The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-23
TEXT OF The WELLS VACRANCY Law.

Below we publish in full the acl
passed by the last session Of the legis.
lature for information Of those who
are interested in the law.
/ Section /. Be it enacted by the
Legislature Of the state of Mississippi,
That Sections 1899. 1898, 1924 and 1895
ct the Code of 1892, be and the same
are hereby repealed, and the following
Act adopted, viz:
| Migrants. Who are-The follow.
ing persons sre and shall be punished
as Migrants, viz:
! (a) Persons known as tramrs. wan
dering or strolling about in idleness,
who have no visible or known means
OF property to support them.
! ~ Persons leading an idle, i'm.
moral or profiigate life, who have nc
property to support them, and who
are able to work and do not work.
(c) All persons able to work, hav-
ing no property to support them, and
WHO have no visible or known means
OF fair, honest and reputable liveli-
hood. The term visible and known
means Of fair, honest and reputable
LIVELIHOOD" as used in this section
shall be construed to mean reasonably
continuous employment at some law
full occupation for reasonable COM
pensation, or fixed and regular in
come from property or other invest
ment, which income is sufficient for
the support and maintenance OF such
person.
(d) All able bodied persons who
habitually loaf, loiter and idle in the
cities, towns and villages or about
steamboat landings or railroad sta
tions or any other public places in the
state for Ethe larger portion of their
time, without any regular employ
ment and without any visible means
of support. An offense under para.
graph D, of this section shall be made
out whenever it is shown that any
person has no visible means Of sup
Port and only occasionally has en-.
ployment at odd jobs, being for the
most of the time out Of employment.
(e) Persons trading or bartering
stolen property, or who unlawful sell
or barter any vinous, alcoholic malt,
intoxicating or spirituous liquors.
(f) Every common gambler or per-
son who for the most part maintains
himself by gambling.
(g) Every able bodied person VIII o
shall 90 begging for livelihood.
(h) Every common prostitute.
O Every keeper of house of
prostitution.
Cd Every keeper of a house of
gambling or gaming.
| (k) Every person who shall aban
don his wife or family, without just
cause, leaving her, or them without
support, or in danger of becoming a
public charge.
| ~ Every able-bodied person who
lives without employment or labor,
and who has no visible means of sup.
port.
| (m) All persons who are able to
work and do not work, but hire out
their minor children or allow them to
be hired out, and live upon their
wages.
(n) All persons over sixteen years
Of age and over twenty -one, able to
work and do not work, and have NO
property to support them, and have
not some known visible means of a
fair, honest and reputable livelihood,
and whose parents sor those in loco
PARENTS are unable to support them,
and who are not in attendance some
educational institution.
Section 2. 1t shall be the duty of
every Sheriff, deputy sheriff and con
stable in every county, and of the
police. town marshals, deputy mar
shals and other like officials in every
county, city, town or village in the
state, to give Information under oath
to any officer empowered to issue
criminal warrants, of all Migrants
within their knowledge, or whom
they have good reason to suspect as
being Migrants in their respective
counties, cities, towns and villages
thereupon the said officer shall issue
a warrant for the apprehension of the
person alleged to be vagrant.
Section 8. All information charg-
ing vagranoy shall be under oath
and while it is made the special duty
Of the officers named in section two
hereof, to file the said information
whenever they shall have knowledge
or good rsason to suspect that any
person is vagIant as defined by any
clause or section of this Act, yet any
information charging vagrancy may
be filed under oath by any resident of
the state.
| Section 4. Whenever any person