ART. 30. ] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 31

MANSLAUGHTER.

Chapter 30 repeals section 123 and enacts the following:

3. Every person convicted of the crime of manslaughter shall
be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten years, or,
in the discretion of the court, may be fined not more than five
hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in jail for not more than two
years, or both fined and imprisoned in jail.

4. This act shall not abate any cases pending, but this act
shall regulate the punishment in said cases.

In force from February 18, 1664.

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THIEVES AND PICKPOCKETS.

Chapter 33 adds the following sections to this Article:

5. It shall be the duty of all police officers in Baltimore city
to arrest and take before some one of the station house justices
in Baltimore city, all persons whom they shall find in any
passenger railway car, or in or about any railway depot in
Baltimore city, or in any place of public amusement, or in any
street of the city, whom they shall know or have good reason
to believe are common thieves or pickpockets, and said justices
shall commit or bail such persons for trial before the Criminal
Court; and if any person in Baltimore city shall be charged
on oath before any justice of the peace in Baltimore city, or
before the judge of the Criminal Court, with being a common
thief or pickpocket, such justice or judge shall issue a warrant
for the arrest of such person, and him commit or bail for
trial, and any person convicted in the Criminal Court of Balti-
more, of being a common thief or common pickpocket, shall be
imprisoned in jail not more than two years nor less than six
months, and be fined not more than one hundred dollars; but
if any person is arrested or indicted a second time or more for
such offence, he shall be convicted only on proof that he has
continued to be a common thief or pickpocket for at least one
month since his last conviction or acquittal, and it shall be