LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 15 



'Company, shall be liable annually, to perform two days' labor on the 

 highways, under the direction of the road supervisor of the road district 

 in which he resides. 



(2664-5) SEC. 5 [Commutation.] But if a person, being 

 warned as hereinafter provided, pay to the supervisor in whose district 

 lie resides the sum of three dollars ( $3.00) within three days after be- 

 ing notified by the supervisor, the same shall be received in lieuof the 

 two days' labor, and shall be applied by the supervisor to the improve- 

 ment of the roads in his district, and accounted for as herein provided. 



(2664-6) SEC. 6 [Ordering out of persons liable; penalty. j 

 Each supervisor shall order out every such person resident in his district be- 

 tween the fifteenth day of April and the first day of July annually, and 

 direct him to do and perform the work aforesaid on the public roads 

 Avithin the district; the order shall be given to each person at least two 

 days prior for the performance of the labor, either personally, or by 

 written notice left at his usual place of abode ; and if any person so 

 notified who is liable to perform such labor, refuses or neglects to at- 

 tend, by himself or substitute, to the acceptance of the supervisor, or 

 having attended, refused to obey the directions of the supervisor, or 

 spend the time in idleness or inattention to the duties assigned him, he 

 shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar for every such offense, and 

 shall further be liable in all cases of non-attendance, to the amount al- 

 lowed for two days' work, to be recovered by action before a justice 

 of the peace of the proper township, at the suit of the supervisor within 

 whose district he resides ; and the money so collected shall be applied 

 "by the supervisor to the improvement of roads in his district, and ac- 

 counted for by him at the annual settlement with the trustees of his 

 township. 



(2664-7) SEC. 7. [Non-exemption against execution; costs i 

 certain case.] The defendant shall not be entitled to any exempt'or 

 under any of the laws of this state against execution issued on anv 

 judgment and the costs incurred by said supervisor in any suit brought 

 under this act, when the same can not be collected from the defendant, 

 shall be paid by the trustees out of the township fund. 



(2664-8) SEC. 8. [Non-release by neglect to order out; direc- 

 tions governing time of performance.] No person shall be released 

 from performance of labor on the public highway by reason of neglect 

 of any supervisor to order him out on or before the first day of July ; 

 but if the trustees of any township, or any two of them, within three 

 days after the election and qualification of any supervisor within their 

 township, direct him in writing to defer any portion of the work to a 

 elate not later than the first of November, then the supervisor shall be 

 governed by the directions so given as to the time the labor shall be 

 performed. 



(2664-9) SEC. 9. [Production or non-production of certificate 

 in case of removal.] If a person remove [d] from one district to an- 

 other between the first day of April and the fifteenth day of November 

 who has prior to such removal, performed the whole or any part of the 

 labor aforesaid, or in any other way has paid the whole or any part of 

 the amount aforesaid in lieu of such labor, and produce a certificate of 

 the same from the supervisor of the proper district, such certificate 

 shall be a complete discharge for the amount therein specified ; but 

 without producing such certificate he shall be required to perform two 



