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or by catching hold of and soliciting persons on said grounds against
the will of such person, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to
a fine of not less than one dollar and not more than twenty-five dollars,
and to the costs of the prosecution, and the several justices of the peace
of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the courts of this
State having criminal jurisdiction over the offenses described in this
section, provided this section shall not apply to Baltimore city.

1904, art. 27, sec. 94. 1902, ch. 281, see. 67A.

102. Any person who shall be found drunk or acting in a disorderly
manner to the disturbance of the public peace, or who shall wilfully act
in a disorderly manner by making loud and unseemly noises or by pro-
fanely cursing, swearing or using obscene language or by indecently
exposing his person on or about any steamboat wharf, dock or public
waiting room, or in or about the station grounds of any railroad in the
State, or in or on any steamboat, street car, electric car, railroad car,
passenger train or other public conveyance, or who shall wilfully catch
hold of and solicit persons against the will of said persons, or obstruct
their free passage to or through or out of such steamboat wharves,
docks, public waiting rooms, railroad stations, street cars, electric cars,
railroad cars, passenger trains or other public conveyance, shall upon
conviction thereof, be sentenced to a fine of not less than five dollars
nor more than fifty dollars and costs, and when such fine and costs are
not paid, the party shall be committed for not less than seven days or
more than sixty days to the city or county jail, such party to be released
at any time before the term of his imprisonment expires upon the pay-
ment of his fine and costs. The justices of the peace for the respective
counties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such
offense with the circuit courts for their respective counties, and justices
of the peace selected to sit at the respective station houses in the city of
Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the
criminal court of Baltimore; and any person who shall commit any of
the crimes, offenses or misdemeanors as defined by this section may be
arrested, tried and convicted, as herein provided, in any county or city
in this State, from, to or through which the said street car, electric car,
railroad car, passenger train, or other public conveyance may run, or
into which he may be brought by said car or other public conveyance;
or in any county or city in the State in which he may be found after
said crimes, offenses or misdemeanors have been committed. And any
person who shall commit any of the crimes, misdemeanors or offenses
herein mentioned upon any steamboat, upon the waters of the Chesa-
peake bay, within the limits of this State, and without the body of any
county thereof, may be tried in any court or before any justice of the
peace of this State having jurisdiction of similar crimes, offenses and
misdemeanors of the county in which he may be arrested or into which
he may be first brought.