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An Ordinance to Amend an Ordinance Entitled No. 42
of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Paducah Relating
to Vagrants.
Be it ordained.by the Members of the Common Council
of the .City of Paducah, Ky.
IMNnitlonof Section t. That ordinance No. 42 of the Revised Or -
vagranu
dinances of the Cit of Paducah be amended so as to read
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as follows, "If any able bodied person be found loitering or
rambling about in the City of Paducah. not having the
means to support himself by some visible property, or does,
not betake himself to labor or some honest and lawful call-
ing to obtain- a livelihood, or who not possessing such
visible means or who does not follow or labor at some law-
ful trade or profession, -has quit his habitation leaving a wife
or children without visible means of subsisten.:e, or who is
idle and dissolute in habits, or an habitual drunkard, or is
found loafing or idling about places of ill resort without
risible means of livelihood or who ever shall be found loft=
ering, loafing upon and frequenting the streets and public
places at unusual hours of the night within the limits of the
City of Paducah shall Le arrested end adjudged to be a vag-
rant, and upon such conviction he shall be sentenced by the
City Court to hard labor in the Chain gang upon the streets.
alleys and wharf of the City of Paducah for the period of
not less than one nor more than six months and when not ;
so engaged to be confined in the City Lockup.
Sec. s. All ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect from and after its
passage and approval,
Adopted, Feb. 28, 180.
W. H. PATTERSON, C: C. P.
Approved, Feli. 28, 180.
JAS. M. LANG, Mayor. i
1 Vagrants. -
An Ordinance to Amend an Ordinance Entitled No. 42
of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Paducah Relating
to Vagrants.
Be it ordained.by the Members of the Common Council
of the .City of Paducah, Ky.
IMNnitlonof Section t. That ordinance No. 42 of the Revised Or -
vagranu
dinances of the Cit of Paducah be amended so as to read
Y
as follows, "If any able bodied person be found loitering or
rambling about in the City of Paducah. not having the
means to support himself by some visible property, or does,
not betake himself to labor or some honest and lawful call-
ing to obtain- a livelihood, or who not possessing such
visible means or who does not follow or labor at some law-
ful trade or profession, -has quit his habitation leaving a wife
or children without visible means of subsisten.:e, or who is
idle and dissolute in habits, or an habitual drunkard, or is
found loafing or idling about places of ill resort without
risible means of livelihood or who ever shall be found loft=
ering, loafing upon and frequenting the streets and public
places at unusual hours of the night within the limits of the
City of Paducah shall Le arrested end adjudged to be a vag-
rant, and upon such conviction he shall be sentenced by the
City Court to hard labor in the Chain gang upon the streets.
alleys and wharf of the City of Paducah for the period of
not less than one nor more than six months and when not ;
so engaged to be confined in the City Lockup.
Sec. s. All ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall take effect from and after its
passage and approval,
Adopted, Feb. 28, 180.
W. H. PATTERSON, C: C. P.
Approved, Feli. 28, 180.
JAS. M. LANG, Mayor. i