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(c) or (d), and evidence of age specified in sub-division (b) in preference
to that specified in sub-division (c) or (d), and shall not accept the evi-
dence of age permitted by sub-division (c) or (d) unless he shall receive
and file in addition thereto or as part thereof an affidavit of the parent,
guardian, legal custodian or next friend, showing that no evidence of age
specified in any preceding sub-division or sub-divisions of this Section can
be produced by the applicant.

(4) An Employment ticket signed by the prospective employer, stating
the occupation, industry and place in which such child is to be employed.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 15. 1912, sec. 14. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 14. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 14.

15. No employment certificate shall be issued until the child in ques-
tion has personally appeared before and been examined by the officer
issuing the certificate, nor until such officer, after making such examination,
has signed and filed in his office a statement that the child can read intelli-
gently and write legibly simple sentences in the English language.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 15. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 15. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 15. 1918,

ch. 495, sec. 15.

16. The person authorized to issue a vacation employment certificate
shall not issue such certificate until the child in question has personally
appeared before said person authorized to issue such certificates, and until
said person so authorized has received and approved the following papers
duly executed, viz:

(1) Evidence of age, showing that said child is fourteen years or up-
wards, which evidence of age shall consist of (a), (b), (c) or (d), as set
forth in Section 14 above, or in lieu of said evidence (a), (b), (c) or (d)
in case they cannot be presented, a statement from a regular physician
designated by said person authorized to issue said certificate, certifying
that he has examined said child and that in his opinion said child is of
the age of fourteen years or upward, together with the affidavit of the
parent, guardian, legal custodian or next friend of such child that such
child is above the age of fourteen years.

(2) A statement from a regular physician designated as above, certi-
fying that he has examined said child, and that in his opinion said child is
physically able to undertake the work which ² said certificate is to be issued.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 17. 1912, sec. 16. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 16. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 16.

17. All employment certificates shall be issued on forms supplied by the
Commissioner of Labor and Statistics. All certificates issued in Baltimore
City shall be in duplicate and one copy shall be retained in the files of said
Commissioner for the period of four years from the date of issue. All cer-
tificates issued in any of the counties of Maryland shall be made out in
duplicate and one copy shall be delivered by the person issuing said certifi-
cate to the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics and shall be preserved in

¹ See footnote to sec. 5.

Although the act of 1916, ch. 701—repealing sub-divisions (c) and (d) and reenacting
the former—was approved later than act of 1916, ch. 222, since former dealt with act of
1912, ch. 731, and not with any amendments thereof, and since latter seems to have
been intended substantially as a revision of the sub-title dealt with, ch. 222 is codified.
Those interested, however, should examine the two acts for themselves. See also de-
cision of the court of appeals in Baltimore v. German-American Fire Ins. Co., 132
Md. 380.

² Sentence reads this way in Act.