1318 ARTICLE 4.
and all persons holding under tenants, and to all cases where there are
two or more tenants, in which case each tenant shall be entitled to the
notices and the benefit of each condition contained in the preceding sec-
tions of the subdivision of this Articles.
VAGRANTS, PAUPERS, BEGGARS, VAGABONDS AND
DISORDERLY PERSONS.
P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 907. 1888. Art. 4, sec. 878. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 865.
1916, ch. 653.
865. Every person who shall demand or accept any remuneration or
gratuity for forecasting or foretelling or for pretending to forecast or
foretell the future of another by cards., palmreading or any other scheme,
practice or device, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished as hereafter provided; and in any
indictment for a violation of the above provisions, it shall be. sufficient to
allege that the defendant forecast and foretold or pretended to forecast
or foretell the future by a certain scheme, practice or device without set-
ting forth the particular scheme, practice or device employed.
P. L. L. (1880), Art. 4, sec. 908. 1888. Art. 4, sec. 879. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 866.
1916, ch. 653.
866. 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 employment 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 any position in any
place and by words, gestures or other, appeals, whether written or oral,
solicits al ma or begs from other persons shall be deemed an habitual beg-
gar; and every person who wanders alx>ut and lodges in outhouses, mar-
ketplaces 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 or disorderly
course of life, or cannot give an account of the means by which he or she
procures a livelihood shall be deemed a vagabond or disorderly person;
and every female person who shall solicit or procure or attempt to solicit
or procure or who shall walk the streets for the purpose of soliciting or
procuring any male person or persons to engage in sexual intercourse or
in any other immoral practice with her or any other person for compensa-
tion or reward shall be deemed a common prostitute.
1888, ch. 284. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 880. 1916, ch. 653.
867. Police officers acting on the request of any person or upon their
own information or belief shall, without a warrant, arrest and carry before
a station house justice for examination any person charged with violat-
ing any of the provisions of the above Section 865 or 866; provided that
in all cases where such arrest is made on request of any person and with-
out warrant the officer making the arrest shall require, the person request-
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