The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-02-07

safe for use at approximately 1000
pounds per square foot.
Mr.. Landry reported having made a
contract in conjunction with VermiliOn
Parish officials, for the keeping OF the
0lidOn BrOussard bridge with Mr..
Simon BrOussard for the amount OF
$50 per year, half to be PAID by this
Parish and half by Vermilion Parish;
that it was conditioned in the contract
for the bridge to be thoroughly clean
ed, opened and CREASED at least once
every week. Mr.. Landry further
stated that the Vermilion authorities
had placed Q sign on this bridge for
GiddinQ more than ten head of cattle
to De passed on the bridge at one time
md also for any one driving Over said
bridge ut q faster gait than q walk.
ViOfatOrs of these rules are subject to
81. 90 fine; that the bridge keeper was
entrusted with the enforcement of these
rules. Report accepted.
Adjourned Until 100 pm. for dinner,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Messrs. Crow Girard, o. c. Mou-
ton and N. p. Moss appeared before
the Jury in the interest of the Good
Roads Association, asking the Jury
for an appropriations in aid of the
demonstrations soon to be made in
Lafayette parish under United States
Government road experts.
Moved by Mr., Spell, seconded by
Mr.. Theal, that $1,000 be appropri-
ated, payable $500 this year and $500
next year, in aid of the good roads
demonstrations to be made in this
parish by United States Government
experts. Carried.
The Committee on Public Balls
submitted the following ordinance
which, upon motion, duly seconded,
was unanimously adopted:
To the President and members OF
the Police Jury of the Parish of
Lafayette:
Your Committee, appointed by res
Olution of your body, dated December
I, 1905, to draft an ordinance to
regulate public balls given in this
parish, through its undersigned chair
man, beg leave to submit the annexed
sketch Of said ordinance.
Your Committee further report that
they are informed that the aim and
object in having such an ordinance,
was to check and prevent the rounda-
bout way and subterfuge employed by
those who give these public balls, to
elude and evade the penalties imposed
for violation of the Liquor License
Tax and Gambling State Laws: but
your Committee having examined the
statutes on these subjects, they are
satisfied that the provisions of said
statutes are amply sufficient to eradi-
cate this evil and to punish the
violatOrs, If the laws be enforced by
affidavit and prosecution.
Cornelius Spell.
An ordinance to regulate public
balls given in the Parish of Lafayette,
to levy q license and to impose a pen
atty for violation of the same.
Section /. Be it ordained by the
Police Jury of the Parish of Lafayette
in regular session assembled, that a
license of 800, for the year one thOus-
and nine hundred and six, Ammo
Domini, and for every subsequent
year, be and is hereby levied and
imposed On any person who will give
q public ball, where people are per-
mitted to congregate for the purpose
of dancing and otherwise amusing
themselves, or paying an entrance
fee in money, or on giving a compen-
sation of some kind. or where n
thing to eat, or where any refreshment
is sold or bartered.
Section 2. Be it further ordained,
that before giving said public balls,
party wishing to do so shall apply to
Sheriff of the parish, obtain from and
pay said officer for said license.
Section 3. Be it further ordained.
that three days before the time fixed
to have a public ball, the person Civ
ing the said ball shall apply to the
constable of his ward or to the sheriff
of the parish, and request him to
appoint and send one of his deputies
to attend and be present at said ball.
Section 4. Be it further ordained.
that the constable or deputy sheriff
mentioned in the preceding section
shall preserve order and peace, aud
9 that the License Liquor and the
Gambling Laws are not violated at
and around the premises, when said
public ball is given.
Section 5. Be it further ordained,
that the person by whom said public
ball is given, shall pay cash to said
constable or deputy sheriff a fee 81
% for each and every ball given, over