Chap. 238.—An ACT to amend the 2d section of the act passed February
20th, 1866, in relation to Contracts fur Labor.

Passed February 23, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
section of the act passed February twentieth, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-six, entitled an act to regulate contracts for
labor between white and colored persons, and to impose a
fine on persons enticing laborers from the service of their
employers under such contracts, be amended and resenacted
so as to read as follows: |

Ҥ 2. If any person shall entice away from the service of
another any laborer employed by such other Under a con-
tract, as provided by this act, knowing of the existence of
such contract, or shall employ a laborer, knowing him or her
to be bound to another under such contract, he shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined a sum not
less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars,
for the use of the commonwealth, and may, at the discretion
of the court, be required to enter into a recognizance.for his
good behavior: and shall, in addition thereto, forfeit to the
party aggrieved, not less than ten, nor more than twenty
dollars for every such offence, to be recovered by warrant
before any justice of the peace.”

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