The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-25
TO PROHIBIT
VAGRfNCY
FEATURES OF REPRESENTATIVE
M'FARLAND's DRAsTRIc MEAS
UREs ON sU5JEsT.

MONDAY ID the hOtASc " AeSPi
tive Mcfarland to define who are va
grants, prescribe the rules Of proceed
ure in trials for vagrancy. and the pun
ishment thereof:
That the following persons are and
shall be defined and punished as va
grants. Wig:
"(a) Persons known as tramps, wan
dering or strolling about In idlness,
who are able to work and have no
property to support them.
cob Persons leading an idle, Inn
moral or profiigate life. who have no
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 a fair, honest and reputable hvi-
hood. The term visible and known
means of a fair, honest and reputable
livelihood as used in this section shall
be construed to mean reasonably con-
tinuous employment at some lawful
occupation for reasonable compensa-
ton. or a fixed and regular income
from property or other investment
which income is sufficient for the sup
port and maintenance of such per-
son.
"(d) All able-bodied persons who
habitually loaf, loiter and idle in the
cities, towns and villages or about
steamboat landings or railroad STA
lions, or any other public place In the
State for the larger portion of their
time without any regular employment,
and without any visible means of sup
port. An offense under paragraph
(d) OF this act shall be made out when
ever it is shown that any person has
no visible means o. support at odd
Jobs. being for the most Of the time
out of employment
"(e) Persons trading or bartering
stolen property, or WHO unlawfully sell
or barter any vinous, alcoholic, malt,
intoxicating or spiri'uons liquors.
40 Every common gambler or per-
son who for the most part maintains
himself by gambling
"(g) Every able-bodied person who
shall go begging for livelihood.
"(h) Every common prostitute.
I'D 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.
SD 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 16 years OF
age and under 81 able to work and
who do rot work, and have no prop
erty to support them, and have not
some known visible means of fair,
honest and reputable livelihood, and
whose parents or those in loco par
ents are unable to support them, and
who are not in attendance upon some
educational institution.
That 1t shall be the duty OF every
Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff and Constable
In every county, and Of the police,
Town Marshals and Of other like Of
ficials in every county, city or town
or village and district In the State to
give information under oath to any
officer empowered to issue criminal
warrants for all Migrants within their
knowledge, or whom they have good
reason to suspect az being Migrants
in their respective districts; thereupon
the said officer shall issue warrant
for the apprehension of the person
alleged to be a vagrant
"That all information charging va
grancy shall be under oath. and while
1t Is made the special duty of the Of
ficers named in Section hereof to
file the said information whenever
they shall have knowledge or good
reason to suspect that any person is
vagrant as defined by any cause or
section of this act, yet any informa'
tion charging vagrancy may be fled
under oath by any resident of this
State.
THAT whenever any person shall
have been arrested IN charge OF va
grancy he shall Immediately be car
ried before a Justice of the Peace OF
the district In which the offense oc-
ours, or before the Mayor or Police
Justice OF any city, town or village,
II said offense occurs within the cor.
porate limits Of same, and on salts.
factory evidence of his being a va