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An. Code, sec. 22. 1904, sec. 22. 1888, sec. 22. 1814, ch. 104. 1817, ch. 72. 1830, ch. 64.

1849, ch. 341. 1888, ch. 216.

22. The directors of the Maryland penitentiary and the managers of
the house of correction, or any three of them, respectively, may bind as
apprentices, until the age of twenty-one for males and eighteen for females,
the children of female convicts brought into the penitentiary or house of
correction, respectively, with their mothers, or born there during their time
of service; and the managers of the house of refuge shall have the same
power over minors committed thereto; and all indentures or contracts so
made shall be recorded in the orphans' court of Baltimore city within thirty
days from the execution thereof.

An. Code, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1888, sec. 23. 1793, ch. 45.

23. All apprentices, except those bound to tradesmen and mechanics
residing in any town, shall be compelled to perform reasonable labor in
wheat, rye and hay harvest only, unless the particular contract shall be
otherwise.

An. Code, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 24. 1888, sec. 24. 1748, ch. 19. 1793, ch. 45. 1821, ch. 219.

1890, ch. 8.

24. Any person who shall entice any apprentice or other minor from
the care, direction, service or employment of the parent, guardian or master
of such apprentice or other minor, or who shall knowingly harbor any
apprentice or other minor so enticed, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars,
to be recovered before a justice of the peace by action of debt, in the name
of the State, in the same manner as small debts; and the parent, guardian
or other master of such apprentice or other minor shall also be entitled
to recover damages in an action on the case against the person so offending;
but no person who in good faith receives, harbors, persuades away, or
otherwise removes from a parent, guardian or master, any minor, for the
purpose of sheltering such minor from ill-treatment or suffering, shall be
held to incur any liability therefor.

In an action under this section the substance and legal effect of the indenture of
apprenticeship must be alleged. In a suit for harboring an apprentice, knowledge
of the apprenticeship must be shown, and the defendant is liable if he continues
to employ the apprentice after such knowledge. Perguson v. Tucker, 2 H. & G. 189.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1904, sec. 25. 1888, sec. 25. 1793, ch. 45.

25. If any contract of apprenticeship, whether defective in form or
not, hath been partly executed, the orphans' court may award and compel
the terms, or any part of the terms, to be performed by the master or
mistress, or by the apprentice, as justice and equity may require; and the
master or mistress of any apprentice may detain the said apprentice in his
or her service till such apprentice shall be discharged by the court, and may
maintain such action against strangers as if such apprentice had been
legally bound to serve...