32 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

necessary to charge in the indictment only that the person is a
common thief or common pickpocket, and any evidence either
of facts or reputation proving that such person is habitually
and by practice a thief or pickpocket, shall be sufficient for his
conviction if satisfactorily establishing the fact to the court or
jury by whom he is tried, and there shall be no discretion in
any police officer or justice of the peace to discharge or release
any person who is by such proof before them, or knowledge on
their part, shown to be a thief or pickpocket as aforesaid; but
such person shall be bailed or committed for trial, and no con-
viction or charge of, or for being a common thief or pickpocket,
shall prevent any such person from being tried and convicted
for any particular act of larceny he may have committed.

6. If any person shall be arrested at any place on the line of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, or on the line of the Northern
Central Railroad, or on the line of the Philadelphia, "Wilming-
ton and Baltimore Railway, or in any of the cars or depots, or
at any of the stations on said roads, or on any ferry boat em-
ployed to carry passengers over any part of said roads and
within the limits of this State, charged with being a common
thief or pickpocket, such persons may be taken before any
justice of the peace of the county in which said place, or depot
or station may be situated; or if such person be arrested in any
car or on any ferry boat, before any justice of the peace of the
nearest convenient county or of the city of Baltimore, and such
justice shall on proof as provided in the preceding section,
commit or bail such person for trial before the Circuit Court of
the county, or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, as the case may
be; and all police officers of Baltimore city, and all conductors
of trains and police employed by any of said railway companies,
and all constables and bailiffs of any county or city on the lines
of said road, shall arrest all such persons at any of the places
aforesaid, on the same knowledge and proof of their being
common thieves or pickpockets as provided in the preceding
section, and the said justice shall commit or bail such person on
the same knowledge or proof; and any person convicted in any
county on the line of said roads, with being a common pick-
pocket, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment in the jail of