to 277,
inclusive, and with the rules and regulations made and published by the
said Commissioner.

1935, ch. 296, sec. 232H.

276. The. violation of any of the provisions of Sections 268 to 277,
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 268 io 277, inclusive, or of any regulations made and published
by him pursuant to the provisions of Section 271.

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

277. The provisions of Sections 268 to 277, inclusive, are sever-
able, and, in the event that any provision thereof should be declared un-
constitutional, 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

Laundries.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 233. 1912, sec: 171. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 171.

278. Each person, firm or corporation, resident or non-resident, doing
a public laundry business in this State shall pay for the privilege of con-
ducting such business, whether worked by hand or other power, by first
taking out an annual license therefor, for each place of business, and
paying the following license fee, viz.:

Laundries employing less than five persons................... $ 5.00

Laundries employing not less than five persons, and not more

than ten persons......................................... $ 15.00

Laundries employing -not less than ten persons, and not more

than twenty persons..................... ^ ................ $ 50.00

Laundries employing more than twenty persons............. $100.00

Provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall be construed to
impose a license tax upon persons who wash bed clothing,, wearing ap-

¹ Sec. 3, ch. 296, acts of 1935, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent of
such inconsistency.