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inafter provided, if it appears after investigation by said
Board that the applicaint has good reason to fear an injury
to his person or property and that he is a suitable person to
be so licensed. The license provided for in this section shall
expire at midnight of December thirty-first in each and every
year, but may be revoked at any time by the said Board of
Police Commissioners; the fee or charge for the license pro-
vided for in this section shall be twelve dollars for the entire
twelve months, and if the license is issued in any month after
January one-twelfth shall be deducted from the charge above
stated for each expired month not fraction of a month; the
license fee or charge herein prescribed and so paid shall be by
the said Board applied to the use and benefit of the fund in its
charge created by law and known and accounted for as the
Special Fund.

SEC. 762. Whoever carries on his person a pistol or revolver
without authority or license as provided for in Section 761 of
this subdivision of this Article, or whoever carries on his
person any dirk knife, bowie knife, slingshot, billy, sandbag,
metal knuckles, razor or any other dangerous or deadly weapon
of any kind whatsoever (penknives excepted) shall upon con-
viction be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in jail or in
the House of Correction for a term not exceeding one year, or
by both such fine and imprisonment and the confiscation of the
weapon; provided, however, that 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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 662.

AN ACT to repeal Section 427 of Article 4, entitled "City of
Baltimore, Miscellaneous Local Laws," subtitle "Examining
Engineers," of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
and re-enact said Section 427, with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 427 of Article 4, entitled "City of Balti-
more, Miscellaneous Local Laws," subtitle "Examining En-
gineers," of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, be
and the same is hereby repealed and the said Section 427 is
hereby re-enacted so as to read as follows: