FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

application to and received from the State Board of Commis-
sioners of Practical Plumbing, the certificate of competence
provided for in section 404 of this article, and is otherwise
qualified, as required by this sub-division of this article; any
person or firm engaged in the plumbing business in the city
of Baltimore, and the superintendent, manager, agent or other

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officer of any corporation, engaged in the plumbing business
in the city of Baltimore, who shall employ any person to work
at Hie plumbing business, not qualified as required by this sub-
division of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars
nor more than fifty dollars, for every day or part of every day
that such employer shall employ such workman.

Penalty.

SEC. 403. If any person shall work at the plumbing business
in the city of Baltimore, without being qualified as required
by this sub division of this article, he shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than five dollars nor more than fifty for every day or
part of every day that such workman shall wor at the
plumbing business.

Penalty for
worsing,
unless com-

petent.

SEC. 407. Said commissioners shall hold their several offices
for the period of two years, commencing from the first day of
May in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and there-
after until their successors have been appointed and qualified :
each commissioner, within thirty days after notification of his

Term of com-
missioners.

appointment, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation
before the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, to
impartially and faithfully discharge his duties as said com-
missioner; every person appointed commissioner, who shall
refuse or neglect to take the oath or affirmation provided for in
this section, within the period named, shall be deemed to have
refused said office, and the Governor shall immediately appoint
some person qualified as provided in section 404 of this article.

Oath.

to till the vacancy thus created; each of said commissioners
shall receive the sum of five dollars for every day that he shall
be present at a meeting of said board, for the transaction of
business : provided, however, that in each year he shall not
receive compensation for more than thirty dollars, and pro-
vided also, that said compensation shall be paid out of the
fees or other sums received by said board.

Compensa-
tion.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

Effective.