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ORDINANCE SETTING FINES FOR VAGRANCY
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Every able bodied person who shall be found loitering or rambling about not having any visible means of maintaining himself, and who doth not betake himself to labor or some honest calling to procure a livelihood, and all able bodied persons who are found begging, and who quit their houses and leave their wives and children without the means of subsistence, shall be deemed and treated as vagrants.
All keepers and exhibitors of any gaming table, bank or gambling device, and persons who travel or remain in steamboats or go about from place to place for the purpose of gaming shall be deemed and treated as vagrants.
Where any such person is found, the Police Judge shall, upon information, or from his own knowledge issue his warrant to the Chief of Police to bring such person before him.
If upon due examination it shall appear to the Police Judge that such person is a vagrant, he shall order him to be committed to the county or the city prison for any term not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, one half of such time to be fed on bread and water alone.
The Chief of Police shall give to the Police Judge information of all vagrants that shall come within his knowledge.
Passed and approved this 21st day of June, 1892.