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award, to enter judgment or decree thereupon, as upon a final
award made by referees under rule of court; upon which judg-
ment or decree, execution shall issue without stay. No matter
affecting the title of real estate, however, shall be submitted to
or arbitrated by the said committee under this or the preced-
ing: section, but the committee may direct in its award the
payment of the costs and expenses of the arbitration, and the
amount thereof shall be embraced as a principal sum in the
judgment or decree to be rendered; if awarded, to be paid by
the party against whom such judgment or decree is sought.
No judgment or decree rendered on any such award shall be
liable to be stayed, except upon allegation, under oath of the
defendant, of manifest fraud in the procurement or rendition of
the award, or of a material and substantial failure of the com-
mittee specifically alleged and set forth, to comply with the by-
laws or sections 226 or 227, in the hearing and determination of
the matters submitted; nor shall any such judgment or decree
be quashed, modified or stricken out, except upon satisfactory
proof of the matters so required to be so alleged; neither shall
there be any appeal in any case from the original judgment,
order or decree, whereby, after a hearing of the allegations and
proofs as aforesaid, the said original judgment or decree shall
be maintained.

ASSAULT AND BATTERY.

229. Any person who shall, without any provocation, as-
sault and beat any person in any of the streets, lanes, alleys or
highways of the City of Baltimore, or at any place of public
resort or amusement, between the hours of six o'clock in the
evening and six o'clock the following morning, or who shall
counsel, aid or abet in such assault and battery, shall be fined
in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars and be imprisoned
not less than one month; or the Judge of the Criminal Court
of Baltimore City, or the judge having jurisdiction of the of-
fense, may, in his discretion, sentence the person convicted
of such offense to confinement in the penitentiary for a period
not less than six months nor more than two years.

23O. It shall not be necessary to state with more particular-
ity than is now necessary in proceedings for assaults and bat-