Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-06-19

state. Here is copy of it; and its
provisions are far-reaching, and will
rid any city, town or community OF
undesirables, if the officers but do
their sworn duty:
An Act to better define and punish
vagrancy, prescribing the rules of
procedure in the prosecution of va
grancy and fixing a punishment for
vagrancy, and repeating all laws
and parts of laws in conflict. here
with, and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the legislature of
the state of Texas:
Section l. The following. persons
are and shall be punished as Migrants,
viz:
(a) Persons known as tramps,
wandering or strolling about in idle
ness, who are able to work and have
no property to support them.
(b) Persons leading an idle, i'm
moral or profligate life, who have no
property to support them, and who
are able to work and do not work.
(c) All persons able to work. have
no property to support them, and who
have no visible or known means of
a fair, honest and reputable liveli-
hood. The term visible or 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 a fixed and regular in
come from property or other invest
ments, which income is sufficient for
the support and maintenance of such
person.
Cd All able-bodied persons who
habitually loaf, loiter and idle in any
city, town or village or railroad sta
ton, or any other public place in this
state for the larger portion of their
time, without any regular employ
ment and without any visible means
of support. An offense under para
graph Cd of this section shall be
made out whenever it is shown that
any person has no visible means of
Z support 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 unlawfully sell
any vinous, alcoholic, malt, intoxicat-
ing or spirituous liquors.
G) Every common gambler or
person who for the most part main
tains himself by gambling.
(g) All companies of gypsies who,
in whole or in part, maintain them
selves by telling fortunes.
CHI Every able-bodied person who
shall go begging for a livelihood.
ID Every common prostitute.
% Every keeper of a house of
prostitution,
(D Every keeper of house of
6dulpliAS vi SdLiiHS.
ID Every person who shall aban-
don his wife or child or children with
out just cause, leaving such wife or
child or children without support or
in danger of becoming public charge.
I'M Every able-bodied person who
lives without employment or labor,
and who has no visible means of sup
port.
(n) 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, being without other means of
support.
(o) All persons over 16 years of
age and under 81, able to work who
do not work, and have no property to
support them, and have not some
known visible means of fair, hon
est and reputable livelihood, and
whose parents, or those in loco pa
RENTS, are unable to support them,
and who are not in attendance upon
some educational institution.
(p) All persons who advertise and
maintain themselves in whole or in
part as clairvoyants or foretellers of
future events or as having supernatu-
raj knowledge with respect to present
or future conditions, transactions,
happenings or events.
(q) Any person who unlawfully So
licits orders for intoxicating liquors.
(r) All male persons who habitual-
ly associate with prostitutes or ha-
bitually 1oiter in or around houses of
prostitution, or who, without having
visible means of support, receive fl
nancial aid or assistance from prosti-
tutes.
Section 2. 1t shall be the duty of
every sheriff, deputy sheriff and con-
stable in every county, and of the
police, town marshal, deputy marshal
and other like officials in every coun-
ty, 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 upon information in