Acts. 239

Estate unto the Severall and respective Justices of the County
Courts where the Estate shall lye to the end the said Justices
may enquire whether the Administrator hath by fraud or other-
wise neglected to recover the same or hath received and never
accounted for the same and shall with the residue of the said
Estate comitt the said Desperate Debts to the care of the said
Guardians or other Trustees by them imploy'd and shall yearly
and every year call the said Guardians to Account for the same
and duly inspect what of the said Debts they have received or
might have received and if the said Guardian or trustee faile
to give in his Account yearly or by fraud or Covin neglect or
forbear to receive the same the said Guardian or trustee shall
stand and be accountable for every such Debts by them received
and not accounted for or neglected or forborn to be recovered
under the penalty of five hundred pounds of Tobacco each
Justice present in Court one half to her Majesty the other half
to the Informer or that shall sue for the same.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

10 That the Justices of the County Court take able and Suf-
ficient security for Orphans Estates and inquire yearly of the
Security and if there be just cause that they require new and
better Security and if upon refusall to give new and better
security to remove the orphans Estates out of their hands and
farther that the Justices of the County Courts shall yearly in
June Court inquire by a Jury of good and lawfull men to be
Sumond out of the Severall Hundreds of the County not
under the Number of twelve who upon their oaths shall in-
quire, the forme of which oath is hereby exprest viz — Whether
the orphans be kept Maintain'd and educated according to
their Estates and whether apprentices are taught their Trade
or rigorously used and turn'd to common labour at the Ax
and How instead of learning their Trades.
And if they find that Orphans are not maintain'd and edu-
cated according to their Estates or Apprentices neglected to
be taught their trades upon pretence that the last year is
enough to learn their trade that they remove them to other
guardians and Masters And in Case the Jury find that any
apprentice is not taught his trade but put to other labour as
aforesaid the County Court shall condemn the Master of such
apprentice to make the Apprentice such Satisfaction as in
Justice his years of labour or Other work shall deserve.
11 That the Justices of the County Courts cause the Condi-
tion of the bonds they take of Guardians or Trustees of orphans
Estates be exactly drawn to the Act and recorded in the County
Court And the Indentures for apprentices likewise that it may
duly appear to the Judges whether Guardians Trustees and
Masters do right and Justice to Apprentices and to the Coun-
try that the Justices do right between them and to that end

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