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additional Sections 30-A and 30-B respectively to read as fol-
lows :

30. Every person who shall wear or carry any pistol, dirk-
knife, bowie knife, slung shot, billy, sand club, metal knuckles,
razor or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of any kind
whatsoever (pen knives excepted) concealed upon or about his
person, and every person who "shall wear or carry any such
weapon openly with the intent or purpose of injuring any per-
son in any unlawful manner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one
thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in jail, or the Maryland
House of Correction, for not more than two years; and in eases
of conviction, if it shall appear from the evidence that such
weapon was carried, concealed as aforesaid or openly, with the
deliberate purpose of injuring the person or destroying the life
of another, the court, or justice of the peace, presding in
the case, shall impose the highest sentence of imprisonment here-
inbefore prescribed.

30-A. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the
carrying of any of the weapons mentioned in the preceding
Section by an officer of this State, or of any County or City
therein, who is entitled or required to carry such weapon as
part of his official equipment, or by any conservator of the
peace, who is entitled or required to carry such weapon as part
of his official equipment, or by any officer or conservator of
the peace of some other State temporarily sojourning in this
State, or by any special agent of a railway, or by any person
who shall carry such weapon as a reasonable precaution against
apprehended danger, but the tribunal before which any case
arising under the provisions of this Act may be tried, shall have
the right to judge of the reasonableness of the carrying of any
such weapon, and the proper occasion therefor, under the evi-
dence in the case.

30-B. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of
the preceding Sections 30 and 30-A of this Act may be either
upon presentment and indictment in any court having criminal
jurisdiction in this State, or by trial before any justice of
the peace in and for the County or city where the offense oc-
curs, and jurisdiction original and concurrent with the said
courts having criminal jurisdiction is hereby given to the said
justices of the peace, and they shall have power to issue all
processes and do all Acts which may be necessary for the exer-
cise of said jurisdiction, and may try and determine all such