LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

213

Maryland, hereafter engaged in mining and shipping coal in
Allegany county, be and the same are hereby required to pay
each and all their employees their wages earned in said em-
ployment semi-monthly; that is to say, all wages earned on.
and before the 15th of each month shall be paid not later than
upon the 25th day of said month; an.d all wages earned from
the 16th to the end of each month, shall be paid not later than
the tenth day of the succeeding month, unless said 25th day
or 10th day of any month shall fall on Sunday or a legal holi-
day, in which case the time for payment shall be extended to
the next day.

Employees to
be paid
semi-
monthly.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any such corporation, wil-
fully refusing to make said payments of wages at the times
hereinbefore specified, or wilfully withholding said wages from
said employees beyond said times, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction thereof shall
be fined not less than $50 nor more than $300, in the discre-
tion of the court.

Penalty for
refusal.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect on
or before the 5th day of April, 1896.

Approved April 4th, 1896.

CHAPTER 134.-

AN ACT to provide for the completion of the Records of the
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, accredited to the State of
Maryland, in the late Civil War, and to publish the same,
and to make a suitable appropriation therefor.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor shall, within thirty days after the
passage of this act, appoint three citizens, of whom the Adju-
tant General of the State shall be one, and the other two of
whom shall be representative soldiers, who served in actual
warfare, as a part of the quota of the State of Maryland in
the United, States Army or Navy during the late Civil War,
as commissioners of the State to carry out the provisions of
this act, as hereinafter provided, and who shall serve without
pay.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
said commissioners, under this act, to classify and compile
from the documents in the Adjutant General's office, the

Appointment
of commis-
sioners.