The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-08
Ordinance.

Providing for the purchase and
maintenance of a farm for the INDECENT
poor and persons convicted of misde-
meanors and crimes and creating q
Board of Control for the government
thereof, and defining its duties and
powers.
Section l. Be it 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
a home for the INDECENT poor of the
parish of Caddo, and where persons con-
vieted of misdemeaners 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. g. Be it further ordained, etc.,
that a portion of said farm be set aside
for the purpose of confning persons
who have been convicted of misde-
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 a 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
sons physically unable to perform
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 vot-
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, ETC.,
that said Board of Control shall hold
meetings once in each month Tor often.
er if necessary in the Police Jury
room in Shreveport, or on the farm
they shall have the power to employ q
superintendent, fix his salary and term
of office, and dismiss him for cause; to
employ such helpers as are necessary,
fix their wages, term Of office, or dis,
miss them for cause; to contract for
such building or buildings as are neees.
sary provided that no contract for
building to cost more than 800 shall
not become binding unless approved by
the Jury.) To contract for and pnr.
chase all animals and implements neees
sary to work said farm, and all provi.
sions and supplies necessary for the in.
mates thereof, and to keep an accurate
account of all expenditures and re.
ceipts, as well as all products raised ON
the farm and used thereon-proyided
said account shall designate clearly tbs
the cost Of maintaining the Poor Farm
cost o. maintaining the Work Farm and