The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-04-04
TIE SUNDAY LAW
WHAT It F0RBIDS.
WHAT It PERMITS
Published by reluest.l

TIE PRoGEEss believes the moral
tone OF our city is improving; that
the trend of pubic sentiment Is ele-
waited ideas of citizenship and gen
eral desire to haye Improvements
wrought in our body polite; and the
laws upheld, enforced and maintain
ed
Ia our opinion there is marked
Improvement in the Increased inter
est manifested by the people in the
interest of good government and, the
supremacy of those laws which
strengthen public policy and tone up
the system of the municipal common
wealth.
Giving credence to this opinion
| The PROGRESS has been requested bY
one of the ablest and most Influential
ministers in Shreveport to publish
the act known as the Sunday law,
saying that he did 50 on account Of
the number Of persons who had ASK
ed HIM what were the provisions and
prohibitions Of this enactment, the
queries being propounded because OF
HE PROGRESS Comments on the
sales of cigars, etc, on Sundays b!
various establishments in our city.
Here is the law:
: ",ectjou |. Be it enacted by the Gen
oral Assembly of the State OF louisiana
That from and after tho us
! dav of December. A. d., 1886, all stores
shops, saloons, and all places of pnbll
business, which are or may be license
n under the law Of the State OF LDulSlan;
or under any parochial or municipal la
/ or ordinance, and all plantation store
q are hereby required to be closed al
O'Clock on Saturday nights, ana 10 II
8 main closed continually for iwenty-tot
r. (2D hours, during which period OF tlll
II snail not be lawful for the proplleVo
% thereof, TO give, trade. barter, eAchall:
70 or sell auy of the stock or any afllc,e
merchandise KEEP III any such estapiis
81 mont. -,
49, Sectlon2. Be it further enacted. et'
~ That whoever shall Violate the prov lSo
ok of this act. for each ot1ense, shali
deemed guilty of ullsdetneahor' anu
trial and CONVICTION, Shali pay hno
he not less than twenty-five dollars, II
more than two hundred ami fifty &C
" llrs or be imprisoned for not less tn
,g len DAYS nor 10 ore than thirty days,
" both. at the discretion of the court; pl
'Or visions of this act shall not apply
T., new. dealers, keepers of soda totlhtal
w. places of resort for recreation Il
nealth-waterug plac es and pubic par
nor to prevent the sale OF ice.
Z Section }, Be it further enacted, e.
Il That the provisions of THIS act sha!l
adply to newspaper offices. Pllhl
offices, book stores, drug store, apo'
cary shops, undertaken shots, puol'C
private markets, baker les, daiileS, NV
sta 1les, railroads, whether steam OF 'io'
hotels, boarding houses STEAMBOATS,
other vessels, warehouses for recel'
and forwarding freights. restaura'
telegraph offices and theattrs, oi
place of amusement, providing no
toxicatng liquors ar sold Ill inc pre-
ses; PROVIDED, that stores may be ope
for the purpose of selling anything l
essary in sickness and for burial pur
SEES; PsoNIDED, that nothing IN TINS
=. shall be construed 80 as TO allow no
+ or boarding houses to sell or dlspo.e
- alcoholic liquors, except wine Tor u
- use on Sundays; AND PROVIDED, Fuhrf
!. That no alcoh bic, vinous or malt liq'
! shall be gwen, traded or bartered or
Y or delivered in any public place on
day, except when actually admlnlst'
or prescribed by a practcing .phpssi
in the discharge of his professlo al
ties III case of sickness: in such case
physicians administering the lntoxica
liquors may charge therefor.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted,
That all laws or parts of laws contra'
oct or inconsistent with tn, provisions 1
of, be and the same are hereby
'ded pealed.'
reat This is the law in full and vii
ends found on page % Of the Acts OF
II in being Act No. Is.