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court may bind such child or children to any trade or handicraft;
females until the age of sixteen, and males until the age of twenty-
one years.

69. If any person, who shall be summoned as a witness to said
court, shall fail to attend as required in said summons, he shall
be fined by said court in its discretion, not exceeding one hundred
and fifty dollars.

70. In all criminal cases in the said court, in which bail shall
be forfeited, the person or persons who shall have entered into
such recognizance or recognizances for the appearance of any
traverser or prisoner, shall be liable forthwith to an attachment
for contempt for the non-appearance of the said party, which
attachment shall be issued by the court in which an indictment
against said traverser or prisoner is pending, at the instance of
the attorney prosecuting therein.

71. In all cases in which bail is forfeited, the court before
which the indictment is pending may order, on the return of the
attachment, the person or persons attached to stand committed
until the amount of the recognizance is fully paid and satisfied,
or may order said person or persons to be discharged upon the
payment of such lesser sum as it shall, in its discretion, deem
proper; Provided, such sum be not less than the amount of the
costs which may have accrued in the ease up to the time of pass-
ing such order.

SPECIAL JUDGES.

72. If the judge of any court (except the Court of Appeals) is
connected with a party in controversy by consanguinity or
affinity within the fourth degree, counting down from the
common ancestor to the more remote, he shall be disqualified
from sitting in such cause, nor shall he sit in any cause where
in his opinion it would be improper for him to sit by reason
of his relation to or connection with any of the parties to such
cause.

73. Where any judge except a judge of the Court of Appeals,

shall be disqualified under the preceding section, or under the
Constitution, a judge shall be appointed in his place as herein
provided.