The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-11

&. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
CHAPTER SAT.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section
Thirty (30) of Article Twenty-Seven
(20 of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled Grimes and Punish
ments,'' subtitle, Concealed
Weapons" and furnishing the offense
of carrying concealed weapons,
whereas, it is represented to this Gen
eneral Assembly that the existing
law in reference to the offense of
carrying concealed weapons does not
make proper discrimination in favor
of those who travelling in Dangerous
localities or from other imminent
necessity or prudent precaution in the
presence of threatened injury to their
lives or person, may reasonably arm
themselves for self protection; and
the law has been made an instrument
of injustice to those not deserving of
punishment. Therefore:
SECTION l.. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Section
Thirty (30) of Article (2O of the Code of
Public General Laws, entitled Grimes
and Punishments," subtitle Concealed
Wepons," be and the same is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
80. Every person not being a conserva-
tor of the peace, entitled or required to
carry such weapons as part of his Off
cial equipment, and not carrying such
weapons as a reasonable precaution
against apprehended danger. who shall
wear or carry any pistol, dirk knife,
bowie knife, slung shot, billy, sand club,
metal knuckels, razor or any other dan
gerous or deadly weapon of any kind
whatsoever open knives excepted) con-
cealed upon or about his person, and
every person who shall carry or wear
any such weapon openly with the in
tent or purpose of injuring any person in
any unlawful manner and not for any
proper purpose of self protection, shall
upon conviction thereof be fined not
more than one thousand dollars or be
imprisoned not more than two years in
Jail or in the House of Correction, and
the court or jury before whom any such
case may be tried shall in all cases have
the right to judge of the reasonableness
of the carrying of any such weapon, and
of the proper occasion therefor upon
satisfactory proof, and in case upon con-
viction of any offender the court in view
of the evidence shall be of the opinion
that such weapons were carried with
the deliberate purpose of inflicting
greivous and unlawful injury to the life
or purperty Of another, it shall in that
case be the duty of the court to impose
the highest sentence of imprisonment
hereinbefore prescribed.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this
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passage.
Approved April 6, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES HI. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the afore-
going is correct copy of any Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed
January Session, 1894.
J. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
CHAPTER 474.
AN ACT to repeal Section forty-seven,
of Article sixteen, of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Chan-
cery," subtitle "Inebriates," and to
re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sec
ton forty-seven, of Article sixteen, of
the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Chancery," subtitle "Inebriates, - be
and the same is is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendment so as to
read as follows:
Al. Whenever, by petition under oath,
any person shall be alleged to be an
habitual drunkard, incapable of taking
care Of himself or herself, or his or her