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the said charitable corporation, to perform within twenty-four
hours thereafter a reasonable amount of labor in return therefor,
provided that the performance of such labor be accepted by
such person as a condition upon which said food or lodging is
given and received; and if any person refuses or neglects,
when so required, to perform such labor suited to his age,
strength and capacity, in return for the food or lodging so
asked for and received by him, within the time above specified,
he shall be deemed a vagrant and be punishable as such.

Wages—Payment of by Certain Corporations.

1902, ch. 589. 1904, ch. 93, secs. 1 and 2.

428. From and after a period of one month subsequent to
the first day of April, in the year 1904, every association or
corporation doing business in the State of Maryland employing
wage-workers, whether skilled or ordinary laborers, engaged in
manual or clerical work, in the business of mining, manufac-
turing, operating a steam or electric railroad, street railway,
telegraph, telephone or express company, shall make payment
in lawful money of the United States semi-monthly to said
employes, laborers and wage-workers, or to their authorized
agents, at their respective places of employment, at intervals of
not more than sixteen days and not more than fourteen days.
In case any of said corporations or associations, doing business
as aforesaid, or any of their officers, shall refuse to make pay-
ment at the times above set forth, to their wage-workers,
laborers or other employees the wages due them, or any of
them, said association, corporation or officer so refusing shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be liable to indictment there-
for, and, upon conviction, shall be fined a sum not exceeding
two hundred dollars for each offense.

Water Supply—Pollution of Sources of.

1888, art. 27, sec. 277. 1886, ch. 6.

429. If any person shall put, or cause to be placed, any
dead animal, or part of the carcass of any dead animal, or any
decayed or filthy animal or vegetable, matter, into any stream,
or the tributary of any stream, well, spring, reservoir, pond or
other source from which water or ice is drawn, taken or used
for drinking or domestic purposes, or shall knowingly suffer
any sewage, washings or other offensive matters from any privy,
cess-pool, factory, trades' establishment, slaughter-house, tan-
nery, or other place, over which he shall have control, to flow