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the contract, land the father may make his election, either to pay
the widow of the deceased master such valuation, or the widow
shall have power to make the assignment without his consent,
of the residue of the indenture, with the approbation of the
orphans court.

SEC. 16. And, whereas it often happens, that immediately
after the decease of the master of any apprentice, the appren-
tice leaves his home and employment without any license or
authority, not only to his own injury, but also to the detriment
of society, Be it enacted, That every apprentice, whose master
shall die and leave a widow, shall continue at his home and
business, as well after as before the death of his master, and
shall be subject to the control and directions of the widow,
until order be taken therein by the county or criminal court, or
justice aforesaid ; and the said county or criminal court, or jus-
tice, as aforesaid, shall have power and authority to continue
any apprentice so long as they or he shall be satisfied that the
widow hath it in her power to, and doth, fulfil, the contract
made with her husband ; and the harbourer or harbourers of
any apprentice or apprentices before they are discharged as
aforesaid, shall be considered, and shall suffer the same penal-
ties, as the harbourer or harbourers of servants are liable to
under the laws of this state.

Apprentice
shall conti-
nue at his
home, &c.

SEC, 17. And be it enacted, That either the master or appren-
tice, upon a petition being filed, may apply to the court for the
benefit of a trial by jury, and that the court shall thereupon
charge, as the law directs, the attending jury, to determine each
and all of the allegations contained in the said petition, which
may be controverted, any law or usage to the contrary notwith-
standing.

CHAPTER 47.

Master, &c.
may apply
to the
court, &c.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, An act to regulate the
Inspection of Tobacco, passed November session, seventeen hundred
and eighty-nine.
Repealed by 1801, ch. 63, sec. 57.

CHAPTER 56.
AN ACT to appoint a Health Officer for the port of Baltimore-town, in
Baltimore county.
This power is transferred to, and now exercised by, the corporation of
the city of Baltimore.

CHAPTER 57.
AH ACT respecting the punishment of Criminals.
Classed under 'Public Local Law,* and distributed to the title, 'City of
Baltimore.'

*1789, ch.
26.