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An Act concerning apprentices and servants. 1827 96 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0111 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE ciJAPTrIt CHAPTER XL. i b27. AN ACT to authorize and empower Levi Cathe/, of Wor- cester county, in the State of Maryland, to remove from this State to the State of .Maryland certain ne- gro slaves therein named. PASSED AT DoVER, PRIVATE ACT. February 5, 1827. j CHAPTER XLL AN ACT concerning. apprentices and servants. Milmos may Svc. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and House of pri-obemoil Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General As- serVOIns a c. semblU met, That minors may be bound apprentices to I vol. i. Is.trades or otherwise, or servants, males till the age of -0 Vol. 955. S. I1S. 11 mae tilte ge o a vol.. 4. S.Ak twenty-one years, females till the age of eighteen years; 6 vol. -'s aI but no white person shall be bound as a servant. see. 4, andl S. W1o may hinu1 Snc. 2. And be it further enacted, That the father, preif% K.e 'or if the father do not reside in this State, or if there be no I vol. -1lt. fther, the guardian, or if there also be no guardian, the see. 3 mother, of a minor shall have power to bind such minor an apprentice or servant as aforesaid in the presence and with the approbation of a justice of the peace for the county wherCinl the person 01' persons to whom such mi- nor is bound, reside; and any minor of the age of fourteen ycars or upwards, having no father or guardian within this State, may bind him or herself an apprentice or ser- vant as aforesaid in the presence and with the ap)roba- tion of any two justices of the peace of the county wherein the person or persons to whom such minor binds him or herself reside. vol. 995. And any two justices of the peace, or any two trustees ' Nf. .168. of the poor, in and for either of the counties of this State, . e.. shall have power to bind any minor who has no parent re- . is siding in this State, and who has not property sufficient for his or her maintenance, and any minor who has not parents able to maintain him or her, and bring him or her up to industry and suitable employment, an apprentice or servant as aforesaid. Ine1itoimatc No man shall be deemed to be the father or parent of an illegitimate child in the construction of any of the pre- ceding provisions ; but in the application or administer- 96

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