Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1879 — Connecticut’s Tramp Law. [ARTICLE]

Connecticut’s Tramp Law.

The lower house of the Connecticut Legislature has passed a stringent Tramp law, in imitation of the similar laws recently adopted by the other New England States. It is provided" that every person begging, or strolling through the country living on alms, shall be regarded as a tramp and be sent to the State prison for two years; that entering dwellings or kindling fires

by the roadside or on private premises, the carrying of dangerous weapons, malicious injury to property, etc., shall be offenses punishable by more severe penalties, even to five years’ imprisonment. Sheriffs and other .officers shall receive $5 for each arrest and conviction, and towns may appoint special officers to hunt tramps. This bill was adopted by the Judiciary Committee in preference to one re-establishing the whipping-post as a penalty for tramps.