ART. 19.] SOMERSET COUNTY. 803

given for the defendant, or if the plaintiff shall be non-suit or
discontinue, the defendant shall recover treble costs, and if the
plaintiff shall be unable to pay them, they shall be paid by the
attorney who brought the suit, unless the plaintiff shall give
security for the costs, to be approved by the court.

28. Each trustee of the poor shall, for every day he shall serve
in the discharge of his duties, receive the sum of two dollars.

APPRENTICES.

29. Any one justice of the peace of said county may bind out
apprentices, in the same manner and under the same restrictions
in which they are authorized to be bound out by article six of the
code.

30. Whenever the Orphans' Court or any justice of the peace
for said county shall bind out negro children, they may increase
the freedom dues allowed by law to such an extent as they may
deem proper, not exceeding double the usual dues.

31. The said court and justices shall inquire into the manner
and expense of raising such child, and may provide for and secure
to the parents or other person who may have raised such child,
or proportionably when the circumstances require it, such sum
or sums to be paid by the master as they may think reasonable
:and just.

32. The said Orphans' Court, before confirming any indenture
of a free negro child made by a justice of the peace, shall inquire
into the circumstances of such freedom dues and compensation
for raising such child, and may make such indenture conform to
their practice in relation thereto, before confirming the same.

33*. All persons to whom free negroes are bound as appren-
tices in Somerset county may, under an order of the Orphans'
Court of said county, authorizing them to do so, hire out said
apprentices.

34*. The Orphans' Court of said county shall not authorize the
•hiring of any apprentice for the prosecution of any other trade
or occupation than that to which he was first bound.