The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-10-17
Police Jury Ordinance.
Lafa vette, La, Oct. s, ~


Pursuant to adjournment the Police
Jury met this day in special session
for the purpose of considering the
adoption of an ordinance relative to
the working or leasing of prisoners in
the parish Jail, and such other busl-
mes as may come before the body.
The members present were: M. Bill
leaud. Jr., presiding, j. H. Connolly.
Cornelius Spell. L.. G. Breaux, J.
| Edmond Mou;on. Valery Boudreaux,
Alfred A. Delhomme.
AN ORDINANCE, Relative to the
hiring and letting of convicts SEN
the payment of a fine and costs and
in default of such payment to i'm
prisonment in the parish jail.
! Section l.. Be it ordained by the
Police Jury of the parish of Lafayette
in regular session assembled: That
all persons sentenced by a competent
court to Imprisonment in the parish
Jail of said parish or sentenced to pay
a fine and costs and in default of such
payment to Imprisonment IN said Jail,
shall there remain in close cOnfine-
ment for the full term specified in said
sentenced if the Judge in passing sem
tence shall SO specially order.
Section II. Be it further ordained
that all persons sentenced to imprisOn-
ment in the parish Jail or to payment
of fine and costs and in default of such
payment to Imprisonment to said Jail.
shall if not otherwise ordered in the
sentence of the judge as provided in
section one of this ordinance, be nired
to one person only by the president of
this Jury by a contract nf lease of said
prisoners for a term of twelve
months, such contractor to pay for the
services of all of said prisoners at the
rate of $1,000 per month for men and
IS. 90 for females. and hold said pris-
oners in actual confinement: and any
violation of this agreement on the
part of the lessee shall ipsO facto
avoid and annul the contract and the
' said contractor shall by means of said
/ violation forfeit to the parish the sum
of five hundred dollars $500 recover
able at the suit of the Police jury upon
the bond of such contractor.
Section III. Be it further ordained
that lessees of %cOnvicts sentenced to
Imprisonment in the parish Jail in de-
fault of a payment of a fine, or fine and
| costs shall have the right to pay the
| sheriff the amount of such fine, or fine
and costs, at any time and shall not
be held in custody after such payment
shall have been made in full.
Section w. Be it further ordained
that the lessees of cOnvicts under this
ordinance shall furnish such convicts
with sufficient wholesome food and
with proper clothing, bedding, medi-
Ecine and medical attention when sick:
and shall treat them humanely and
only use such discipline as may be ne
cessary to prevent their escape and Sc
. cure their diligent labor for not e
ceeding ter hours a day.
Section V. Be it further ordained
that said lessee or contractor hall al
ways keep said prisoners in actual
confinement at all times when not al
work either in the parish Jail or at a
place to be determined in the contract
: of lease or hiring; said place of con
finement to be well ventilated, pro
;tected from rain. cold and wind, anC
guarded by night and by day to pre-
vent the escape of the prisoners: ant
any violation of this section by sai(
contractor shall ipsO factO annul an(
avoid the contract and the said con
tractor shall by of said viola
ton forfeit to the parish the sum o
800. 90 recoverable at the suit of tn
Police Jury upon the bond of sucl
contractor.
Section vi. Be it further ordained
that said convicts shall be leased a
aforesaid by the president of the Pc
lice Jury, and the lessee shall fur
nish a good and sufficient bond in tn
sum of $4,000 for each prisoner 81
leased in favor of the Police Jury 70
the safe keeping of such %cOnvicts an
for the faithful performance of all tn
conditions of the contract of hire; tn
Police Jury to be the judge of the sui
~iciency of the bond.
Section VII. That the lessee c
such convicts shall assume all risks G
the escape of such convicts after the
have been delivered to him: but in tn
! event that said convicts be pardone
' or otherwise disabled or die, befOr
:. the expiration of the term of such ser
e tence of imprisonment, and without tn
# fault of said lessee, the Police Jur
shall credit the lessee with the amour
earned by such convict.
Section VIII. Be it further OF
r. dained that on delivery of a convict t
, the lessee or other person authorize
by the Police Jury to have charge
him, the sheriff shall enter on the ia!
docket the sex and age of such cor
vict, the date and fact of such deli,
! cry, the period for which such cOnvit
|: was sentenced and the considerable
which the parish is to receive for tn
lease of said convict. And the sheri
shall on delivering such convict to tn
, person entitled to the custody thereo
deliver to such person a warrant {
!: detention of the convict until a certai