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An Act to amend the act concerning coloured apprentices. 1847 82 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0624 and id is 1 raw text is: 82                             Execulions.-Apprentices.
of the acts of the general assembly for tile relief of insolvent debtors,
to the, clerk of the said court, it shall be lawful for tile said clerk by
his warrant directed to the jailor of the prison of said county to
bring before him at the courthouse of said county the body of said
insolvent debtor, and there to administer the oath, nud to grant to
the said debtor a warrant of discharge in the same manner and to
the same effect as is now done by a justice of the pence.
Cunienceincut.  2. This act shall be in force front the passing thereof.
C uAr. 108.-An ACT to amend the ant concerning coloured apprentices.
[Passed Miarcit 18, 1849.]
Actrequiring  o. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That so much of the
hire fit upaevti- act, entitled  a ct oconcerning apprentices bound out by overseers
cen to be Paid to  ..                       ..
Overevers r ,our, Of tle poor, passed the sixth of April eighteen hundred and thirty.
repealed.  nine, as directs that any part of the annual value of the services of
such coloured apprentices as have neither father nor mother, shall be
paid to the overseers of the poor for the use of the poor, be and the
same is hereby repealed.
Money received  2. And be it farther enacted, That any money which the over.
by overhears  seers of the poor of ally county or corporation shall hereafter receive
when 1n lie Pail
toapruntico.  on account of the annual value of tile services of any coloured up.
prentice, who has heretofore been bound out in pursuance of the pro.
visions of the before recited act, shall be held by them or otherwise
disposed of as tile court making tile order for binding out such op.
prentice shall direct, until the expiration of the term for which such
apprentice shall have been bound out, at which time the same shall
by order of tile said court be paid to the apprentice whether of full
age or not.
Couut to nix Iiro  3. And be it ,further enacted, That when any county or corpora.
of liprenflcCo  tion court shall hereafter make an order directing any such appren.
lice to be bound out, it shall be the duty of the court at the saie
time to consider and determine what will be the reasonable annual
value of the services of the apprentice in the particular art, trade or
business which lie or she is to be taught for cach year of the appren.
Bond and acirl. ticeship, to coninence from the date of the order. And the overseers
ty therefor to be of tile poor, by whom such order shall be executed, in addition to the
akon.      indentures of apprenticeship, shall take from the master or mistress,
bond with satisfactory security, in a penalty equal to double the value
of tme services of the apprentice for the whole term, and payable to
the commonwealth of Virginia, conditioned to account for the value
of such services according to law.
When hire tolie  4 'i'he fither of the apprentice, or if there be no father, the me.
paid to ratter or ther of the apprentice shall be entitled to such part of the value of
mother uf ap.
Prentice.   his or her services, except for tile last year of the apprenticeship, as
When toapplez. shall fll! due ii tie lifetime of the father or mother; and such part
tic.        as shall fall due when there is neither father nor mother living, and
the value in every case of the last year's services, shall belong to the
apprentice, to be paid to him or her, without interest, at the expira-
When discretion- tion of the term of the apprenticeship. But the court, by whose or-
ai? will' court' der the apprentice shall have been bound out, shall have power, for
good cause shown, upon tile motion of the overseers of the poor, or
of the apprentice by his or her next friend, to direct that payment of
any part of the value of the services afnresaid, be withheld from the
father and paid to tile mother, or withheld from both or either of
them, to accumulate for the benefit of the apprentice: Provided,
That the father and mother, or the survivor of them, have ten days
notice of such motion.

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