St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-03
THE ST. LANDRY cLARIoN JANUARY 8, 1914.
Jos. Trapani,
BENZ. Green,
Motion duly seconded and carried.
AN ORDINANCE.
No.24o of 1913.

Motion duly seconded and carried.
AN ORDINANCE.
No. "a of 1918.
To prohibit vagrancy within the cor
porate limits of the City of 0pelousas,
La; declaring certain persons to be
Migrants, and providing penalties for
the violation hereof.
Section I. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
City Of Opelousas, La, That the follow
ing persons are hereby declared to be
Migrants within the meaning ofthis Or
dinance, and punishable as such in the
manner hereinafter provided, viz: All
persons who, not having visible means
Of support, live without employment;
all persons wandering abroad and lodg-
ing in groceries, taverns, beer houses,
bar rooms, market places, sheds, barns,
outhouses, uninhabited buildings, or
the open air; all persons OF either sex
leading an idle or openly profligate life
who have no property to support them,
and who r able to work and do not
work; all persons receiving, hiding,
trading or hartering stolen property or
who unlawfully sell r barter any vinous,
alcoholic or intoxicating liquors OF any
kind, or any narcotic or habit forming
drugs; any person who conducts games
of chance under awnings, in booths, in
Enclosures, on the streets, or in any
public place, whether the prize. be in
money or in kind; every common pros
titute who shall walk the streets, or
public places, soliciting men; any
person of either sex of the white race
who shall habitually loiter around or
frequent, or reside in public or private
places owned by or operated by, or
f~requented by negroes; all persons who
will wander about and beg, o 90 about
from place TO pace soliciting aims OF
begging; or who place themselves on
the streets, highways, or door steps, on
church entrances, passages, alleys, OF
other places to get or receive aims, and
who are able to work and do not work;
all habitual drunkards, all persons who
are able to work and do not work but
live upon the wages or personal earn.
ings Of their wives or children.
Section 2. Be it further ordained,
ETC., That any person who shall be ar
rested on the charge of vagrancy as
defined in section one of this ordinance,
shall on conviction before the City
Judge, be fined in the sum not exceed
ing thirty $500 dollars, nor less than
ten ($f0) dollars, or be imprisoned not
less than ten CO. days, nor more than
thirty (30l days, or both fine and inn
prisonment at the discretion of the
City Judge. !,
Section 8. Be it further ordained,
ETC., That for good and sufficient rea-
sons this Ordinance shall take effect
from and after its adoption.
Section 4. Be it further ordained,
etc, That all ordinances or parts of or
dinances relating to the sane subject
matter as this ordinance, be and the
same is hereby repealed.
E. L. LOEB, Mayor.
Attest: J.. B. A. stage, City Clerk.
The above ordinance after having
been read section bysection, and adopt
ed in like manner, was adopted Is a
whole, by the following vote:
Yeas: Shaw, Sicily, and Dunbar.
Nays: None.
On motion duly seconded and car
ried the meeting of the Board of Alder
men was adjourned subject to call.
E. L. LOEB. Mayor.
Attest: j. B. A. stage, City Clerk.
Opelousas, La, Dec. 9th, 1918.
To the members of the Board of Al
dermen Of the City of 0peiousas, La.
Gentlemen:
You are hereby notified that there
will be q special meeting of your Hon.
Board this Saturday evening Dec. 9th,
1913, at 4 o'clock p. M, for the purpose
of amending resolution relative tc
crawling streets SO as to change to
read, Main street from Landry to def
lferson street, = and to repeal all erdi-
| nances or resolutions In conflict there
with; for the further purpose Of amend
ing resolution so as to extend wood
block pavement to west side OF Market
street on Bellevue and Landry streets.
Tor the further purpose OF acting on
saloon permits; and for the fartlerpu
pose of providing for the gsaVeiing Oh
Market streets between Bellevue and
Landry streets.
Signed E. L. LOEB, Mayor.
Attest:
Signed j. B. A. sRAGG, City Clerk.
Received the above notice on the
9th day OF Dec. 1919, and on the same
day and date | notified all the members
of the Board of Aldermen IN person,
except MIR. C. P. Dunbar being absent
from home, | left notice with Mrs. Dun
bar.
Signed G. L. HAYES, Marshal.
Opelousas, La, Dec. 9th, 1913.
The Board of Aldermen met pursuant
to the above call; present: E. L. Loeb,
Mayor, presiding; Aldermen, Shaw,
Daniel, and Sicily. There being a
quorum present the meeting was called
to order.
Resolved, that gravel pavement on
Main street be extended to Madison
street. On the south on said Main
street, in lieu of the former specifica-
ton that gravel pavement on said Main
street extend only to South street; be it
further,
Resolved, that gravel pavement be
laid on Market street. from Bellevue
street to Landry street.
The above resolution offered by DIR.
Shaw, and duly seconded by Mr.. Sicily,
was adopted by the following vote:
Yeas: Shaw and Sicily.
Nays: Daniel.
Resolved, that Creosoted Wood Block
pavement on Bellevue street be ex-
tended to the west side OF Market
street ut the point OF intersection OF
said Bellevue street with said Market