1366 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 779.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249 and
252 of Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Crimes and Punishments," and sub-title "Health—Work-
shops and Factories—Sweating System,'' and to re-enact same
with amendments, and providing for the registration of fac-
tories, workshops, mercantile and mechanical establishments;
the furnishing of information as to labor; the labeling of ar-
ticles manufactured in outside workshops.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly bf Mary-
land, That Sections 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, and 249 of
Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws; title "Crimes
and Punishments," and sub-title "Health—Workshops and Fac-
tories—Sweating System" be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 243. The owner of every factory, manufacturing and
mechanical establishment and workshop, and of every store or
other mercantile establishment employing five or more persons,
shall register same with the Bureau of Statistics and Informa-
tion, giving the name and home address of the owner, and if
the owner is a corporation, the name and home address of its
President and Manager or Chief Business Agent, the address of
the business, the name under which it is carried on, the number
of employees, and such other data as the Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics and Information may require. Such registration
of existing establishments shall be made within six months after
this Act takes effect; those hereafter established shall be so
registered within thirty days after the commencement of busi-
ness. Within thirty days after a change in the location of any
such establishment, the owner thereof shall file with the Bureau
of Statistics and Information the new address of the business,
together with such other information as the Chief of said Bureau
may require. The registration required by this Section shall
be made upon blanks supplied by the Bureau of Statistics and
Information.

SEC. 244. The owner, operator, manager or lessee of any
factory, workshop, warehouse, elevator, foundry, machine shop,
store or other mercantile, manufacturing or mechanical estab-
lishment, or any agent, superintendent, subordinate, or employee
thereof, or any person employing or directing any labor of any
kind whatsoever, shall, when requested by the Chief of the Bu-
reau of Statistics and Information, furnish any information in