CHIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1131

An. Code, 1924, sec. 119. 1912, sec. 102. 1904, sec. 94. 1902, ch. 281, sec. 67A.

130. Any person who shall be found drunk or acting in a disorderly
manner to the disturbance of the public peace, or who shall wilfully act in
a disorderly manner by making loud and unseemly noises or by profanely
cursing, swearing or using obscene language or by indecently exposing his
person on or about any steamboat wharf, dock or public waiting room, or
in or about the station grounds of any railroad in the State, or in or on any
steamboat, street car, electric car, railroad car, passenger train or other
public conveyance, or who shall wilfully catch hold of and solicit persons
against the will of said persons, or obstruct their free passage to or through
or out of such steamboat wharves, docks, public waiting rooms, railroad
stations, street cars, electric cars, railroad cars, passenger trains or other
public conveyance, shall upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to a fine of
not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs, and when
such fine and costs are not paid, the party shall be committed for not less
than seven days or more than sixty days to the city or county jail, such
party to be released at any time before the term of his imprisonment expires
upon the payment of his fine and costs. The justices of the peace for the
respective counties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction over
such offense with the circuit courts for their respective counties, and
justices of the peace selected to sit at the respective station houses in the
city of Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with
the criminal court of Baltimore; and any person who shall commit any of
the crimes, offenses or misdemeanors as defined by this section may be
arrested, tried and convicted, as herein provided, in any county or city in
this State, from, to or through which the said street car, electric car, rail-
road car, passenger train, or other public conveyance may run, or into which
he may be broirght by said car or other public conveyance; or in any county
or city in the State in which he may be found after said crimes, offenses or
misdemeanors have been committed. And any person who shall commit any
of the crimes, misdemeanors or offenses herein mentioned upon any steam-
boat, upon the waters of the Chesapeake bay, within the limits of this State,
and without the body of any county thereof, may be tried in any court or
before any justice of the peace of this State having jurisdiction of similar
crimes, offenses and misdemeanors of the county in which he may be
arrested or into which he may be first brought.

Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 120. 1912, sec. 103. 1904, sec. 95. 1888, sec. 68. 1892, ch. 672.
1902, ch. 215. 1904, ch. 118. 1924, ch. 416.

131. Every person who shall be found drunk, or acting in a disorderly
manner, to the disturbance of the public peace, upon any public street or
highway, in any city, town or county, in this State, or at any place of public
worship or public resort or amusement in any city, town or county of this
State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be subject to a fine or ¹ not less than one dollar and not more
than twenty-five dollars, and costs of prosecution, and when said fine and
costs are not paid, the party so convicted shall be committed to the county
jail for a term not exceeding thirty days or until discharged in due course
of law. The Justices of the Peace of the respective counties of this State
shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the Circuit Court

¹ Evidently a typographical error.