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784. If any person shall be arrested at any place on the line
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, or on the line of the North-
ern Central Railroad, or on the line of the Philadelphia, Wil-
mington and Baltimore Railroad, or in any of the cars or de-
pots, or at any of the stations on said roads, or on any ferry-
boat employed to carry passengers over any part of said road,
and within the limits of this State, charged with being a com-
mon thief or pickpocket, such person may be taken before any
Justice of the Peace of the county in which said place or depot
or station may be situated; or if such person be arrested in any
car, or on any ferry-boat, before any Justice of the Peace of the
nearest convenient county or any station-house Justice of the
City of Baltimore; and such Justice shall, on proof, as provided
in the preceding section, commit or bail such person for trial
before the Circuit Court of the county, or the Criminal Court
of Baltimore, as the case may be; and all police officers of Balti-
more City, and all conductors of trains and police employed by
any of said railway companies, and all constables and bailiffs of
any county or city on the lines of said road, shall arrest all such
persons at any of the places aforesaid, on the same knowledge
and proof of their being common thieves or pickpockets as pro-
vided in the preceding section, and the said Justice shall com-
mit or bail such person on the same knowledge or proof; and
any person convicted in any county on the line of said roads of
being a common pickpocket, shall be punished by a fine or im-
prisonment in the jail of the county for the same time and in
the same amount as provided in the preceding section; and all
the provisions of the preceding section shall apply to all cases
under this section, except so far as altered by this section.

Personating Policemen.

785. It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by imprison-
ment in the jail of Baltimore City for not more than one year,
or by fine of not less than five dollars, for any person not a
member of the police force of Baltimore City, to falsely repre-
sent himself as being; such member, with fraudulent design
upon person or property, or upon any day or at any time to
have, use, wear or display, without the authority of the Board