ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 264.

AN ACT to amend article thirty of the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws, title " Crimes and Punishments,"

sub-title " Marrying Unlawfully," by adding thereto

an additional section forbidding marriages between

white persons and persons of negro descent to the

third generation, to be known and distinguished as

section one hundred and thirty-three A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That article thirty of the Code of

Public General Laws, title " Crimes and Punish-

Article amend-

ments," sub-title "Marrying Unlawfully," be amended

ed.

by adding thereto the following additional section, to

be known and distinguished as section " one hundred

and thirty-three A."

SEC. 133A. All marriages between a white person

and a negro, or between a white person and a person

Marriage pro-

of negro descent, to the third generation inclusive, are

hibited.

forever prohibited, and shall be void; and any person

violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed

guilty of an infamous crime, and punished by impri-

sonment in the penitentiary not less than eighteen

Punishment.

months nor more than ten years.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 365.

AN ACT to protect the health of those employed in

factories, manufacturing establishments and work-

shops in this state.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That all factories, manufacturing estab-

lishments or workshops in the state shall be kept in a

Factories, &c.

cleanly condition and free from effluvia arising from

kept clean.

any drain, privy or other nuisance, and no factory,

manufacturing establishment or workshop shall be