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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Who deemed
paupers, &c.

SEC. 2. And to ascertain what persons shall be
deemed paupers or habitual beggars or vagrants or vaga-
bonds or disorderly persons within the intention of this
act; be it enacted, that every person who has no visi-
ble means of maintenance from property or personal
labor, or is not permanently supported by his or her
friends or relatives, and lives idle without 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 a position
in any place and begs from passers by, either by words
or by gestures, shall be deemed an habitual beggar, and
every person who wanders about and lodges in out-
houses, market places, or other public buildings or pla-
ces, 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 or she procures a livelihood,
and every fortune teller or common gambler shall be
deemed a vagabond or disorderly person.

Paupers to be
sent to alms-
house.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said court or
said justice shall, upon proof that any person is a pau-
per, an habitual beggar, a vagrant, a vagabond or dis-
orderly person as aforesaid, send such person to the
alms-house for said city, or to such other suitable place
as may be provided for such purpose by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore.

May be sent
to house of
refuge.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That whenever any
house of refuge, house of correction, workhouse or
other house, building or place shall be provided by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to which per-
sons convicted under this act may be sent, the said court
or said justice may send them to any such house, build-
ing or place, if the judge of said court or said justice,
consider it to be a more suitable place for the purpose
than the almshouse aforesaid.

Escape to be
prevented.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the
almshouse aforesaid, and the officers of the other places
to which persons convicted under this act may be sent,
shall keep them during the time for which they are to
be kept under this act, so that they cannot escape
from said place.

Work.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said trustees
and other officers shall put such of said persons convic-
ted under this act as are able to work, to the work which
they are respectively best able to do.