R. S., ch. 38, sec. 270.

Vagabonds - What Shall Constitute

All persons who are idle and dissolute and who go about begging. All persons who use any juggling or other unlawful plays or games..... confidence men;.....common drunkards;..... lewd, wanton and lascivious persons in speech or behavior,......persons who are habitually neglectful of their employment,.....and do not lawfully provide for themselves or for the support of their families; all persons.....who habitually misspend their time by frequenting house of ill fame, gaming houses or tippling shops; all persons lodging in or found in the night time in outhouses, sheds, barns, or unoccupied buildings, or lodging in the open air and not giving a good account of themselves; and all persons......who are habitually found Prowling around.....any place of public amusement, auction room, store, shop or crowded thoroughfare, car or omnibus, or any public gathering or assembly, or lounging about any courtroom, private dwelling houses or outhouses, or are found in any house of ill fame, or tippling Shop, shall be deemed to be and they are declared to be vagabounds.

How Punished

Such person may be sentenced to hard labor on the streets, imprisonment in jail, or to the House of Correction, for a term of not less than ten days and not exceeding ten months, or he may be fined not less than $20, nor more than $100; in default of payment of fine, he may be sentenced at hard labor in the House of Correction or on the streets at the rate of $1.50 per day, until said fine and costs shall have been worked out or paid.

Sec. 271.

Vagabonds And Vagrants

This section is practically the same as Section 270, Ch. 38, of Revised Statutes, which see. Penalty under this section: fine not to exceed $100.

R. M. C.

Sec. 1476.