PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 623

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That every person within Talbot County who has no visible
means of maintenance from property or personal labor, or is not
permanently supported by his or her friends or relatives, who
lives idle, without employment; and every person who leads a
dissolute or disorderly course of life, and cannot give an account
of the means by which he procures a livelihood, and every for-
tune teller or common gambler shall be deemed a vagabond;
and every person who habitually wanders about and begs in the
streets of any town, or from house to house, or sits or stands
or takes a position in any place or begs from passers by; either
by words or gestures, shall be deemed a habitual beggar; and
every person who wanders about and lodges in outhouses,
market places, barracks, sheds, barns, or in any public building,
or in the open air, and has no permanent place of abode, or
visible means of maintenance, shall be deemed a vagrant.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every vagabond, habitual
beggar and vagrant, upon conviction before the Circuit Court
for Talbot County, or before any Justice of the Peace having
criminal jurisdiction, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be subject to imprisonment in jail, or in the Maryland
House of Correction for a period of not less than two months
or more than six months for the first conviction; and not less
than six months or more than twelve months for the second or
any subsequent conviction; provided that any person found to
be a vagabond or an habitual beggar who may not be able
bodied, but aged or infirm or seriously crippled, may in the
discretion of the Court or Justice of the Peace, be committed
to the almshouse or be paroled; and provided also that any
minor committed under this Act may be sent to any reforma-
tory institution to which minors may be committed under Ar-
ticle 27 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, or
paroled in the discretion of the Court or Justice of the Peace.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 388.

AN ACT to enable any stockholder of any corporation now or
hereafter dissolved by judicial proceedings to plead all de-
fenses, including limitations and laches, as effectually as they
may be pleaded by such corporation, or by the receiver
thereof.