32 APPRENTICES. [ART. 6.

judged reasonable by any two or three persons of the same trade
or occupation, to be appointed by the court.

5. The Orphans' Court may, upon petition of any master or
mistress, discharge him or her from his or her contract, because
of an incorrigible temper, or of the ill behavior of an apprentice.

6. No master or mistress of an apprentice bound within this
State, shall send or carry his or her said apprentice out of the
State. 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 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 ap-
prentice from his or her master, and provide another master as
heretofore directed by this article.

7. If any judge or justice of the peace shall be informed, or
shall know from his own observation, of any cruel or improper
usage from any master or mistress to his or her apprentice, he
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 Orphans' Court
of the county or city at its next regular meeting 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 person—who shall be bound to have the apprentice before
the next Circuit Court or Criminal Court, to abide such determi-
nation as shall be made.

8. If any apprentice shall be convicted of any offence in con-
sequence 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 master or mistress after the
expiration of his apprenticeship, in case the master or mistress
will pay the fine or penalty and costs; and if the said master or
mistress pay the said fine or penalty and costs, the said appren-