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but enforces them and gives an additional [[?]] to the employer if the contract is broken by the employee in that if the employee in absent a certain length of time he may be disclosed a vagrant of the Employers makes an oath before a Justice of the Peace, that his employee has been absent person & of [[strikethrough]] in a month or [[/strikethrough]] or as much as 3 days in this aggregate in one month. The Deft, as the witnesses gives on the trail was, shows that the Deft was absent in the month of Sept subsequent to the order of Gen Swayne - His order therefore must embrace his case as it was made previous to Deft leaving -

In alagous case is where an officer makes a Bond for his safe keeping of money - a subsequent law is made, making it an offence for embezzling money - He is sued on his Bond - and the additional [[?]] is given of providing against him for embezzling funds - if it can be proved - to be this care - the part forfeits hi crop if he leaves & is liable to the additional penalty of being treated as a vagrant - 

W S Penick applies on plantation atty in former care