BALTIMORE COUNTY. 803

1898, ch. 491. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 434. 1916, sec. 641. 1928, sec. 779.

779. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the pre-
ceding section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
thereof in any court having criminal jurisdiction, shall be fined not more
than twenty-five dollars or be confined in the Baltimore County jail not
more than one month, in the discretion of the court. The provisions of
this and the preceding section shall not interfere with the right of the
owners of horses to have them shod at their own shops.

VAGRANCY.

1916, ch. 201. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 642. 1928, sec. 780.

780. Any judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County or any
justice of the peace of Baltimore County, upon information that any per-
son in said county is a pauper, an habitual beggar, a vagrant, a vagabond
or disorderly person, shall issue a warrant or order to be directed to the
sheriff or any constable or police officer of said county, commanding him
to bring the person against whom the information is given before said
court or said justice on the day to be named therein, not more than one
week from the date of the warrant, to answer to the said charge.

1916, ch. 201. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 643. 1928, sec. 781.

781. 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 a position in
any place and begs from passersby, either by words or gesture, shall be
deemed an habitual beggar; and every person who wanders about and
lodges in outhouses, market places 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 and disorderly course of life and cannot give an account of the
means by which he procures a livelihood, and every fortune teller or com-
mon gambler, shall be deemed a vagabond or disorderly person.

1916, ch. 201. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 644. 1928, sec. 782.

782. The 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 justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Balti-
more County, for examination any such pauper, habitual beggar, vagrant,
fortune teller, common gambler or disorderly person and make complaint
against such person; provided that in all cases where such arrest is made
on request of any person and without warrant, the officer making the
request shall require the person requesting it to forthwith appear before
said justice and prefer a charge under oath against the person so arrested.