If the board of supervisors fail to meet at the times appointed, it shall be convened by the president thereof as speedily as practicable, for the discharge of the duties prescribed by this chapter. If any member of the board fail to discharge the duties required of him by this chapter, or to attend the meetings of the board for that purpose without sufficient excuse, he shall be fined by the board in the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), on which a scire facias shall issue, returnable to the next term of the circuit court, to be therein proceeded upon according to law.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 8, art 17 (39); 1857, ch. 3, art 64; 1871, § 1730; 1880, § 556; 1892, § 3848; 1906, § 4365; Hemingway's 1917, § 7004; 1930, § 3195; 1942, § 9819.
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