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charged with the enforcement of any of the provisions of this
act in the performance of his or her duties, or refuses to admit
or locks out any such inspector or officer from any place which
said inspectors or officers are authorized to inspect, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars, or by impris-
onment for not more than ten days, or. by both such fine and
imprisonment.

Section 43. Any inspector of factories or other authorized
inspector, attendance officer, superintendent of schools or other
person authorized to issue employment certificates of permits
and badges as required by this act, or other person charged
with the enforcement of any of the provisions of this act, who
knowingly and wilfully violates or fails to comply with any of
the provisions of this act, shall be fined not more than ten dol-
lars, and if an employee of the Bureau of Statistics and In-
formation, in addition thereto shall be subject to dismissal by
the chief of said bureau.

Section 46. Any person who either for himself or herself
or as agent of any other person or of any corporation, fur-
nishes or sells to any minor any article of any description with
the knowledge that said minor intends to sell said article in
violation of the provisions of this act, or who shall, furnish or
sell articles of any description to a minor after having received
written notice from any officer charged with the enforcement
of this act, or from the officer issuing the permit and badge
required, by section 28, that said minor is unlicensed to sell
such articles, or who shall furnish or sell to any minor re-
quired to have a permit and badge as provided by section 28,
any newspapers, magazines or periodicals with the knowledge
that said minor intends to sell the same, shall be punished by
a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for
not more than ten days or by both such fine and imprisonment;
and any sale of such articles at less than the current retail
price thereof shall be prima facie evidence that the person so
selling had knowledge that the minor to whom said sale was
made intended to resell said articles.

Section 48. The Chief of the Maryland Bureau of Statis-
tics and Information is hereby authorized to appoint four in-
spectors at a compensation not exceeding one thousand dollars
each per annum, and three officers whose duty it shall be to
issue and supervise the issuance of employment certificates,
and to act as inspectors, at a compensation not exceeding