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after the making of the same; and no indenture under this
section shall be invalid for want of form, if it contains the name
of the master and the name and age of the apprentice.

36. It shall not be necessary in any such indenture, or in any
indenture of a negro made by the trustees of the poor, to require
that any education shall be given to such negro apprentice.

37. The master of any negro apprentice, or the executor or
assignee of such master, may, with the assent of the Orphans'
Court, to be entered on the minutes, assign and transfer such
apprentice to any other person residing in the same county.

38. Upon the death of the master, or his assignee, of any
negro apprentice, the property and interest of the master or
assignee shall pass to the widow, if there be a widow, of such
deceased master or assignee, and if no widow, then to the
executor of said master or assignee.

39. If any negro or other person shall entice or persuade any
negro apprentice to run away or abscond from the service of the
master or person entitled to his or her service, such negro or
other person so offending shall, upon conviction in the Circuit
Court of the county or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, be sub-
ject to fine and imprisonment as for a misdemeanor, or at the
discretion of the court, be confined in the penitentiary house of
this State for not more than four years nor less than eighteen
months.

40. If any negro apprentice abscond or run away, the
Orphans' Court of the county where he may have been bound
shall have full power to adjudge and order such apprentice to
serve such further time after the expiration of the period for
which such apprentice may be bound, as will compensate the
master or person entitled to the service for all loss occasioned by
such running away, including expenses of recaption; and the
said court shall have full power to authorize the master of such
absconding apprentice to sell such apprentice, and for the whole
period he may have to serve, to any person within this State;
Provided, the said court shall be satisfied that such apprentice
was not induced to run away by the ill treatment or fraud, or
contrivance of the master.