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and Assistant Inspectors of Female Labor, or upon any other inspectors,
officers or employees therein named, shall thereupon be transferred to and
imposed and devolved upon the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics,
together with all records, documents, papers, monies, and all property and
things of or appertaining to the said Bureau of Statistics and Information,
and the said Inspector and Assistant Inspectors of Female Labor, all in like
manner and to the same extent and with the same effect as if the said
Commissioner of Labor and Statistics had been originally named in said
Article as the body upon which said powers and duties were conferred;
provided, however, that the powers of the county superintendent of schools
in the counties with respect to employment certificates and the issue thereof,
and the provisions with reference to school attendance officers and schools
records shall not be affected by this section. Immediately upon such
transfer of powers and duties, the said Bureau of Statistics and Informa-
tion and the Chief of the Industrial Bureau shall be abolished as afore-
said, and the Inspector and Assistant Inspectors of Female Labor shall also
be abolished.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1912, sec. 13. 1916, ch. 406, sec. 13.

14. Upon the appointment and qualification of the Commissioner of
Labor and Statistics, all the powers and duties specified and set forth in
sections 367 to 378, inclusive, of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-titles "Health—Work-
shops and Factories" and "Health—Workshops and Factories—Sweating
System," including the making of registrations, preparing and furnishing
blanks and forms, receiving applications, statements, certificates, papers,
and information, making inspections and entries, issuing and revoking
licenses, consulting records and giving information, as said powers and du-
ties are conferred by said sections 367 to 378, inclusive, of said Article 27,
upon the Bureau of Statistics and Information, or its Chief, or any inspec-
tors, deputies, assistants, officers or employees thereof, shall thereupon be
transferred to and imposed and devolved upon the Commissioner of Labor
and Statistics, together with all records, documents, papers, monies, and
all property and things of or appertaining to the said Bureau of Statistics
and Information, all in like manner and to the same extent and with the
same effect as if the said Commissioner of Labor and Statistics had been
originally named in said sections as the body upon which said powers and
duties were conferred.

Fines and Penalties.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 15. 1916, ch. 406, sec. 15.

15. That all violations of any of the provisions of any of the laws
the enforcement of which is by the act of 1916, chapter 406, transferred
to the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, which may be committed
before June 1,1916, shall be prosecuted and punished as if said Act had not
been passed.

All violations of any of the provisions of such laws which may be com-
mitted after June 1, 1916, shall be prosecuted and punished in accordance
with the terms thereof; and whenever such laws confer any rights or
privileges of any kind upon any of the boards, commissions, bureaus,
inspectors or officials whose powers and duties are by said Act transferred