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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
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Charter of the City of Lake City
keepers of gambling places, common railors and
brawlers, persons who neglect their calling or 100/257
employment and misspend what they earn and
do not provide for themselves or for the support
of their families, persons wandering from place to
place able to work and who are without means,
and who neglect to earn their support and live
by pilfering or begging, idle and disorderly persons
including therein those who neglect all lawful
business and habitually misspend their time by
frequenting houses of ill fame, gambling houses
or tippling shops, persons able to work but who
are habitually idle and live upon the earnings of
their wives or minor children and all able bodied
male persons over eighteen years of age who are
without means of support and whose parents or
guardians are unable to support them and who
are not usually in attendance upon some school
or educational establishment but who live in
habitual idleness are declared to be vagrants and
upon conviction shall be subject to the penalty
hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. Upon proper information made upon
oath before an officer authorized to act in such
cases he shall issue his warrant for the arrest of any
person therein named or described who is charged
therein with being a vagrant under any of the pro­
visions of the foregoing section and such warrant
shall be executed by any Policeman, Police officer
or by a private person duly authorized thereto
by the officer issuing such warrant, but any Police­
man, Police officer or other lawful officer may
arrest any vagrant described in the foregoing
section without a warrant in case the delay in
procuring one would probably enable such alleged

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