644 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

more than eight hours per calendar day for the protection of
property or human life; provided, that in all such cases the
laborer, workman or mechanic so employed and working to
exceed eight hours per calendar day shall be paid on the
basis of eight hours constituting a day's work; provided
further, that the rate of per diem wages paid to laborers,
workmen or mechanics employed directly by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall not be less than two dollars per
diem; provided further, that not less than the current
rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is per-
formed shall be paid to laborers, workmen or mechanics em-
ployed by contractors or sub-contractors in the execution of
any contract or contracts, in any public work within the City
of Baltimore.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all contracts hereafter
made by or on behalf of the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore with any person or persons or corporation, for the
performance of any work with the City of Baltimore, shall be
deemed and considered as made upon the basis of eight hours
constituting a day's work, and it shall be unlawful for any
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 should not apply to the employees 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 April 5, 1910.

CHAPTER 41.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 623A
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of
Baltimore," as amended by the Act of 1904, Chapter 521, sub-