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<br /> ORDINANCE NO. 65.
<br /> Concerning Vagrants.
<br /> (F>issed July 6, 1909. Published in
<br /> 'I be Louisville News July 9, 1909.)
<br /> BE 3t ordained by the Board of Trus-
<br /> tees of the Town of Louisville,
<br /> State of Colorado.
<br /> ;•ection 1. That any person able
<br /> to work and support himself who
<br /> sh••cl be found loitering or strolling
<br /> ' a,b•�.t, frequenting public places or
<br /> i be•,a ing, or leading an idle, immoral
<br /> i or , rofligate course of life in the —
<br /> Tcivn of Louisville, or not having begging from house to house, or liv-
<br /> any ,isible means of support, shall be ing as described in:Section 1 of this '
<br /> deemed a vagrant, and may be ar- ordinance, and take such person or •
<br /> rester as such and brought before persons before the Police Magistrate
<br /> the Police Magistrate in said town. in the said town of Louisville to be •
<br /> Such Police Magistrate shall examine 'examined or tried on the charge of
<br /> or •arise to be examined such per- vagrancy. ,
<br /> ' Fon (provided such person is willing Sec. 3. During the time any per-
<br /> Lo s ihmit to examination), and shall son,is working out his fine, forfeiture , '
<br /> hea testimony in relation to such or penalty, as provided in the'fore-
<br /> person, and if satisfied such person going sections, he shall -each' night '
<br /> is a "agrant, may impose a fine of be• committed for safe keeping to
<br /> not lE ss than five ($5) dollars nor the town jail, or other place of con-
<br /> more than one hundred° ($100) dol- finement provided for that purpose,
<br /> lars, or imprison such person in the unless he shall give security to the
<br /> town jail not less than three ,(3) town in double the amount of fine
<br /> days nor more than fifty (50) days; and cost., to' be approved by the
<br /> and such person may be made to town near<•hall, that he will, appear
<br /> work out such fine.,and the costs of from day to day and work on said
<br /> prosecution,'by the judgment of such streets until such fine and costs shall
<br /> magistrate, by hard labor upon,the have been fully paid.
<br /> 'streets of said town, under the di- Adopted and passed July 6th, 1909.
<br /> rection of the town marshal. Such H.'WILLIAMSON,
<br /> person, who may be so fined and im- Mayor.
<br /> prisone i, or either,as aforesaid, shall • (SEAL.) Attest.
<br /> Ibe credited with the sum of two ($2) N. THOMAS, JR.,
<br /> dollars a day for 'each day of eight Clerk.
<br /> hours labor, towards the payment
<br /> ';of such fine and costs; and in ease
<br /> '•such person shall refuse to work.,
<br /> ,I as' aforesaid he may be put in irons•I
<br /> ;II and kept on bread and water, until he I'
<br /> •shall comply with such requirements. i1
<br /> Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the
<br /> town marshall of the Town of
<br /> Louis-ville to arrest any person, or persons
<br /> in said town, without visible means
<br /> of support, or rambling abroad, or
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