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by, either by words or gesture, shall be deemed an habitual
beggar; and every person, who wanders about and lodges in
outhouses, market places, 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 and disorderly course of
life and cannot give an account of the means by which he pro-
cures a livelihood, and every fortune teller or common gambler
shall be deemed a vagabond or disorderly person.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the police officers
acting on the request of any person or upon their own informa-
tion or belief shall without a warrant arrest and carry before
a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for
Baltimore County, for examination, any such pauper, habitual
beggar, vagrant, fortune teller, common gambler or disorderly
person and make complaint against such person; provided that
in all cases where such arrest is made on request of any per-
son and without warrant the officer making the request shall
require the person requesting it to forthwith appear before
said Justice and prefer a charge under oath against the person
so arrested.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said Court or Jus-
tice upon proof that any. person is a pauper, an habitual beg-
gar, a vagrant, a fortune teller, or a vagabond as aforesaid,
shall in the discretion of the said Court or Justice commit said
pauper, habitual beggar, vagrant, fortune teller or vagabond
to the Baltimore County Jail for not less than one week nor
more than two months for the first conviction, and not less than
one month nor more than six months for the second conviction,
and not less than six months nor more than twelve months for
the third or any, subsequent conviction.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if in any case
which may be brought before a Justice of the Peace under this
Act the party charged shall demand a jury trial, the said Jus-
tice shall certify said case to the Circuit Court for Baltimore
County to be proceeded with and tried by said Court and in the
same manner as if the case had been originally brought before
said Court.

Approved April 4th, 1916.