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BALTIMORE CITY.

Justices to

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the said justices, or any

have con-
current

three or more of them, in court sitting, shall have concurrent

jurisdiction,

&C.

jurisdiction with the county court of the said county, to hear

and determine all complaints between masters, servants and ap-

prentices, and any order by the said justices in such cases may

be removed to the general court.

Security

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, If any security in any recogni-

may sur-
render the

zance shall request to surrender up the principal, it shall be

principal,

lawful for any one of the said justices to accept such surrender

&c.

in or out of court, and he shall thereupon require and take other

recognizance, or commit the principal to gaol until he give such

security as the law requires.

SEC. 19. Merged in 1809, ch. 144, ante page 589.

Justices

SEC. 20. And be it enacted. If any person convicted shall

may bind
out children

have any child or children under the age of twenty-one years,

&c.

and shall not have property sufficient to maintain such child or

children, that the said justices may bind out such child or chil-

dren to any trade or handicraft, females until the age of sixteen

years, and males until the age of twenty-one years.

Execution

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, If any person shall be convicted

to issue in
certain

of robbery, or of grand and petit larceny, or of forgery, and the

cases, &c.

property taken, or money received, is not returned to the party

injured, and such convicted person shall have property within

the state, the court before whom such person shall be convicted

shall, at the instance of the party injured, issue execution against

the property of such convicted person, in the name of the per-

son injured, for the value of the property so taken, or money so

received ; such value, or sum of money, to be estimated by the

said court.

See 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6, ante page 576.

Complaints

SEC. 22. WHEREAS, it frequently happens, in the town of

by sailors

Baltimore, that sailors and mariners complain against each other

way be
heard, &c.

for breaches of the peace, and it is often ruinous to the parties

and injuries to trade, to compel such persons to appear at the

next criminal court ; Be it enacted, That, on any such com-

plaint, it shall be lawful for any two or more of the said justices

to hear the complaint, and to impose such fine on the offender

as they may think reasonable, and to commit for non-payment

•

thereof; and such fines shall be paid to the sheriff of Baltimore

county ; Provided, that either party, if the fact is controverted,

may elect to have a trial by jury, and in such case the com-

plainants shall give security to prosecute, and the defendants to

answer, the complaint at the next criminal court.

See 1816, ch. 193, sec. 16.

SEC. 23, 24. Repealed by 1799, ch. 58.

Persons

SEC. 25. WHEREAS, it is represented, that persons condemned

condemned

in other spates to labour, as a punishment for their crimes, have