The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-12-11
RESIDENCE.

SECTION 1. Paupers shall be deem.
ed to be residents Of the Parish, when
residence has been acquired within
the time and under the law prescrtb'
Ing the terms and conditions thereof.
WHO ARE DEEMED PAuPERs.
Sec. g. The Parish will not deem
those Paupers, whose inability to
support themselves 10 brought about
by their own acts Of violence or IN.
temperance.
PERSONS HAVING RELATIVES NOT TO BE
CONSIDERED PAUPERs.
Sec. 3. No person shall be deemed
q Peuper or entitled to relief 40 such
whose relations, ascendant or de.
cendant, upon whom the law imposes
the responsibility or liability to sup.
port such relations, have means and
property, real or personal, euff1cient
to enable them TO support or keep
above actual want such Pauper rela.
tivee.
NOT CONSIDERED PAUPERs WHEN.
Sec. 4. No person shall be deemed
q Pauper whose physical health and
condition is such that he or she by
proper exertiOns can earn q livelt.
hood or maintain himself or herself
with tho actual requirements above
want and physical suffering.
Sec. s. No person, male or female,
above the age Of ten years, who shall
be In the enjoyment OF good health
and physical strength, shall be re.
garded a. pauper.
PAUPERs TOTO BE VERIFIED NJ ply
sIClAFs
Sec. G. No person shall be placed
on the Pauper list unless there IL
presented . written application sign.
ed bv said Pauper and approved BY
the Police Juror OF the Ward In which
he or che resides, accompanied by 9
certificate OF two taxpayers OF said
Ward, setting forth the Indulgence
and inability OF said applicant to
maintain himself or herself above &C.
tual want and that such Indulgence or
inability has arisen since the reno.
val OF said applicant to and during
bis or her residence In said Parish,
and said application shall. when
practicable or reasonably obtainable,
be verified by the Parish Physician
or some Physician Of good standing
10 said Ward declaring that an ex.
animation Of the applicant, he We.
rily believes that such applicant is .
proper subject to be placed on the
PXuper list under the terms and con.
dittons set forth 10 this Ordinance.
PAuPERs 70 RENEW APPLICATION EVERY
Six MONTHS.
Sec. Z. Each and every Pauper on
the Paupes list shalt renew his or her
application to the Police Jury every
six months; such renewed applica.
tion to be accompanied with tho Ger.
tilcates herein required, and said
Pauper shall not he continued on
said list unless the Police Jury shall
approve said renewed application.
ALLOWANCE OF PAuPERs.
Sec. 8 The allowance to Paupers
under this Ordinance shall be Three
Dollars per month.
CLERK REQUIRED TO KEEP LIST OF PAU.
PERs AND MAKE sEMt.ANNCAL REPORTS
CLERK TO DRAW CHECKS.
Sec. 9. The Clerk Of the Police Jury
is hereby required and directed to
keep q separate itst Of the Paupers
! OF each Ward and q separate account
With the same, and shall make semi.
annual reports to the Police Jury
showing the number OF Paupers.
the date Of their being placed on the
Pauper list, and be shall draw checks
for the amount due Them 10 pro rata
shares.
SEC. 10. That when there are funds
20 the credit OF the Psuper Fund, the
members Of the Police Jury are here.
by required to draw tho allowance
monthly for their respective Wards,
and distribute and pay over tho same
% their respective PauperG and the
Treasurer b hereby authorized 70
nay tho came 70 tho member o
herein provided.