St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-03-12
4 AN ORDINANCE.

Mr. Manuel offered the following
amendments to the road ordinances.
when was unanimously adopted, as
Be tordained by the Police Jurygof
the Parish of st. Landry. in regular ses-
sion convened. That Section Sixteen
el6) OF road ordinances adopted March
Z, lsp1, pe amended and re-ordained SO as
to read, as follows:
Section is. Beitfurthor ordained. etc
That Road oyerseers shall not he allow
ed any eompensa ton for the number of
days the road hands are REQUIRED TO
work, but they shall be allowed the sum
OF $3.50 Zone dollar and fifty cents) per
day Tor each days extra work, and no
compensation shall be allowed for noti-
flying the hands. That all road over
sseers shall receive the same per diem
and mileage as witnesses for each and
every day they are summoned before
the police jury. 1t shall be the duty of
each, oyerseersto summon all-malea 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 convenient,
with with the necessary tools, for the repair
roads under their charge; and whoever,
without legal excuse, OF ph ysical disalai1
Hty certified to by some licensed physi-
clan practicing i'm 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
lag 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-,
t1on 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 tina itys Of the jridg-
| ment imposing same, the person or per-
4 sons offending shall be prosecuted by
Indictment or Information in the name
of the State, and upon trialsand conyie-s
tion of such neglect or failure to pay
| such fine and costs, the said person or
persons offending shall pay fine of not
| less than twenty-five nor more than one
hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less
than ten or more than ninety days, or
both at the discretion of the court; pro-
| vided, that such prosecution before the
| District Court shall be no bar to the re-
coyery of the Judgment of the Magis-.
| trate's Court by writ of fi-fa. which may
| proceed concurrently with such prose-
4 cutien before the District Court. g
| Provided, That any person so sun1-
moned shall be excused from road dutys
upon payment to the road overseer by
| whom he may be sammonedsof the sum
of LOO Zone dollar) for each day he may
/ be so summoned, said sum to he spay-
4 able within the "a hours next after the
summons may be served upon hims
| otherwise the penalty provided herein
shall be enforced against him said sum,
| when SO paid over to the overseer, by.
him to be paid to the Parish Treasurer
to be by him disposed OF rs provided by
Section "a OF this ordinance. That any
person who shall evade OF seek to ievatle
road duty, by giving to the overseer or
his deputy when called upon to perform
the same, n false age as his own, or who
shall refusegto give his name, shall pay
a fine of twenty-five dollars and costs,
and in default of the paymentsof said
a fine and costs, be imprisoned In the par
ish Jail not exceeding thirty days ut the
Il discretion of the court, said fine and
4 penalties to be enforced by indictment
or information In the narffe Of the State.
Il Provided further, That no person can
4 be compelled to crossa nayigable stream
II to work on q public road when there ia
a public road on his side of said stream,
4 except by special act Of the police jury.
i The above amendment shall take
effect from and after its publication.
i e. H.iMgGEE, President.
4 Attest: j. j. HEALEYs Clerk.