EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 817

records and giving information, as said powers and duties are
conferred by said sections 264 to 275, inclusive, of said Article
27, upon the Bureau of Statistics and Information, or its Chief,
or any inspectors, deputies, assistants, officers or employees
thereof, shall thereupon be transferred to and imposed and de-
volved upon the State Board of Labor and Statistics, together
with all records, documents, papers, monies, and all property
and things of or appertaining to the said Bureau of Statistics
and Information, all in like manner and to the same extent and
with the same effect as if the said Board of Labor and Statis-
tics had been originally named in said sections as the body
upon which said powers and duties were conferred.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a new section be
and the same hereby is added to Article 89 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Statistics and Information as to
Branches of Industry, " the same to be sub-titled "Appropri-
ation, " to follow immediately after Section 13 of said Article,
to be known as Section 14 and to read as follows:

Appropriation.

14. The sum of Eleven thousand, six hundred and sixty-six
dollars and sixty-six cents ($11, 666. 66) for the portion of the
present fiscal year intervening between the first day of June,
1916, and the first day of October, 1916, and the
sum of Thirty-five thousand dollars ($35, 000. 00) annu-
ally for the fiscal years ending September 30, 1917, and
September 30, 1918, respectively, or so much thereof as may
be necessary annually for the maintenance of the State Board
of Labor and Statistics, and the performance of the duties
placed upon it by existing law or laws, or by any law or laws
passed at the present session of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, and by all laws hereafter to be passed and the payment
of the salaries and expenses of said Board and its officers,
deputies, assistants, inspectors and employees, is hereby appro-
priated, and shall be payable on the order or orders of the said
Board from time to time, as in law provided; and the Comp-
troller shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of Mary-
land, as in law provided, for the said appropriation.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That a new Section be
and the same hereby is added to Article 89 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Statistics and Information as to
Branches of Industry, " the same to be sub-titled "Fines and
Penalties, " to follow immediately after section 14 of said Arti-
cle, to be known as Section 15, and to read as follows: