ART. 6] ENFORCEMENT OF INDENTURE. 257

1888, art. 6, sec. 22. 1860, art. 6, sec. 22. 1814, ch. 104. 1817, ch. 72.
1830, ch. 64. 1849, ch. 341. 1888, ch. 216.

22. The directors of the Maryland penitentiary and the
managers of the house of correction, or any three of them,
respectively, may bind as apprentices, until the age of twenty-
one for males and eighteen for females, the children of female
convicts brought into the penitentiary or house of correction,
respectively, with their mothers, or born there during their
time of service; and the managers of the house of refuge shall
have the same power over minors committed thereto; and all
indentures or contracts so made shall be recorded in the
orphans' court of Baltimore city within thirty days from the
execution thereof.

Ibid. sec. 23. 1860, art. 6, sec. 23. 1793, ch. 45.

23. All apprentices, except those bound to tradesmen and
mechanics residing in any town, shall be compelled to perform
reasonable labor in wheat, rye and hay harvest only, unless the
particular contract shall be otherwise.

Ibid. sec. 24. 1860, art 6, sec. 24. 1748, ch. 19. 1793, ch. 45. 1821, ch. 219.

1890, ch. 8.

24. Any person who shall entice any apprentice or other
minor from the care, direction, service or employment of the
parent, guardian or master of such apprentice or other minor,
or who shall knowingly harbor any apprentice or other minor
so enticed, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars, to be recov-
ered 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 parent,
guardian or other 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; but no person who in
good faith receives, harbors, persuades away, or otherwise
removes from a parent, guardian or master, any minor, for the
purpose of sheltering such minor from ill-treatment or suffer-
ing, shall be held to incur any liability therefor.
Ferguson v. Tucker, 2 H. & G 182

Ibid. sec. 25. 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

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