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MASTER AND APPRENTICE. [ART. 54.

Id a 37
1839, c 35, a 2,
1844, c 247
Transfer of
apprentice

37. The master of any negro apprentice, or the executor or as-
signee of such master, may, with the assent of the Orphans' Court,
to be entered on the minutes, assign and transfer such apprentice to
any other person residing in the same county.

Id s 38
1839, c 35, s 6
Negro appren-
tice to go to
widow, or ex-
ecutor, if no
widow

38. Upon the death of the master, or his assignee, of any negro
apprentice, the property and interest of the master or assignee shall
pass to the widow, if there be a widow, of such deceased master or
assignee, and if no widow, then to the executor of said master or
assignee.

Id s 39
1839, c 35, s 3
Penalty for en-
tiring away

3 0. If any negro or other person shall entice or persuade any
negro apprentice to run away or abscond from the service of the
master or person entitled to his or her service, such negro or other
person so offending shall, upon conviction in the Circuit Court of
the county or the Criminal court of Baltimore, be subject to fine
and imprisonment as for a misdemeanor, or at the discretion of the
court, be confined in the Penitentiary house of this State for not
more than four years nor less than eighteen months.

Id s 40
1839, c 35, s 4
Orphans' Court
may extend
time of negro
absconding

40. If any negro apprentice abscond or run away, the Orphans'
Court of the county where he may have been bound shall have full
power to adjudge and order such apprentice to serve such further
time after the expiration of the period for which such apprentice
may be bound, as will compensate the master or person entitled to
the service for all loss occasioned by such running away, including
expenses of recaption; and the said court shall have full power to
authorize the master of such absconding apprentice to sell such ap-
prentice, and for the whole period he may have to serve, to any per-
son within this State; provided, the said court shall be satisfied that

Ill treatment,
etc, by master

such apprentice was not induced to run away by the ill treatment or
fraud, or contrivance of the master.