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MASTER AND APPRENTICE. [ART. 54.

Id s 3
1793, c 45, s 7
Master violating
contract liable
tonne.

3. If it shall appear to the court that the contract has been vio-
lated 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 exceed-
ing twenty-five dollars for the first offence, and for the second offence
any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

Id s 4
1793, c 45, s 7.
Discretionary
power of court

4. The Orphans' Court may, in their discretion, discharge any
apprentice because of imposition, or of the ill-behavior of the mas-
ter 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 con-
tract 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 mas-
ter 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 pet sons of the same trade or occupation, to be appointed by

Id s 5
1793, c 45, s. 7
For what causes
may discharge
apprentice on
petition of
master.

the court.
5. The Orphans' Court may, upon petition of any master or mis-
tress, discharge him or her from his or her contract, because of an
incorrigible temper, or of the ill-behavior of an apprentice.

Id s 6
1793, c 45, s 11
Apprentice not
to be carried out
of State

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 carry or remove his or her apprentice out of
this State (except mariners), shall require and take recognizance

Security not to
remove

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's refusal to enter into recognizance, with security as afore-
said, such justice shall discharge such apprentice from his or her
master, and provide another master as heretofore directed by this
article.

Id s 7
1743, c 45, s 9.
Security to
answer for ill
treatment of
apprentice

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 at its
next regular meeting, to answer and abide the determination of the
said court upon any complaint that may be exhibited by such ap-
prentice; or, in default thereof, may take away such apprentice
from his master or mistress, and place the said apprentice so cruelly
used under the care of some other person, who shall be bound to
have the apprentice before the next Circuit Court or Criminal Court,
to abide such determination as shall be made.