The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-11

"Section l49A. If any individual or
body corporate engaged in the manufac-
ture or sale of clothing, or of any other
article, whereby disease may be trans
mitted, shall knowingly by purchase,
contract or otherwise directly, or indi-
rectly cause or permit any garment or
such other articles as aforesaid to be
manufactured or made up in whole or
in part or any work to be done there
upon within this State and in place or
under circumstances involving danger
to the public health, the said individual
or corporation, upon conviction in any
court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
fined not less than ten dollars or more
than one hundred dollars for each gar
ment or other articles so, as lastly afore
said, manufactured, made up or worked
upon"
'Section 149B. If any individual or
the officer of any corporation shall so as
aforesaid cause or permit any garment
or other articles in the next preceding
section mentioned to be manufactured,
made up or worked upon in place or
under circumstances involving danger
to the public health with the knowledge
that it will or may be thus dealt with,
he SIldll UPON COuNlCGlOu III GULL VI
competent jurisdiction, be imprisoned
one year, and may be further fined not
exceeding one thousand dollars, In the
discretion of the court"
"Section 149C. ANY room or apartment
which shall not contain at least 400
cubic feet of clear space for each person
habitually laboring in or occupying the
same, or wherein the thermometer shall
habitually stand, during the hours of
labor at or above so degrees Fahrenheit,
before the first day of May or after the
first day of October of any year, or
wherein any person suffering from
contagious, infectious or otherwise dan
gerous disease or malady, shall sleep,
labor or remain, or wherein, if of less
area than 500 square feet, any artificial
light shall be habitually used between
the hours of 8 A. M. and 4 p. NJ, or
from which the debris of manufacture
and all other dirt or rubbish snail not be
removed at least once in every twenty
four hours, or which shall be pro-
nounced ill-ventilated or otherwise I'M
healthy by any officer or board having
legal authority so to do, shall be deemed
a place involving danger to the public
health as mentioned in the next two
preceding sections of this article
''Section 149D. II any association or
society, whether incorporated or un-in-
corparated, shall furnish through its
officers or agents, evidence sufficient to
secure the conviction of any person
criminally prosecuted under the three
next preceding sections of this article,
the said association or society shall re-
ceive one-half of any fine which may be
imposed upon such person so convicted
with its assistance, such fines to be paid
to the treasurer or other officer with
corresponding powers of the said society
or association.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date of
its passage.
Approved April 6, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES H. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing
is correct copy of an Act of the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed
January Session, 1894.
J. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.