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538 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.
Robbery.
P. G. L, (1860,) art. 30, sec. 172. 1809, ch. 138, sec 6.
245. Every person convicted of the crime of robbery, or as
accessory thereto before the fact, shall restore the thing robbed or
taken, to the owner, or shall pay to him the full value thereof,
and be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than three nor
more than ten years.
Rogues and Vagabonds.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 173 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7. 1878, ch. 467.
246. If any person shall be apprehended having upon him-
any pick-lock, key, crow, jack, bit, or other implement, at places
and under circumstances from which an intent may be presumed
feloniously to break and enter into any dwelling-house, warehouse,
store-house, stable or out-house, or shall have upon him any pis-
tol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, also at
places and under circumstances from which may be presumed an
intent feloniously to assault any person, or shall be found in or
upon any dwelling-house, warehouse, storehouse, stable or out-
house, or in any enclosed yard or garden or area belonging to any
house, with an intent to steal any goods or chattels, every such
person shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond, and on being con-
victed thereof, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less
than one month nor more than two years, or to imprisonment in.
jail, at die discretion of the court, for a like term.
Sabbath Breaking.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 178. 1723, ch 16, sec. 10.
247. No person whatsoever shall work or do any bodily labor
on the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday; and no person
having children or servants shall command, or wittingly or will
ingly suffer any of them to do any manner of work or labor on
the Lord's day, (works of necessity and charity always excepted,)
nor shall suffer or permit any children or servants to profane the
Lord's day by gaming, fishing, fowling, hunting or unlawful
pastime or recreation; and every person transgressing this section
and being thereof convicted before a justice of the peace, shall
forfeit five dollars, to be applied to the use of the county.
State v. Pearson, 2 Md. 310. Thomas v. Hunter, 29 Md. 405. R. R. Co. v.
Lehman, 56 Md. 209.
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