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Sec. 3. Upon the execution of every indenture of apprentice- Master to make ship, the person to whom the apprentice is bound, shall make an afidavit that he will faithfully perform the duties required by the indenture and enjoined on him by law, which affidavit shall be indorsed on the indenture; E
Sec. 4. When the father has no legal capacity to give COD- tatier to have sent, or when he shall willfully have abandoned his family for Pinces six months, without making suitable provisions for their sup- port, or has become an habitual drunkard, the mother shall have the same power to give such consent as if the father was dead. i Scc. S. Acts of incapacity, desertion or drunkenness, shall be paners incapa decided in the probate court, by a jury, before the indenture n shall take effect, and an indorsement on the indenture, under the seal of the court, if a seal has. been provided, that the same are proved, shall be sufficient evidence of the mother’s power to give such consent; but if the jury do not fiad the charge of incapacity, drunkenness or desertion to be true, the person at whose instance such proceedings may have been had, shall pay all costs attending the same.
Sec. 6. When any poor child is, or may be, dail tO Probate ceurt ` the county, or beg for alms, or when the parents of such child: ae ren are poor, and their father an habitual drankard, or if there - be no father, when the mother is of bad character, or suffers her children to grow up in habits of idleness, without any vis- ible means. of obtaining an honest livelihood, it shall be lawful for the probate court to bind such child an apprentice, if a male, until he arrives to. the age of twenty-one years, and if a female, to the age of eighteen years.
Sec. 7. Every orphan or minor, who has not estate sufficient «dian to ap. for his or her maintenance, may be bound by his or her guar- ¥0itt spren- dian, under the order and direction.of the probate court, and the indenture of binding such infant, shall be as effectual as if such infant were of full age; and the counterpart of such indenture shall, for the benefit of the infant so bound, be deposited in the office of the judge of probate before whom such binding shall take place, ‘who shall preserve the same.
Sec. 8. It shall not be lawful for any master to move an apprentice out of-this territory, and in all indentures by the
