LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1793.

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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That any judge or justice of the
peace, when he shall receive good information, or upon his
own observation of cruel or improper usage from any master or
mistress before him, and may require and take a recognizance
of such master or mistress, with reasonable and proper security,
to be forfeited in case the said master or mistress shall not
appear at the next county or criminal court, to answer and
abide the determination of the said court upon any complaint
that may be exhibited by such. apprentice, or in default thereof
may take away such apprentice from his master or mistress, and
place the said apprentice, so cruelly used, under the care of some
other proper person, who shall be bound to have the apprentice
before the next county or criminal court, to abide such determi-
nation as shall be made.

Master,
&c. may bo

summoned,

&c.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That if any apprentice shall be
convicted of any offence, in consequence of which judgment
shall be entered against him for any fine or penalty, and costs,
the court by which such judgment shall be rendered, shall
adjudge, and enter on their records, the time for which such
apprentice shall serve his or her master or mistress, after the
expiration of his or her apprenticeship, in case the said master or
mistress will pay the said fine or penalty, and costs, and if the
said master or mistress pay the said fine or penalty, and costs,
the said apprentice shall be obliged to serve during the time
adjudged by the said court.

Apprentice
may be
adjudged to
serve, &c.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That no master or mistress of
an apprentice, bound out within this state, shall send or carry
his or her said apprentice out of the said state ; and any justice
of the peace, on being credibly informed, or having from his
own observation good reason to suspect, that any master or
mistress designs to carry or remove his or her apprentice out of
this state, except mariners, shall require, demand and take
recognizance of such master or mistress, with reasonable and
proper security, to be forfeited in case he or she shall directly or
indirectly remove or carry such apprentice out of this state; and
on such master or mistress' refusal to enter into recognizance,
with security as aforesaid, such justice shall discharge such
apprentice from his or her master, and provide another master,
as heretofore directed by this act.

Not to be
carried out
of the state,
&c.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That all that part of an act of
assembly, entitled, an act for the establishment of orphans
courts,* that directs the summoning of an orphan jury, be, and
is hereby repealed ; and that the justices of the respective county
courts shall give in charge to their grand juries, at every county
court, to inquire into all matters and things, as are given in
charge to the orphans jury.

Part of an
act repealed
&c.

*Feb. 1777,
ch. 8.