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A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
ployed to carry passengers over any part of said
roads and within the limits of this State, charged
with being a common thief or pickpocket, such
persons 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 personbe arrested
in any car or on any ferry boat, before anyJustice of
the Peace of the nearest convenient county or 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 Bal-
timore city, and all conductors of trains and police
employed by any of said railway companies, and
all constables and bailiffs of any county or cityin 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 provided in the preceding section, and the said
Justice shall commit or bail such person on the
same knowledge or proof; and any person convict-
ed in any county on the line of said roads, with
being a common pickpocket, shall be punished by
fine or imprisonment 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.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That any person con-
victed in any county of this State, of the offence of
being a common thief or common pickpocket, shall
be fined and imprisoned in the county jail for the
same time or amount as provided in the first sec-
tion of this act, and the provisions of said section
shall apply to this section, except so far as altered
by this section.
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Fine and im-
prisonment.
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