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691 E. That if any such person desires to engage or con-
tinue in said business of moving picture machine operator, after
the passage of this Act, he shall apply to the Board provided for
in Section 3 of this Act, for a license and submit to an exam-
ination as to his qualification before said Board; and, if found
proficient by said Board, they shall issue a license, otherwise
they shall refuse to grant a license; if the said Board shall find,
after due examination, that the said applicant for a license
possesses a reasonable knowledge of the moving picture ma-
chine operator business and electricity, as pertains to the op-
eration and management of moving picture machine, then the
said Board shall, upon payment of the fee herein provided for,
issue to said applicant a license for a term of not more than
one year, and shall keep a record of all so issued; and no per-
son shall be granted a license who has not reached the age of
21 years, and makes oath to such fact, and has had at least six
months experience under a licensed operator; provided that
each applicant for the license shall pay to the said Board a
license fee of ten dollars ($10.00). Said license to be good for
a term of one year, and at the expiration of said term a renewal
shall be issued by said Board upon the payment of a fee of five
dollars ($5.00) for said renewal. No person granted a license
under the provisions of this Act shall operate a moving picture
machine after the expiration of said license or after said license
shall have been suspended or revoked as herein provided, unless
the said license or renewal of same shall have been granted as
herein provided.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from and after June 1, 1918.

Approved April 18th, 1918.

CHAPTER 196.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 654
and Section 655 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "III. Places
of Reformation and Punishment", sub-head "The State
Board of Prison Control", as said Section 654 and Section 655
were enacted by Chapter 556 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of 1916; the same providing that the State Board of
Prison Control shall have power to transfer to the Maryland