Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-20

nue.. alley, road. highway. or any of the foot
pavements thereof, the free entrance into any
public or private building inciosure that it
, shall not be lawful for any person persons TO
swear, curse, or make use of any profane lam
guage or indecent obscene words. or engage
in dsorderly conduct in any street avenue.
alley road. highway, public park or inclosure'
public building church. assembly ROOM or in
any other public place. or in any place where
from the same may be heard in any street
avenue a1ely. road, highway, public park or in
closure. or other building, in any premises
other than those where the offense was com
mitted, under penalty of not more than twenty
i've dollars for each and every offensc."
That the following described persons in the
District of Columbia are hereby declared to be
Migrants:
g Idle persons who. having visible means
OF support live without lawful employment:
shops or houses of ill-fame, lodging in
groceries. Outhouses market places. sheds
barns, or in the open air and not giving good
account OF themselves; persons wandering abroad
and begging, who go about from door 10 door
or place themselves in the streets, highways
passages. or other public places 10 beg or re-
IAN persons leading an idle. immoral. or
protiligate life who have property to support
| them and who able Of body 10 work and
who do not work. including all able bodied
persons without ether visible Of sup
port who shall live in idleness upon the wages
or earnings of their mother, wife, minor
child children.
" Every person known TO be "A pickpocket,
thief. burglar. confidence opera tor, either by
his own confession by his having been con
victed in the District of Columbia elsewhere
of either of such offeuSes and having no visible
or lawfCl means of support. when found ioiter-
ing around in any building, park, highway,
street. avenue alley. reservation. steamboa t
landing. railroad depot tation. banking insti-
tuition, brokers' office. place of amusement room
store. shop, public place. omnibus
or other vehicle ut any public altering or
assembly.
g Persons upon whom shall he found any
instrument, tool. other implement used for
the commission of burglary the commission
of any other crime against property, for
good account of the possession Of the same,
and all persons who by common law are
Migrants whether embraced in any of the fore
going classified lions not.
= 'That every person in the District of
Columbia who shall be convicted of vagrancy
under the provisions OF t-i:s Act shall be re-
qulred to enter into security in a not
exceeding i've hundred dollars conditioned upon
his good behavior and industry for a period of
one year, and II he shall fail to give such
security he shall he committed to the work
house in the said District for n term not to
exceed on yenr. The security herein men
TONED shall b. in the ture % recognzance
to the District Of Columbia with a surety of
Thine said District Of Columbia with surety or
sureues 10 be approved by the Police Court of
the said District, in which all prosecutions
under the Act shall be conducted in the man
new provided by law for the prosecution of
ofenses against the laws and ordinances of the
said District but nothing contained in section
A Of the Code of Laws for the district OF
Columbia shall be construed to create or
Act any right 10 trial by jury not existing by
force OF tse Substitution of the United States y
BY order:
OLIVER F. NEWMAN
LOUIS BROWNLOW,
CHARLES W. kUTX.
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