566 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

F. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 009.

881. The said court or said justice, upon proof that any per-
son is a pauper, an habitual beggar, a vagrant, a vagabond or dis-
orderly person as aforesaid, shall send such person to the almshouse
for said city, or to such other suitable place as may be provided
for such purpose by the mayor and city council of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 910.

882. Whenever any honse of refuge, house of correction,
work-house or other house, building or place shall be provided by
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, to which persons con-
victed under this sub-title of this article may be sent, the said court
or said justice may send them to any such house, building or place,
if the judge of said court or said justice consider it to be a more
suitable place for the purpose than the almshouse.

Ibid. sec. 911.

883. The trustees of the almshouse, and the officers of the
other places to which persons convicted under the two preceding
sections may be sent, shall keep them during the time for which
they are to be kept, so that they cannot escape from said place.

Ibid. sec. 912.

884. The said trustees and other officers shall put such of said
persons so convicted as are able to work, to the work which they
are respectively best able to do.

Ibid. sec. 913.

885. The time for which any person shall be sent to the alms-
house or other place, as aforesaid, shall not be less than one week
nor more than two months, for the first occasion; and not less
than one month nor more than six months for the second or any
subsequent occasion.

Ibid. sec. 914.

886. The trustees of the almshouse, and managers of the
house of refuge, and officers of the other places to which persons
may be sent as aforesaid, shall have the right to make all proper
rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the afore-
said provisions.