ART. 27.] THIEVES AND PICKPOCKETS—TOY PISTOLS. 543

[Northern Central railroad, or on the line of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad, or the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad, or the Western Maryland railroad, or any other
railroad running out of Baltimore city, or in any of the cars or

depots, or at any of the stations on said roads, or on any ferry
boat employed 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, com-
mit or bail such person for trial before the circuit court for 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 roads, shall arrest all such persons at any of the places
aforesaid, on the same knowledge and proof of their being com-
mon 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; any person convicted in any county on
the line of said roads with being a common pickpocket, shall be
punished by fine or imprisonment in the jail of the county for
the same time and in the same amount as provided in the preced-
ing section; and all the provisions of the preceding section shall
apply to all cases under this section, except so far as altered by
this section.

1864, ch. 88.

257. Any person convicted in any county of this State, of the
offence of being a common thief or common pickpocket, shall be
fined and imprisoned in the county jail for the same amount or
time as provided in section 255 of this article; and the provisions
of said section shall apply to this section, except so far as altered
by this section.

Toy Pistols.
1882, ch. 424, sec. 1.

258. It shall be unlawful for any person within this State to
manufacture or to sell, barter or give away the cartridge toy