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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 4704.

considered thereof, they shall forthwith return their inquisition,
under their hands and seals, and thereupon the said court may
and shall proceed to judgment, as upon inquisitions of that kind
returned by the sheriff.

CHAPTER 47.

*1793, ch.
45.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled. An act for the better regulation of
Apprentices.
See notes to the original act, ante page 294.

Two justi-
ces may
bind out
any child,
&c.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
at any time, when the orphans court of a county be not in
session, any two justices of the peace of such county shall and
they are hereby empowered to bind out as an apprentice any
child which the said court may lawfully bind out, subject to the
terms, regulations and restrictions prescribed by the act to which
this is a supplement ; provided always, that the contract of ap-
prenticeship so made shall be approved and recorded agreeably
to the sixth section of the said law.

Their
allowance.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said two justices shall
each have one quarter of a dollar for every contract of appren-
ticeship made before them as aforesaid, to be paid by the master,

CHAPTER 52.

AH ACT relating to Public Roads in this state and to repeal the acts of
assembly therein mentioned.
This act was limited to the counties mentioned therein, and its provi-
sions will be found under the 'Public Local Law,' and distributed to the
appropriate counties.

CHAPTER 53.
AN ACT for the establishment and regulation of the Levy Courts in the
several counties of this state.
Supplements and other acts of a general character are 1797, ch. 43; 1798,
ch. 34; 1800, ch. 1, 85; 1801, ch. 42, 62, 63, 74; 1802, ch. 81 ; 1804, ch.
73; 1805, ch. 97; 1806, ch. 81 ; 1807, ch. 28, 129; 1809, ch. 138, 169;
1812, ch. 191; 1813, ch. 170; 1815, ch. 214; 1817, ch. 78; 1818, ch. 89;
1819, ch. 135; 1822, ch. 143; 1823, ch. 25, 62, 120; 1824, ch. 9, 100, 140;
1825, ch. 161 ; 1826, ch. 128, 227; 1828, ch. 52; 1829, ch. 238; 1830, ch.
86 j 1831, ch. 281, 291; 1832, ch. 84, 316; 1833, ch. 885; 1834, ch. 169,
253; 1835, 201, 342, 362.
This law has lost much of its general character. Very many acts have
passed substituting 'Commissioners,' to be elected by the people of the
several counties, and transferring to them the jurisdiction conferred on the
levy courts. A list of the counties, which have commissioners thus substi-
tuted, cannot be here noted, inasmuch as numerous laws were passed on
this subject, at the last session, which have not yet been published. They
will, (under the presumption that they will be published before this work
is completed,) be distributed to the counties to which they appropriately
refer, under the subdivision of 'Public Local Law.' The profession are
referred to the Index, word 'Levy Court,' where the numerous duties of
this court will be found digested.