The Opelousas courier., 1886-07-03
Tine Sunday Law.
TEXT OF ACT No 1S, AS OFFICIALLY
PROMULGATED.

An act requiring all stores, shops, gro
ce,ice, saloons, and all places of public
business which ate or may be conducted
under any law of the State of Louisiana,
or under any parochial OF municipal
law or ordinance, except those herein
exempted, to be closed OH Sundays, and
forbidding all giving, trading, bartering,
and selling on Sundays by the proprie- !
tors or employees of such establishments;
declaring it misdemeanor to violate !
the provisions of this act, and to fix ,
PENALTIES for all violations of the same
and to repeal all laws or parts of laws !
contrary to OF Inconsistent herewith. /
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the ]
General Assembly of the State of Loul- |
siana, That from and after the 3lst
day of December, A. d. 1886, all stores,
shops, saloons, and all places of public
business, which are or may be licensed
under the law of the State of Louisiana.
or under any parochial or municipal
law or ordinance, and all plantation
stores are hereby required to be closed
at 12 o'clock on Saturday nights, and
to remain closed continuously for TWEEN
ty- four hours, during which period of
time it shall not be lawful for the pro-
prietors thereof to give, trade, barter,
exchange or sell, any of the stock or any
article of merchandise kept in any such
establishment
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That whosoeyer shall violate the provi.
sions of this act, for each offense shall
be deemed guilty of q misdemeanor, and
on trial and conviction shall pay a fine
of not less than $25 nor more than
$3.50, or be imprisoned for not less than
/ ten days nor more than thirty days, or
both, at the discretion of the court.
| Provisions of this act shall not apply to
( newsdealers, keepers of soda fountains,
places of resort for recreation and health,
watering places and public parks, nor
prevent the sale of ice.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc,
That the provisions of this act shall not
apply to newspaper offices, printing
| offices, book stores, dug stores, apnthe-
cary shops, undertaken shops, public
and private markets, bakeries, dairies,
livery stables, railroads, whether steam
or horse, hotels, boarding-houses,
steamboats, and other vessels, ware
houses for receiving and forwarding
freights, restaurants, telegraph offices
and theatres, or any place OF amnse-
f7fent, providing no intoxicating liquors
are sold in the premises; provided, that
stores may be opened for the purpose OF
I selling anything necessary in sickness
and for burial purposes; provided that
nothing in this act shall be construed so
as to allow hotels or boarding houses
to sell or dispose of alcoholic liquors
except wine for table uses ON Sundays
and provided further that no alcoholic,
, vinons or malt liquors shall be- given,
traded or bartered or sold or delivered d
in any public place on said day, except
when actually administered and pre-
scribed by practicing physician in the
discharge of his professional duties in
case of sickness; in such case the ply
, sicians administering the Intoxicating
I liquors may charge therefor.
i SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc
: That all laws or parts of laws contrary
! to or inconsistent with the provisions
} hereof, be and the same are hereby re-
4 pealed
3 Arrangements have been perfected
for an excursion to Chicago by th'
4 Louisiana Press Gang when their ses
D sion closes in August ut Monroe. The
Clarion will be with the jolly boys VIII
"eatch on" to free rides generously ten
c dered by rich railroad companies
t MorehOnse Clarion.
! McMeans' friends will all try to t'catc
on,n too, 10 order to have the pleasur
il Of his company; while those of th
q craft who are so unfortunate as not t
be numbered in that category or in tina
r of his acquaintanees will surely en-
!, deayor to be in Monroe on August 2
:. to see the tqueern individual who
n thus described in the Clarion of til
d 25th
IT The Clinton Watchman dubs us th
10 sssarcastic editor of the Clarion - th
Patriot Democrat, published in Clinic
e also, calls us ''the philosophical editc
s Of the Morehouse Clarion Mr.
., Garner, of the East Carroll Banne
y doubts whether we know "the difel
q ence between newspaper and praJ
cir book, = and thinks we are incapac
Ig tated ito become leader of an AME
1r Glass; IF this thing keeps on it will
HHEu iOf uS W tCfi Wv uu We 1iO 0A
e whittier we shall go after we do g
(, Really we wonld be pleased to haN
Ill some one tell us right now what kind
to an editor the Clarion has. We al
muddled.
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+ + This is railroad Legislature, frs
~ ~ last and all the time,s says Mr.. Murpl
ia a member of our State Legislature. II
ii il frankness of this gentleman is truly r
Il 4, freshing to say the least. Some peop
ba like to sail under false colors, but ev
he IDENTIFY, Mr.. Murphy is not of the nui
IA Der. And the people are under de-
and lasting obligation to him for tellil
them what they have all along believe
Mr.. Murphy is right. A majority of t
8. Legislature dare not touch the railroad
g. no matter to what extent the people 9
I suffering from their gOnging, for Fl
ies as passes, If nothing else, would cease
|. - contingency that most of the memb'
= are in no haste to invite. st. MartiI
~ M vile Messenger.
q. o. An Hnterprising Reliable Houi
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