St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-04-02
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6 AN ORDINANCE.

= Mr.. Manuel offered the following
amendments to the road ordinances,
which was aunanimouslysa adopted, ,.as
follows:
Be ftordained BY the ice. 81 Jnrsy 3 Il of
athe Pafish of st. Landry, in regular ses-
sion convened, That. Section Sixteen
(l6ls OF road ordinance adopted March
2, 1897, be amended and re-ordained SO as
to read, as follows; y4
Section l6. Beitfurther ordained, etc.,
That Road oyersecrs shall not be allow
ed any compensation for the number of
days the read hands are required to
work, but they shall be allowed the sum
OF 81. 80 Cone dollar and fifty eents) per
day for each days extra work, and no
compensation shall be allowed for noti-
flying the hands. That all road over
and mileage as witnesses for each and
every day they are summoned before
the police jury. 1T shall be the duty of
each oyerseer to summon all male per-
sons from the age Of eighteen to fifty,
except such as may be exempt from
State, or by the police Jury, to meet at
fsuch places and times rs to them, the
| said .overSeers, shall seem convenient,
ith the necessary tools3 for the repair
| ing or making of the public road or
roads under their charge; and whoever,
| WltIloab lSSslI SASlSS9 III pil JSlCtl u1Sd uf-
llity certified to by some licensed physi-
elan practicing in this parish, shall, up
on such summons, refuse or neglect to
attend, with the tools designated, and do
| their duty either in person or by send
ing in their place, and to be accepted by
| the overseer of the roads, an efficient
hand not subject to be called to work on
the public roads, shall pay fine of five
/ dollars and costs of court; said fine to be
recovered by civil suit before any Ma
gistrate having jurisdiction OF the per-
son offending in the name of the Police
Jury on the relation of the Road Over
seer and in the event that said fine and
costs are not paid in full within twenty
four hours from the tinality of the judg-
ment imposing same, the person on per-
sons offending shall be prosecuted by
Iindictmento or information in the name
of the State, and upon trial and conyic-
ton of such neglect or failure to pay
such fine and costs, the said person or
persons offending shall pay q fine of not
] less than twenty-five nor more than ono
4 hundred dollars or imprisoned not less
than ten or more than ninety days, or
4 both at the discretion of the court; pro-
vided, that such prosecution before tho
District Court shall be no bar to the re-
coVery of the Judgment of the Magis-
trateAs Court by writ of fi-fa. which may
proceed concurrently with such prose-
cution before the District Court.
Provided, That any person SO sum-
moned shall be excused from road duty,
upon payment to the road overseer by
whom he may be summoned, of the sum
of 81 90 Zone dollar) for each day he may
be SO summoned, said sum to be pay
able within the "a hours next after the
, summons may be served upon him,
otherwise the penalty provided herein
, shall be enforced against him said sum,
when SO paid over to the oyerseer, by
: him to be paid to the Parish Treasurer
to be by him disposed of as provided by
, Section "a of this ordinance That any
, person who shall eyade or seek to eyado
road duty, by giving to the overseer OF
his deputy when called upon to perform
The same, a false age as his own, or who
shall refuse to give his name, shall pay
q tlneEof twenty-five dollars and costs
!. and in default of the payment of saiC
b fine and costs, be imprisoned In the par
% ish jail not exceeding thirty days at thu
!, discretion of the court, said fine ant
penalties to be enforced by indictmen
o or information i'm the name of the State
e t. Provided further, That no person cal
/. be compelled to cross nayigable stream
= to work on a public road when there ii
;. i public road on his side of said stream
g except by special act of the police jury
The above amendment shall tax,
:, effect from and after its publication.
9 ttsr g Ell. McGEE, President.
Attest: J. j. HEALEY. Clerk.