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and by practice a thief or pickpocket, shall be sufficient for his con-
viction of IF satisfactorily establishing the fact to the court or jury
by whom he is tried, and there shall be no discretion in any police
officer or [Municipal Court judge] commissioner of the District Court
to discharge or release any person who is by such proof before them
or knowledge on their part shown to be a thief or pickpocket as afore-
said, but such person shall be bailed or committed according to law or
rule of court for trial; and no conviction or charge of or for being a
common thief or pickpocket shall prevent any such person from being
tried and convicted for any particular act of larceny he may have
committed.

§ 559. On railroads.

If any person shall be arrested at any place on the line of the Bal-
timore and Ohio Railroad, or on the line of the Northern Central
Railroad, or on the line of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, or the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, or the Western
Maryland Railroad, or any other railroad running out of Baltimore
City, or in any of the cars or depots, or at any of the stations on
said roads, or on any ferryboat employed to carry passengers over
any part of said roads and within the limits of this State, charged
with being a common thief or pickpocket, such person may be taken
before any [justice of the peace of] commissioner of the District
Court in the county in which said place, or depot or station may be
situated; or if such person be arrested in any car or on any ferryboat,
before any [justice of the peace of] commissioner in the nearest
convenient county or [before any judge of the Municipal Court
of] in Baltimore City; and [such justice or judge] the commis-
sioner shall on proof as provided in § 558 of this article commit or bail
such person according to law or rule of court for trial before the
[circuit court for the county, or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, as
the case may be] District Court; and all police officers of Baltimore
City, and all conductors of trains and police employed by any of said
railway companies, and all [constables and] bailiffs of any county
or city on the lines of said roads shall arrest all such persons at
any of the places aforesaid on the same knowledge and proof of their
being common thieves or pickpockets as provided in § 558, and the
said commissioner [justice or judge] shall commit or bail such per-
sons according to law or rule of court on the same knowledge or
proof. Any person convicted in any county on the line of said roads
with being a common pickpocket shall be punished by fine or imprison-
ment in the jail of the county for the same time and in the same
amount as provided in § 558; and all the provisions of § 558 shall
apply to all cases under this section, except so far as altered by this
section.

§ 576. Trespass on posted property.

It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or trespass on any
property which is posted against trespassers in a conspicuous man-
ner. Any person so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction [before any justice of the peace] shall pay a fine of not
less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred
dollars ($100.00) and the costs; the prosecution of such offenders shall
be made and proceedings instituted by the landowner or tenant of
the property unlawfully entered. Any person convicted under the pro-