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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0255 and id is 1 raw text is: .LAWP OF FLORIDA.''
.1865.
CiiTmu 1499-t[N6. 36.]
I ACT to amend iho several Acts or tIs State in relation to Working
Roads and Highways.
.S1urtoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Iouse of .Repre-
sentatives of the State of Florida in General Assenbly convened, Persons sulet
That paragraph one, of section 3, of title 9, chapter qne, of to road duty.
Thompson's Digest, be amended' so as to read as fbllows: All
ablebodied male persons between the age of eighteen and fifty
years, residents of any county of this State for twenty days, shall
be liable uid subject to work on the public roads and highways
df such counties: Provided, That all licensed and ordained miu. Exempts.
isters of the gospel, teachers of schools having fifteen or more
.scholars, postmasters, millers, ferrymen,' lighthouse keepers, pi-
lots and their crews, shall be exempt from working on public
roads in this State.
Sjw. 2. Be it finrther enacted, Thait paragraph 2 of die. afore-
said section 3 be amended so as to read as fbllows: The mode of Summons to do
warning or sunimonitg persons to do road duty shall be by giv- road duty.
ing at least three days previous notice, (either by the overseer
himself or some person whom lie may appoint, who may, by
serving, be exempt from working at the time,) in person or in
writing, left at the person's proper place of residence, to all male
,persons liable to do road duty, to meet at such time and place
as lie may appoint, and with such iools as he may direct.
Sjc. 3. , B' it further enacted, i'hat paragraph 3 of the said
section 3 mentioned in the first section of this act be amended so to abey surn-
its to read as follows: If any person sumnioned as herebefore moms responsi-
prescribed, shall fail to attend or to send a prolper substitute, with ble'
the propcr tools, or fail fithfully to perform his duty, such per-
. shal, for each day's detault, pay not xeeding two dollars
nior less than one dollatr, at the discretion of the Road Commis-
7sioners, to be recovered by wayrait before a Justice of the Peace,
with costs, and all and 'my part ot his property of' any kind
wlhatsoever is hereby made liable for the same, amy exemption
'law to the contrary notwithstanding, and if no property can be
found out of which to make the stun with costs which may ac-
orue in any case by deflmlt, said defaulter shall, by order of said
Justice of the Peace, be hired out to i~bor at public outcry, by
said Justice of the Peace or any oflider lie may appoint so to do,
to any person who will pay said sum and costs, and take said
defhulter for the shortest period of time.
Sm,,c. 4. Be it finther enacted, That p)aragraph 4 of the said
section 3 mentioned in the first section of this act be amended by Amendment.
striking out the words citizen of, and inserting persons lia-
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