The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-04-15

Benton, Ln, April! D. 1897
ORDINANCE NO. 4.
Relative to Section 10 of tho Charter of the
Town of Benton defining crime and offences,
and fixing penalties and punishmcnts for
the same
Section l. Whoever shall resist. oppose,
assault, beat, strike or wound any officer or
other person duly authorized while serving
any process or order, or while in the lawful
discharge of any duty incumbent upon him as
an official, employee or guardian of the right
for the town of Benton, La, shall, upon CON
viction before the Mayor, be fined in sum
not exceeding 800 or imprisoned not exceed
ing one hundred days or both at the discre
ton of the Mayor
Sec 2. All persons, who not having visible
means of support, live without employment;
all persons wandering abroad and lodging i'll
groceries, taverns, beer houses, market places,
Sheds barns, unInhabited buildings, or in the
| open air, and not giving good account OF
! themselves; all persons wandering abroad
and begging or who go about from door to
| door or place themselves i'll the streets, high
| WAYS passages or other places to beg or re-
| cciye aims; hahitual drunkards who shall
| abandon, neglect refuse to aid in the snp-
! 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 tho Town
! Marshal or policeman to apprehend, arrest
and take all such persons before the Mayor
| for the purpose of eXamlnatlOn and II the
Mayor be satisfied by the confession of the of
| fender OF by competent testimony. that he Is
| a vagrant within the desert ption aforesaid, he
| shall make Il certificate and Judgments for eN-
| ecutions if such vagrant be a proper object OF
| CHARITY he may be ordered and assisted To
some 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
mtted as vagraDt under Section 9Jl State
| revised statutcsj and sentenced to the parish
or town Jail for a 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
See. 3. whoever shall wiltully discharge
fire arms pistols or curse within the incorpo
rate limits, carry concealed weapons upon his
person, such as fire arms, brass or othel
knucks, slung- shot, Bowie knife, dirk or any
other dangerous weapon, commit an assault
| engage in d quarrel and attrav, use loud an'
boisterous language such as may be caicuIate'
to disturb the peace or use yalgar or prOtant
language on the streets or i'll public places. o
, i'll hearing of any peitccable citizen; cruel,
and numerically abuse by overburden OF mis-
use or shall beat, wound or maine wlthou
good cause any domestic animal, horse, mui
COW or OK within the incorporate limits, an
whoever shall make public display OF any kin
not authorized by law, by which crowd
l drawn together to the detrlnCnt ot the pnbli
: peace. or whoever shall wantingly and mis
G chiev0uSy obstruct the public streets or cross
Y | lngs in any manner detrimental to the publ
welfare, or whoever shall attempt or presis
in conducting any manner OF business upo
the street crossings, pasSway5 or vacant lot
wherein a license tax or permit Is requisite
| from the town of Benton, or whoever sha
wantingly destroy or damage, or cause to
destroyed or damaged, any property, buiidln
~ real or personal effects Of any kind Whatov'