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such person or persons, or corporation to require or permit any
laborer, workman or mechanic to work more than eight hours
per calendar day in doing such work, except in the cases and
upon the conditions provided in section 2 of this Act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any officer of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or any person acting
under or for such officer, or any contractor or sub-contractor
or other person acting for them, violating any of the provisions
of this Act, shall for each and every offense be fined not less
than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every
offense, one-half of such fine to go to the informer, said fines
to be collected as other fines are collected by law.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of
this Act shall not apply to the employes of the fire department,
Bay View Asylum or the Baltimore city jail.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 12,1908.

CHAPTER 246.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 517,
article 4, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
entitled "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Charter," as re-
enacted by the Act of 1906, chapter 469.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, Entitled "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Charter," as
re-enacted by the Act of 1906, chapter 469, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows:

SEC. 517. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may
annually appropriate a sufficient sum of money to pay for the
support and maintenance of each minor committed from the
city of Baltimore by legal process, not exceeding one hundred
and twenty dollars per annum for each minor so committed
to the following reformatories: Maryland School for Boys,
St. Mary's Industrial School, Colored House of Reformation,
House of Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, Industrial Home
for Colored Girls, and to any other reformatories to which
such minors may be so committed; and may appropriate, in
conformity with the requirements of sections 105 and 107 of
this article, annually, a sum of money not exceeding five thou-
sand dollars to the Boys' Home Society of Baltimore City; and
annually a sum of money not exceeding ten thousand dollars to