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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 455.

AN ACT to regulate the hours of work of cor
porations and manufacturing companies en-
gaged in manufacturing either cotton or
woolen yarns, fabrics or domestics of any
kind in this state.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That no corporation or manu-
facturing company engaged in manufacturing
either cotton or woolen yarns, fabrics or domes-
tics of any kind, incorporated under the laws of

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this state, and no officer, agent or servant of
such named corporation or manufacturing com-
pany, and no person or firm, owning or opera-
ting such corporation or manufacturing com-
pany within the limits of this state, and no
agent or servant of such firm or person shall re-
quire, permit or suffer its, his or their employes
in its, his or their service, or under his, its or
their control, to work for more than ten hours
during each or any day of twenty-four hours for
one full day's work, and shall make no contract or
agreement with such employes, or any of them,
providing, that they or he shall work for more
than ten hours for one day's work during each
or any day of twenty-four hours, and said ten
hours shall constitute one full day's work.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any such named

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corporation or manufacturing company within
the limits of this state shall be allowed, under the
provisions of this section, the privilege of work-
ing male employes, over the age of twenty-one
years, over the limit of ten hours for the express
purpose only of making repairs and improve-
ments, and getting fires made, steam up and the
machinery ready for use in their works, which
cannot be done during the limits of the ten hours,
the extra compensation for all such work to be
settled between such corporation and manufac-
turing companies and the employes ; provided,
that nothing in this act shall be so construed so
as to prohibit any employer from making a con-
tract with his male employes, over the age of
twenty-one years, to work by the hour for such
time as may be agreed upon.