LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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151 A. All proprietors or owners of any retail, jobbing or
wholesale dry goods store, notions, millinery or any other
business where any female help are employed for the purpose
of serving the public in the capacity of clerks or salesladies,
shall provide a chair or stool for each one of such female help
or clerks, in order that during such period as they are not
actively engaged in making sales or taking stock they may
have an opportunity to rest.

Chairs for
sales ladies.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any owner or proprietor, as
mentioned in the foregoing section, who shall neglect to obey
or observe the provisions of said section, shall be considered to
have committed a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined in an amount not less than ten dollars,
and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense; and

Refusal to
provide
chairs.

in the event said owner or proprietor shall continue to disobey
said section, he shall be subjected to a tine at the rate of one
dollar a day, daily, for every chair he fails to so furnish his
said employes.

Penalty.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 148.

AN ACT to provide for the support and treatment of Indi-
gent Lying-in-Women in the Maryland Lying-in-Hospital of
Baltimore city.

Effective.

WHEREAS, The Maryland Lying-in-Hospital of Baltimore
city, a body corporate, duly incorporated under the laws of the
State of Maryland, is well and firmly established in Baltimore
city, and particularly well equipped for the treatment of lying
ill-women; and,

Preamble:

WHEREAS, It is desirable that the benefits and advantages
of the said hospital should be extended to the indigent lying
in-women of the State of Maryland, so that skilled and humane
treatment be afforded them; therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary
land, That the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per
annum be and the same is hereby appropriated, for each of the
years eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundret

Appropria-
tion.