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have the same power over minors committed thereto; and all
indentures or contracts so made shall be recorded in the Orphans'
Court of Baltimore city, within thirty days from the execution
thereof.

23. All apprentices, except those bound to tradesmen and me-
chanics residing in any town, shall be compelled to perform rea-
sonable labor in wheat, rye and hay harvest only, unless the par-
ticular contract shall be otherwise.

24. If any person shall entice any apprentice or other minor
from the care, direction, service or employment of the father,
guardian or master of such apprentice or other minor, or shall
induce or encourage any apprentice or other minor to disobey
any lawful command of his father, guardian, or master, or shall
permit any apprentice or other minor to enter or remain in any
house, store, shop, apartment or dwelling used or occupied by
such person after notice from the father, guardian or master of
such apprentice or other minor prohibiting the same, such person
shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty dollars,
the one-half thereof to the use of the State and the other half to
the use of the informer who shall sue for the same, to be recovered
before a justice of the peace by action of debt in the name of the
State in the same manner as small debts; and the father, guardian
or master of such apprentice or other minor shall also be entitled
to recover damages in an action on the case against the person
so offending.

25. If any contract of apprenticeship, whether defective in
form or not, hath been partly executed, the Orphans' Court may
award and compel the terms, or any part of the terms, to be
performed by the master or mistress, or by the apprentice, as
justice and equity may require; and the master or mistress of
any apprentice may detain the said apprentice in his or her
service till such apprentice shall be discharged by the court, and
may maintain such action against strangers as if such apprentice
had been legally bound to serve.

26. If any apprentice shall abscond or run away from his
master or mistress, or in any way absent himself from the
service of said master or mistress, the Orphans' Court, may,
during the whole of the remainder of the time during which such
apprentice hath to serve, or at any time within five years there-
after, award such compensation to be made by such apprentice