444 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Seats for Female Employees in Stores or Factories.

505. It shall be the duty of all employers of females in any
mercantile or manufacturing business or occupation in the City
of Baltimore to provide and maintain suitable seats for the use
of such female employees, and to permit the use of such seats
by such employees to such an extent as may be reasonable for
the preservation of their health.

506. Any violation of the preceding section by any em-
ployer shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall be punish-
able by a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars, to be collected
as other fines are collected.

Tenement and Lodging Houses.

507. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are author-
ized and directed to enact ordinances regulating the construc-
tion, care, use and management of tenement houses, lodging
houses and cellars in the City of Baltimore, for the better pro-
tection of the lives and health of the inmates dwelling therein.

508. A tenement house shall be taken to mean and include
every house, building or portion thereof which is rented, leased,
let or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied, as the house or
residence of more than three families living independently of
another, and doing their own cooking upon the premises, or by
more than two families upon a floor so living or cooking, but
having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-
closets or privies, or some of them; a lodging house shall be
taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion
thereof, in which persons are harbored or received, or lodged
for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at one time,
or any part of which is let for any person to sleep in for any
time less than a week; a cellar shall be taken to mean and in-
clude every basement or lower story of any building or house
of which one-half or more of the height from the floor to the
ceiling is below the level of the street adjoining.