WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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as parent, guardian, relative, employer or other-

wise 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 men-

dicant or wandering business whatsoever, shall be

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-

Penalty for

viction thereof before any competent tribunal, to

violation.

which such person may have been committed for

trial, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more

than two hundred and fifty dollars, or be impris-

oned in a county jail for not less than thirty days

or more than a year, or suffer both such fine and

such imprisonment in the discretion of the said

tribunal, one-half of all fines so imposed to be

paid to the informer.

SEC. 2. If on examination before any court or

magistrate it shall be proved that any child was

engaged in any business or vocation, designated

or mentioned in the first section of this act, such

Deemed a va-
grant.

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.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 481.

AN ACT to authorize the Orphans' Court of

Baltimore city and the several counties of the

State to order the sale of real estate of testators

free from the widows dower.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That in all cases where lands and

tenements in this State are to be sold under a

Power of sale.

power of sale in last wills and testaments, and the

widow of the testator, who is entitled to dower in

such lauds and tenements, will consent in writing