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SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, &c., That
2 all employers failing to comply with their
3 contract shall, upon conviction, be fined 
4 an amount double that due the laborer recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction, 
5 to be paid to the laborer; and any inhu-
6 manity, cruelty, or neglect of duty on the 
7 part of the employer, shall be summarily
8 punished by fines within the discretion of
9 the Court, to be paid to the injured
10 party; Provided, that this shall not be so 
11 construed as a remission of any penalty
12 now inflicted by law for like offences.

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, &c., That
2 in case of sickness of the laborer, wages 
3 for the times lost shall be deducted, and,
4 where the sickness is feigned for pur-
5 poses of idleness, and, also, on refusal to
6 work according to contract, double the 
7 amount of wages shall be deducted for
8 the time lost, and also where rations
9 have been furnished, and should the 
10 refusal to work continue beyond three
11 days, the offender shall be reported to a
12 Justice of the Peace, and shall be forced
13 to labor on roads, levees, and other pub-
14 lic works, without pay, until the offender
15 consents to return to his labor.

SEC. 9 be it further enacted, &c., That,
2 when in health, the laborer shall work
3 ten hours during the day in the summer, and
4 nine hours during the day in winter, 
5 unless otherwise stipulated in the labor
6 contract; he shall obey all proper orders
7 of his employer or his agent; take proper
8 care of his work-mules, horses, oxen,
9 stock; also, of all agricultural imple-