ART. 54. ] MASTER AND APPRENTICE. 501

ARTICLE LIV.

MASTER AND APPRENTICE.

1 Orphans' Court to have jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to masters and ap- prentices 2 Right of appeal, time 3 Master violating contract liable to fine. 4 Discretionary power of court 5 For what causes apprentice may be dis- charged on petition of master

6 Apprentice not to be carried out of State, security not to remove 7 Security to answer for ill-treatment of ap- prentice 8 Apprentice convicted of crime to serve further time 9 Master may have replevin

WHITE APPRENTICES.

10 Orphans' Court may bind out poor or- phans 11 Mar bind out children whose parents are in extreme indigence. 12 Parents to be consulted 13 Not to be bound if security given to main- tun 14 Child to be brought before court. 15 To what ape to he bound 16 When justices may bind, contract to be approved by court and recorded 17 Trustees of Hie poor in county may bind out orphans or children In poorhouse 18. Trustees to lodge indenture with register of wills, penalty for neglect 19 Trustees of the poor, In recess of Orphans' Court, may bind out children of paupers or vagrants contract to be approved by court and recorded 20 Father may bind child, indenture to be recorded

21 Manufacturer or mechanic may take male child as apprentice, contract to be ap- proved by court and recorded, validity 22 Directors of penitentiary may bind, house of refuge, etc, when contracts to be re- corded 23 Apprentices to work in harvest. 24 Enticing away or harboring, penalty 25 Orphans' Court may award and compel performance of contract defective in form, master may detain apprentice 26 Apprentices running away, Orphans' Court may award compensation 27 Apprentice subject to widow until dis- charged by Orphans' Court 28 When widow may assign 29 Widow may surrender female apprentice 30 Proceeding where father refuses consent to assignment by widow.

NEGRO APPRENTICES.

31 When negro child to be bound by Or- phans' Court. 32 Sheriff or constable to bring child before court 33 Not to be bound, if parents able to support child 34 Parents to have choice of master 35. What indenture to contain, and where re- corded, not void from form

36 Indenture not to require education of child. 37 Transfer of apprentice 38 Negro apprentices to go to widow, or ex- ecutor, if no widow 39 Penalty for enticing away 40 Orphans' Court may extend time of negro absconding, ill-treatment, etc, by mas- ter.

APPRENTICES

1. The Orphans' Court may hear and determine all matters in dispute between masters and apprentices; may grant releases to ap- prentices; may rebind apprentices that may be released for cause or otherwise, and shall have jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to masters and apprentices.	Art 6, s 1. 1842, c 25. s 1, 1847, c 163 Orphans' Court to have jurisdic- tion in all mat- ters pertaining to masters and apprentices.
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 of the county, or Superior Court of Baltimore City; provided, such appeal be made within	Id s 2 1842, c 26, s 2 Right of appeal s Md 5
thirty days after the decision or judgment of the Orphans' Court.	Time.