HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 041-1910 - Working Of City Convicts. - 09/08/1910ORDINANCE NO. 41
AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE WORKING OF CITY CONVICTS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEAS.
SECTION 1. Any person who may be convicted of any offense before the
Corporation Court of the City of Lubbock, Texas, and who shall be committed
to Jail, or in custody of the City Marshal, or the City Prison, in default
of the payment of the fine and coats adjudged against him may be worked on
the public streets or alleys of said City, and every convict shall be en-
titled to a credit of fifty cents per day for each day he may serve, including
Sundays, on such fine and costs adjudged against him, and he shall be discharged
at any time upon payment of the balance due on his fine and costs, or upon the
ex¢iration of his term of service, his term of service in no event to be great-
er than one day for each fifty cents of said fine and costs. Provided that
no female shall be worked upon any street or alley.
SECTION a. Whenever a convict who has been committed to the City pris-
on in default of the payment of the fine and costs adjudged against him by the
Corporation Court has satisfied such fine and costs in full by labor in the work
house, on the public streets or alleys of the City, or upon any public works of
said City, then the City shall be liable to each officer and witness having costs
in the case of said convict for only one half of such costs, and the Mayor shall
issue a warrant upon the City Treasurer in favor of each officer and witness for
one-half of all such legal costs as may have been taxed up against said convict,
not to include commissions, and the same shall be paid out of the City Funds not
other wise appropriated.
Passed and approved this the 8th., day of September, 1910.
F.E. Wheelock, Mayor
ATTEST: W.M. Shaw, City Secretary