Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-20

tables from the stands. a tax Of one
dollar was assessed on dealers whose
dogs were found within the walls of the
market, but country dogs were not
troubled, provided they were kept a re-
spectacle distance from the stands A
penalty of $50 was provided under act
of March, 1906, for the keeping of any
public gaming table, whether "a, Il,
CT, S, i" "E, o." or other game. A
subsequent act, entitled an Ordinance
to restrain vice. included "rooley
J pooley," or faro bank, faro table and
hazard, and prescribed the same PEN
atty
An act approved April 80, 1sOs, regu-
lated and fixed the size of loaves of
bread offered for sale. The loaves were
to be made in size according to the quail
| iiy of the -four used and were to sell
at the same price per loaf. The vac
| 9rancv act under which Migrants are
now prosecuted fixes the term of i'm
| prisonment at not more than 20 days.
The act also provides that if he fails IN
| pay the jailer's fees he shall, with con-
sent of the mayer, be sold at vendue to
serve and labor for any time not exceed
| ing four months. There are other acts
of the old corporation regulating CONF
merce and protecting the river and vari-
GUS business interests. The chimney
sweep is required, under penalty, to
faithfully perform his duties, and to his
\ advantage a penalty is prescribed for
| placing a stove-pipe through the ex-
| terror wall of any frame building or
through the roof of any house, so that
stove pipes, under the law, are not per-
mitted to pass through the frame parti-
tons of summer Kitchens.
1T would be almost impossible to en-
force many of these laws" said police
man, yet when complaints are made,
and the law is found, there is nothing
else to do, and, until congress acts in
the matter, West Washington will re-
main under the old laws We work
under too many laws" continued the
officer. Inside the city limits we have
one set of laws and in the county we
have an entirely different set. What is
an oifense i'm one place is permitted in
another. Within the limits of West
Washington man may strip off his
clothing and walk the streets in de-
fence of the officers because there is no
law to punish him, but if he does the
same thing on the river shore and goes
N bath ng before nine O'Clock in the
evening he may be arrested for unlaw-
full bathing. On the eastern side Of
Rock creek the same state of affairs |
exists.
Persons. can do an act not in violation |
of the law on one side of Boundary |
street, but if they repeat it on the other |
side they soon find themselves in the |
hands of the law Then again, there
are some offenses punishable by heavy
fine in one section, while the penalty in
another section is not half so heavy.
Such a state of affairs makes it very
hard for a policeman TO know whether
he is doing his duty properly or not"
While all Georgetown policemen are
required to know something of law,
and intricate law at that, the policemen
in Washington study only the police
regulations, and very few of them seem
to have brains enough to master even
that much literature. At any rate,
they are a careless lot of peace guar
dams, and knowingly wink at vice.
just across the river from George
town, on the Virginia shore Of the Poto-
mac, there are numerous gambling (
houses and vile liquor saloons, the very
lowest of the low The governor of Nir-
ginia claims that he has no legal power !
% control the lawless or to arrest the
'icious. The sheriff of the county does
lot call on the governor for aid, and the
governor says that he cannot invade the
county without the authority Of the t
sheriff. While the lawless can cap t
ure the sheriff they can continue to G
ety the law. SMITH D. FRY. q