EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 241

CHAPTER 147.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section 14 of Chapter 79 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of the year one
thousand nine hundred and twelve, entitled "An Act to
amend Article 100 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Work-hours of, in factories, " sub-title "Hours of
Labor for Females. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 14 of Chapter 79, of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of the year one thousand nine
hundred and twelve, entitled An Act to amend Article 100 of
the Code of Public General Laws, title "Work-hours of, in
factories, " sub-title "Hours of Labor for Females, " be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

Section 14. No female shall be employed or permitted to
work in any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing,
baking or laundering establishment, more than ten hours in
any one day, nor more than sixty hours in any one week, nor
more than eight hours in any one day, if any part of her
work is done before six o'clock in the morning or after ten
o'clock in the evening of the said day, nor shall any female
be employed or permitted to work for more than six hours
continuously at any one time in any of the aforesaid estab-
lishments in which three or more such persons are employed,
without an interval of, at least, a half hour, except that such
female may be so employed for not more than six and a half
hours continuously at one time, if she shall not be permitted
to work during the remainder of the day in her said employ-
ment. Provided, further, that the invalidity of any portion of
this Act, shall in no way affect the validity of any other portion
thereof, -which can be given effect, without such invalid part.
But the provisions of this section shall not apply to females em-
ployed in the canning or preserving, or preparing for canning
or preserving of perishable fruit and vegetables. And provided
further that in any retail mercantile establishments located out-
side of the city of Baltimore a female may be permitted to
work on Saturdays and on Christmas Eve and the five working
days next preceding Christmas Eve not more than twelve hours,
if during each of such Saturdays and Christmas Eve and five
days aforesaid the female so employed shall have at least two
rest intervals of not less than one hour each, and this provision
shall only apply to such mercantile establishments as have dur-