"28 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

325-A. Any person employed as signalman, towerman, gate-
man, leverman, agent, train dispatcher, telegraph or telephone
operator in a railroad signal tower or public railroad station to
receive or transmit a telegraphic or telephonic message or train
order for the movement of trains and who works eight hours or
more in any twenty-four each and every day continuously, and
all levermen employed in connection with the reception or trans-
mission of a telegraphic or telephonic message or train-order
for the movement of trains and who work the number of hours
aforesaid must have and shall be allowed at least two days of
twenty-four hours each in each and every calendar month for
rest with the regular compensation; except in cases of extraor-
dinary emergency caused by accident, fire, flood or danger to
life or property, and for such extra service in case or cases of
such emergency, such employe or employes who shall work on
extra days by reason of such emergency shall be paid in addi-
tion to his regular compensation for and during the calendar
month in which such extra service shall be rendered an amount
equal to his average daily compensation for each day during
which he performs such extra service. Any person or persons,
company, corporation or association, who shall violate any of the
provisions of this Section shall on conviction pay a fine of not
less than one hundred dollars ($100) for each violation thereof,
and such fine shall be recovered by an action of debt in the name
of the State of Maryland for the use of the State, which shall
sue for it against such person, company, corporation or associa-
tion violating this Section, said suit to be instituted in any court
of this State having appropriate jurisdiction, and such fine
when recovered, as aforesaid, shall be paid without any deduc-
tion whatever, one-half thereof to the informer and the balance
thereof to be paid into the public school fund of the State of
Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 4th, 1914.

CHAPTER 27.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 26 of
Chapter 731 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at the January Session 1912, entitled "An Act to re-
vise the Child Labor Laws of this State by repealing Section