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LAWS, OF MARYLAND.

A. P. Caldwell
Pensioned.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore
City be and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay
to Andrea P. Caldwell, a former policeman and clerk who was
inadvertently dropped from the said police force of Baltimore
City after a continuous service of more than twenty-three
years, out of the fund in the hands of the said Board of Police
Commissioners, known and accounted for as a special fund,
the sum of six dollars per week for life, being one-third of the
amount of money monthly paid him as such officer of police
and clerk; said payment or pension to be paid from and after
the 10th day of April, 1898.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 26, 1900.

CHAPTER 13.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 10 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Attorneys," to follow Section

New Section,
Attorneys.

twelve, and to be designated as Section 12A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
Article 10 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Attorneys," to follow Section twelve, to be designated as
Section I2A, and to read as follows:

Misdemeanor.

i2A. Any attorney who shall habitually go to the several
jails, station-houses and other places of original punish-
ment with the view of soliciting the clientage of persons
confined therein awaiting trial, without having been first sent
for by such persons or by their friends, or who shall solicit
such clientage through sheriffs, constables, jailors or pro-
fessional law-breakers, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon proper proof before a court of which he
shall be a member of the bar, shall be suspended from practice
in all the courts of this State for a period of not less than one
year; and the judge imposing the suspension shall have the
same publicly posted on the bulletin board of his said court,
and shall direct the clerk of his said court, under a penalty

Penalty.

of five dollars for each default, to send notice of such sus-
pension to the clerk of every other court in the State. Any
sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, justice of the
peace or other official who shall act as such agent or broker