EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1307

SEC. 865. Every person who shall demand or accept any
remuneration or gratuity for forecasting or foretelling or for
pretending to forecast or foretell the future of another by
cards, palmreading or any other scheme, practice or device,
shall be deemed, guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished as hereafter provided; and in any
indictment for a violation of the above provisions, it shall be
sufficient to allege that the defendant forecast and foretold
or pretended to forecast or foretell the future by a certain
scheme, practice or device without setting forth the particular
scheme, practice or device employed.

SEC. 866. Every person who has no visible means of main-
tenance from property or personal labor, or is not permanently
supported by his or her friends or relatives and lives idle with-
out employment shall be deemed a pauper; and every person
who habitually wanders about and begs in the streets or from
house to house or sits, stands or takes any position in any place
and by words, gestures or other appeals, whether written or
oral, solicits alms or begs from other persons shall be deemed an
habitual beggar; and every person who wanders about and
lodges in outhouses, marketplaces or other public buildings or
places or in the open air and has no permanent place of abode
or visible means of maintenance shall be deemed a vagrant;
and every person who leads a dissolute or disorderly course of
life, or cannot give an account of the means by which he or she
procures a livelihood shall be deemed a vagabond or dis-
orderly person; and every female person who shall solicit or
procure or attempt to solicit or procure or who shall walk the
streets for the purpose of soliciting or procuring any male
person or persons to engage in sexual intercourse or in any
other immoral practice with her or any other person for com-
pensation or reward shall be deemed a common prostitute.

SEC. 867. Police officers acting on the request of any person
or upon their own information or belief shall, without a warrant,
arrest and carry before a station house justice for examination
any person charged with violating any of the provisions
of the above Sections 865 or 866; provided that in all cases
where such arrest is made on request of any person and without
warrant the officer making the arrest shall require the person
requesting it to forthwith appear before said justice and prefer
a charge under oath against the person so arrested.