Examination of engineers.

Record.

Inspection for insurance.

Stevedores to be licensed.

Bond.

gauge or weight on a safety valve for the purpose of carrying a greater pressure of steam on a boiler than that allowed by the certificate of inspection, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars; and any owner or renter of a steam boiler who shall neglect or refuse to place his certificate of inspection on the premises, as prescribed in section 577 hereof, shall pay a fine of five dollars for each day's refusal or neglect.

SEC. 581. The inspector shall have power to examine the engineers and assistants in charge of boilers, and if any engineer or assistant is found incompetent or addicted to intemperance, the inspector shall notify the owner or renter, and withdraw the certificate of inspection until such engineer or assistant is displaced. SEC. 583. It shall be the duty of each inspector to keep a correct record of the locations of all boilers in his district, when each boiler was inspected, the condition of the same at the time of inspection, the instructions given to the engineers in charge, the certificates issued, and the amount of steam pressure allowed in each certificate, and the boilers condemned or ordered to be repaired; also a correct account of all money received or paid out; and they shall report the same annually to the State comptroller. SEC. 586. Every steam boiler insurance company doing business in this State shall have a resident inspector, whose duty it shall be to make inspections of steam boilers submitted for insurance to such steam boiler insurance company; and any owner or renter of a steam boiler who has the same insured in a steam boiler insurance company doing business in this State, in compliance with the laws thereof, and having a resident inspector and an established system of inspection, must immediately after the first annual inspection in each year by such resident inspector of such steam boiler insurance company, present to the State inspector of the district in which the said steam boilers are located, the certificate of inspection of the said company; and the said company shall be charged and chargeable with a fee of one dollar for each and every boiler so inspected and insured, which shall be paid to the State inspector with such certificate: Provided, That when there is more than one steam boiler belonging to the same owner or renter so insured, then the fee so chargeable to the insurance company shall be one dollar per boiler for the first five, and one dollar for each additional five or fraction thereof over and above the first five; and upon the acceptance of the provisions of this section by the owner or renter of said steam boiler, the said owner or renter shall be exempted from the requirements of this subdivision of this article.

ARTICLE 4.-Security for wages of employees-Stevedores' bonds—
Baltimore.

SECTION 668A (added by chapter 505, Acts of 1898). Before any person or body corporate shall transact the business of a master stevedore in the city of Baltimore, he or it shall first obtain from the clerk of the court of common pleas in said city a State's license, authorizing him or it to carry on said business in the said city, for which said license he or it shall pay the sum of twentyfive dollars, and in addition to this, he or it shall file with said clerk a bond to the State of Maryland in the sum of one thousand dollars, which said bond shall be furnished by some security or bonding company of the city of Baltimore, to be approved by said clerks [clerk] for the faithful performance of said business of a stevedore, and for the payment of all wages due by him or it, to anyone employed by him or it in the work of unloading vessels in the city of Baltimore, and any stevedore who shall violate this section by failure to file such bond, or to obtain the license as aforesaid, though continuing to transact the business of a stevedore, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof in the criminal court of Baltimore city, be fined the sum of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the city jail for the term [of] not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

ARTICLE 4.-Employment of policemen on mechanical work or

labor-Baltimore.

SECTION 759B (added by chapter 474, Acts of 1898). No member Police men of the police force provided for by this article and subtitle shall not to do mechanical work. be by the said board of police commissioners employed or be permitted to be employed, to do or perform for the said board, or the mayor and city council of Baltimore, any mechanical work or labor other than the work or labor required of the members of said police force by the provisions of this article and subtitle relating to police duties. The purpose and object of this section is to prevent patrolmen and other members of said police force from being taken from the performance of police duty, as prescribed by this article and subtitle, and made to perform the work and labor of carpenters, bricklayers and similar mechanical work and labor.

ARTICLE 4 (Revision of 1898: Chapter 123, Acts of 1898).-Hours of labor on street railways.

SECTION 793. No street railway company incorporated under the laws of this State, and no officer, agent or servant of such corporation, and no person or firm owning or operating any line or lines of street railways within the limits of this State, and no agent or servant of such firm or person shall require, permit or suffer its, his or their conductors or drivers, or any of them, or any employees in its, his or their service, or under his, its or their control, to work more than twelve hours during each or any day of twentyfour hours, and shall make no contract or agreement with such employees, or any of them, providing that they or he shall work for more than twelve hours during each or any day of twenty-four hours.

Forfeiture of

SEC. 794. Any corporation which shall in any manner violate any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed to charter. have misused or abused its corporate powers and franchises, and the attorney-general of the State, upon the application in writing, made by any citizen of this State, accompanied by sufficient proof of such violation, shall forthwith, without further authorization, institute proceedings for the forfeiture of the charter of such corporation, by petition in the name of the State, in the manner provided by the laws of this State for the enforcement of the forfeiture of the charter of any corporation which has abused or misused its corporate powers or franchises.

SEC. 795. If any corporation, or any officer, agent or servant of such corporation, or any person or any firm managing or conducting any street railway in this State, or any agent or servant of such person or firm, shall do any act in violation of the provisions of section 793, it, he, or they shall be deemed to have been guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined one hundred dollars for each offense so committed, together with the costs of such prosecution.

ARTICLE 12.-Payment of wages-Garrett County.

Penalty.

Receiver may be appointed,

SECTION 145. If any individual engaged in mining or manufacturing in said [Garrett] county, or any association or body cor- when. porate engaged in any business whatever therein, shall for the space of thirty days be indebted to the persons in their employ, or to furnishers of any raw material, in the aggregate sum of twentyfive dollars, and shall neglect or refuse to pay the same for the space of thirty days, the circuit court for said county, as a court of equity, or the judge thereof in vacation shall, upon the petition of the employees or furnishers of raw material, or any number of them, appoint a receiver to take charge of the affairs of such individual, association or body corporate, with a view to their liquidation and settlement under the authority of said court.

ARTICLE 12.-Liability of operators, etc., of mines for injuries to employees-Garrett County.

[Section 149a is identical with section 195a of article 1, above.]

ARTICLE 12.-Mine regulations-Garrett County.

[Sections 150 to 164p, inclusive, are identical with sections 196 to 209q, inclusive, of article 1, above.]

ACTS OF 1892.

CHAPTER 445.-Payment of wages-Garrett County.

SECTION 1. Every corporation engaged in mining or manufacturing or operating a railroad in Garrett 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; and any contract by or on behalf of any such corporation for the payment of the whole or any part of such wages in any other manner than herein provided, shall be and is hereby declared illegal, null and void; and every such employee shall be entitled 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, without set-off or deduction of his demand for or in respect of any account or claim whatever..

SEC. 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any such corporation from demising to any of its employees the whole or any part of any tenement in said county of any rent thereon reserved or from contracting for or advancing money to supply him with medicine or medical attendance needed for himself or family, or smithing or fuel, and deducting from the wages of any such employee for and in respect of such rent, medicine, medical attendance, smithing or fuel or money advanced as aforesaid.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the payment in whole or in part of the wages of any such employee, in the notes of any bank payable to bearer on demand that shall be current at par in this State at the time of such payment, but all payments made in such notes with consent of such employee shall be as valid and effective as if made in legal tender money of the United States.

SEC. 4. Any corporation before mentioned which shall directly or indirectly enter into any contract, or make any payment hereby declared illegal, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction thereof in any court or [of] competent jurisdiction, shall for the first offense be fined one hundred dollars, and for each succeeding offense not less than five hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars.

ACTS OF 1894.

CHAPTER 202.-Factories and workshops-Ventilating apparatus-
Carroll County.

SECTION 1. Every person or corporation owning or controlling any mill for grinding flint or any other kind of stone by the cylinder or dry process, in Carroll County, shall be required to furnish and equip said mill with the most improved fans, ventilators and other appliances for the removal from said mill of the dust made therein by conducting said business, and to provide for the use of each person employed in said mill, the most approved apparatus for the protection of said person so employed, from inhaling said dust, and to keep in repair and renew said apparatus from time to time as may be necessary, free of cost to said person so employed; and any such person or corporation failing to comply with the requirements of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,

and upon indictment and conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars for each and every offense.

SEC. 2. Every person employed in any such mill for grinding Duty of emflint or other stone, as specified in the preceding section, shall use ployees. and wear the apparatus provided for his protection as above specified, during the entire time he is at work in any part of said mill where there is any dust, and any such person so employed, who shall fail to comply with this requirement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars for each and every offense.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the constable of said county, at least twice in every year, to inspect all such mills which may be located within the districts for which the said constables are appointed, respectively, and to report to the next grand jury for said county any violations of any of the requirements of this act which they may discover or which may come to their knowledge.

ACTS OF 1898.

CHAPTER 491.-Examination and licensing of horseshoers—

Baltimore.

Inspection.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice horse- Certificates shoeing in the city of Baltimore or in the twelfth district of Balti- required. more County, unless such person has obtained a certificate and has been duly registered as hereinafter provided.

Board of ex

SEC. 2. A "board of examiners for horseshoers" is hereby created, which shall consist of five member[s], one of whom shall be aminers. doing business as veterinarian only, two master horseshoers and two journeymen, horseshoers, all doing business in Baltimore city, whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said board shall be appointed by the governor, and the term for which they shall hold office shall be four years, except that the members of said board to be first appointed under this act shall be designated by the governor to serve one for two years, two for three years, and two for four years, and unless removed by the governor, until their successors are duly appointed. Any vacancy in said board, for any cause, shall be filled by the governor.

Certificate.

SEC. 3. Said board shall meet in the month of May next after the Organization. passage of this act, and organize by the election of a president and secretary, and thereafter shall hold regular meetings in the months of May and November in every year, and such special meetings for the examination of persons desiring to practice horseshoeing as occasion may require; they shall pass such by-laws and prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act; and said board shall, at its first meet, prescribe and clearly define the qualifications and tests necessary to obtain a certificate as master or journeyman horseshoer. Printed copies of such requirements shall be furnished to all persons desiring to pass an examination for said certificate, and any person who shall on examination be found by a majority of said board to possess the said requirements so prescribed, shall be granted a certificate to that effect on the payment to said board of a fee of two dollars; and all proceedings of said board shall be open to public inspection.

Fee.

Certificate

ination.

SEC. 4. Any person who has practiced as a master or journeyman horseshoer in the city of Baltimore or the twelfth district of without examBaltimore County, for three years prior to the passage of this act, who will file an affidavit to that effect with said board, shall be entitled to a certificate without an examination, on the payment of a fee of twenty-five cents to said board; or anyone who has a certificate from any duly constituted examining board of the State of Maryland, or of any other State, that he is a competent master or journeyman horseshoer, on filing and registering said certificate or a copy thereof with said board, shall be entitled to a cer

tificate from said board without examination, on payment of a fee of two dollars; but, after the passage of this act, no person who has not served an apprenticeship at horseshoeing for a period of three years shall be entitled to an examination for said certificate. SEC. 5. All certificates issued by said board shall be signed by its officer and bear its seal; and the secretary of said board shall keep a book, in which all certificates so issued and the names of the persons to whom the same shall have been issued shall be duly registered, and a transcript from said book of registration, certified by the secretary, with the seal of the board, shall be evidence in any court in the State, and said secretary shall furnish to anyone a copy of his certificate on payment of the sum of one dollar. SEC. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon the conviction thereof in any court having criminal jurisdiction, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or be confined in the Baltimore City Jail or Baltimore County Jail, not more than one month, in the discretion of the court. All fines received under this act shall be paid into the common school fund of the city of Baltimore, or of Baltimore County, if the offense shall have been committed in said county. The provisions of this act shall not interfere with the right of the owners of horses to have them shod at their own shops.

CHAPTER 493.-Company stores-Allegany County.

SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any railroad or mining corporation, doing business in Allegany County, nor for the president, vice-president, manager, superintendent, any director or other officer of such corporation, to own or have any interest in any general store or merchandise business in Allegany County, in which goods, wares and merchandise are sold, nor to conduct or carry on any such business, or have any interest in the profits of the same in Allegany County, nor to sell or barter any goods, wares or merchandise in such county.

SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for the clerk of the circuit court for Allegany County to issue a trader's license to any corporation or person or persons to sell goods, wares and merchandise, unless he shall first administer to the party applying therefor an oath that no railroad or mining company, or president, manager, superintendent, or any director, or other officer of such corporation, has any interest directly or indirectly in such store or business, or the profits thereof, purposed to be carried on under said license.

SEC. 3. Any store or business conducted in Allegany County by railroad or mining corporation, or private individuals engaged in railroading or mining, in which goods, wares or merchandise are sold to the employees of the owners of such store or business in part payment of their wages as such employees, shall be subject to a suit at law for damages by the employees purchasing such goods, and be liable to the said employees in a sum of money equal to the amount paid for such goods, wares or merchandise bought by such employees.

SEC. 4. Any such mining corporation who, through its stockholders, officers, [or] by any rule or regulation of its business, shall make any contract with the keepers or owners of any other store whereby the employees of such corporation shall be obliged to trade with such keeper or owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to damages payable to said employee to the extent of the amount of goods purchased from such store; proof of such a contract between the mining corporation and the storekeeper shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such store is under control of such mining corporation and in violation of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 5. Any corporation or person who shall violate any of the provisions of this law, which is hereby declared to be a law to prevent employers from controlling the trade of their employees,