The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-07-14
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POLICE JURY-PARISH OF JEFFERSON,
LEFT BANK

LEFT BANK.
EXTRA SITTING OF july 9th, 1860.
The Board met this day pursuant to
adjournment.
Pr sent the Hon. VIM. Mithoff, Mes
Sis. Levy, j. Miller, L. G. Perret, II.
l.. Preston, VIM. Fish and N. Betz
The minutes of the last meeting
were read, and on motion of Mr. Pres
ton, were amended by inserting the
approval of the securities offered by
the different Officers.
Mr.. Preston on behalf of the Com
mittee to whom was referred the peti
ton asking for u night-police offered
the following:
The Committee to whom was referred
the subject of Police Law, most res
pectfully submit the following for the
approval of the Jury.
Be IL Ordained, ETC., That all white
male residents of the Left Bank of the
Parish, above the age of twenty-one
and under the age of forty-fve years,
shall be subject to patrol duty when
ordered by the Police Committee, and
notified by the Syndic, except in case
of sickness or for some other plausible
cause, provided, any person called
upon to perform patrol duty shall be
permitted to put another person in his
place.
That the Police Jury shall annually
at their first August meeting elect u
night-police to be under the supervision
and direction of the Syndic, who must
obtain his orders and directions each
week from the Police Committee, and
make weekly report to said Com
mittee.
The Police shall consist of two good
and trustworthy men at a salary of fifty
dollars $500 per month each, whose
duty it shall be to patrol every night
from sundown to sunrise, the public
road or such parts in the jurisdiction
of the Police Jury, as may be ordered
by the Police Committee to the Syndic.
All orders of the Committee to be
strictly secret. a.
The patrol shall consist of not less
than three armed men, and as many as
the danger may require.
And the said patrol are to be called
Oft only in cases of necessity or to as
sist the police when public safety re-
quires it, in such cases the Syndic must
assume the command.
The police or patrols shall arrest all
vagrants or suspicious white or free
colored persons, that they may meet
on the roads or other places and bring
them before Il committing magistrate,
to be dealt with according to law.
They shall have power to arrest all
and every slave they may meet without
pass or permit from their owner. over
seer, OF employer. They shall deliver
such slaves to their owner, overseer, or
employer if resident, and be entitled
to receive one dollar from the owner,
etc., for the arrest and delivery Of each.
And all slaves which they may arrest
whose master, overseer or employe,
does not reside within the limits of the
Police Jury; they shall deliver in the
Parish Jail and shall be entitled to three
dollars ($3,) for each and every such
arrest and delivery.
That Articles 8, 8, 10, II, ~ and
13, of the Ordinance concerning patrols
shall be still in force, and all powers
therein given to patrols shall be dele
gated to the police. And further, the
police shall prevent as much as posi-
bic all unlawful traffic with slaves, within
the jurisdiction Of the Police Jury.
All dcreliction Of duty on the part of
the officers to be reported by the Police
Committee to the Police Jury. And
on Il vote of the majority of the Jury,
the officer shall be discharged and the
salary in such cases be paid according
to pro-rata.
All ordinances concerning patrol
which are superseded by this ordinance,
or III conflict with it, be and are hereby
repealed.
On motion of Mr. Betz, the report OF
the Committed was adopted as an ordi-
| nance of the Police Jury.
Mr. Levy offered the following reso-
luton, which on being seconded by Mr..
Preston was adopted.
RcSoLUcd, That it shall be the duty
Of the Secretary and Treasurer cx- officic
Of the Police Jury in each year as soon
as the rate of taxes on property may be
fixed, to prepare the Tax receipts and
at or before the time fixed for the pay
ment of said taxes TO deliver the same
to the Parish Tax Collector, who shall
/ give his receipt therefor specifying the
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