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immediately before the nearest Police Justice for examination, except
that all females and male children under fourteen years of age who may
be arrested or taken into custody shall be taken before the nearest Police
Justice for examination when there shall be matrons at the station-house
as hereinafter provided.

Brish v. Carter, 98 Md. 451.

761. Repealed by Act of 1912, Chapter 777.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 742A. 1890, ch. 534. 1910, ch. 669. 1912, ch. 777.

762. Any person in the City of Baltimore who shall wear or carry any
pistol, dirk knife, bowie knife, slingshot, billy, sandbag, metal knuckles,
razor or other dangerous or deadly weapons of any kind whatsoever, con-
cealed upon or about his person, or any person, who shall carry or wear
such weapon openly, with the intention or purpose of injuring any person,
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than
$100, or imprisonment of not more than six months in jail or in the
House of Correction, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the dis-
cretion of the Justice of the Peace, before whom the said person may be
tried, or in the discretion of the Judge of the Criminal Court of Balti-
more as the case may be. This section shall not apply to any conservator
of the peace entitled or required to carry any such weapon as part of his
official equipment or be construed to prohibit the carrying or wearing of
penknives, nor to punish any person carrying any weapon as a reasonable
precaution against danger; but the Justice or the Court before whom
such case may be tried, shall in each case have the right to judge of the
reasonableness of the carrying of such weapon and of the proper occasion
therefor; nor shall this section release or discharge any person or persons
already offending, against the laws in such case made and provided; but
such person or persons may be proceeded against, prosecuted and pun-
ished under the laws of this State as if this section had not been passed.

1882, ch. 34. 1888, ch. 306. 1892, ch. 309. 1900, ch. 421. 1904, ch. 186.
P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 743. 1922, ch. 507.

763. The said Police Commissioner is authorized, empowered and
directed to grant leave of absence, with pay, for a period of thirty days
for each consecutive year of service to each of the officers of police, police-
men and detectives of the regular force employed by the said Commis-
sioner, nor shall any enforced absence with leave on account of sickness
or death be deducted from the pay of any such officer of police, policeman
or detective, or from their thirty days leave, as herein provided.

1S92, ch. 309. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 743A.

764. The Police Commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered
to appoint and employ, in addition to the number now authorized by law,
fifteen additional probation officers, said officers so appointed to hold their
places and receive their pay under the provisions of law now in force and
applicable to probation officers.