526 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 516

Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Intelligence Offices and
Employment Agencies", placing the supervision of said sub-
title under the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics in place
of the Commissioner of State Employment and Registration,
and to correct an error.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 270, 271, 275 and 276 of Article 56 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Intelli-
gence Offices and Employment Agencies", be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

270. All licenses to engage in business as an employment
agent in this State shall be annual licenses, except as herein-
after in this section provided, and shall be granted by the Com-
missioner of Labor and Statistics. No person shall engage in
business as an employment agent in this State until (1) he
shall pay to the said Commissioner a license fee of $25. 00
for a full year or pro rata for less than a full year, pro-
vided, however, that the fee, shall not be less than $10. 00,
(2) and shall also deposit with the said Commissioner a
bond in the penal sum of $1, 000 signed by the applicant
for the license as principal and by a Surety Company author-
ized to do business in this State as surety, payable to the
State of Maryland as obligee and conditioned on the com-
pliance of such applicant with the provisions of Sections
268 to 2", inclusive, and the payment by such applicant
of all damages occasioned to any person by reason of any
misstatement, misrepresentation, fraud or deceit forbidden xby
said sections of such applicant or his agents or employees. All
licenses granted by the said Commissioner shall irrespective of
the date of issue, expire on the first day of May next thereafter.
No license shall be issued by the said Commissioner unless the
applicant for such license shall have an office within the State
at which such applicant carries on, or proposes to carry on,
business as an employment agent. The said Commissioner is
hereby authorized to refuse to issue a license to any applicant
whose license has been suspended or revoked as hereinafter pro-
vided, unless and until it shall be shown to the satisfaction of
said Commissioner that the applicant will not be guilty of the
offense for which such prior license was suspended or revoked.

271. The Commissioner of Labor and Statistics is hereby
authorized, at any time and from time to time, after a public
hearing (notice of which shall be given as hereinafter in this
section provided), to make and publish rules and regula-
tions for the regulation of employment agents not incon-
sistent with the provisions of Sections 268 to 2", inclusive,