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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
old, or any shorter period, and to bind them out
for a time not to exceed said ages of twenty-one
years and eighteen years respectively, as appren-
tices to learn any trade or business, or to learn to
be useful in housewifery, or may, under terms
proper in the view of the said officers and board of
Directors, and to be by them stipulated, place
them for adoption, or as inmates with any fami-
lies or persons ; said Corporation, in the exercise
of any of these powers of binding or placing out,
not being limited to places within this State, and
all such acts being required to be in writing,
signed by the President of said Corporation, and
by the persons taking the children as apprentices,
or as aforesaid, and by said signers acknowledged
before a Justice of the Peace for Baltimore city,
and within one month from the date of such
writing, recorded in the office of the Register of
Wills of said city.
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Foundlings
and infant or-
phans.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the foundlings
and infant orphan children under the care and
charge aforesaid, shall be and remain under the
control and restraint, and in charge of said Corpo-
ration, and of the officers and board of Directors
thereof, and bound to obedience to their rules,
regulations and discipline, to every effect as ap-
prentices are bound in respect of their masters and
mistresses, and subject to all laws concerning the
duties and liabilities, protection of apprentices.
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