Chap. 290.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act amend-
ing and re-enacting 28th section of chapter 52, Code of 1860, in relation
to Fines for Failing. to Work on Public Roads, passed February 9th,
1867.

Passed ‘March’ 2, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act
entitled an act amending and re- enacting twenty-eight sec-
tion of chapter fifty- WO, Code of eighteen hundred and
sixty, in relationgo fines for failing to work on public roads,
passed February ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be
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 sufficient sub-
stitute, 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:
prov ided, however, that.the court of any county may, all the
justices therein having been summoned for the purpose, or a
majority thereof being present’ for any other purpose, in-
crease the fine to a sum not exceeding two dollars, or lessen
it to a sum not under seventy-five cents: provided, further,
that if the money. be not paid, it shall be recoverable by the
surveyor before a justice of the peace; and the party or par-
ties against’ whom a judgment may be rendered shall not be
entitled to the benefit of any law for the exemption of pro-
perty sold under execution. The fine or fines aforesaid,
when received by the surveyor, shall be applied to the im-
provement.of the road of which he is surveyor.’

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