2508 ARTICLE 11.

auditorium of said halls, churches, schools, or places of amusement, by
placing therein any benches, chairs or stools, or other articles that may
prevent free ingress or egress during the hours that said places may be
open to the public.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 263. 1918 Code, sec. 337.

313. Said owners or lessees, or their agents, are required to keep open
at all hours during the time said halls, churches, schools, or places of
amusement are open to the public, all doors giving means of ingress or
egress, unless said doors open outward from said places, then the same
may be closed, but no hindrance, such as locks or catches of any kind,
shall be allowed to obstruct or prevent instant and easy egress through the
same, and when said doors open inwards, it is required of said owners,
lessees and their agents, that said doors shall be fastened securely and!
firmly open.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 264. 1918 Code, sec. 338.

314. Owners or lessees, or any person holding under them or their
agents, violating either of the preceding sections shall, on conviction there-
of, be fined by the court before whom such conviction is had, for any
violation a sum not exceeding five hund red dollars, to be recovered as other-
fines in this State, one-half of which shall go to the State and the other'
half to the cities, respectively, where such violation occurs and conviction
thereof is had.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 265. 1918 Code, sec. 339.

315. It is made the special duty of the judge or judges of the courts
having criminal jurisdiction in said cities of Frederick, Frostburg, Annap-
olis, Baltimore, Cumberland and Hagerstown, to specially charge the
grand juries of said courts upon the execution of the three preceding sec-
tions; and the police authorities of said cities are specially charged with
the execution thereof, and to that end shall direct nightly examinations,
by some of their officers, of all such places.

VAGRANTS AND TRAMPS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 247. 1914, ch. 9, sec. 247. 1918 Code, sec. 340.

316. It shall have power to provide for apprehending all vagrants, and
for committing them to the jail of Frederick County, for a term not
exceeding ninety days, and it may provide by ordinance for taking such
vagrants and any other persons committed to jail for violation of the
laws or ordinances of the corporation, from the jail, from day to day,
and compelling them to work at such labor as shall be required by the
Mayor; and it shall be the duty of the Sheriff to permit such vagrants
and offenders committed to the jail, to be taken therefrom, and returned
thereto, during the time for which they may be committed, as often as
the Mayor shall direct, and by such person as he shall designate; and the
Sheriff shall not be entitled to charge or receive any other fee than that