Milford chronicle., 1883-08-24
TRAMPS.

;. publish the law in relation TO them as passed March
!, be enacted 6y he Senate and House of Rep.
resentGtiUes Of ne State Of Dela1oare IN General
Assembly met:
: SECTION l. Any person without
a home in the town or hundred in
5 which he may be found wandering
about without employment, and the
regular and visible means of living,
shall be deemed and taken to be a
tramp, and shall be dealt with ac-
eordingly.
SECTION 2. It shall be the duty
of the corporate officers of every city
and town in the State, to cause
every tramp found within the limits
: of such town to be immediately
arrested and put to work on the
streets or other public works there
of, or to hire out such tramps to
private persons; and for this pur-
pose said officers may employ such
Overseer or overseers as may be
necessary.
SECTIon 3. When such tramps
are worked on the streets or public
works, they shall be provided with
reasonable food and lodging by said
officers, at the expense Of the city or
town, and shall be allowed such
wages as the said officer shall deem
reasonable, to be paid them at the
end of their term of employment.
But before any wages shall be paid
to them, a just deduction shall be
made from the gross sum for what
ever board, lodging or medicine they
may have been furnished respective
ly; and also their just proportion of
whatever may have been paid for
overseeing their work, when an
oVerseer has been employed. The
said officer may also impose fines for
insub0rdinatiOn or refusal to per-
form, in a proper manner, such work
as may be provided.
SECTION 4. The term of working
such tramp on the streets or other
public works, or of hiring them to
private persons, shall not exceed one
month at any one time, and at the
end of their term they shall be dis
charged, but may again bere-arrested
and again put to work as before for
like offending
SECTION 5. The Mayor of Will
all Justices of the Peace
throughout the State, in the several
and respective cities, hundreds and
districts, shall Independently and re-
spectively have the same jurisdiction
and powers, to arrest, work and hire
out, as town commissioners have in
the towns, and the failure of any
such officer to act promptly in the
shall be sufficient cause and
for any other such officer
o act ; I'D it sAali be the duty of
my and all such officers to act
promptly and efficiently, either on
heir own motion or when called
Ipon by any citizen to do so.
SECTION 6. 1t shall be the duty
f all sherifs, coroners, constables,
'olicemen and watchmen, to arrest
nd commit any tramp and otherwise
id and assist any of the officers
erein before mentioned, in the dis
barge of their duties; and any such
tticer neglecting or refusing to do
0 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
nd punished accoi idingly and the
Ills of the proper counties may be
used for the confinement
f tramps, when committed by any
ficer mentioned in the second or
fth sections of this act.
SECTION Z. Amy person arrested
J tramp, under the provisions of
lis act, shall be entitled to trial by
Try, if he demand the same, upon
ltering into recognizance with one
: more sureties, in the sum of five
lndred dollars, conditioned for his
)pearance at the next session of the
Ourt of General Sessions of the
eace to answer the charge.
SECTION 8. Any tramp who
lall enter any dwelling-house or
-ndle any fire in any public high
ay, on land of another without
e consent of the owner or occu-
mt thereof, or shall be found
rrying any frearm or other
.ngerous weapon; or shall door
reaten to do any injury to any
rson or to real or personal estate