The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-31

shall be imprisoned in the parish prison five days
for each offense, by said Justice of the Peace, and
kept confined by the sheriff of the parish for said
period of time, as is provided for in case of mis-
demeanOrs.
Provided, that any person so shall
be excused from road duty, upon payment to the
road overseer by whom he may be summoned, OF
the sum of S1.00 Zone dollar) for each day
he may be so summoned, said sum to be payable
within the "a hours next after the summons may
be served upon him, otherwise the penalty pro-
vided herein shall be enforced against him said
sum, when so paid over to the %oyerseer, by him to
be paid to the parish Treasurer to be by him dis
posed of as provided by Section % of this Or
dinance. That any person who shall evade
or seek to eyade the road duty, by giving to the
overseer 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.
Provided further, that no person can be COM
PEELED to cross a naVigable stream to work on a
public road when there is a public road on his
Police Jury.
Duty OF Grand Jury in Case of Failure or Neg
lect OF Road Overseers.
SEC. 16. Be it ordained, etc., That in case of
failure or neglect of any Overseer of Roads to
discharge faithfully any of the duties herein inn
posed, it shall be lawful for the Grand jury of
the Parish to present said Overseers to the Dis
trict Court for neglect, failure, or refusal to per-
form their duties and upon such presentment, it
shall be the duty of the District Attorney to pros
ecute said Overseers and upon trial and convic-
ton they shall be fined by the Court not less than
fifty 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 q fund in the, manner pointed out
by Section % of this Ordinance.
SIC. II. Be it ordained, ETC., That all persons
subject to road duty who may claim exemption
from same by reason of sickness or physical dis
ability or infrmity, must present to the Road
Overseer, when called upon to work, a certificate
from the nearest licensed physician attestng 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 d0sordinary man-
ual labor, the name of such person shall be stricken
from the roll of road hands subject to road duty.
SEC. IL. 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 allot-
ted to said hands to work, and any road hand refus-
ing to obey such orders when properly required shall
be subject to the same penalty as now fixed for a
refusal to work-on the public roads prooided, that
all hands not entitled to exemption from road duty
residing III the limits of the several districts as
signed to the Road Overseers of this Parish res
pectively, shall be subject to road duty within
said district alone.