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Session Laws, 1880
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WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 43

Presbyterian church of the United States of Amer-
ica for the use and benefit thereof; therefore,


SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assem-


bly of Maryland, That the sanction of the General

Sanction giv-

Assembly of Maryland be and the same is hereby

en to devise

given and declared to the said devise and bequest of

and bequest.

the said Archibald Ohisholm.


Approved March 15, 1880.


CHAPTER 31.


AN ACT to amend article thirty of the Code of


Public General Laws of this State, title " Crimes


and Punishments," by adding thereto certain ad-


ditional sections, under the sub-title of " Tramps."


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-


bly of Maryland, That article thirty of the Public

Amended

General Laws of this State, title " Crimes and Pun-

and addition-

ishments," be amended by adding thereto the fol-

al sections ad-
ded.

lowing additional sections, under the sub-title of


" Tramps : "


SECTION 1. Every person, not insane, who wan-


ders 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

Who shall be

without having any lawful occupation in the city,

deemed to be

town or county in which he may so wander, and

tramps.

without having any visible means of support, shall


be deemed to be a tramp and to be guilty of a mis-


demeanor, and shall be subject to imprisonment in


the Maryland House of Correction for a period not


less than two months nor more than one year.


SEC. 2. The respective justices of the peace in the

Who to have

respective counties of this State shall have concur-

jurisdiction

rent jurisdiction with the circuit courts for their




 

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