ART. 27] VAGRANTS AND TRAMPS. 919

and determine such cases when the parties arrested as tramps
are brought before them, respectively, and to acquit such
persons or to sentence them for such offense if convicted,
unless such respective persons so charged, when so brought
before them, respectively, and before they are respectively
tried, as aforesaid, shall pray a jury trial. If any person
charged with being a tramp, brought before a justice of the
peace selected to sit at a station house in the city of Baltimore,
shall pray a jury trial as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the
said justice of the peace to commit such person for trial, or to
hold him to bail to appear before the criminal court of Balti-
more, and to return the commitment or recognizance in
such case to the clerk of the said court; and if any per-
son charged with being a tramp, brought before a justice
of the peace for any county in this State, shall pray a jury
trial as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said justice
of the peace to commit such person for trial or to hold him to
tail to appear for trial before the circuit court for the county
in which such person was arrested at the pending term of said
circuit court, if it be then in session, or at the next term thereof
if it be not then in session. Such respective justices of the
peace shall endorse upon the commitment or recognizance of
any such person so praying a jury trial the names and places
of residence of the witnesses on behalf of the prosecution, and
shall cause such respective witnesses to enter into recognizance
for their respective appearance against such person in the court
into which such commitment or recognizance for the appear-
ance of the party charged is returned at the time prescribed for
the appearance in such court of the person so charged. This
section not to apply to Allegany county.
State v. Glenn, 54 Md. 600.

1894, ch. 481, sec. 276 A.

427. The officers and board of directors of the Friendly
Inn of Baltimore City, and the officers and directors and man-
agers of any other charitable corporation heretofore formed, or
which may be hereafter formed, under either the general incor-
poration law of this State or by special act, for the charitable
purpose, in whole or in part, of supplying food and lodging to
the needy without demanding or receiving compensation in
money therefor, may, and the said officers, directors and man-
agers are hereby authorized and empowered to require any
person applying to them for, and receiving from them, either
food or lodging in any house, home or building maintained by