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An Act to prevent persons from interfering so as to induce laborers or servants to abandon their contracts, or to employ such without the consent of their original employer before the expiration of the contract, etc. 1865-1866 111 (1865)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0655 and id is 1 raw text is: 111                            1865-G5.
&lties herein assigned him, he shall forfeit the compensa-
tion herein allowed, and also the sum of two hundred dol-
lars to be sued for in the name of the State of Alabama,
before any court having jurisdiction thereof, and paid into.
the Treasury of the State, and it shall be the duty of the
Solicitor of the Circuit, to prosecute the suit and receive a
tax fee of ten dollars.
SEc. 12. Be it further <nacted, That the commissioners' Vacancies to
courts of roads, &c., shall fill all vacancies which may oc- be filled.
cur in any manner, in said office of census taker, and the
person so appointed shall receive compensation in propor-
tion to the services by him actually rendered, to be adjust-
ed by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
SEc. 13. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the several census takers, and they are hereby re- Enumeration
quired to make the enumeration of the white inhabitants by township.
by townships, and the returns made by them must show
the number of white inhabitants in each township of their
several counties.
Approved, February 21, 186G,
No. 100.]              AN ACT
To prevent persons from interfering so as to induce la-
borers or servants to abandon their contracts, or to em-
ploy such without the consent of their original em-
ployer before the expiration of the contract, &a.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in G n ral Assem-
bly convened, That it shall not be lawful for any person Uniawfl to
. . .interfere with
to interfere with, hire, employ or entice away or induce laborers or se r
to leave the service of another, any laborer or servant,'n
who shall have stipulated or contracted in writing, to
serve for any given number of days, weeks or months, or
for one year, so long as the said contract shall be and re-
main in force and binding upon the parties thereto, with-
out the consent of the party employing or to whom said
service is due and owing in writing or in the presence of
some veritable white person, and any person who shall
knowingly interfere with, hire, employ or entice away or
induce to leave the service aforesaid, without justifiable
excuse therefor, before the expiration of said term of ser-

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