The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-29
HUDDLESTON PLAN
 MAY BE ADOPTED Would Segregate the Races in
 Birmingham PROVIDES PENALTIES City Attorney Boyd Has Received Copy of Famous Baltimore Ordinance Where Segregation Was
 First Undertaken

dinance segregating the races in Bir- smingham now has a good chance Of passing the council. It is well under stood that City Attorney Romaine legal and that 1t can be enforced.
 The question will now be up to the council judiciary committee to decide upon its merits, and while some may hold that 1t Is not needed in Birming ham, there has been no little complaint of negroes moving into white neigh borhoods and greatly decreasing the value of residence property.
 MT. Huddleston's bill provides that negro shall be guilty of misde- meanor and punished by a fine of not exceeding s1OO and Imprisonment of six months, one or both, if he shall hereafter move into or take up his residence in premises not now occu- pied by persons of the negro race, in any block in which the majority of persons then therein residing are of the white race, such residence being within 400 feet of the residence of any white person, providing, however, that domestic servants, residing on the premises of their employers shall be excepted from the provisions of the ordinance. It also provides the same punishment for any white person who shall move within 400 fet of a negro residence.
 City Attorney Romaine Boyd Is in receipt of a copy of the famous Bal timore ordinance sent to him by City Attorney Edgar Allen Poe of Balti- more, which may be adopted in lieu of the Huddleston ordinance.
 An ordinance for preserving order, se-
 curing property values and promot-
 ing the great interests and insur-
 ing the good government of Bal
 timore City
 Section l. Be 1t ordained by the Mayor and city council of Baltimore, that from and after the date of the passage of this ordinance, 1t shall be unlawful for any white person to move into or begin to occupy. as residence or as place of public assembly, any
 
 upon that part of any street or alley way, running in any direction within the city of Baltimore, lying between the two adjacent streets. crossing or intersecting the said part of any such said street or alleyway. if at the date of the passage of this said ordinance, such part of said street or alleyway as aforesaid, shall contain greater mum Der of houses, buildings or habitations occupied as residences by negroes or colored people. than it does houses buildings or habitations occupied as residences by white people.
 Sec 2. And be 1t further ordained by the mayor and city council of Bal timore, that it shall be unlawful for any negro or colored person to move into or to begin to occupy, as res idence or as place of public assembly, any house, building or habitation with in or upon that part of any street or alleyway, running in any direction within the city of Baltimore, lying be- tween the two adjacent streets, cross ing or intersecting the said part of any such said street or alleyway, if at the date of the passage of this ordinance such part of said street or alleyway as aforesaid shall contain a greater number of houses. buildings or hab- itations occupied as residences by white people, than 1t does houses, buildings or habitations occupied as residences by negroes or colored people.
 Sec. 3. And be 1t further ordained by the mayor and city council of Baltimore. That from and after the date of the pass age of this ordinance, 1t shall be unlawful for any person to open up, or cause to be opened up, any new streets to be used as residences, without first declaring in the application for permit to build whether the houses are to be built for and occupied by white or negro or colored people, and the building inspector shall have power to require assurance sat- isfactory to him before such permit may be issued or granted to said applicant therefor.
 Sec 4. And be 1t further ordained by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, That any person, directly or indirectly, whether as principal, agent or abettor, VlOldtltlS any Ol ltlt pIOVlSioLS oI cltiicE of the first three sections of this ordinance shall, upon conviction therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined the sum of one hundred Gl0O) dollars, or confined in the Baltimore city jail for not less than 30 days, nor more than F months, or shall be both fined and im- prsoned as aforesaid, as in the judgment of said court may seem proper.
 Provided, however, That nothing in this said ordinance shall be so construed as to affect the white and negro or col cred residents, or the location of their residences, previous to the date of the passage of this ordinance, and provided also that nothing in this said ordinance shall be so construed as to affect the resi- dence of white or colored or negro ser vants or employees, while duly employed as such in any section of said city of Baltimore.
 And provided, also, That nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to prevent any person from purchasing or owning property in said city.
 Approved December 19, 1910
 U. BARRY MAHOOL4, Mayor. "J SEWELL THOMAS, City Register"