St. Landry democrat., 1890-05-24
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shall be imprisoned in the parish prison five day
for each offense, 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.
PT0caded that any person so summoned sha
ne excused from road duty, upon payment to TIL
road overseer by whom he may be summoned G
the sum of $1O0 Zone dollar) for each da
he may be so summoned, said sum to be payabl
within the "a hours next after the summons ma
be served upon him, otherwise the penalty pro
vlded herein shall be enforced against him sa
sum- when SO paid over to the overseer, by him Il
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 evad
or seek to evade the road duty, by giving to thu
overseer or his deputy when called upon to per
form the same, false age as his own, or wht
shall refuse to give his name, shall pay fine o
twenty-five dollars and costs.
Provided further, that no person can be com
PEELED to cross navigable stream to work on
public road when there is public road on his
side of said stream, except by special act of The
Police Jury.
Duty of Grand Hurry sn Case of Failure or Neg.
lect of Road Overseers.
Sec Is. 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 Oyerseers to the Dis
trict Court for neglect failure, 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 conyic-
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 a fund in the manner pointed out
by Section % of this Ordinance
SEC. II. 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 or infirmity, must present to the Road
Overseer, when called upon to work certificate
from the nearest licensed physician attesting the
fact of such physical disability, nfrmity, 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
ua labor the name of such person shall be stricken
from the roll of road hands subject to road duty
SEC. H. 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 alot
ted to said hands to work. aud any roadhand refls-
ing 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 prorided that
all hands not entitled to exemption from road duty
residing in 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.