St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-05-31
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shall be imprisoned in the parish prison five da,
Tor each o1fense, by said Justice of the Peace an
kept confined by the sheriff of the parish for sal
period OF time, as is provided for in ease Of mi
demeanors.
FFoc'ded, that any person so summoned sha
ne excused from road duty, upon payment to til
road overseer by whom he may be summoned c
the sum OF $1.OO Zone dollar for each da
ne may be so summoned, said sum to be payabl
within the "A hours next after the summons ma
De served upon him, otherwise the penalty pro
Vlded herein shall be enforced against him sait
sum, when so paid over to the overseer by him t,
be paid to the parish Treasurer to be by him dis
posed of as provided by Section % of this Or
dlnance. That any person who shall evadt
or seek to evade the road duty, by giving to the
oyerseer or his deputy when called upon to per
form the same, a false age as his own, or who
shall refuse to give his name, shall pay a fine OF
twenty-five dollars and costs.
Prorided further, that no person can be com
PEELED to cross navigabe stream to work on a
public road when there is public road on his
SIDE OF said stream except by special act of ;he
Police Jury.
Duty of Grand Jury in Case OF Failure or Veg.
Iect of Road Overseers.
Sec. It. Be it ordained, etc., That in case of
failure or neglect Of any Overseer of Roads to
discharge faithfully any Of the duties herein i'm
posed, it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of
the Parish to present said Overseers to the Dis
trlct Court for neglect, failure or refusal to per
form their duties; and upon such presentment, ii
shall be the duty of the District Attorney TO pros
ecute said Overseers and upon trial and conyic-
ton they shall be fined by the Court not less than
hfty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars,
said fine to be collected by the Sheriff and paid,
after deducting COSTS to the Parish Treasurer and
shall constitute fund in the manner pointed ont
by Section % Of this Ordinance.
SEC. IT, Be 1t ordained ETC., That all persons
subject to road duty who may claim exemption
from same by reason of sickness or physical dis
ABILITY OF lnflrmity, must present to the Road
Overseer, when called upon to work, a certificate
from the nearest licensed physician attesting the
fact of such physical disability, infrmity or sick
ness, and If same be declared to be permanent or
chronic, and the said physician shall attest under
oath that the party is unable to do ordinary man
ual labor, the name OF such person shall be stricken
from the roll of road hands subject to road duty.
SEC. l5 BE 1t ordained, etc., That the Road
Overseers throughout the Parish be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to take the
road hands from the public road to do any and all
work and repair all bridges less than 80 feet long
and remove all drift that may lodge against any
bridge which may be necessary to improve and put
In good condition for public travel the roads aliot-
ted to said hands to work. and any road hand refus
ing to obey such orders when properly reoured shall
be subject to the same penalty as now fixed for
refusal to work on the public roads; prorided that
all hands not entitled to exemption from road duty
residing In the limits OF the several districts as
signed to the Road Oyerseers Of this Parish res.
shall be subject to road duty within
said district alone