EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1335

Local Laws of Maryland as enacted by Chapter 123 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1898, title "City of
Baltimore, " sub-title "Thieves and Pick-pockets" be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as
to read as follows:

It shall be the duty of all police officers and detectives
in Baltimore City to arrest and take before some one of the
station house justices in Baltimore City all persons whom they
shall find in Baltimore City or upon any train, boat, car or
other vehicle commonly used for the transportation of pas-
sengers which may be bound to or from Baltimore City whom
they shall know or have good reason to believe are common,
thieves or pickpockets, and said police justices shall commit
or bail such persons for trial before the Criminal Court of Bal-
timore; and if any person in Baltimore City shall be charged
on oath before any station house justice in Baltimore City or
before the judge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore with being
a common thief or pick-pocket, such justice or judge shall issue
a warrant for the arrest of such person and commit or bail
him for trial; and any person convicted in the Criminal Court
of Baltimore of being a common thief or common pick-pocket:
shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars or be im-
prisoned in jail or in the House of Correction or in the peni-
tentiary for a period not exceeding five years, or be both fined
and imprisoned within the limits above prescribed in the dis-
cretion of the court; but if any person is arrested or indicted a
second time or more for such offense, he s. hall be convicted only
on proof that he has continued to be a common thief or pick-
pocket since his last conviction or acquittal, and it shall be
necessary to charge in the indictment only that the person is a
common thief or common pick-pocket, and any evidence, either
of facts or reputation, proving that such person is habitually
and by practice a thief or pick-pocket, shall be sufficient for his
conviction if satisfactorily establishing the fact to the court or
jury by whom he is tried, and there shall be no discretion in any
police officer or police justice to discharge or release any
person who is by such proof before them or knowledge on their
part shown to be a thief or pick-pocket as aforesaid, but such
person shall be bailed or committed for trial; and no convic-
tion or charge of or for being a common thief or pick-pocket
shall prevent any such person from being tried and convicted:
for any particular act of larceny he may have committed.