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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

In force.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 467.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and seventy-

three of article thirty of the Code of Public General

Laws, entitled " Crimes and Punishments," sub-

title "Rogues and Vagabonds," and to re-enact

the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Repealed and
re-enacted.

of Maryland, That section one hundred and seventy-
three of article thirty of the Code of Public General

Laws, entitled " Crimes and Punishments," sub-title

" Rogues and Vagabonds," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

173. If any person shall be apprehended having

upon him any pick-lock, key, crow, jack, bit or other

Felonious in-

implement, at places and under circumstances from
which an intent may be presumed feloniously to

tents.

break and enter into any dwelling house, warehouse,

storehouse, stable or outhouse, or shall have upon

him any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other

offensive weapon, also at places and under circum-

stances from which may be presumed an intent felo-

niously to assault any person, or shall be found in or

upon any dwelling house, warehouse, storehouse,

stable or outhouse, or in any enclosed yard or garden

or area belonging to any house, with an intent to

Wh'n deemed
a rogue.

steal any goods or chattels, every such person shall
be deemed a rogue and a vagabond, and on being
convicted thereof shall be sentenced to the peniten-

tiary for not less than one month nor more than two

years, or by imprisonment in jail, at the discretion

of the court, for a like term.