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can=WI 140► 67. CONCERNING VAGRAMITS. Passed July 6, 1909. Published in the Louisville News July 9, 1909. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF' LOUIS- VILLE, STATE OF COLORADO: Section 1. That any person able to work and support himself who shall be found loitering or strolling about, frequenting public places or begging, or leading an idle, immoral or profligate course of life in the Town of Louisville, or not having any visible means of support, shall be deemed a vagrant, and may be arrested as such and brought before the Police magistrate in said town. Such Police Magistrate small examine or cause to be examined such person tpro- vided such person is willing to submit to examination) , and shall hear testimony in relation to such person, ana if satisfied such person is a vagrant, may impose a fine of not less than five t 5) dollars, or imprison such person in the town jail not less than 13) three days nor more tnan fifty ( 5u) days, nor more than one hundred ( 10u.0u) dollars; and such person may oe made to work out such tine and the costs of prosecution, by the judgement of such magistrate, by hard labor upon the streets of said town, under the direction of the town marshal. Such person, who may be so fined and imprisoned or either, as aforesaid, shall oe credited with the sum of two t P2) dollars a day for eacn day of eight nours labor, towards the payment of such fine and costs; and in case such person shall refuse to work as aforesaid he may be put in iron and kept on bread and water, until he shall comply with such requirements. Section 2. it shall be the duty of the town marshals of the Town of Louisville to arrest any person or persons in said town without vis- ible means of support , or rambling abroad, or begging from house to house , or living as described in Section i of this Ordinance, and take such person or persons before the Police magistrate in the said town of Louisville to be examined or tried on the charge of vagrancy. Section 3. curing the time any person is working out his fine, .for- feiture or penalty, as provided in the foregoing sections, he shall each night be committed for safe keeping to the town jail, or other place of confinement provided for that purpose, unless he shall give security to the town in double the amount of fine and costs, to oe approved by the town marshals, that he will appear from aay to day ana work on said streets until such fine and costs shall have been fuliy paid. Adopted and passed July 6th, 1yM9. H. Inliiamson, Mayor. Attest: Nick Thomas, Jr. Olerk.