ART. 4.] VAGRANTS, PAUPERS, BEGGARS, VAGABONDS. 565

VAGRANTS, PAUPERS, BEGGARS, VAGABONDS AND
DISORDERLY PERSONS.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 907.

878. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, or any
justice of the peace of the city of Baltimore, upon information
that any person in said city is a pauper, an habitual beggar, a
vagrant, a vagabond or disorderly person, shall issue a warrant or
order, to be directed to the sheriff or any constable or police
officer of said city, commanding him to bring the person against

whom the information is given, before said court or said justice
on a day to be named therein, not more than one week from the
date of the warrant, to answer to the said charge.

Ibid. sec. 908.

879. Every person who has no visible means of maintenance

from property or personal labor, or is not permanently supported
by his or her friends or relatives, and lives idle, without employ-
ment, shall be deemed a pauper; and every person who habit-
ually wanders about and begs in the streets, or from house to
house, or sits, stands or takes a position in any place and begs
from passers-by, either by words or gestures, shall be deemed an
habitual beggar; and every person who wanders about and
lodges in out-houses, market-places, or other public buildings or
places, or in the open air, and has no permanent place of abode,
or visible means of maintenance, shall be deemed a vagrant; and
every person who leads a dissolute and disorderly course of life,
and cannot give an account of the means by which he procures a
livelihood, and every fortune teller or common gambler, shall be

deemed a vagabond or disorderly person.

1888, ch. 284.

880. Police officers, acting on the request of any person, or
upon their own information or belief, shall, without a warrant,
arrest and carry before a station-house justice for examination any
such pauper, habitual beggar, vagrant, vagabond or disorderly
person, and make complaint against him; provided, that in all

cases where such arrest is made on request of any person and
without warrant, the officer making the arrest shall require the
person requesting it to forthwith appear before said justice
and prefer a charge, under oath, against the person so arrested.