EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 30 of Article 27 of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Con-

cealed Weapons," is hereby repealed and re-enacted with

amendments so as to read as follows :

30. Every person not being a conservator of the peace en-

titled or required to carry such weapon as a part of his official

Carrying of
deadly weap-

equipment, and not carrying such weapon as a reasonable pre-

ons upon the
person.

caution against apprehended danger, or who is not an officer

or conservator of the peace of some other State temporarily

sojourning in this State, or a railway special agent, who shall

wear or carry any pistol, dirk-knife, bowie-knife, slung shot,

billy, sand club, metal knuckles, razor or any other dangerous

or deadly weapon of any kind whatsoever (penknives ex-

cepted), concealed upon or about his person, and every person

who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly with the in-

tent or purpose of injuring any person in any unlawful man-

ner, and not for any proper purpose of self-protection, shall,

upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than one thousand

dollars, or be imprisoned not more than two years in jail or

in the House of Correction ; and the court or jury before whom

any such case may be tried shall in all cases have the right to

judge of the reasonableness of the carrying of any such wea-

pon, and of the proper occasion therefor, upon satisfactory

proof ; and in case, upon conviction of any offender, the court,

in view of the evidence, shall be of the opinion that such weapon

was carried with the deliberate purpose of inflicting grievous

Upon evidence.
Court's duty

and unlawful injury to the life or person of another; it shall in

is to impose

that case be the duty of the court to impose the highest sentence

highest sen-
tence.

of imprisonment hereinbefore prescribed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 18, 1904.

CHAPTER 115.

AN ACT to provide for the erection of an iron or steel bridge

over the Patapsco river between Baltimore County and

Anne Arundel County at or near where the present wooden

bridge known as Sweetser's bridge now stands.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the County Commissioners of Baltimore County

To erect a

and the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County be and

bridge.