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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 101.

ments," sub-title " Health — Workshops and Factories,
Sweating System," as the same was amended by Chapter
302, Acts of 1894, and Chapter 467, Acts of 1896; euch
four additional Sections to be known respectively as Sections
149 E E, 149 F F, 149 G G, and 149 H H, and to come in
immediately after Section 149 D of the Article.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

New sections
added.

Maryland, That article 27 of the Code of Public Ge-neral
Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title " Health —
Workshops and Factories, Sweating System," as the same was
amended by chapter 302, Acts of 1894, and chapter 467 of the
Acts of 1896, be and is hereby amended by the addition of
four new sections to be added thereto, to be known respectively
as sections 149 K E, 149 F F, 149 G G and 149 H H, and to come
in immediately after 149 D of said article, and to read as
follows :
Section 149 E E...No room or apartment in any tenement or

By whom
rooms in
tenement or
dwelling-
houses are tc
be used.

dwelling-house shall be used except by the immediate members
of the family living therein, which shall be limited to a hus-
band and wife, their children, or the children of either, for the
manufacture of coats, vests, trousers, kneepants, overalls,
cloaks, hats, caps, suspenders, jerseys, blouses, waists, waist-
bands, underwear, neckwear, furs, fur trimmings, fur garments,
shirts, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, cigarettes, or cigars.
No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling-house
shall be used by any family or part of family until a permit
shall first have been obtained from the Chief of the Bureau of
Industrial Statistics, stating the maximum number of persons
allowed to be employed therein. Such permit shall not be
granted until an inspection of such premises has been made by
the inspector or his assistant, named by the Chief of the
Bureau of Industrial Statistics, and such permit may be revoked
by the said Chief of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics at any
time the health of the community or those employed or
living therein may require it. No person, firm or corporation
shall work in, or hire or employ any person to work in any
room or apartment in any building, rear building, or building
in the rear of a tenement or dwelling-house, at making in
whole or in part, any of the articles mentioned in this section,

When permit
shall
be granted.

without first obtaining a written permit from the Chief of
the Bureau of Industrial Statistics stating the maximum num-
ber of persons allowed to be employed therein. Such permit
shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises has
been made by the factory inspector or his assistant, named by
the Chief of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics, and such