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to his master, either by service or payment of money, as justice
and equity may require, and may enforce payment so awarded
by an attachment of contempt against his person or fieri facias
against his goods.

27. Every apprentice whose master shall die and leave a
widow, shall continue at his home and business as before the
death of his master, and shall be subject to the control and
directions of the widow until the said apprentice shall be dis-
charged by the Orphans' Court, or dealt with as hereinafter
directed; and the Orphans' Court may continue any appren-
tice in her service so long as they shall be satisfied that the
widow hath it in her power to and doth fulfil the contract made
with her husband; and the harborers of any such apprentice
before they are discharged by the court, shall be considered
and shall suffer the same penalties as the harborers of other
apprentices.

28. The widow of any master of a male apprentice may,
with the approbation of the Orphans' Court, if the apprentice
was bound by the Orphans' Court, or the trustees of the poor,
or two justices of the peace, the directors of the Maryland Peni-
tentiary, or managers of the House of Refuge, or if the said
apprentice was bound by his father, with the approbation of the
father, assign the whole residue of the contract, on such consi-
deration as she may agree for, to some other person of the same
trade with the first master, and the new master and the appren-
tice shall be bound to perform the residue of the contract as if
the master had been an original party thereto; and the gratuity
or consideration, if any, received by the widow for such appren-
tice's time, shall be to her own use, and shall not be considered
as assets of the deceased husband.

29. Where a female child is bound out to a married man, she
shall serve out the residue of her time with the widow, on the
death of the husband, and the widow shall make good and strictly
comply with the terms of the contract with her deceased hus-
band; but if the widow shall not think proper to keep such
apprentice girl, she shall carry such apprentice to the Orphans'
Court of the county and deliver her up, when she shall be again
bound out as hereinbefore directed.

30. In every case where the consent of the father cannot be
obtained by the widow of any deceased master to assign the