VAGRANTS.

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his, her or their appearance, they shall enter into a recogni-
zance as aforesaid for their appearance at the next criminal
court of Baltimore county, and in case such person or persons
cannot find security for their appearance as aforesaid within
twenty-four hours after his, her or their appearance last afore-
said before the justices aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful
for the said constable who served the said warrant to bring the
party or parties before the justice aforesaid, who shall there-
upon comrnit the said party or parties to the alms-house of
Baltimore county for any term not exceeding nine months;
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed so
as to make the constable liable for accidents or escapes.

SEC. 2. And, to ascertain what persons shall be deemed
vagrants, vagabonds and disorderly persons, within the inten-
tion of this act, Be it enacted, That every person who has no
visible means of maintenance from property or personal labour,
and lives idle, without employment, and every person who
wanders about and begs in the streets from door to door, and
any person who wanders about and lodges in out-houses, mar-
ket places, or in the open air, and cannot give a good account
of the means by which he, she or they, procure a livelihood,
and every woman who is generally reputed a common prosti-
tute, and every juggler or fortune-teller, or Common-gambler,
shall be adjudged a vagrant, vagabond, prostitute or disorderly
person, within the meaning of this act.

Defines
vagrants.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in case any person being
convicted of being a vagrant, vagabond, common prostitute or
disorderly person, within the provisions of this act, it shall and
may be lawful for the court to sentence the person so convicted
to hard labour in the alms-house for a space of time not less
than one week, nor more than two months.

Upon con-
viction may
be sen-
tenced to
labour.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall commence and
be in force from and after the first day of April next, and shall
continue for two years, and until the end of the next session of
assembly that shall happen thereafter.
Continued by the annual continuing laws.

AN ACT relating to Vagrants in the City of Baltimore. — 1818, ch. 169.

Duration

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act, entitled, an act relating to vagrants in the city of
Baltimore, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and

Act re-
pealed.

eleven,* be and the same is hereby repealed, annulled, and
made void.

*Ch. 212.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the act, entitled, an act
relating to vagrants in the city of Baltimore, passed at Novem-

Act re-
vived.

ber session, eighteen hundred and four,f be and the same is
hereby revived and declared to be in full force and virtue in
law, any thing in any statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

f Ch. 96.