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CHAP. 355.
Passed March
6, 1847.
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CHAPTER 355.
A supplement to the act entitled, an act to provide Jor the
better regulation of the free negro and mulatto children
within this State, passed December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, chapter thirty-five.
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Upon informa-
tion person or
persons to be
bound out.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That hereafter when information shall be
given to any constable or justice of the peace, that there
are in the election district where such constable or jus-
tice of the peace resides, any child or children of any
free negro or mulatto, who ought to be bound out as
apprentices under the original act to which this is a
supplement, it shall be the duty of such constable or
justice of the peace forthwith to give notice to the
person or persons having the custody of such child or
children, that they must be bound out as apprentices
under said original act; and if the parents or person
having custody of such child or children, shall fail to
have him, her or them, bound as apprentices within
twenty days from the time of such notice, it shall be the
duty of such constable, if he gave the notice, to carry
such child or children before any two justices of the peace
for the county, who are hereby authorised and required
to bind as apprentices, any such child or children, in the
same manner as the orphans court now may bind the
same under the original act; and if the notice aforesaid,
has been given by a justice of the peace, and there should
be a failure on the part of the parent or person having
custody of such child or children, then it shall be the duty
of said justice to issue his warrant to some constable to
have such child or children carried before some two jus-
tices of the peace and bound out as aforesaid; the com-
pensation to each justice of the peace, and to the con-
stable for binding out any free negro or mulatto child
under this act shall be two dollars, to be paid by the
person to whom such child shall be bound.
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Indentures to
be returned to
orphans court.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all indentures taken
under this act by two justices of the peace, shall be re-
turned to the orphans court of the county within thirty
days, and the said orphans court shall have power to set
aside such indentures, if they shall believe, upon proper
evidence, that said indentures were improperly or frau-
dulently obtained; otherwise the said orphans court
is hereby authorised and required to confirm the same ;
and in case such indentures shall be set aside, it shall be
the duty of the orphans court, and they are hereby direct-
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