The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
[CHAPTER 3l.1
TRANPS.
AN ACT

To amend article thirty of the Code of Public
and Punishments,n by adding thereto certain
additional sections, under the subtitle of
Cramps"
SECTION ]. BE it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That article thirty of the
Public General Laws of this State, title ''Crmes
and Punishments," be amended by adding
thereto the following addit onal sections, under
the subtitle of Cramps: -
SECTION l. Every person, not insane, who
wanders about in this State and lodges in mar
lighthouses, market-paces, or in other public
buildings, or in barns, out-houses, barracks,
sheds, or in the open air, without having any
fixed place of residence and without having
any lawful occupation in the city, town or
county in which he may so WANDER and without
having any visible means of support, shall be
deemed to be tramp and to be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be subject TO Imprisonment
in the Maryland House of Correction for a
period not less than two months nor more than
one year.
SEC. Q. The respective justices of the peace
in the respective counties of this State shall
have concurrent jurisdiction with the Circuit
Courts for their respective counties, and the JUS
tees of the peace selected to sit at the respective
station houses in the City of Baltimore shall
have concurrent jurisdiction with the Criminal
Court of Baltimore in the cases of persons ar
rested as tramps, and such respective justices
shall proceed to hear and determine such cases
when the parties arrested as tramps are brought
before them respectively and to acquit such
persons or to sentence them for such offence if
convicted, unless such respective persons so
charged, when so brought before them respect
lively, and before they are respectively tried as
aforesaid, shall pray a jury trial. If any person
charged with being tramp, brought before
justice of the peace selected to sit at a station
house in the city of Baltimore, shall pray a jury
trial as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said
justice of the peace to commit such person for
trial. or to hold him TO bail to appear before the
Criminal Court of Baltimore on the next sue
ceeding Saturday of the session of the said court,
and to return the commitment or recognzance
in such case to the clerk of the said court on or
before the day next preceding the next Saturday
session of said court and if any person charged
with being tramp brought before justice of
the peace for any county in this State shall pray
jury trial as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of
the said justice Of the peace to commit such per-
son for trial or to hold him to bail to appear for
trial before the circuit court for the county in
which such person was arrested at the pending
term of said circuit court, if it be then in ses-
sion, or at the next term thereof if it De not
then in session. Such respective justices of the
peace shall endorse upon the commitment or
recognizance of any such person so praying a
jury trial the names and places of residence of
the witnesses on behalf of the prosecution and
shall cause such respective witnesses to enter
into recognizance Tor their respective appearance
against such person in the court into which such
commitment or recognizance for the appearance
of the party charged is returned at the time
prescribed for the appearance of the person 80
charged in such court.