918 CRIMES AdD PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

any person, whether as parent, guardian, relative, employer or
otherwise, who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use or have
in custody any such child for the vocation, use, occupation,
calling, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical
instruments, rope walking, dancing, peddling, begging or any
mendicant or wandering business whatsoever shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before
any competent tribunal to which such person may be committed
for trial shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two
hundred and fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in a county jail for
not less than thirty days nor more than a year, or suffer both
such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the said tribu-
nal; one-half of all fines so imposed to be paid to the informer.

1888, art. 27, sec. 274. 1882, ch. 480.

424. If on examination before any court or justice of the
peace it shall be proved that any child was engaged in any
business or vocation, designated or mentioned in the preceding
section, such child shall be deemed a vagrant and committed
to any reformatory institution to which vagrant minors may be
committed under the laws of this State.

Ibid. sec. 275. 1880, ch. 31. 1888, ch. 274

425. Every person, not insane, who wanders about in this
State and lodges in market houses, market places, or in other
public buildings, or in barns, out-houses, barracks, sheds or
in the open air, without having any fixed place of residence,
and without having any lawful occupation in the city, town or
county in which he may so wander, and without having any
visible means of support shall be deemed to be a tramp and
to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to impris-
onment in the house of correction for a period not less than
two months nor more than one year. This section not to apply
to Allegany county.

Ibid. sec. 276. 1880, ch 31. 1888, ch. 274.

426. The respective justices of the peace in the respective
counties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with
the circuit courts for their respective counties, and the justices
of the peace selected to sit at the respective station houses in
the city of Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction with
the criminal court of Baltimore in the cases of persons arrested
as tramps; and such respective justices shall proceed to hear