182 APPRENTICES. [ART. 6

ing, meat, drink, washing and lodging, and give him education as here-
inbefore required to be given to apprentices bound by the orphans' court.
Cited but not construed in Corrie's case. 2 Bl. 493.

1904, art. 6, sec. 18. 1888, art. 6, sec. 18. 1860, art 6, sec. 18. 1793, ch. 45.

18. Every indenture taken under the preceding section shall be
lodged with the register of wills of the county where the same is taken.
by any one of the trustees of the poor of said county, within thirty days
after the execution thereof, under the penalty of ten dollars for every
neglect, to be recovered by presentment in the circuit court for the county
where such child is bound, and applied to the use of said county; and
the said register shall receive and record said indenture in the same
manner as indentures taken by the orphans' court.

1904, art. 6, sec. 19. 1888. art. 6, sec. 19. 1860, art. 6, sec. 19.
1793, ch. 45.

19. The trustees of the poor in any county may also, in the recess
of the orphans' court, upon information, issue their citation to the
sheriff or any constable of the county, to cause to be brought before
them the child or children of any pauper or vagrant, and bind them
out as apprentices for the time and upon the terms hereinbefore pre-
scribed; provided, the contract of apprenticeship shall, within two
months thereafter, be approved by the said orphans' court by endorse-
ment thereon as aforesaid, and recorded among the records of the said
orphans' court.

Ibid. sec. 20. 1888, art. 6, sec. 20. 1860, art. 6. sec. 20. 1793, ch. 45.
1793. ch. 57. 1849, ch. 341.

20. Any father may bind out his child as an apprentice on reason-
able terms, for any time not longer than the full age of such child—
that is to say, boys till twenty-one, and girls till eighteen years of age;
and the terms of such apprenticeship, with the age of the apprentice,
shall be contained in an indenture under the hand and seal of the father
and master; and the said indenture shall be lodged by the said master
with the register of wills of the county where such master resides, within
thirty days after the execution thereof, under the penalty of ten dollars,
to be recovered and applied as the penalty mentioned in section 18 of
this article; and the register shall receive and record the said indenture.
This section does not change the period of female minority, but merely

confers a certain capacity upon females between 18 and 21. Greenwood v.

Greenwood, 28 Md. 385.

An apprenticeship executed by the mother is void. Baker v. Lauterbach.

68 Md. 69.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1888, art. 6, sec. 21. 1860. art. 6, sec. 21. 1793, ch. 45.

21. Any manufacturer or mechanic may take as an apprentice any
male child, until he shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years; pro-
vided, that the contract so made shall specify the age of the child at the
time of making the same, and that the parent or parents of such child
(if living), or if an orphan, the orphans' court of such county as the