438 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 222

Section 9. No child under sixteen years of age shall be
employed, permitted or suffered to work, in, about or in con-
nection with any establishment or occupation named in sec-
tions 4 and 5 unless the person, firm or corporation employing
such child procures and keeps on file, and accessible to any
attendance officer, inspector of factories, or other authorized
inspector or officer charged with the enforcement of this act,
the employment certificate as hereinafter provided, issued to
said child; and unless such employment, permission or suffer
ance to work in, about or in connection with said establish-
ments or occupations shall be in accordance with the terms and
regulations laid down for said employment certificates as here-
. inafter provided.

Section 11. On termination of the employment of a child
under sixteen years of age, the employment certificate issued
to such child shall be returned by registered mail by the
employer to the official issuing the same within twenty-four
hours if said return is demanded by said child and otherwise
within fifteen days of the termination of said employment,
and the official to whom said certificate is so returned shall
file and preserve the same until another certificate is issued to
said child or until said child reaches the age of sixteen years,
and on the return of said certificate shall notify the chief of
the Bureau of Statistics and Information of said return. Any
child whose employment certificate has been returned as above
provided shall be entitled to a new certificate without re-ex-
amination except a physician's certificate that the child is
physically able to undertake the work for which the new cer-
tificate is to be issued, and such reissue of a certificate shall
be subject to all conditions as to recording and reporting gov-
erning the original issue.

Section 12. An employment certificate shall be issued in
Baltimore City only by the chief of the Maryland Bureau
of Statistics and Information, and in the counties by said
chief or by the county superintendent of schools of the county
in which said child resides, or by some person designated in
writing by said superintendent. The employment certificate
shall be issued only upon application in person of the parent,
guardian, or legal custodian of the child desiring such employ-
ment, or if said child have no parent, guardian or legal cus-
todian, then by next friend, but no certificate shall be issued
by any person f or any child then in, or about to enter such
person's own employment, or the employment of a firm or cor-