The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-05
WARM FIGHT DEVELOPS OYER
 THE VERNON DiSPENSARY BILL
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  found begging for a living or who quit their houses and leave their wives and children without the means of subsis- tence.
 '. That all persons who are able to work and who do not work, but hire out their minor children and live upon their wages shall be deemed and considered vag- rants.
 8. All persons over 16 and under 21 years of age able to work and who do not work and have no property to support them, and have not some known and visible means of a fair. honest and reputable livelihood, and whose parents are unable to support them and who are not in at tendance upon some educational institute. It shall be and it Is hereby made the duty of the sheriff and the constables in every county, the police and town mar shals or other like officials in every town and city in this state, to give information under oath to any officer now empowered by law to issue criminal warrants, of all vagrants within their knowledge or whom they have good reason to suspect as being vagrants, in their respective counties, towns and cities; thereupon the said ofh- cer shall issue a warrant for the appre- hension of the person alleged to be va grant, and upon being brought before him the said officer, and probable cause be shown, shall bind such person over to any court of the county having jurisdic- tion in misdemeanor cases. If upon trial by a jury sworn to inquire whether such person be a vagrant or not the fact of vagrancy be established, the said vagrant shall be bound in sufficient security, in the discretion of the court, for his future industry and good conduct for one year. Said bond shall be payable to the court. Upon such vagrants refusal or failure to give such security. the said vagrant shall be punished as for a misdemeanor; pro- vided, that it shall be a sufficient defense to the charge of vagrancy under any of the provisions of this act that the de- fendant has made bona fide efforts to ob- tain employment at reasonable prices for his labor, and has failed to obtain the same.
 Section ?. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
 A Bill for Jefferson.
 Representative Blackburn of Jefferson has a bill before the house to submit to the qualified electors of the state of Ala bama for their consideration an amend ment to section two hundred and thir- teen (213), article eleven QD of the con- stitution. The full text of the bill fol- lows:
 Section l. Be it enacted by the legis- lature of Alabama, that the following amendment to section two hundred and thirteen (213), article eleven CID of the constitution is hereby proposed to be sub mitted. to the qualified electors of the state of Alabama for their consideration as hereinafter set forth, viz; Amend said section two hundred and thirteen (213l. article eleven CID by adding there e1lto fnt.t1a that the state of Alabama may issue and sell it's bonds to the amount of not ex- ceeding ten million dollars for the pur- pose of building, constructing, equippng and maintaining a canal or canals in the state of Alabama" so that said section 2l3 article il, when so amended will read as follows: '2l3, after the ratification of this constitution. no new debt shall be created against, or incurred by this state or its authority except to repel in- vasion, or suppress instruction, and then only by a concurrence of two-thirds of the members of each house of the leg islature, and the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays. and entered on the jour nals, and any act creating or mourning any new debt against this state, except as herein provided, the governor may be authorized to negotiate temporary loans, never to exceed three hundred dollars to
 
 until the same Is paid no new loan shall be negotiated provided further. that this section shall not be so construed as to prevent the issuance of bonds for the purpose of refunding the existing bond ed indebtedness of the state and provided further that the state of Alabama may issue and sell its bonds to the amount of not to exceed ten million dollars for the purpose of building, constructing. equipping and maintaining a canal or canals in the state of Alabama"
 Section 2. Be 1t further enacted that an election by the qualified electors of the state of Alabama be. and the same is hereby ordered to be. held on said pro- posed amendment set out in section hereof on the first Monday in February, 1904 It shall be the duty of the gov ernor. upon the passage of this act. to give notice of such election. together with the amendment proposed herein, by pro- clamation. which shall be published in every county in the state by publication in some newspaper once a week for eight successive weeks next preceding the day