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 6 APPRENTICES.

probate court, for binding out any orphan or poor child has an apprentice, there shall be inserted, among other covenants, clause to the effect, that every master to whom such child shall be bound, shall cause such child to be taught to read and write, and the ground rules of arithmetic, the compound rules and the rule of three, and at the expiration of his, or her, time of service, shall give him, or her, a new bible, a dictionary, arithmetic, English grammar, and ten dollars worth of religious books, and two new suits of clothes; if a male, to be worth forty dollars, and, if a female, to be worth thirty dollars, and fifty dollars in current money of the United States.

Sec. 9. The probate court shall see [that] the terms of the indenture, and the covenants therein contained, be fulfilled, and that such child be not ill used; and the said court is hereby required to inquire into, and redress any grievances that may occur in fhe premises, in such manner as is prescribed by law.

Sec. 10. The age of every apprentice shall be inserted in the indenture.

Sec. 11. All indentures entered into otherwise than according to law, shall be utterly void, so far as concerns the apprentice therein bound.

Sec. 12. The probate court shall receive the complaints of apprentices who reside within the county, against their masters, alleging undeserved-or immoderate correction, insufficient allowance of food, raimest:or lodging, want of instruction in their trade or profession, or that they are in danger-of being removed out of this territory, or the violation of the indentures of apprenticeship; and may hear and determine such cases by a jury, and make such order therein as will relieve the party injured, in future.

Sec. 13. The probate court shall have power, when circumstances require it, to discharge an apprentice from his apprenticeship; and in case any money or other thing has been paid, or contracted to be paid by either party, in relation to such apprenticeship, the court shall make such order concerning the same, as shall seem just and reasonable. If the apprentice so discharged shall have been originally bound by the probate