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APPRENTICES.

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ARTICLE VL

APPRENTICES.

1. Jurisdiction of orphans' court. .2. Appeal to circuit court or superior court. 3. When orphans' court may fine mas- ter. 4. May discharge apprentice and bind him to a new master. 5. May release master. 6. Apprentice not to be taken out of State. 7. Cruel treatment of apprentice, rem- edy for. 8. Payment by master of fine imposed upon apprentice. 9. Replevin by master for apprentice. 10. Court may bind orphan children. 11. Also, children of pauper parents. 12. Parents to be summuoed. 13. When court shall not bind children. 14. May cause bound children to be cited before them. 15. Term of apprenticeship. 16. Two justices of the peace may also bind. 17. Trustees of the poor may also bind.

IS. Trustees to file indenture with reg- ister of wills. 19. Trustes may cite pauper or va- grant children before them. 20. Father may bind out his children. 21. Manufacturers or mechanics may take apprentices. 22. Children of female convicts, how bound. 23. Apprentices in country to perform work in harvest. 24. Enticing apprentices, penalty and damages for. Bona fide shelter- ing of minor from ill-treatment. 25. Court may compel master and ap- prentice to keep terms of ap- prenticeship. 26. Absconding apprentices. 27. Authority of widow of master. 28. When widow of master may assign uuexpired term. 29. Right of widow of master to re- tain female apprentice. 30. Valuation of unexpired term, when and how made.

1904, art. 6. sec. 1. 1888, art. 6, sec. 1. 1860, art. 6. sec. 1.
1842. ch. 25. 1847, ch. 163.

1. The orphans' court may hear and determine all matters in dispute
between masters and apprentices; may grant releases to apprentices;
may re-bind apprentices that may be released for cause or otherwise,
and shall have jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to masters and
apprentices.

The orphans' court may release an apprentice and rebind him upon sug-
gestion by counsel, without the apprentice being a formal party. Lammott
v. Maulsby. 8 Md. 9.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888. art. 6, sec. 2. 1860. art. 6, sec. 2.
1842, ch. 25. 1847, ch. 163.

2. Either party feeling himself aggrieved by the decision or judg-
ment of the orphans' court under the provisions of the preceding section
may appeal to the circuit court for the county, or superior court of
Baltimore city; provided, such appeal be made within thirty days after
the decision or judgment of the orphans' court.

This section excludes an appeal to the court of appeals. Lammott v.
Maulsby, S Md. 7.