ART. 100] INSPECTORS AND ATTENDANCE OFFICERS. 2229

said sections to the justice of the peace having criminal jurisdiction in
the locality where such illegal employment or other violations of said
sections occur, and which justices of the peace shall have full authority
to try and determine all cases arising under said sections. Inspectors
authorized by said sections, and the attendance officers of the public
schools may require that the employment permits and lists provided
for in said sections of minors employed in any such office, establishment
or business, shall be produced for their inspection. They shall also
be authorized to require a birth certificate or other record evidence of
the date of birth of any child, which they have reason to believe is
being employed contrary to the provisions of said section, to be pro-
duced by either parents, guardian or custodian of said child, and in the
absence of such record evidence of the date of birth of such child, they
may require an affidavit from either parent, guardian or custodian of

such child as to its age, name, place and date of birth.

1906, ch. 192, sec. 11.

11. The chief of the Maryland bureau of statistics and information
is hereby authorized to appoint six inspectors to carry out the provisions
of sections 4 to 13 at a compensation not exceeding nine hundred
($900) dollars each per annum; they shall also be allowed their actual
expenses when away from the city of Baltimore in the business of their
office; they shall be attached to and be part of the Maryland bureau of
statistics and information, and be subject to the order of the chief of
said bureau, whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of said
sections are enforced.

1906, ch. 192. sec. 12.

12. Sections 4 to 13 shall not include farm labor.

1006, ch. 192, sec. 13.

13. The sum of eight thousand ($8,000) dollars per annum is
hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of sections 4 to 13.