Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Acts Passed by the Twenty-Seventh Legislature of the State of Louisiana: In Extra Session at Opelousas, December, 1862 and January, 1963
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, do, That when any work f(1' de fence 18 to be constructed in any part of the State, the slaves press ed shall be taken from the vicinity nearest said work as practica ble, Without partiality and in case any person shall neglect or refuse to furnish the slaves, being notified, the person so neglect ing or refusing, together with the owners, shall be liable to and pay a fine of five dollars per day for each and every day that each and every slave may fail to attend to be recovered by summary process on the certificate of the officer charged to make the press or to conduct the work.
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