ART. 6] JURISDICTION OF OEPHANS' COURTS. 179

1904, art. 6, sec. 3. 1888, art. 6, sec. 3. 1860, art. 6, sec. 3. 1793, ch. 45.

3. If it shall appear to the court that the contract has been violated
on the part of the master or mistress, or that the complaint of such
apprentice is well founded, the court may proceed to fine the said master
or mistress, according to the offence, a sum not exceeding twenty-five
dollars for the first offence; and for the second offence, any sum not
exceeding fifty dollars.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1888, art. 6, sec. 4. 1860, art. 6, sec. 4. 1793, ch. 45.

4. The orphans' court may, in their discretion, discharge any
apprentice because of imposition, Or of the ill-behavior of the master
or mistress, or of the hardness or unreasonableness of the terms of the
contract, and shall provide such apprentice a new master, of the same
trade or occupation as- the first; and if the original contract was hard
and unreasonable, such new contract shall be made as the court shall
direct; and such new master shall be bound to do and perform the
contract in the same manner that the original master ought to have done,
and shall also pay unto the original master such sum of money as shall
be adjudged reasonable by any two or three persons of the same trade
or occupation, to be appointed by the court.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, art. 0, sec. 5. 1860. art. 6, sec. 5. 1793, ch. 45.

5. Upon petition of any master or mistress, the orphans' court may
discharge him or her from his or her contract, because of an incorrigible
temper, or of the ill-behavior of an apprentice.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1888. art. 6, sec. C. 1860, art. 6, see. 6. 1793, ch. 45.

6. No master or mistress of an apprentice bound within this State
shall send or carry his or her said apprentice out of the State. Any
justice of the peace, on being credibly informed, or having from his
own observation good reason to suspect, that any master or mistress
designs to cany or remove his or her apprentice out of this State.
(except mariners,) shall require and take recognizance of such master
or mistress, with reasonable and proper security, to be forfeited in case
he or she shall directly or indirectly remove or carry such apprentice
out of this State. And on such master or mistress' refusal to enter
into recognizance, with security as aforesaid, such justice shall discharge
such apprentice from his or her master, and provide another master as
heretofore directed by this article.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1.S8S, art. 6, sec. 7. 1860, art. 6, sec. 7. 1793. ch. 45.

7. If any judge or justice of the peace shall be informed, or shall
know from his own observation, of any cruel or improper usage from
any master or mistress to his or her apprentice, he may require and
take a recognizance of such master or mistress, with reasonable and
proper security, to be forfeited in case the said master or mistress shall
not appear at the orphans' court of the county or city on a day to be
therein named, to answer and abide the determination of the said court
upon any complaint that may be exhibited by such apprentice; or in