ART 27] HEALTH—WORKSHOPS AND FACTORIES. 863

room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling-house shall be
used by any family or part of family until a permit shall first
have been obtained from the chief of the bureau of industrial
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 inspector
or his assistant, named by the chief of the bureau of industrial
statistics, and such permit may be revoked by the said chief
of the bureau of industrial 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 chief of the bureau of industrial sta-
tistics 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 chief of the bureau of
industrial statistics, and such permit may be revoked by the
chief of the bureau of industrial statistics at any time the
health of the community 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 corpora-
tion 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 chief of the bureau of industrial statistics
or one of his deputies.
State v. Hyman, 98 Md. —.