694                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 181

dress, age and any other information which the Governor shall re-
quire, with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which such
person may be, or with the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, if such person be in Baltimore City. It shall be the duty of said
clerk, from time to time, upon request of the Governor, to furnish
him lists of the names, addresses, age and such other information
aforesaid as may have been obtained and registered. The Governor
shall thereupon assign, or cause to be assigned, and, if necessary, re-
assign or cause to be reassigned, such persons to occupations as
aforesaid, carried on by the State, the counties or the City of Balti-
more, or to private employers engaged in occupations of the charac-
ter above mentioned, and who accept the services of such persons, for
a period which shall not in the case of any person exceed six contin-
uous months at any one time. Persons so assigned must in every case
be physically able to perform the work to which they are assigned.
As soon as the proclamation has been issued, as herein provided, it
shall be the duty of the Governor to prepare and publish such rules
and regulations governing the assignment of persons to work under
this subtitle as will assure that all persons similarly circumstanced
shall, as far as it is possible to do so, be treated alike. In fixing the
period of work to which anyone is assigned, and in determining its
nature, the Governor shall take into consideration the age, physical
condition and any other appropriate circumstances of the person so
assigned. The rules and regulations adopted under the provisions of
this subtitle shall make allowances for such facts and circumstances.
Any such person failing or refusing to do or to continue to do the
work assigned to him, and who, in the meanwhile, has not become
regularly or continuously employed in some business, occupation,
trade or profession, shall, upon conviction [before any justice of the
peace having criminal jurisdiction], be fined not more than five hun-
dred dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned not more than six months, or
be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court [or
justice].

58. Enforcement.

After the issuance of the proclamation hereinbefore provided for,
it shall be the duty of the sheriffs of the respective counties and of
the police department of Baltimore City, and of any other officer,
State, county or municipal, charged with enforcing the law, to seek
and to continue to seek diligently the names and places of residence
of able-bodied male persons within their respective jurisdictions, be-
tween the ages aforesaid, not regularly or continuously employed as
aforesaid, who have failed to register as aforesaid, and to obtain
criminal summonses or warrants for their arrest from any [justice
of the peace having criminal jurisdiction] commissioner of the Dis-
trict Court. Failure of such persons to register shall be a misde-
meanor and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars
($50.00). The names of all those convicted [before any justice of the
peace] of failing to register, together with all other information as
aforesaid, shall be sent by the [justices of the peace] District Court
to the clerks of the CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE counties or the
clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be.
The said clerks shall register as aforesaid all person convicted of
failing to register, and report such registrations to the Governor
as hereinbefore provided. The Governor shall thereupon assign such
persons to work as provided in § 56.