The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-07-18
TOFFICIAL.]
POLICE JURY-PARISH OF JEFFERSON
LEFT BANK.

Present the Hon. VIM. Mithof, Mes
srs. Levy, j. Miller, l.. G.. 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 "a
Mr. Preston on behalf of the Com
mittee to whom was referred the peti..1
ton asking for night-police oncred]
the following:
The Committee to whom was referred1
the subject of Police Law, most res-
pectfully submit the following for the 4
approval of the Jury.
Be 1t Ordained, etc., That all white
male residents of the Left Bank of theI
Parish, above the age of twenty-oneg]
and under the age of fortyfive 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 "a
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 a weekly report to said Com
mittee.
The Police shall consist of two good
and trustworthy men at a salary of fifty
dollars ($50) 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 SyRdip.
All orders of the Con1mittSaStp, be
strictly secret. 80.
than three armed men, and as maHf as
the danger may requires ''s'
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, in such cases the Syndic must
assume the command.
The police or patrols shall arrest all
yagrants or suspicious white or free
colored personss that they may meet
on the roads or other places and bring
them before q 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, or employer. They shall deliver
such slaves to their owner, overseer, or
employer if o 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, 9, 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 possi-
bic all unlawful traffic with slaves, within
the jurisdiction of the Police Jury.
All dereliction of duty on the part of
the officers to be reported by the Police
Committee to the Police Jury. And
on 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 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.
Mr. Levy offered the following reso-
luton, which on being seconded by Mr..
Preston was adopted.
ResoLUcd, That it shall be the duty
of the Secretary and Treasurer -officio
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
aggregate amount thereof; and said
Tax Collector shall from time to time
exhibit to the Treasurer all sucls-as may
not have been paid, and credited in bis