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APPRENTICES.

Sec. 18. Every person who shall entertain, harbor, or eon- spprenesce- č ceal any apprentice, knowing such apprentice to be runaway or to have absented himself from the service of his master, without leave, shall forfeit one dollar for every day’s cnter tainment, harboring or concealing, to be sued for, and recov- ered by action of debt, with costa, by such master, in any court having jurisdiction thereof. roman Sec. 19. The executor, who, by the last will of a father, is | directed to bring up his child to some trade or calling, shall hare power, with the consent of the mother, if living, to bind such child | by indenture in like manner as the father, if living, might kave done, or shall raise such child according to such direction, if consented to by the mother.


Sec. 20. If it shall appear to any probate judge or justice of the peace, upon the oath of any competent person, that any master is about to remove, or cause to be removed, any apprentice cut of this territory, such probate judge or justice of the peace shall issue his warrant and cause such master to be brought before him; and if, upon examination, it shall appear that. such apprentice is in danger of being removed without this territory, the said judge or justice may require the master to enter into recognizance with sufficient seourity, in the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned that such apprentice skall not be removed without this territory, and that said master will appear, with the apprentice, before the probate court, et the time fixed by the probate judge, and abide the decision of the court thereon, which recognizance shall be returned to the probate court ; and the court shall proceed therein, in a summary manner, and may discharge or continue the recognizance, or may require a new recognizance, and otherwise proceed according to law and justice.

Sec. 21. If the master, when brought before the judge or Justice, fails to enter into recognizance when required so to do, such judge or justice shall commit the custody of such apprentice to some other proper person, who will enter into recognizance.

Sec. 22. Whenever any master of an apprentice shall wish to remove out of this territory, or quit his trade or business, he shall appear with his apprentice before the probate court of