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ARTICLE VL

APPRENTICES.

1. Jurisdiction of orphans' court. 2. Appeal to circuit court or supe- rior court. 3. When orphans' court may fine master. 4 May discharge apprentice and bind him to new master. 5. May release master. 6. Apprentice not to be taken out of State 7. Cruel treatment of apprentice, remedy for. 8. Payment by master of fine im- posed upon apprentice. 9. Replevin by master for appren- tice. 10. Court may bind orphan children. 11. Also, children of pauper parents. 12. Parents to be summoned. 13. When court shall not bind chil- dren 14. May cause bound children to be cited before them. 15. Term of apprenticeship. 16. Two justices of the peace may also bind. 17. Trustees of the poor may also bind.

18. Trustees to flie indenture with register of wills. 19. Trustees may cite pauper or vagrant children before them. 20. Father may bind out his chil- dren. 21. Manufacturers or mechanics may take apprentices 22. Children of female convicts, how bound 23 Apprentices in countiy to per- form work in harvest 24. Enticing apprentices, penalty and damages for. Bona fide. sheltering of minor from ill- treatment. 25. Court may compel master and apprentice to keep terms of apprenticeship. 26. Absconding apprentices. 27. Authority of widow of master 28 When widow of master may assign unexpired term. 29. Right of widow of master to- retain female apprentice. 30. Valuation of unexpired term, when and how made.

1888, art 6, sec. 1. 1860, art. 6, sec. 1. 1842, ch. 25. 1847, ch. 163.

1. The orphans' court may hear and determine all matters
in dispute between masters and apprentices; may grant releases
to apprentices; may re-bind apprentices that may be released,
for cause or otherwise, and shall have jurisdiction in all
matters pertaining to masters and apprentices.

Lammott v. Maulsby, 8 Md. 5.