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0918 adopted No. 58. D.F.Kenner. (Reported by the Select Joint Committee of both Houses of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana. AN ACT To provide for and regulate Labor Contracts for Agricultural pursuits. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate 2 and House of Representatives of the State of 3 Louisiana in General Assembly convened, 4 That all persons engaged as laborers in 5 agricultural pursuits shall be required, 6 during the first ten days of the month of 7 January of each year, to make contracts 8 for labor for the then ensuing year, or 9 for the year next ensuing the termination 10 of their present contract. All contracts 11 for labor for agricultural purposes shall 12 be made in writing, signed by the em- 13 ployer, and shall be made in the presence 14 of a Justice of the Peace and two disin- 15 terested witnesses, in whose presence the 16 contract shall be read to the laborers, 17 and, when assented to and signed by the 18 latter, shall be considered as binding for 19 the time prescribed. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, &c., That 2 every laborer shall have full and perfect 3 liberty to choose his employer, but, when 4 once chosen, he shall not be allowed to 5 leave his place of employment until the ful- 6 filment of his contract, unless by consent 7 of his employer, or on account of harsh 8 treatment, or breach of contract on the 9 part of the employer; and if they do so
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