2452 INDEX TO THE

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Apprentices not to be carried out of the state — 1793, ch. 45, sec. 11,

299

Any justice, on information of such a design, (except by mariners,)

may require recognizance of the master, and on refusal, may dis-

charge such apprentice from his service, and provide another mas-

ter— 1793, ch. 45, sec. 11, ........

299

Apprentices, (except to tradesmen and mechanics in town,) may be

compelled to perform reasonable labour in wheat, rye, and hay

harvests, unless the contract shall be otherwise — 1793, ch. 45,

sec. 13, ...........

300

The widow of a master empowered, on certain conditions, to assign

the apprentice to some other person of the same trade — 1793,

ch. 45, sec. 14, 15, . . . . . . . .

300

The new master and the apprentice bound to perform the residue of

the contract — 1793, ch. 45, sec. 14, ......

300

The consideration given, to be for the use of the widow, and not assets

of the deceased husband — 1793, ch. 45, sec. 14, ...

300

Female apprentices shall serve out the residue of their time with the

widows, who shall comply with the original contract — 1793, ch.

45, sec. 14, ..........

300

Widows not choosing to keep such apprentices, shall carry them to the

orphans court to be bound out again — 1793, ch. 45, sec. 14,

300

Apprentices, on the death of their masters, are to continue at home

under the control of the widows, till order is taken by the court,

&c.— 1793, ch. 45, sec. 16, .......

301

The court empowered to continue such apprentices as long as they

are satisfied the contract is fulfilled— 1793, ch, 45, sec. 16, .

301

Penalty on harbouring such apprentices — 1793, ch. 45, sec. 16,

301

Penalty on carrying or sending apprentices out of the state without

passes — 1715, ch. 19, sec. 5, .......

9

Penalty on ordinary-keepers harbouring, entertaining, or selling liquor

to them— March, 1780, ch. 24, sec. 17,

161

Any person applying after the first of February, 1793, for a branch to

act as a pilot, shall produce testimony of his having served four

years as an apprentice to some pilot in the state, or of his having

procured a branch before that time — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 2,

483

One white apprentice to be taken by every pilot within three months

after obtaining his warrant, and instructed in the art of piloting —

1803, ch. 63, sec. 20, ........

487

Such apprentice to have freedom dues, and during his apprenticeship

to be exempted from militia duly— 1803, ch. 63, sec. 20,

487

The children of paupers or vagrants may he brought before the orphans

courts, or in their recess, before the trustees of the poor or any two

justices of the peace, and bound out as apprentices according to the

act of 1793, ch. 45—1808, ch. 54, ......

561

Same as to the children of lazy and indolent free negroes — 1808, ch.

54, ... . . . . . . . .

562

The inspectors of the penitentiary, or any three of them, empowered

to bind as apprentices, the free male convicts, whose time shall ex-

pire before they are of age; any free female convicts till sixteen,