'618 WORK—HOURS OF, IN FACTORIES. [ART. 100

manager, agent, foreman or other person in charge thereof, shall,
after the first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, employ or retain in employment in any such mill or
factory, any person or persons under twelve years of age; and if
any such proprietor or owners of any such mill or factory, or
manager, agent, foreman or other person in charge thereof, shall
wilfully violate the provisions of this section, he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than one hundred dollars for each and every offense so
committed, and pay the cost of prosecution, one-half of the fine
to go to the informer and the other half to the school fund of the
county or city in which the offense shall have been committed;
provided, that nothing in this section shall apply to Frederick,
Washington, Queen Anne's, Carroll, Wicomico, Caroline, Kent,
Somerset, Cecil, Calvert, St. Mary's, Prince George's, Howard,
. Baltimore, Worcester and Harford counties.