St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-02-26
{ AN ORDINANCE

Mr.. Manuel offered the following
amendments to the road ordinances.
which was unanimously adopted. asj II
follows: a &Es 80 t So
Be it ordained by the. Police. Jury of
the Parish Of ST. Landry In reg,yla,' sas.
sion convened. That Section Sixteen
l6) OF road ordinances adopted March
2, 1897, be amended and re-ordained SO as
to read, as follows:
Section is. Beitfurther ordained. etc.,
That Road oyerseers shall not be allow
ed any compensation for the number OF
days the road hands are required to
work, but they shall be allowed the sum
OF $l.50 Zone dollar and fifty centsl per
day for each days extra work, and no
compensation shall be allowed for noti-
flying the hands. That all road over
seers shall receive the same per diem
and mileage as witnesses for each and
every day they are summoned before
the police jury. It shall be the duty OF
each overseer to summon all male per-
sons from the age OF eighteen to fifty,
except such as may be exempt from
public service by the Legislature of this
State, or by the police jury, to meet at
such places and times as to them, the
said oyerseers, shall seem conyenient,
with the necessary tools, for the repair
ing or making of the public road or
roads under their charge; and whoever,
without legal excuse, or physical disabi-
lity certified to by some licensed physi-
clan pfacticing in this parish, shall, up
on such summons, refuse or negleef TO
attend, with the tools designated, and do
their duty either in person or BIZ send
ing in their place, and to be accepted by
the oyerseer ofsthe roads, an efficient
hand not subject to be called to work on
the public roads, shall pay fine of five j
dollars and costs of court; said fine to be
recovered by civil suit before any Ma
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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 i'll full within twenty
four hours from the sfinality Of the iadgS
ment imposing same, the person or per-
sons offending shall be prosecuted byss
Indictment or Information in the name
OF the State, and upon trial and conyic-A
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 one \
hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less
than ten or mofest than ninety days, or
both at the discretion of the court; pro-
gided, that such prosecution before the
District Court shall be no bar to the re-
covery of the Judgment of tho Magis-s
trate's Court by writ of fi-fa, which may
proceed eoneurrently with such prose-
cution before the District Court.
3EfoNI3leuyS i'll nAI an W 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 $E00 tone sdollar) for each day he may
be so summoned, said sum to be pay
able within tlN a hourssnext 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 eyade
road duty, by giving to the overseer or
his deputy when called upon to perform
the same, d false age as his own, or who
shall refuse to give his name, shall pay
! fine Of twenty-five dollars and costs,
md in default of the payment of said
fine and costs, be imprisoned in the par
Ish jail not exceeding thirty days at the
discretion of the court, said fine and
penalties to be enforced by indictment
or information in the name OF the State.
Provided further, That no person can
be compelled to cross o navigablestrea
TO work on public road when there is
! public road on his side of said stream,
except by special act of the police jury.
The above amendment shall take
effect from and after its publication.
Il. Ell. MCGEE, President.
Attest: J. j. HEALEY. Clerk.