ART. 22.] WORKHOUSE. 2037

disturbance to a neighborhood, and is likely to become chargeable
to the county, the said justice, if upon hearing the party he shall
judge the complaint to be well founded, may commit such disor-
derly person to the said workhouse for any time not exceeding
three months, unless he shall find security, at the discretion of
the justice, in any sum not exceeding thirty dollars, for his good
behavior during the space of six months.

P. L L, (1860,) art 21, sec. 840.

429. Any justice of the peace of said county, and any person
authorized and appointed by such justice, may apprehend or cause
to be apprehended and committed to said workhouse, any vagrants,
vagabonds, beggars and other idle, dissolute and disorderly per-
sons found loitering or residing in said county, who follow no
labor, trade, occupation or business, and who have no visible
means of subsistence, there to be kept at hard labor for any time
not exceeding three months.