ART. 27] DISTURBANCE OF THE PUBLIC PEACE. 807

1902, ch. 281, sec. 67 A.

94. Any person who shall be found drunk or acting in a
disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public peace, or
who shall wilfully act in a disorderly manner by making loud
and unseemly noises or by profanely cursing, swearing or using
obscene language or by indecently exposing his person on or
about any steamboat wharf, dock or public waiting room, or in
or about the station grounds of any railroad in the State, or in
or on any steamboat, street car, electric car, railroad car, pas-
senger train or other public conveyance, or who shall wilfully
catch hold of and solicit persons against the will of said per-
sons, or obstruct their free passage to or through or out of
such steamboat wharves, docks, public waiting rooms, railroad
stations, street cars, electric cars, railroad cars, passenger trains
or other public conveyance, shall upon conviction thereof,
be sentenced to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than
fifty dollars and costs, and when such fine and costs are not
paid, the party shall be committed for not less than seven days
or more than sixty days to the city or county jail, such party
to be released at any time before the term of his imprisonment
expires upon the payment of his fine and costs. The justices
of the peace for the respective counties of this State shall have
concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the circuit courts
for their respective counties, and justices of the peace selected
to sit at the respective station houses in the city of Baltimore
shall have concurrent jurisdiction over such offense with the
criminal court of Baltimore; and any person who shall commit
any of the crimes, offenses or misdemeanors as defined by this
section may be arrested, tried and convicted, as herein provided,
in any county or city in this State, from, to or through which
the said street car, electric car, railroad car, passenger train, or
other public conveyance may run, or into which he may be
brought by said car or other public conveyance; or in any
county or city in the State in which he may be found after
said crimes, offenses or misdemeanors have been committed.
And any person who shall commit any of the crimes, misde-
meanors or offenses herein mentioned upon any steamboat,
upon the waters of the Chesapeake bay, within the limits of this
State, and without the body of any county thereof, may be
tried in any court or before any justice of the peace of this
State having jurisdiction of similar crimes, offenses and misde-
meanors of the county in which he may be arrested or into
which he may be first brought.