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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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ART. 6.] APPRENTICES. 31

58. If the justice of the peace rendering any judgment appealed
from goes out of office, by death or otherwise, before an appeal
bond has been executed by the party appealing, such appeal bond
may be executed before any other justice in the same county or
city, and such bond shall have the same effect as if executed be-
fore the justice rendering the judgment appealed from.

ARTICLE VI.
Apprentices.

SEC. 1. The Orphans' Court may hear and determine all matters
in dispute between masters and apprentices; may grant releases
to apprentices; may re-bind apprentices that may be released for
cause or otherwise, and shall have jurisdiction in all matters per-
taining to masters and apprentices.

2. Either party feeling himself aggrieved by the decision or
judgment of the Orphans' Court under the provisions of the pre-
ceding section, may appeal to the Circuit Court of the county, or
Superior Court of Baltimore city; Provided, such appeal be made
within thirty days after the decision or judgment of the Orphans'
Court.

3. If it shall appear to the court that the contract has been
violated on the part of the master or mistress, or that the com-
plaint of such apprentice is well founded, the court may proceed
to fine the said master or mistress according to the offence, a sum
not exceeding twenty-five dollars for the first offence; and for
the second offence, any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

4. The Orphans' Court may, in their discretion, discharge any
apprentice because of imposition, or of the ill behavior of the
master or mistress, or of the hardness or unreasonableness of the
terms of the contract, and shall provide such apprentice a new
master, of the same trade or occupation as the first; and if the
original contract was hard and unreasonable, such new contract
shall be made as the court shall direct; and such new master
shall be bound to do and perform the contract in the same man-
ner that the original master ought to have done, and shall also
pay unto the original master such sum of money as shall be ad-

 

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