Ordinance no. 29, An Ordinance to Preserve the Public Peace § 1, in Revised Charter of the City of Ypsilanti (1898) (Approved 1882).

Section 1. All able-bodied persons who, not having visible means of support, are found loitering or rambling about, or lodging or loitering in drinking saloons, tippling houses, beer houses, houses of ill fame, houses of bad repute, sheds or barns, or in the open air, and not giving good account of themselves, or begging in the street or elsewhere, all keepers or exhibitors of any gaming table or device, and all persons who, for the purpose of gaming, or for the purpose of watch stuffing, travel about or go from place to place, and all persons upon whom shall be found any instrument or thing used for the commission of burglary, larceny, or for picking locks or pockets, or anything used for obtaining money under false pretenses, or who carry concealed firearms, dirk-knives, or other deadly weapons, and who cannot give a good account of their possession of the same, and all fortune-tellers, shall be deemed vagrants, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of the immediate payment thereof, shall be committed to the Detroit house of correction or the county jail of Washtenaw county until such fine is paid, provided such time of imprisonment shall not exceed the period of ninety days.