The author presents a micro-historical study of a family of Vlach Roma (Lovára) of western Slovak origin, one of the few Romani groups still on the move in the mid-1950s, who were forced to settle in the towns of Louny and Žatec in northwestern Bohemia in the late 1950s. Against this background, the author focuses on some aspects of the Czechoslovak assimilation policy of the 1950s towards 'itinerant G*psies', which was designed to limit their mobility, and which was mainly represented by the implementation of the Law on the Permanent Settlement of Itinerant Persons (No. 74/1958 Coll.). Using a combination of oral history methods with Vlach Romani narrators and archival research, the author clarifies some aspects of the local process of the implementation of the above-mentioned law.