T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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church, Fredericktown, chartered at the December
session of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter
one hundred and forty-seven, would be greatly pro-
moted by enlarging their powers and authorising them
to receive as apprentices, the children that may be
confided to their care, to be bound to them by the
proper authorities for such time and upon such terms
as may be provided by law; Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the trustees of the Orphan House
and Episcopal Free School Society of All Saints' church,
Frederick, be, and are hereby authorised, to receive
as apprentices, any destitute female children or any
destitute female orphan children, that may be confided
to their care, to be bound to them by their patents, the
orphans court of Frederick county or by the trustees of
the poor of Frederick county, as the case may be, until
they arrive at the age of eighteen years, or until mar-
riage, upon the terms and for the purposes for which the
said institution was incorporated, to wit: to protect,
clothe and educate them in a plain and useful manner
and no more.

Authority to
receive ap-
prentices.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the
passage of this act, any father, or in case there be no
father, then any mother in destitute circumstances, may
bind out his or her female, child or children, to the
trustees of the Orphan House and Episcopal Free School
Society of All Saints' church, Fredericktown, until she
or they shall arrive at the age of eighteen years, or until
marriage, upon the terms that the said institution shall
protect, clothe and educate them in a plain and useful
manner and no more.

Father or
mother may
bind out chil-
dren.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the orphans court of
Frederick county is hereby authorised and empowered,
to bind out any destitute female child or any destitute
female orphan, as the case may be, who, under existing
tows, could by said court be bound out to individuals,
to the trustees of the Orphan House and Episcopal Free
School Society of All Saints' church, Fredericktown,
until the age of eighteen years or marriage, upon the
terms that they protect, clothe and educate her in a plain
and useful manner and no more.

Orphans court
may bind out
children.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the
poor of Frederick County, be, and they are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, to bind out any such destitute
female child or any destitute female orphan, as the case
may be, to the trustees of the Orphan House and Episco-
pal Free School Society of All Saints' church, Frederick-

Trustees of
poor may bind
out children.