The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-07-21
GoFFICIAL.
POLICE W8Y-PARISH OF JEFFERSON,
LEFT BANK

potcE JgkY-pARIsH OF JEFFERSON,
- LEFT BANK. ia
EXTRA SITTING OF JULY 9h, s1S6O. NJ
The Board met this day PURSUANT e 4
Present the Ron. VIM ie6 les
srs. Levy. j. Millr,s L. Chr n. R.
j. Preston, VIM. Fish and haSEBetz.
The minutes Of the last meeting
were read, and on motionIG Mt. Pres
ton, were amended by inserting the
approval Of the securities ofefed by
the different Officers.
Mr.. Preston on behalf of the Com
mittee to whom. was referred the Reti
ton asking for a night-pofee offered
the following:
The Committee to whomswas referred 4
the subject of Police Law, most res
pectfully submit the following for the
approval of the Jury.
BE it Ordaiaed, ETC., That all white
mole residents of the Left Bank of the
Parish, above the age of twenty-one
sansl suhder the age of forty-fiye years,
shaH be subject to patrol duty when
3ordSred by the Police Committee, and
/ notified by the Syndic, except in case
,8of sickness or for some other plausible
cause, provided, any person called
hpon 10 perform patrol duty shall be
spsrmitted to~put another person in his
place.
s That the Police Jury shall annually
sat their first August meeting elect
ilight-po}ice 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 $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
'sof 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, in such cases the Syndic must
assume the command.
The police or patrols shall arrest all
vagraasts OR suspicious white or free
co1ored persons, that they may meet
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
pass or permit from their owner. over
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such slaves to their owner, overseer, or
employer if a resident, and be entitled
to receive one dollar from the owner,
etc., for the arrest and delivery Of each.
y And all slaves which they may arrest
whose mister, oyerseer 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, If, ID and
ID, 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-
bleall 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 q vote of the majority of the Jury,
the officer shall be discharged and the
salary IN such cases be paid according
to a pro-rata.eE
All ordinances concerning patrol
which are superceded 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.
5 Mr. Levy offered the following reso-
luton, which on being seconded by Mr..
Preston was adopted.
ReSolred, That it shall be the duty
of the Secretary and Treasurer -of6cio
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 tinees fixed for. the. pay
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