Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-04-29
ORDINANCE NO. l4O.

An Ordinance concerning Migrants, and
providing for their punishment.
The City Council OF the City OF Aber-
deem do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Vagrancy as defined by this
ordinance embraces all persons who tell
fortunes, or keep houses where lost or stol-
en- goods may be found ; all common prosti-
tutes, and keepers of bawdy houses or
houses for the resort of prostitutes !; all hab.
itual drunkards; all gamesters or other
disorderly persons; all persons wandering
about and having no visible calling, or
business to maintain themselves; all
persons going about as collectors of aims
for charitable purposes or institutions
under any false or fraudulent pretense
all persons playing or betting in any
street or public or open place, at, or with
any table or instrument Of gaming at any
game or pretended game of chance; all
pimps or other male persons inhabitiny
bawdy house or house OF prostitution or
designation, or in any way connected
with the keeping of such house or houses :;
all persons, whether male or female, who
knowingly associates with persons hay
ing the reputation OF being bawds, pros
titutes or lewd women, or lodges in or
frequents houses or other places having
the reputation of being the resort of
bawds, prostitutes or lewd women.
SEC. 3 Any person or persons charged
with vagrancy, within the limits of said
city, as defined in the last preceding sec
ton, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined in any sum not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars for the first
offence, and not less than ten nor more
than fifty dollars upon conviction for any
subsequent offence thereof, or imprisoned
in the city Jail not to exceed twenty days,
or by both such fine and Imprisonment
at the discretion of the court Provided,
further, that if it appear to the satisfaction
OF the court, upon confession OF accused,
or by competent testimony, that the ac-
cused is vagrant, as defined IN the last
preceding section of this ordinance, the
Court may, in his discretion, in addition
to the judgment or fine imposed, require
OF the accused good and sufficient bond
for good behavior for term not to ex-
coed three months, and default of such
bond commit the accused to the city jail
until such bond be given or until the
vagrant be discharged according to law.
SEC. 3. On the trial of any person or
persons charged with being vagrant be-
fore the police justice of said city, or any
justice OF the peace in Chehalis county,
Washington, under any of the foregoing
provisions, it shall be lawful for the city
to introduce testimony as to the charac-
ter and reputation OF the accused touching
any OF the matters set forth in the forego-
ing sections Of this ordinance, and the
defendant may resort to like testimony
for the purpose of disproving same.
Sec. 4. Every person found guilty of
violation of this ordinance, or any Sec
ton thereof, and committed to the city
Jail, shall, unless otherwise provided in
the judgment of the court issuing the
commitment, be compelled to work for
the said city in the manner provided by
law, and the ordinances Of this city.
SEC. 5. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
This ordinance to be in force and effect
five days after it's last publication.
Passed and approved this the 2lst day
April, 1897.
L. L. MALEY, Mayor.
Attest:
GEO. A. BLACK, CITY Clerk.
Date OF last publication, April 30, 1897.