St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-03-26
AN ORDINANCE.

Mf.Manuel. offered the following
amendments to the road ordinances,
which was unanimously adoptedy as
follows: ~ &aEs ES4S ~ As ESs - ~
Be it ordained by. the Police ,Jury~ef
the Pafisl15of t.Bandry, In regular ses-
sion convened, That Section Sixteen
fl6) OF road ordinances adopted March
to read, as follows: @
Section is. Beftfurther ordained. etc.
That Road overseefs 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 cents) 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. Il shall be the duty Of
each oyerseer to summon all male per-
sons from the age or 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 MT
lssueh places and times as to them, the
lEsald oVerseers, shall seem convenient,
with the necessary tools, for the repair
ing or making OF the public road or
roads under their charge; and whoever, l
without legal excuse, or physical disabi-
| llty certified to by some licensed physi-
clan practleing IN this parish, shall ,sup-
on such summons, refuse or neglect to
/ attend, with the tools designated, and do
| their duty either in person or by send
ling in their place, and to be accepted by
| the overseer of the roads, an efficient
lshand not subject to be called to work on
the Pablo roads, shall pay fine of five
dollars ana costs OF court; said fine to be
recovered by civil suit before any Ma
Igistrate having jurisdiction Of the per-
lson offending in the name of the Police
Jury on the relation of the Road Over
seer and i'll the event that said fine and
costs are not paidin fullswitiIin twenty
four hours from the finality of the iudg
.ment imposing same, the person or per-
sons offending shall be prosecuted by
i Indictment or information in the name
| OF the State, and upon trial and convic-
ton of such neglect or failure to pay
such fine and costs, the said person or
persons offending shall pay a 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-
vlded, that such prosecution before the
| District Court shall be no bar to the re-
| covery of the Judgment of the Magis-
trate's Court by writ of fi-fa, which may
proceed concurrently with such prose-
tution 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 $l.00 Tone doilar1 for each day he may
be SO summoned, said sum to- be pay
| able within the 24 hours next after tho
summons may be served upon him,
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
i to be by him disposed of as provided by
Section "a of this ordinance. That any
i person who shall eyade or seek to eyade
road duty, by giving to the oyerseer or
sf his deputy when called upon to perform
-ulie same, a false age as his own, or who
shall refuse to givdahis name, shall pay
Il Ia fine of twenty-five dollars and costs,
and in default ofsthe payment Of said
Il fine and costs, be imprisoned in the par
ish jail not exceeding thirty days at til q
discretion of the court, said fine and
Il Ipenalties to be enforced by Indictment
or information in the name Of the State.
j Provided further, That no person can
be compelled to cross nayigable stream
to work on q public road when there is
a public road on his side of said stream,
except by special act of the police jury.
Il The above amendment shall take
effect from and after its publication y /
" E. III. MCGEE, President.
Attest: j. j. HEALEY, Clerk.