Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-15
ORDINANCE NO. 1875

An Ordinance relating to and for
the preservation of the public peace,
safety, morality and good order, defin-
| ing vagrancy, providing for the pun
ishment of Migrants, and providing
penalties for the violation of this or
dinance.
Be 1t Ordained By the Town Coun-
Gil of the Town of Coulee City:
SECTION 1. What the following
persons are hereby declared to be va
grants and upon conviction thereof,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor and
shall be punished by fine of not
more than One Hundred Dollars
i ($1Oo.oO) or thirty (3O) days con-
finement in the Town Jail, or both.
SECTION 2. That the following
persons are hereby declared to be
Migrants:
(1) Every person who asks or re-
ceives any compensation, gratuity or
reward for practicing fortune telling,
palmistry or clairvoyance; or,
(2) Every person who keeps
place where lost or stolen property is
concealed; or.
(3) Every person practicing or So
Letting prostitution or keeping house
of prostitution; or,
(4) Every common drunkard found
in any place where Intoxicating liq-
, uors are sold or kept for sale, or in
an intoxicated condition; or,
(5) Every common gambler found
in any place where gambling is con-
Quoted OR where gambling parapher-
MALTA or devices are kept; or,
60 Every healthy person who So
licits aims; or
(7) Every lewd, disorderly OR dis
Isolute person.; or,
(8) Every person who wanders
about the streets at late Or unusual
hours of the night without any visible
or lawful business; or,
(9) Every person who lodges in
any barn, shed, shop, clubhouse, vessel,
car. saloon or other place not kept
for lodging purposes, without the per-
mission of the owner or person en-
titled to the possession thereof; or,
10Y Every person who lives or
works in house of prostitution or
isolicits for any prostitute or house of
prostitution; or,
(1T Every person who solicits
business for an attorney around any
court, Jail, morgue or hospital, Or
elsewhere; or,
(12) Every habitual user Of opium,
morphine, alkaloid cocaine or alpha
or beta cucaine, or any derivation,
mixture Or preparation of any of
them; or,
(13) Every person having no visible
means of support, who does not seek
employment, nor work when employ
ment is offered to him; or,
Gay Every person who by his own
confession thereto or prior conviction
thereof is known to have been guilty
of larceny, burglary, robbery or any
crime of which fraud or intent to de-
fraud is an element, vino shall be
found in any drinking saloon or cellar,
or any public dance hall or music
hall where intoxicating liquors are
sold, or be found intoxicated, or who,
except upon lawful business, shall go
about any dark street or alley or any
residence section of any city or town
in the nighttime, or loiter about any
steamboat landing, passenger depot,
banking institution or crowded street,
shop or thoroughfare, or any public
meeting or gathering, or place where
people gather in crowds.
Approved: MARTIN Guessing
Mayor Protein.
Attest: T. H. TWrNING, Clerk.
Approved as to form by:
ALLEN sPRATLIN, Attorney.
Published in the Coulee City Dis
patch, August Is, 1910.
First Reading July 8, 1910.
Second Reading July 9, 1910:
] Third Reading August 7, 1910.
No. 1904
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In, L. L.