Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-05-28
[CHApTER 300.
AN ACT

1CdAPTEH oUV.
To organize and regulate the department of
Labor and Agriculture pursuant to the first
Article of the Constitution. {as, --i
SEC l. Be it enacted by the General Assemsbly
Of Maryland That the Superintendent of Labor
and Agriculture, shall prepare and distribute
or cause to be prepared and distributed both at
home and abroad, such facts and information
as may cenduce to a complete, full and salts
factory understanding of the agricultural, min
eral, manufacturing and general commercial
resources of the State of Maryland, and shall
keep always open to inspection in his Office re-
liable exhibits, with the terms annexed Of such
property in Maryland, as the owners thereof
may desire to have registered in said Office as
for rent or sale.
SEC. 2. Andbe 1t enacted, That it shall not
be lawful for any other agent, runner or soli-
citor to visit vessels arriving with immigrants
on board for any purpose whatever, until such
immigrants have been seen and properly in
structed by the said Superintendent of Labor
and Agriculture, or by one of his clerks or
agents expressedly charged with that duty.
SEC. g.. and be 1t enacted, That any person or
persons violating the last preceding section,
shall be liable to conviction in any Court of
Law in this State, having competent jurisdic-
ton, to fine of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than FIVE hundred dollars, or imprison-
ment for not less than thirty days nor more
than sixty days, at the discetion of the court,
said fine to 60 to the State.
Sec. 4. iAnd be 1t enacted, That said Super
intendent may, if he shall deem it advantage
Gus, cause to be printed small map of Mary
land showing the county lines, railroads and
other chief routes of communication, and also
the position and names of its principal towns,
and upon the margin and back of said map, he
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of the resources of the State, its climate soils,
and the value of its productions and any other
advantages calculated to attract permanent set
tiers from Europe or from any part of the
United States, and said descriptive maps shall
be printed in such languages as the said Super
intendent may direct. ...l. =
SEC. 5. Amd be it enacted That the said Su-
perintendent be and he is hereby authorized to
employ two intelligent agents who shall speak
the languages Of the people among whom they
are to labor, whose duty it shall be to judicious
ly distribute the maps and other information
sent to them by said Superintendent, and who
shall exert themselves by personal intercourse
with the people and in such ways as the Super
lntendent may direct, in advising and aiding
useful and industrious persons to migrate to
Marylan one of said agents shall have his Of
ice In Bremen, and the other in Liverpool i;
they shall be subject to the orders of the Super
iptendent, and shall be discharged by him
whenever in his judgment they have ceased to
be useful agents of his department.. @z.a>
SEC. 6. And be 1t enacted, That; said Super
intendent Of Labor and Agriculture, shall be
and he is hereby required to keep in his Office,
book in which he shall cause to be registered
the names and places of residence of such citi-
zens of Maryland, as may desire to obtain the
assistance of his department in procuring Euro
pean or other white laborers, together with the
number and description of laborers required,
and also the nature of the employment and the
rate Of wages and other necessary information,
and the said Superintendent shall transmit from
time to time to his agents in Europe list Of
such registered demands for labor, and also OF