252 APPRENTICES. [ART. 6

1888, art. 6, sec. 2. 1860, art. 6, sec. 2. 1842, ch. 25. 1847, ch. 163.

2. Either party feeling himself aggrieved by the decision
or judgment of the orphans' court under the provisions of the
preceding section may appeal to the circuit court for the county,
or superior court of Baltimore city; provided, such appeal be
made within thirty days after the decision or judgment of the
orphans' court.

Ibid sec. 3. 1860, art. 6, sec. 3. 1793, ch 45.

3. If it shall appear to the court that the contract has been
violated on the part of the master or mistress, or that the com-
plaint of such apprentice is well founded, the court may pro-
ceed to fine the said master or mistress, according to the
offence, a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for the first
offence;. and for the second offence, any sum not exceeding
fifty dollars.

Ibid, sec 4 1860, art. 6, sec 4. 1793, ch. 45.

4. The orphans' court may, in their discretion, discharge
any apprentice because of imposition, or of the ill-behavior
of the master or mistress, or of the hardness or unreasonable-
ness of the terms of the contract, and shall provide such
apprentice a new master, of the same trade or occupation as
the first; and if the original contract was hard and unreasonable,
such new contract shall be made as the court shall direct; and
such new master shall be bound to do and perform the contract
in the same manner that the original master ought to have
done, and shall also pay unto the original master such sum of
money as shall be adjudged reasonable by any two or three
persons of the same trade or occupation, to be appointed by
the court.

Ibid. sec. 5 1860, art 6, sec. 5 1793, ch 45

5. Upon petition of any master or mistress, the orphans'
court may discharge him or her from his or her contract,
because of an incorrigible temper, or of the ill-behavior of an
apprentice.

Ibid sec 6. 1860, art. 6, sec 6. 1793, ch. 45.

6. No master or mistress of an apprentice bound within this
State shall send or carry his or her said apprentice out of the
State. Any justice of the peace, on being credibly informed,
or having from his own observation good reason to suspect, that
any master or mistress designs to carry or remove his or her