Chap. 184.—An ACT amending and re-enacting 28th section of chapter 52,
Code of 1860, in relation to Fines for Failing to Work on Public Roads.

“ Passed February 9, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twenty-eight of chapter fifty-two, of the Code of eighteen
hundred and sixty, be and the same is heréby amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 28. Every person appointed under either of the two
preceding sections shall, either in person or by a sufficient
substitute, when required by the proper surveyor, attend with
proper tools, and work the road on such days as the surveyor
may direct. For every day on which there may be a failure,
one dollar and fifty cents shall be paid to the surveyor within
twenty days thereafter, by the person in default, if a person
of full age, or if he be an infant, by his parent or guardian:
provided, however, that the county court of any cqunty may,
all the justices therein having been summoned for the pur-
pose, or a majority thereof being present for any other pur-
pose, increase the fine to a sum not exceeding two dollars, or
lessen it to a sum not under seventy-five cents. Ifthe money
be not paid, it shall be recoverable by the surveyor, with
costs, before a justice. Any money received by a surveyor
under this section, after the payment of costs, shall be ap-
plied to the improvement of the road of which he is sur-
veyor; and that he be required to report annually to the
county court of his county the fines so assessed and received,
and how appropriated.” |

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.