LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1844.

jurisdiction, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than ten
and not exceeding fifty dollars, one half for the use of the
Beneficial Fund of the Baltimore United Fire Department,
and the other half for the use of the informer, except the
informer be a member of the said fire department, when
the entire amount of forfeit shall be for the use of the

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beneficial fund of that department.
SEC. 2. AND WHEREAS at the time of fire or alarms
of tire, it is necessary for the preservation of harmony
and good older among the members of the several fire
companies, that idle and disorderly persons especially
minors, should be kept or removed to a convenient dis-
tance from the engine or other apparatus of any or all the
companies; be it enacted, that any minor who is not now
a member of a fire company, and all and every disorderly
person or persons found running to a fire, or after, before or
about an engine or other fire apparatus, within one square
of any fire, engine, or other apparatus, who after being
warned away by any officer of a fire company, shall refuse

Alarms of fire.

or neglect to obey such warning, shall be deemed guilty
of inciting a riot, and upon conviction thereof before Bal-
timore city court, or any other court of competent juris-
diction, forfeit and pay a sum not less than ten and not
more than fifty dollars, one half for the use of the Benefi-
cial Fund of the Baltimore United Fire Department, and
the other half for the use of the informer, except the in-
former be a member of said fire department, when the en-
tire amount of forfeit shall be for the use of the beneficial
fund of that department.

Deemed guil-
ty of inciting
riot.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any group or collec-
tion of minors or other persons, found collected in any of
the streets, lanes or allies of the city of Baltimore, or any
other place, for the purpose of intercepting the passage of
any engine or other apparatus for the extinguishment of
fires, belonging to any one or more of the companies, shall
be deemed guilty of inciting a riot, and for offending
against the provisions of this section, on conviction there-
of before Baltimore city court, or any other court of com-
petent jurisdiction, shall each forfeit and pay a sum not
less than twenty and not exceeding fifty dollars, one half
for the use of the Beneficial Fund of the Baltimore United
Fire Department, and the other half for the use of the in-
former, except the informer be a member of said fire de-
partment, when the entire amount of forfeit shall be for
the use of beneficial fund of that department.

Collection of
minors in the
streets, deem-
ed guilty of
inciting not.