Concealed Weapons, § 30. Every person, not being a conservator of the peace entitled or required to carry such weapon as a part of his official equipment, who shall wear or carry any pistol, dirk-knife, bowie- knife, slung-shot, billy, sand-club, metal knuckles, razor, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of any kind whatsoever, (penknives excepted,) concealed upon or about his person; and every person who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly, with the intent or purpose of injuring any person, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than six months 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 the case, upon conviction of any offender, the court, in view of the evidence, shall be of the opinion that such weapon was carried with the deliberate purpose of inflicting grievous and unlawful injury to the life or person of another, it shall in that case be the duty of the court to impose the highest sentence of imprisonment hereinbefore prescribed.
John Prentiss Poe, ed., Supplement to the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, Containing the Public General Laws Passed at the Sessions of the General Assembly of 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, Codified in Articles and Sections to Correspond With the Code, With References to the Decisions Thereon by the Court of Appeals and With an Appendix Giving References to the Decisions Made by the Court of Appeals From October, 1887 to January 1898 (Baltimore, MD: King Brothers, 1898), 151.