ART. 54. ] MASTER AND APPRENTICE.

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county where such master resides, within thirty days after the exe-
cution thereof, under the penalty of ten dollars, to be recovered
and applied as the penalty mentioned in the eighteenth section of
this article; and the register shall receive and record the said in-
denture.

Indenture to be
recorded.

21. Any manufacturer or mechanic may take as an apprentice
any male child, until he shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years;
provided, 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

Id s 21
1791, c 45, s 6.
Manufacturer
or mechanic
may take male
child as appren-
tice

such county as the child shall reside in, shall see the contract within
two months after its execution, and notify its approbation thereof
by an indorsement on the same; and that the said contract be then
recorded among the records of the Orphans' Court; and when so

Contract to be
approved by
court and re-
corded

recorded, the said contract shall be of the same validity as if the
same had been originally made with the father of said child or with
the Orphans' Court.

Validity.

22. The directors of the Maryland Penitentiary, or any three of
them, may bind as apprentices the free male convicts whose times
of service in that institution shall expire before they are of age;
and may also bind as an apprentice until the age of eighteen years,
any free female convict whose term of service shall have ended
before she has attained that age. They may also bind as appren-
tices, until the age of twenty-one for males, and eighteen for females,
the children of female convicts brought into the penitentiary with
their mothers, or born therein during their time of service; and the

Id a 22
1814, c 104,
1817, c 72, s 1,
1830, c 64, s 7,
1849, c 341
Directors of
penitentiary
may bind

managers of the House of Refuge and of other institutions of this
State, specially empowered to bind minors as apprentices, shall have

House of
Refuge, etc

the same power o\er 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.

When contracts
to be recorded

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

Id s 23
1793, e 45, s. 13
Apprentices to
work in har-
vest

24. If any person shall entice any apprentice or other minor
from the care, direction, service, or employment of the father,
guardian, or master of such apprentice or other minor, or shall in-
duce or encourage any apprentice or other minor to disobey any
lawful command of his father, guardian, or master, or shall permit
any apprentice or other minor to enter or remain in any house,
store, shop, apartment, or dwelling used or occupied by such person
after notice from the father, guardian, or master of such apprentice
or other minor prohibiting the same, such person shall, for every

Id s 24
1793, c 45, s 8,
1748, c 10. s 2,
1821, c 219, s 1
Enticing away
or harboring
2 H & G 182

such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty dollars, the one-half thereof
to the use of the State and the other half to the use of the informer,
who shall sue for the same, to be recovered before a justice of the
peace by action of debt in the name of the State in the same manner

Penalty