J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               985

Sec. 30. And be it further enacted, That Sections 751, 753, 754,
and 758 of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City
(1949 Edition), subdivision "Vagrants, Paupers, Beggars, Vaga-
bonds and Disorderly Persons," be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

§ 751. Police officers acting on the request of any person or upon
their own information or belief shall, [witout] without a warrant,
arrest and carry before [a station house justice] the Municipal
Court of Baltimore City for examination any person charged with
violating any of the provisions of the above Sections 749 or 750;
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] court and prefer a charge under oath against the person so
arrested.

§ 753. The [said court or said justice] Judge before whom any
person so charged may be brought, upon proof that such person has
violated any of the provisions of the above Sections 749 or 750,
shall in his discretion, fine such person not exceeding the sum of
five hundred dollars or sentence such person to be confined in jail
or in the House of Correction or in such other suitable place as
may hereafter be provided by the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more for a period not exceeding one year; provided that in the
case of any person found to be a pauper or an habitual beggar who
may not be able-bodied, but aged, or seriously crippled or infirm,
the said court [or justice] shall request the Department of Public
Welfare to provide proper care; and provided further that any
minor convicted under the provision of the above Sections 749 or
750 may be sent to any reformatory institution to which minors
may be committed under Article 27 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland.

§ 754. Whenever any workhouse or other place shall be provided
by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to which persons con-
victed of violating any of the provisions of the above Sections 749
or 750 may be sent, the [said] court [or justice] may send them to
such workhouse or other place if the [said] court [or justice] con-
siders it a more suitable place for purpose.

§ 758. Whenever any minor shall be brought before the Judge
[or Justice] as aforesaid, the parents or guardians of such minor, if
they be resident within the City of Baltimore and their names and
place of residence be made known to such Judge [or Justice], shall
be summoned to show cause, if any they have, why such minor
should not be sent to the almshouse or other suitable place, or be
otherwise punished according to law.

Sec. 31. And be it further enacted, That Section 767 of the Charter
and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949 Edition), subdivision
"Vagrant, Dependent and Vicious Children", be, and the same is
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

§ 767. Any girl apparently under the age of sixteen years, and
any boy apparently under the age of fourteen years, that comes
within any of the following descriptions named: that is known to be