650 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

visible means of maintenance from property or personal labor,
or is not permanently supported by his or her friends or rela-
tives, 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 gypsy, fortune 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 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, mar-
ket 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 such vagabond, gyp-
sies, habitual beggar and vagrant, upon conviction before the
Circuit Court of Worcester 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 the county
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 con-
viction; 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 a habitual beggar
who may not be able bodied, but aged or infirm or seriously
crippled may in the discretion of the Court or the Justice of the
Peace, be committed to the almshouse or be paroled; and pro-
vided, also, that any minor committed under this Act may be
sent to any reformatory institution to which minors may be com-
mitted under Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, or paroled in the discretion of the Court or the Jus-
tice 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 408.

AN ACT to authorize "The Forest Oak Cemetery Association of
Gaithersburg,'' Montgomery County, Maryland, to dispose of
unused burial lots by sale and for other purposes.