HARBOUR-MASTER— APPRENTICES.

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HARBOUR- MASTER.
AN ACT granting additional Compensation to the Harbour-roaster of the
Port of Baltimore.— 1805, ch. 18.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that the
compensation now granted to the harbour-master of the port of
Baltimore, is an insufficient remuneration for his attention and
services in that capacity : And whereas, it is reasonable that
foreign vessels coming into said port for the purposes of com-
merce, should contribute their proportion of an additional allow-
ance, in conformity to the usages of our sister states and foreign
nations; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the harbour-master of the
said port to ask, demand and receive, of and from the captain
or commander of every foreign vessel, coming into the said
port for the purposes of trade and commerce, the sum of five
dollars, as an additional compensation to the said harbour-master
for his care and diligence in the regulation of the said harbour
and providing a proper station for said vessels.

Allowance
to harbour-
master.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in case of refusal or delay in
making such payment, it shall and may be lawful for the said
harbour-master to sue for and recover the same, before a single
magistrate, as small debts out gf court are now recovered.
The operation of this law 'has been suspended as to Great Britain, by
treaty of 1815, — as to other nations, we could not ascertain, though we
delayed its insertion for that purpose.

His remedy.

BALTIMORE COUNTY.

BOUNDARIES.— 1698, ch. 13; 1726, ch. 1 ; 1750, ch. 13; 1773, ch.6j 1820,
ch. 82.

APPRENTICES.
A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the better
regulation of Apprentices. — 1826, ch. 161.
WHEREAS, it has been represented to this general assembly,
that the third section of the act to which this is a supplement,
is in a great degree, if not entirely, inoperative in the city .of
Baltimore, owing in part to the want of some designated place
which the indigent children therein mentioned may be safely
kept till bound out as apprentices, but chiefly to the difficulty
experienced by the orphans court to find suitable masters for
them, and that the trustees of the poor of Baltimore city and
county, *on the contrary, have more applications for such chil-
dren as apprentices than they can supply : 'And whereas, in
order to promote the humane object contemplated by the said
act to which this is a supplement, it is expedient to designate a

Preamble.