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person failing or refusing to do or to continue to do the work assigned to
him, and who, in the meanwhile, has not become regularly or continuously
employed in some business, occupation, trade or profession, shall, upon
conviction before any Justice of the Peace having criminal jurisdiction, be
fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned not
more than six months, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of
the Court or Justice.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 59. 1912, sec. 57. 1917, ch. 33, sec. 2.

58. All persons able to support themselves by reason of ownership of
property or income and those supported by others, shall be included among
those required to register under this sub-title. All students and all persons
fitting themselves to engage in trade or industrial pursuits shall not be
included within the provisions of this sub-title.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 60. 1912, sec. 58. 1917, ch. 33, sec. 3.

59. After the issuance of the proclamation hereinbefore provided for,
it shall be the duty of the Sheriffs of the respective counties and of the
Police Department of Baltimore City, and of any other officer, State,
county or municipal, charged with enforcing the law, to seek and to con-
tinue to seek diligently the names and places of residence of able-bodied
male persons within their respective jurisdictions, between the ages afore-
said, not regularly or continuously employed as aforesaid, who have failed
to register as aforesaid, and to obtain warrants for their arrest from any
Justice of the Peace having criminal jurisdiction. Failure of such persons
to register shall be a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine not
exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00). The names of all those convicted before
any Justice of the Peace of failing to register, together with all other
information as aforesaid, shall be sent by the Justices of the Peace to the
Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the Counties or the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be. The said Clerks shall register
as aforesaid all persons convicted of failing to register, and report such
registrations to the Governor as hereinbefore provided. The Governor shall
thereupon assign such persons to work as provided in Section 57.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 60. 1912, sec. 59. 1917, ch. 33, sec. 4.

60. All persons required to work under this sub-title shall receive
compensation not less than the wage or salary paid to others engaged in
the same nature of work to which each such person is assigned. If any
such person is assigned to work for any department, board or commission
of the State, then the compensation of such person shall be paid him by
such department, board or commission out of the appropriation made to it
by the State. If any such person is assigned to work for any county or for
the City of Baltimore, or for any private employer, then the compensation
of such person shall be paid to him by such county or the City of Baltimore
or by the private, employer accepting his services. Any such private em-
ployer shall be required to execute a bond to the State, in such penalty
and with such surety as the Governor may approve, conditioned to guaran-
tee the payment of such compensation as the same falls due. If any such
private employer fails to pay to any such person the compensation so due
him, then the same shall be paid by the State, out of any moneys in the
Treasury available therefor and not otherwise appropriated, or out of