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An Act entitled an act to permit persons to whom free negroes or mulatto apprentices are bound in Worcester county, to hire them out. 1856 92 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0241 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MARYLAND. CHAPTER 78. Passed Afar. AN ACT entitled an act to permit persons to whom 6, Is5O. free negroes or mulatto apprentices are bound in Worcester county, to hire them out. Preamble. WHEREAS, Persons having free negro or mulatto ap- prentices in this State are permitted by the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter thirty- five, by the assent of the Orphans' Court, that the master, executor, administrator or assignee of such master, are empowered by that act to assign and transfer to any other person residing in the said county, any npprentice under this act ; and where- as, persons sometimes wish to make a temporary change in their business, but do not wish to dispose of the whole time of service of said apprentice or apprentices ; therefore, Authority to SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General .Assembly hireout. of .Maryland, That all persons to whom free negroes or mulattoes are bound as apprentices, in Worcester county, shall have power and authority to hire out Proviso. saidapprentices; Provided,the master, ormistress, or owner of any free negro or mulatto apprentice shall first obtain an order from the Orphans' Court of said county granting him, her, or them liberty so to do. Notless than SEc. 2. lnd be it enacted, That the Orphans' one year. Court of Worcester county shall not permit or aulhor- ise the master, mistress or owner to hire out said ap- prentice for a shorter period than one year, unless the time of service ot' said apprentice should expire in a less time than one year, nor for the prosecution of any other trade or occupation than that to which they Provisos . were first bound ; Provided however, and it is the in- tention and meaning of this act, that die Orphans' Court of Worcester county shall have full power, if in their judgment the interest of said apprentice re- quires it, either on account of improper treatment, or failure, or neglect on the part of the hirer to give proper instruction to such apprentice in his trade or occupation, to direct and order the hirer of such ap- prentice to return to the master, mistress or owner, and to pass an order declaring the contract between the master, mistress, or owner and the hirer no longer to have effect: Provided, however, The said Orphans Court may order such an amount of money to he

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