The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-07-25
[OFFICIAL.I
POLICE JURY-PARISH OF JEFFERSON,
LEFT BANK.

EXTRA SITTING OF july 9th, 1860.
The Board met this day pursuant to
adjournment.
Present the Hon. VIM. Mithoff, Mes
srs. Levy, j. Miller, l.. c.. Perret, r.
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 sof the Com I
mittee to whom was referred t6e petit I
ton asking for a night police TERED
the following:
The Committee to whom was referred
the subject sof Police Law, most res
pectfully submit the following for the
approval Of the So {, IS ~ 3. -
Be 1t Ordained, etc., That all white
male residents of the Left Bank Of t6eS!
and under the age of forty-five years.
shall be subject to patrol duty when,
ordered by the Police Committee, and
notified by the Syndic, except in casa
of sickness or for soma other plausible
csnse, provided, any person callea
Enpen III perform patrol duty shall IN
Permitted ste put another psrscn in l lsl
Thasthe police jury shan annually
at tKeff 4ngust meeting ele
night afice 10 b6 under the sup
aud ectiOn Of the
obta his orders ana +
week from the Roaice B
make weekly 4
The Police SID 10 good
and trustworthy men as 3 Salafy of fifty
dollars 500 per month each whose
duty it shall be to patrol every night
from shutdown 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.
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
out only in cases of necessity or to as
sist the police when public safety re-
quires it, Ia such cases the Syndic must
assume the command. S@
The police or patrols shall arrest all
Migrants or suspicious white or free
colored persons, that they may meet
on the roads or other places and bring
them before a committing magistrate,
to be dealt with according to law.
They shall have power to arrest all
and every slave they may meet without
a.pass or permit from their owner. over
seer, or 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 employer
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, 10. 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-
BILE all unlawful traffic with slaves, within
the jurisdiction of the Police Jury.
All derelietion of duty on the part of
the officers. to be reported by the Police
Conlnlttee 10 tne romeo Jury Ao,
on vote of the. majority of the Jury,
the officer shall be discharged and the
salary inf such cases be paid according
to 81 pro-rata.
All ordinances concerning patfof
which are superseded by this ordinance,
or in conflict with it, be and are hereby
repealed.
On motion of Mr.. Betz, the report of
the Committee was adopted as an ordi-
nance of the Police Jury.
On motion of Mr.. Levy, the Jury
adjourned to meet again on the first
Monday of August, 1860, at IL O'Clock
AIM.
A true copy,
=. CHARLES E. ROVER, Sec'y.