ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                     59

"Manufacturers and Miners, " relating to the payment of

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 440 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County, " sub-
title "Manufacturers and Miners, " be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

440. Every corporation engaged in mining or manufactur-
ing or operating a railroad in Allegany County, and employing
ten or more hands, shall pay its employees the full amount
of their wages in legal tender money of the United States,
or by check payable at par at the bank upon which drawn,,
and any contract by or on behalf of any such corporation for
the payment of the whole or of any part of said wages, in any
other manner than provided shall be and is hereby declared
illegal, null and void; and every such employee shall be en-
titled to recover from any such corporation employing him,:
the whole or so much of the wages earned by him as shall not
have been actually paid to him in legal tender money of the
United States, or by check payable at par at the bank upon
which drawn without set-off or deduction of his demand for
or in respect of any account or claim whatever, nor shall such
employees make any contract with its employers by which such
employees shall be compelled to purchase their supplies, mer-
chandise or goods from any private or company stores owned
and operated by the said employers; nor shall said employers
by means of such employment exercise any influence whatever
on said hands by promises or threats to compel their employees
to deal with any particular merchant or storekeeper.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1931.

Approved April 6, 1931.

CHAPTER 36.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg
to issue bonds to the amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50, -
000. 00) to be known as "Frostburg Sewer Improvement