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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 per-
son shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty dol-
lars, 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 as small debts; and the
father, guardian or master of such apprentice or other minor,
shall also be entitled to recover damages in an action on the case
against the person so offending.
Ferguson v. Tucker, 2 H. & G. 182.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 6, sec. 25. 1793, ch. 45.

25. If any contract of apprenticeship, whether defective in
form or not, hath been partly executed, the orphans' court may
award and compel the terms, or any part of the terms, to be
performed by the master or mistress, or by the apprentice, as
justice and equity may require; and the master or mistress of
any apprentice may detain the said apprentice in his or her ser-
vice till such apprentice shall be discharged by the court, and
may maintain such action against strangers as if such apprentice
had been legally bound to serve.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1793, ch. 43. 1818, ch. 189.

26. If any apprentice shall abscond or run away from his mas-
ter or mistress, or in any way absent himself from the service of
said master or mistress, the orphans' court may, during the
whole of the remainder of the time during which such appren-
tice hath to serve, or at any time within five years thereafter,
award such compensation to be made by such apprentice to his
master, either by service or payment of money, as justice and
equity may require, and may enforce payment so awarded by an
attachment for contempt against his person or fieri facias against
his goods.

Ibid, sec 27. 1793, ch 45.

27. Every apprentice whose master shall die and leave a
widow, shall continue at his home and business as before the