566 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

VAGRANTS, PAUPERS, BEGGARS, VAGABONDS AND DISORDERLY

PERSONS.

865. The Judge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, or any
Justice of the Peace of the City of Baltimore, upon informa-
tion that any person in said City is a pauper, an habitual beg-
gar, a vagrant, a vagabond or disorderly person, shall issue a
warrant or order, to be directed to the Sheriff or any constable
or police officer of said City, commanding him to bring the
person against whom the information is given, before said
Court or said Justice on a day to be named therein, not more
than one week from the date of the warrant, to answer to the
said charge.

866. Every person who has no visible means of mainte-
nance from property or personal labor, or is not permanently
supported by his or her friends or relatives, and lives idle, with-
out employment, shall be deemed a pauper; and every person
who habitually wanders about and begs in the streets, or from
house to house, or sits, stands or takes a position in any place
and begs from passers-by, either by words or gestures, shall be
deemed an habitual beggar; and every person who wanders
about and lodges in outhouses, market-places, or other public
buildings or places, or in the open air, and has no permanent
place of abode, or visible means of maintenance, shall be
deemed a vagrant; and every person who leads a dissolute and
disorderly course of life, and cannot give an account of the
means by which he procures a livelihood, and every fortune-
teller or common gambler, shall be deemed a vagabond or dis-
orderly per son.

867. Police officers, acting on the request of any person, or
upon their own information or belief, shall, without a warrant,
arrest and carry before a station-house Justice for examination
any such pauper, habitual beggar, vagrant, vagabond or dis-
orderly person, and make complaint against him ; provided,
that in all cases where such arrest is made on request of any
person and without warrant, the officer making the arrest shall