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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
Volume 145, Volume 2, Page 338   View pdf image (33K)
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338 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

905. The justice has full power to enforce the attendance by
attachment of the jurors who may be summoned in any pro-
ceeding under the general law in relation to tenants holding
over, or under the preceding sections relating thereto.

THEATRICALS.

906. The mayor and city council have power to provide for
licensing, regulating or restraining theatrical or other public
amusements within the said city.

YAGBANTS.

907. The judge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, or any
justice of the peace of the city of Baltimore, upon information
that any person in said city is a pauper, an habitual beggar, a
vagrant, a vagabond or disorderly person, shall issue a warrant
or order, to be directed to the sheriff or any constable or police
officer of said city, commanding him to bring the person against
whom the information is given, before said court or said justice
on a day to be named therein, not more than one week from the
date of the warrant, to answer to the said charge.

908. Every person who has no visible means of maintenance
from property or personal labor, or is not permanently supported
by his or her friends or relatives, and lives idle without employ-
ment, shall be deemed a pauper; and every person who habitually
wanders about and begs in the streets, or from house to house,
or sits, stands or takes a position in any place and begs from
passers-by, either by words or by gestures, shall be deemed an
habitual beggar; and every person who wanders about and
lodges in out-houses, market-places, or other public buildings or
places, or in the open air, and has no permanent place of abode,
or visible means of maintenance, shall be deemed a vagrant;

and every person who leads a dissolute and disorderly course of
life, and cannot give an account of the means by which he pro-
cures a livelihood, and every fortune teller or common gambler,
shall be deemed a vagabond or disorderly person.

909. The said court or said justice shall, upon proof that any
person is a pauper, an habitual beggar, a vagrant, a vagabond
or disorderly person as aforesaid, shall send such person to the
alms-house for said city, or to such other suitable place as may

 

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