JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

condemn and acquire the same in the manner provided in
Sections two hundred and forty-eight to two hundred and
fifty-three, both inclusive, of Article 23, of the Code of the
Public General Laws of this State.

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

Approved April 5, 1900.

CHAPTER 285.
AN ACT to repeal Chapter three hundred and fifty one of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, entitled an "Act to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments Section sixty-seven of Article 27, of the Code of Public
General Laws, title 'Crimes and Punishments,' sub-title
'Disturbances of the Public Peace' " and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enaded by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter three hundred and fifty-one of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Sec-
tion sixty-seven of Article 27 of the Code of the Public
General Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title
"Disturbances of the Peace," be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows:

Crimes and
punishments.

67. Any person who shall wilfully obstruct or hinder the
free passage of persons passing along or by any public street
or highway in any city or town of this State, or who shall
wilfully disturb any neighborhood in such city or town by
loud and unseemly noises, or shall profanely curse and swear
or use obscene language upon or near to any such street or
highway within the hearing of persons passing by or along
such highway, or shall wilfully hinder or obstruct the free
passage of persons passing on or through or out of the station
grounds of any railroad in the State, or who shall wilfully
act in a disorderly manner within such station grounds by
making such loud and unseemly noises, or by catching hold
of and soliciting persons on said grounds against the will
of such person, shall, upon conviction thereof be sentenced to

Disturbance
of the peace.