JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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in the discharge of his duties; the sum of nine dollars ($9.00)
per week to be paid to Louis V. Paff .out of the fund in the
hands of said Board of Police Commissioners, known and
accounted for as the special fund, to be paid to him during his
life, under and by authority of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, chapter four hundred and fifty-nine,
laws of Maryland, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled
an Act to define a fund of money now in the hands, or which
under the existing laws may come into the hands of said
Board of Police Commissioners for the city of Baltimore, and
to provide for its application.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 281.
AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 27 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title " Crimes and Pun-
ishments," sub-title "Disturbance of the Public Peace,"
and to be known as Section 67 A.

CHAP. 281.

SECTION 1.Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That a new section be added to Article 27 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title " Crimes and
Punishments," sub-title " Disturbance of the Public Peace,"
as amended and re-enacted by chapter 285 of the Acts of
Session of 1900, to be known as section 67 A, and to follow
section 67, so as to read as follows :

New section
added.

Section 67 A.. Any person who shall be found drank or
acting in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public
peace, or who shall wilfully act in a disorderly manner by
making loud and unseemly noises or by profanely cursing,
swearing or using obscene language or by indecently exposing
his person on or about any steamboat wharf, dock or public
waiting room, or in or about the station grounds of any rail-
road in the State, or in or on any steamboat, street car, electric
car, railroad car, passenger train or other public conveyance,
or who shall wilfully catch hold of and solicit persons against
the will of said persons, or obstruct their free passage to or
through or out of such steamboat wharves, docks, public
waiting rooms, railroad stations, street cars, electric cars, rail-
road cars, passenger trains or other public conveyance, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to» a fine of not less
than five dollars or more than fifty dollars and costs, and
when such fine and costs are not paid, the party shall be com-

Fined for
disturbance
of the peace.