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families, live idly and without employment, and refuse to work for the usual and common wages given to other laborers in the like work in the City. Third. Persons wandering or strolling about in idleness who are able to work and have no property to support them. Fourth. Persons leading an idle, immoral, or profligate life, who have no property to support them, and who are able to work, and do not. Fifth. All able-bodied persons found beggin for a living, or who quit their homes and leave their gives or children without the means of subsistence. Sixth. All persons who shall come from any place without this City and shall be found loitering and residing herein, and shall follow no labor, trade, occupation, or business, and have no visible means of subsistence, and can give no reasonable account of themselves or their business. Seventh. All persons having a fixed abode who have no visible property to support them, and who live by stealing or by trading or bartering stolen property. Eighth. All persons who are able to work and who do not work, but hire out their minor children and live upon their wages. (b). Vagrants; how dealt with. It shall be the duty of the police, the City Ser- geant and other City officials to give information under oath to any officer empowered by law to issue criminal warrants of all vagrants within their knowledge, or persons whom they have good reason to suspect of being vagrants in the City; and thereupon, or upon the complaint of any person upon oath the said officer shall issue a warrant for the ar- rest of the person alleged to be a vagrant and he shall be brought before the Civil and Police Justice and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement in jail not more than ninety days and upon conviction of a second offense shall be confined in jail not more than six months; but the Civil and Police Justice or the court before which the case may be tried may permit such person so convicted to give bond with sufficient security, in an amount not exceeding $500.00 nor less than $100.00, conditioned upon his future in- dustry and good conduct for one year; and upon giving such bond such person shall be set at liberty without undergoing the punishment imposed by his conviction. It shall be suff- icient defense to the charge of vagrancy under this Section that the defendant has made reasonable bona fide efforts to obtain employment at reasonable prices for his labor and has failed to obtain the same. (c). Punishment of vagrants. - Whenever any person is apprehended or arrested as a vagrant under this Section it shall be unlawful to discharge said person upon condition that such person leave the City, but he shall be punished as provided by sub -section (b) Adopted by the Council, March 6, 1928 Ayes, Brown, Morris and Joachim; Noes, None. Clerk Signature President Signtaure Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that parking of vehicles be permitted on the East Side of Madison Lane between Main Street and C&O Railway only. Parked vehicles may be headed either way, but no vehicle: may be parked on the West side. Adopted by the Council, April 2, 1928. Ayes, Brown and Morris; Noes, None.