The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-05-06
ORcl4 ANGES
adopted by the Torn Council of the To,e,


and fixing penalties and punishments for
the same.
Section /. Whoever shall resist. onnos.
assault, beat, strike CT wound any officer mr.
other person duly authorized while servina
any process or order while in the Iawfn5
discharge OF any duty incumbent upon him "a
An official, employe or guardian of the riobt
for the town of Benton. La, SHALL upon con-
victon before the Mayor, be fined in sum
not exceeding 100 or impri> oned not exceed.
ing one hundred days or both at the dscre.
ton of the Mayor.
Sec. .. All persons, who not having vsibls
means of support, live without employment.
all persons wandering abroad and lodging IN
groceries, taverns beer houses, market places
sheds, barns, uninhabted buildings or in the
open air, and not giving good account of
themselves all persons wandering abroad
aud begging or who go shout from door to
door or place themselves in the streets high
ways, passages or other places to beg or re-
eeive aims; habitnal drunkards who shall
abandon, neglect refuse to aid in the sun.
port of their families, and who may be com.
planned Of by their families, shall be deemed
Migrants, and it shall be the duty of the Town
Marshal or policeman I'D apprehend. arrest
and take all sach persons before the Mayor
for the purpose Of examination, and if the
Mayor be satisfied by the confession of the of.
fender Or by competent testimony. that he il
q vagraat within the description aforesaid. he
shall make certificate and judgments for ex-
scutions; if such vagrant be proper object of
ssne place Of refuge provided by the town, or
to the Charity hospital, and il such vagrant
be not an object of charity he shall be com
nitted as q vagrant tunder Section 954 State
revised stAtutes) and sentenced to the parish
Or town Jail for q time not exceeding ninety
days, and said sentence to Imprisonment may
be reduced two days for every one days work
of ten hours upon the streets or public works.
Sec. ). Whoever shall willfuly discharge
fire arms, pistols or curse within the incorpo.
rate limits, carry concealed weapons upon his
person, such as fire arms, brass or other
knucks slung- shot, Bowie knife, dirk or any
other dangerous weapon, commit an assault,
engage in quarrel and atfray, use loud and
boisterous language such as may be calculated
to disturb the peace, Of use valgar or profans
language on the streets Or in public places or
in hearing Of any peaceable citizen; cruelty
and numerically abuse by overburden or mis-
use or shall beat, wound or name without
good cause any domestic animal, horse, mule
COW or OK within the incorporate limits, and
whoever shall make public display of any kind
not authorized by law, by which o crowd is
drawn together to the detriment of the pnblic
peace, or whoever shall wantonly and mis-.
chevously Obstract the public streets or cross
ings in any manner detrimental to the public
welfare, or whoever shall attempt or presist
in conducting any manner of business upon
the street crossings, passways or vacant lots,
wherein a license tax or permit is requested
from the town of Benton, or whoever shall
wantingly destroy or damage, or cause to be
real or personal effects of any kind whatever
of another person, or that Of any incorporation
or belonging to or claimed by the public, or
whoever shall after being warned not to do 30
by the Mayor, town Marshal or health officer,
street Commit tee or Commissioner presist and
in the streets. alleys or bitches any waste, filth,
trash or any matter calculated to obstruct or
| render such streets, alleys or bitches unclean,
impure or tend to bar it's free use, or whoever
shall board, swing on or get upon any moving
car upon leaving the station for the purpose
| of amusement or for the purpose Of riding up
or down the track and alighting from such
moving train, or whoever shall drive or ride at
an unusual fast speed after being once notified
not 10 do so. AN such persons shall be deem
| ed offenders, and disturbers of the peace and
| good order of the town of Benton, and it is
made the duty Of the town Marshal to appre-
| bend all such offenders forthwith and sumari
victiol any and all of such offenders shall be
| fined not exceeding 800 and Imprisonment in
default of fine not exceeding one hundred days
aud allowed an additional day off for each day
| worked upon the streets. And that all Ordl-
nancts and parts of Ordinances in conflict
|
| Ordinance take effect from and after its
ORDINANCE NOS.
Relative to Section 10 of the Charter Of the
| Town of Benton, La.
| Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council
| of the Town of Benton, La,
Section |. That it shall be the duty of the
Mayor to appoint three persons from the MEN,
| bers of the Town Council who shall be known
| as the Street and Improvement Commission
| ers and Committee to examine approve and
audit all claims to be paid by the Council.
Sec. 2. The said Committee or Commission.
| ers shall be standing Committee and shall
hold and perform all the duties prescribed to
it during the full term Of the Council OF the
Town of Benton.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of said Commits.
| siOners or Committee as soon as they are ap.
pointed by the Mayor 10 take charge of all
| public works, Improvement of the streets
walks alleys and bitches and all other work
| to be done by the Town of Benton, and as q
| whole direct and lay off all work to be done
and order the same to be done by the town
Marshal or other hands or contractors. and
the town Marshal shall be subject TO The
orders and under the control of said commits
sioners when not otherwise engaged.
Sec. 3. They shall have and are hereby
vested with the power to purchase any and al
tools, MATERIAL lumber, nails and anything
necessary including hauling, freight and pay
of labor, which they may deem necessary u
carry on and complete any improvement upol
the public streets, alleys, bitches or pubic
highways not to exceed the money appropri
ated by the Town Council for such purposes
and all bills approved by said committee o.
Commissioners shall be allowed and paid D.
the Town Council.
Sec. 4. The Commissioners shall act as /:
whole in laying off or ordering whose w0ri
shall be done, or in fixing any place or specin
cation for the same, but the work may D.
overlooked and directed and be under TN
charge of any one of said Commissioners Q
agreed upon among themselves, and it shal
also be the duty of the said Commissioners o
Committee to act as whole in ordering an
material or approving any claim to be paid ?!
the Council, and they shall make full repor
, to the Council of their work and acts whei
called for by the Council And that all ORD
nances and parts of Ordinances in eonfic
herewith are hereby repealed, and that tn
, Ordinance take effect from and after II
passage.
ORDINANCE NO. 6.
Relative to Section 10 Of the Charter OF I'd
Town of Benton, La
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Counc'
Of the Town of Benton, La,
Section l. That the sum Of 5000 be, and Tn
same is hereby appropriated out of the hcens
tax and the 10 mill levy tax on assessed prop
erty for the year 1897, for public improve