The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-07-16

AN ORDINANCE to repeal all former or
dinances in relation to Migrants, to
define who are Migrants, and to fix
the punishment thereof.
Section | Be it ordained by the Nav.
or and Board of Aldermen of the Civ
OF Greenwood, Mississippi, that all for.
mer ordinances in relation to Migrants
be and the same are hereby repealed,
and the following ordinance adopted
| viz:
Migrants: Who are-Thc following
persons are and shall be punished as
Migrants, viz:
ta) Persons known as tramps, wan.
dering or strolling about in idlcness
who are able to work and have no prsn-
erty to support them.
(b) Persons leading an idle, immoral
poriligate life, who have no propcrty Ia
support them and who are able to work
and do not work.
tc) Ali persons able to work, having
no property to support them, and hay.
ing no visible or known means of a
fair, honest and reputable livelihood.
The term visible and known means of
a fair, honest and reputable livelihood
as used in this ordinance shall be CON
strucd to mean reasonably continuous
employment at some lawful %occupation
for reasonable compensation, or a fixed
and regular income from property or
other investment, which income is sufli-
cient for the support and maintenance
of such person.
(d) All a~ble-bodied persons who
habitually loaf, loiter and idle in the
cities, towns and villages or about
steamboat landings or railroad stations
or any other public place in tho state
for the larger portion of their time,
without any regular employment and
without any visible means OF D
An otfense under paragraph d, of this
ordinance shall be made out whenever
is shown that any person has no
visible means of support and only oc.
.casionalIy has employment at odd Jobs,
being for the most Of the time out of
(e) Every common gambler or per-
son who for the most part maintains
himself by gambling.
III Persons trading or barterinr
property, or who unlawfully sell
Dr. barter any yinous, alcoholic, malt,
intoxicating or spurious liquors.
~ Every able-bOdied person who
shall SO begging for a livelihood.
Cl Every common prostitute.
" Every keeper Of a house of prosti.
ID Every keeper of a house of gamb-
ing or gaming.
~ Every person W, o shall abandon
us wife or family, without just cause,
her, or them without support,
" in danger OF becoming q public
~ Every a~ble-bodied person who
ives without employment or labor, and
'ho has no visible means of support.
I'M All persons who are able to work
do not work, hut hire out their
ilhor children or allow them to be hired
ut, n live upon their wages.
M All persons over sixteen years
age, able to work and do not work,
nave no property to support them,
MT have not some known visible means
I a fair, honest and reputable liveli-
and whose parents or those in
'co PARENTS are unable to support them
~ldleness, and who are not in atten-
nee upon some educational ~institu-
IN.
section :. Any person convicted of
eng a vagrant shall be fined in a sum
less than one dollar nor more than
Vehty-hve dollars, or be sentenced to
more than thirty days imprison-
ent, or both.
section j BE it further ordained
lat Tor cause this day shown the Board,
Iat this ordinance take effect and he
,oree from and after its passage.
approved this 18th day of July, 1904.
W. S. VARDAMAN, Mayor.
Attest WARNER WELLS,
Clerk Pro TEN.