256 APPRENTICES. [ART. 6

1888, art. 6, sec. 19. 1860, art 6, 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 cita-
tion 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. 1860, art. 6, sec 20. 1793, ch. 45 1793, ch. 57.
1849, ch. 341

20. Any father may bind out 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 pen-
alty 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 Baker v. Lauterbach, 68 Md. 64.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1860, art. 6, sec. 21 1793, ch. 45

21. Any manufacturer or mechanic may take as an appren-
tice any male child, until he shall arrive at the age of twenty-
one years; provided, that the contract so made shall specify
the age of the child at the time of making the same, and that
the parent or parents of such child (if living), or if an orphan,
the orphans' court of such county as the child shall reside in,
shall see the contract within two months after its execution, and
notify its approbation thereof by an endorsement on the same;
and that the said contract be then recorded among the records
of the orphans' court; and when so recorded, the said contract
shall be of the same validity as if the same had been originally
made with the father of said child or with the orphans' court.