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Notice of time
and place for
labor to be
given.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That as often as the said
supervisors or their deputys shall judge it necessary to
call upon the said inhabitants fur their labor in and
upon the said roads, they shall summon or cause to be
summoned, the number and class which they shall
have previously arranged having had regard to the
quantity and quality of work necessary to be done upon
the said roads giving each person and the muster, mis-
tress or overseer of each servant or slave, so to be sum-
moned, two days notice at least of the time and place
appointed for their labor except in such extraordinary
cases which may require a shorter notice, and every
person so summoned shall be obliged to attend in person
or to provide a sufficient substitute or pay to the super-
visor, his agent or deputy the sum of seventy-five cents
for every day summoned as aforesaid, in lieu of his days
labor and if any person being so summoned, shall neg-
lect or refuse to attend or to provide a sufficient substi-
tute or pay on demand by said supervisor, his agent
or deputy the sum aforesaid, for every day he failed to
appear and work as aforesaid, he shall be adjudged
guilty of a misdemeanor, and it shall be the duty of
the several supervisors, their deputies or agents to keep
a list of all delinquents, and report the list to some jus-
tice of the peace of the district over which he is super-
visor and the said justice shall thereupon issue a war-
rant in the name of the State, for every free male per-
son so appearing to be delinquent, and in case of a
slave for the master, overseer or employer of said slave,
to be directed to some constable of said district, direct-
ing him to bring said delinquent person, master, over-
seer or employer before him for trial, and if upon the
trial it shall appear that said delinquent free person or
owner, master or overseer of the delinquent slave fail
to appear at the time and place appointed by the super-
visor, his agent or deputies, with proper implements for
work on the road or roads aforesaid, unless he was pre-
vented from so doing by illness of himself or family, if
a free person or if a slave that said slave was unable to
work or if he or they so appearing without proper im-
plements for labor or refuse or neglect to perform rea-
sonable labor or has not paid said supervisor, his agent
or deputy the sum of seventy-five cents for every day
he failed to appear and labor aforesaid, or has not
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