Shepperd v. County Commissioners

Bleckley, Judge.

The act of February 16, 1876, (Pamph. 17,) defines an emigrant agent to be any person engaged in hiring laborers in this state, to be employed beyond the limits of the same. It provides for a license, on payment of $100.00 into the county treasury, and makes it penal for any person to carry *536on the business of an emigrant agent without first obtaining a license. In January, 1877; the plaintiffs in error, under the threat .and the fear of being prosecuted and punished for carrying on business without a license, complied with the act, and their money went into the county…