The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-13
Ordinance.

Providing for the purchase and
maintenance of farm for the INDECENT
poor and persons convicted Of INSIDE
meanors andRcrimes and creating
Board of Control for the government
thereof, and defining its duties and
powers.
Section 1. Be 1t ordained by the po-
lice jury of the parish of Caddo, State
of Louisiana, that farm be purchased
and used for the purpose Of providing
home for the INDECENT poor of the
parish of Caddo, and where persons con
vieted of misdemeanors and petty
crimes, who are unable to work on the
public roads of the parish, may be con-
fined and required to do such work as
they are capable of.
Sec 2. Be it further ordained, etc.,
that the portion of said farm which is
used for the purpose of furnishing a
home for the INDECENT poor, shall be
known and designated as the Caddo Par
ish Poor Farm, and all paupers and
persons dependent on the parish for
support be placed therein, and that said
persons be required to work, or not, as
may be determined by the Beard of
Control as hereinafter created.
Sec. 8. Be it further ordained, ETC.,
that portion of said farm be set aside
for the purpose of combining persons
who have been convicted of INSIDE
meanors or petty crimes, and who are
unable to work on the public roads of
the parish; that said portion of the
farm shall be surrounded by wire
fence and entirely separated from the
portion Of the farm known as the Poor
Farm; that said portion of the farm
shall be known and designated as the
Caddo Parish Work Farm; that the in
mates of said Work Farm shall be re.
| CURED to work said farm, or perform
any service necessary or proper, unless
| physically unable to do so; that all per.
heavy work shall be required to do
| light work.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, etc.
that a Board of Control be, and the
same is hereby created which shall con
sist of three members, one of whom
shall be selected from among the mem
bers of the Police Jury, and said mem.
Der shall be chairman of said board:
the other two members of said board
shall be elected by the Police Jury at
the time other officers of the Jury are
| elected and for term of the same du.
ration as the terms Of the police iur-
ors and removable at the pleasure of
the Police Jury, provided the first
board shall be elected as soon after
the adoption of this ordinance as prac.
| ticable. Said two members shall not
be police Jurors, but they shall be per.
sons of good moral character, and yot.
ers and taxpayers of Caddo parish. The
members of said Board of Control shall
receive no pay for their work.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained atc
that said Board of Control shall hold
meetings once in each month Tor often.
er II necessary in the Police Jurv
room In Shreveport, or on the farm.
they shall have the power to emnlov :
superintendent, FIX his salary and farm
OF office, and dismiss him for cause. A
employ such helpers as are necessary.
nx their wages, term of office, or dis.
MISS them for cause; to contract for
such building or buildings as are neces.
sary tprovided that NO contract for
building to cost more than 800 shall
not Deeome binding unless approved hv
tne jury To contract for and pny.
chase all animals and Implements necea.
sary TO work said farm, and all nro,,i.
sions and supplies necessary for The in.
mates thereof, and to keen an aecnra+o
account Of all expenditures and va.
ceipts, as well as all products raisaa ~
the farm and used thereon IA -
said account shall designate cIaarl,s AZ
the cost of maintaining the poor Fa ,ro
cost of maintaining the Work Fam : : !. - 5,