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and lodging, and give him education as hereinbefore required to
be given to apprentices bound by the orphans' court,

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 6, sec. 18. 1793, ch. 45.

18. Every indenture taken under the preceding section shall
be lodged with the register of wills of the county where the
same is taken, by any one of the trustees of the poor of said
county, within thirty days after the execution thereof, under the
penalty of ten dollars for every neglect, to be recovered by
presentment in the circuit court for the county where such child
is bound, and applied to the use of said county; and the said
register shall receive and record said indenture in the same
manner as indentures taken by the orphans' court.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1793, ch. 45.

19. The trustees of the poor in any county may also, in the
recess of the orphans' court, upon information, issue their citation
to the sheriff or any constable of the county, to cause to be
brought before them the child or children of any pauper or
vagrant, and bind them out as apprentices for the time and upon
the terms hereinbefore prescribed; provided, the contract of
apprenticeship shall, within two months thereafter, be approved
by the said orphans' court by endorsement thereon as aforesaid,
and recorded among the records of the said orphans' court.

Ibid. sec. 20. 1793, ch. 45. 1793, ch. 57. 1849, ch. 341.

20. Any father may bind ont his child as an apprentice on
reasonable terms, for any time not longer than the full age of
such child—that is to say, boys till twenty-one, and girls till
eighteen years of age; and the terms of such apprenticeship,
with the age of the apprentice, shall be contained in an inden-
ture under the hand and seal of the father and master; and the
said indenture shall be lodged by the said master with the
register of wills of the county where such master resides, within
thirty days after the execution thereof, under the penalty of ten
dollars, to be recovered and applied as the penalty mentioned in
section 18 of this article; and the register shall receive and
record the said indenture.

Greenwood v. Greenwood, 28 Md. 385.