LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 445
State Board of Commissioners of Practical Plumbing.

509. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm or cor-
poration engaged ip the plumbing business in the City of Balti-
more to employ as workmen in said business any persons,
except those qualified to work at the plumbing business, as
provided in section 511 of this Article; and no person shall be
qualified to work at the plumbing business unless he has made
application to and received from the State Board of Commis-
sioners of Practical Plumbing the certificate of competence
provided for in section 511 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
officer of any corporation, engaged in the plumbing business
in the City of Baltimore, who shall employ any person to work
at the 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.

510. 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 work at the plumb-
ing business.

511. The Governor shall appoint biennially five persons,
who shall constitute a board of commissioners, which shall be
known and designated as "The State Board of Commissioners
of Practical Plumbing," and who shall be selected as follows:
Three persons who are practical and skilled plumbers from the
City of Baltimore, the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore
City, and a member of the State Board of Health, from the
State at large, whose duty it shall be to faithfully and impar-
tially execute, or cause to be executed, all the provisions and
requirements of this and the two preceding sections; upon