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ure to discharge the duties and obligations of said Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, or any of them, or give the said
Mayor and Council of Baltimore any control over said Board,
or any officer of police, policeman or detective appointed
thereby.

760. All persons arrested in the daytime under the provis-
ions of this sub-division of this Article shall be taken by the
officer making the arrest immediately before the nearest Police
Justice for examination, except that all females and male chil-
dren under fourteen years of age who may be arrested or
taken into custody shall be taken before the nearest' Police
Justice for examination when there shall be matrons at the
station-house as hereinafter provided.

761. Whenever any person shall be arrested in the City of
Baltimore, charged with any crime or misdemeanor, or for be-
ing drunk or disorderly, or for any breach of the peace, and
shall be taken before any of the Police Justices of the Peace of
the said City, and any such person shall be found to have con-
cealed about his person any pistol, dirk-knife, bowie-knife,
sling-shot, billy, brass, iron, or any other metal knuckles, razor,
or any other deadly weapon whatsoever, such person shall be
subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than
twenty-five dollars, in the discretion of the Police Justice of the
Peace before whom such person may be taken, and the confis-
cation of the weapon so found, which said fine shall be collected
as other fines are now collected; provided, however, that the
provisions of this section shall not apply to those persons who,
as conservators of the peace, are entitled or required to carry
a pistol or other weapon as a part of their official equipment.

762. Every person in said City of Baltimore not being a
conservator of the peace, entitled or required to carry such
weapons as a part of his official equipment, who shall wear or
carry any pistol, dirk-knife, bowie-knife, sling-shot, billy, sand-
club, metal knuckles, razor or any other dangerous or deadly
weapon of any kind, whatsoever (pen-knives excepted), con-