440 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 222

(d) In case no documentary proof of age of any kind can
be produced, the officer issuing the certificate may receive and
file an application signed by the parent, guardian, legal cus-
todian or next, friend of the child for physician's certificate.
Such application shall contain the name, alleged age, place
and date of birth, and present residence of the child, together
with such further facts as may be of assistance in determining
the age of such child, and shall contain a statement certify-
ing that the parent, guardian, legal custodian or next friend,
signing such application, is unable to produce any of the docu-
mentary proofs of age specified in the preceding subdivisions
of this section. Such application shall be filed for not less
than ten days to enable the person authorized to issue certifi-
cates to investigate the truth of the statements contained in
said application, and in case no facts appear within such
period of ten days discrediting or contradicting any material
statement of such application, the person authorized to issue
certificates shall direct the physician hereinbefore provided for
to add to his statement as to the physical condition of said
child a certificate stating whether said child is, in the opinion
of said physician, of the full age of fourteen years, and in
case said physician shall so certify that said child is, in his
opinion, at least of the full age of fourteen years, said person
authorized to issue certificates shall accept said physician's
certificate as sufficient proof of the age of such child for the
purposes of this section.

The officer issuing the certificate shall require the evidence
of age specified in subdivision (a) in preference to that speci-
fied in any subsequent subdivision and shall not accept the
evidence of age permitted by any subsequent subdivision un-
less he shall receive and file in addition thereto an affidavit of
the parent, guardian, legal custodian or next friend, showing
that no evidence of age specified in any preceding subdivision
or subdivisions of this section can be produced. Such affi-
davit shall contain the age, date and place of birth, and pres-
ent residence of such child.

(4) An employment ticket signed by the prospective em-
ployer, stating the occupation, industry, and place in which
such child is to be employed.

Section 14. No employment certificate shall be issued until
the child in question has personally appeared before and been
examined by the officer issuing the certificate, nor until such
officer, after making such examination, has signed and filed, in