| 1789.
CHAP.
XLIV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
crime charged, as to render the person submitting liable to the costs
of the
prosecution. |
Justices may
bind out children,
&c. |
XXI. And be
it enacted, If any person convicted shall have any child or children
under the age of twenty-one years, and shall not have property sufficient
to
maintain such child or children, that the said justices may bind out
such child or
children to any trade or handicraft; females until the age of sixteen years,
and
males until the age of twenty-one years. |
Execution to
issue in certain
cases, &c. |
XXII. And be
it enacted, If any person shall be convicted of robbery, or of
grand and petit larceny, or of forgery, and the property taken, or money
received,
is not returned to the party injured, and such convicted person shall have
property
within the state, the court before whom such person shall be convicted
shall, at
the instance of the party injured, issue execution against the property
of such convicted
person, in the name of the person injured, for the value of the property
so
taken, or money so received; such value, or sum of money, to be estimated
by
the said court. |
Complainants
by sailors may
be heard, &c. |
XXXIII. Whereas it frequently happens, in
the town of Baltimore, that sailors
and mariners complain against each other for breaches of the peace, and
it is often
ruinous to the parties and injurious to trade, to compel such persons to
appear
at the next criminal court: Be it enacted,
That, on any such complaint,
it shall be lawful for any two or more of the said justices to hear the
complaint,
and to impose such fine on the offender as they may think reasonable, and
to commit for non-payment thereof; and such fines shall be paid to the
sheriff of
Baltimore county; provided that either party, if the fact is controverted,
may
elect to have a trial by jury, and in such case the complainants shall
give security
to prosecute, and the defendant to answer, the complaint at the next criminal
court. |
Justices may
order persons
to be apprehended,
&c. |
XXIV. And be
it enacted, That any one of the said justices shall have full
power to order any person within Baltimore-town, or the precincts thereof,
whom he shall suspect of being a vagrant, vagabond, or disorderly person,
or a
common prostitute, to appear before any two or more of the said justices,
and
such order shall be served by any constable of the said county; and if,
on the
appearance of such person, and examination by testimony, any two or more
of
the said justices shall determine such person to come within any of the
said descriptions,
the said justices may adjudge such person to serve and labour as a
criminal, if a male, as a male criminal, if a female, as a female criminal,
according
to this act, for any time not exceeding one year, unless good security
be
given to such justices, to their satisfaction, for the good behaviour of
such person
for any time not exceeding one year thereafter. |
What persons
shall be adjudged
vagrants,
&c. |
XXV. And,
to ascertain what persons shall be deemed vagrants, vagabonds and
disorderly persons, within the intention 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, or from door to door, and every person who wanders
abroad, and lodges in out-houses, barns, market-places, or the open air,
and
cannot give a good account of the means by which he procures a living,
and
every woman who is generally reputed a common prostitute, and every juggler,
or
fortune-teller, or common gambler, shall be adjudged a vagrant, vagabond,
or
disorderly person, within the meaning of this act. |
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Persons condemned
in any
state may
be adjudged
to labour, &c. |
XXVI. Whereas it is represented, that persons
condemned in other states to
labour, a a punishment for their crimes, have escape and come into Baltimore
county, and have been taken up as vagrants; Be
it enacted, That any two or
more of the said justices may adjudge any person, condemned in any of the
United
States to labour, as a punishment for any crime, to serve and labour
as a criminal,
according to this act, for any term not exceeding the residue of the term
for
which such person shall have been condemned, and which condemnation shall |
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