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makes its reports sought by other statisticians, labor,
organizations, manufacturers, librarians and institu-
tions of learning, as well as by the public generally, to
an extent that exhausts the supply shortly after its
publication. Hundreds of people who apply after-
ward must be disappointed.
The scope of the bureau was enlaiged by the Gen-
eral Assembly of 1902, by placing under its jurisdic-
tion and management the Free Employment Agency,
and a system of factory and sweatshop inspection.
In the light of a decision by his Honor, the late
Judge Ritchie, the so called sweat shop law will need
amendments to make its provisions clearer and more
effective.
The Free Employment Agency has met with en-
couragement, and has proved of great assistance to
employers and to those seeking work.
A great number of the Statistician's reports should
be published in order to meet rhe demand for them
from the various business men and students of the
Statd who need them for reference, and also from the
increasing number of people from without the State
who ask for information regarding Maryland with a
view to locating here
BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION.
The State has dealt more liberally with this bureau
during the past two years, and it has repaid the State
handsomely on the investment made.
Within the past eighteen months the bureau has
been largely instrumental in locating over 4,000 settlers
in Maryland, who came here principally from Austria,
Germany and Great Britain, and also from other
States of the Union. The Bureau has aided in finding
a market for nearly 35,000 acres of land, sold to these
immigrants, and the fruits of the wide advertising of
Maryland's climate, resources and advantages by the
Bureau will yet be apparrent to a greater extent even
than heretofore, as it requires time and assiduous ef-
fort to attract the attention of desirable settlers to us,
and to convince them that ours is the best State in
which to locate
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