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ARTICLE 6.

Apprentices.

1. Jurisdiction of orphans' court. 2. Appeal to circuit court or superior court. 3. When orphans' court may fine master. 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, remedy 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 summoned. 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.

18. Trustees to file indenture with register of wills. 19. Trustees may cite pauper or vagrant 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 sheltering of minor from ill-treatment. 25. Court may compel master and appren- tice to keep terms of apprenticeship. 26. Absconding apprentices. 27. Authority of widow of master. 28. When widow of master may assign un- expired term. 29. Right of widow of master to retain female apprentice. 30. Valuation of unexpired term, when and how made.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, 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 suggestion
by counsel, without the apprentice being a formal party. Lammott v. Maulsby,
8 Md. 9.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1842, ch. 25. 1847, ch. 163.
2. , Either party feeling himself aggrieved by the decision or judgment
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,
8 Md. 7.