APPRENTICES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

APPELLANT AND
        APPELLEE
 

APPRAISEMENT
 
 

APPRAISERS

APPRENTICES

    The inspectors of the penitentiary, or any three of
them, empowered to bind as apprentices, the free male
convicts, whose time shall expire before they are of age;
any free female convicts till sixteen, whose time of service
shall expire before they are of that age; the children
of female convicts, born during their times of service;
males till twenty-one, and females till sixteen,
—The indentures to be recorded in the orphans court
of Baltimore county,
    Deeds of apprenticeship in cases of German or Swiss
Redemptioners to be drawn, &c. by the registers as
therein directed  See Redemptioners.
    The time prescribed for the recovery of compensation
on apprentices absconding, extended to five instead of
three years,
    The orphans courts authorised to bind out the children
of free negroes or mulattoes,
—The parents to be first summoned, &c.

    Authorised for the penitentiary,
 
 
 

    An annual appropriation of 500 dollars for executing
the supplement to the act for the speedy conveyance of
public letters,

An approver shall never be admitted in any case whatsoever,

    Col. George—Plate belonging to his estate, presented
by the citizens of Baltimore, exempted from taxation,

    May be appointed by commandants of regiments to
keep and arrange the arms, &c.

    Penalty on officers refusing or neglecting to arm, &c.
according to the act of Congress,
—On non-commissioned officers or privates having
arms, &c. appearing in the ranks without them in serviceable
order,
    Brigade inspectors required to make returns of arms,
&c. yearly to the adjutant general,
    Manner of compelling the delivery of state arms, (not
held by a person as a member of a volunteer company,)
and penalty on refusal to deliver them,
    Arms to be delivered to uniformed companies, on
bond,
—To be purchased with money in the hands of paymasters,
after defraying expences,
    Directions for having arms deposited, given out for
parade, and returned, &c.
    Penalty on selling arms, &c. believed to be the property
of the state,
    Non-commissioned officers and matrosses in the artillery,
and dragoons in the cavalry, to arm, &c.
—The arms, horse, &c. to be held exempt from all
suits, executions and taxes,
—Arms to be loaned by the governor to such corps
and riflemen when organized, &c.
    Portions of the militia to be armed by the governor
when most exposed to invasion or insurrection,
    Non-commissioned officers and privates to give receipts
for arms; directions for keeping arms in order;
appearing with them at musters, and for their inspection,
    Arms to be delivered upon removal,
    Provision for inspecting arms and preventing embezzlement,

  1814       104 

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  1817      226 
 

  1818      118 

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  1809      200
  1811      177
June 1812  4
  1812      148
  1813        69

 1816      241 

  1809      138  10
 

  1818        65 
 

  1811      182  48
 

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  1818       128    5
June 1812    5

May 1813  19   11
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