PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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REDEMPTIONERS.

The governor and council to appoint, in every port of entry, some per-

son skilled in the German and English languages, as registers of

deeds of apprenticeship or servitude of German or Swiss emigrants

—1817, ch. 226, sec. 1, . . . . . . .

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The register (after taking the oath prescribed,) to open an office, and

draw up and sec to the due execution of writings, regulating the

apprenticeship of every German and Swiss redemptioner — 1817,

ch. 226, sec. 2, ..........

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No indenture to be of any avail, unless drawn up or approved by said

register— 1817, ch. 226, sec. 2, .......

684

Duty of the register to transmit the indenture when executed, to the

clerk of the county court to be recorded — 1817, ch. 226, sec. 3, .

685

To keep an account of the name, sex, age, time of apprenticeship or

servitude, whence came, and to whom bound, and transmit it for

record— 1817, ch. 226, sec. 3, .......

685

Minors under twenty-one years not to be indented, except by their

parents or next of kin, and in default of relatives, by the direction

of the orphans courts — 1817, ch. 226, sec. 4, . . .

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The indentures to covenant to give to minors annually at least two

months schooling — 1817, ch. 226, sec. 5, .....

685

No emigrant to be bound to serve more than four years, except males

under seventeen, and females under fourteen, to serve respectively

till twenty-one and eighteen — 1817, ch. 226, sec. 6, ...

685

German or Swiss emigrant not to be detained on board longer than

thirty days, and to receive from the master, &c. sufficient provision

without an increase of the term, or any charge — 1817, ch. 226,

sec. 7, ...........

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Directions for their being brought on shore, &c. in case of longer de-

tention, sickness, ill-treatment, &c. and for the interference of the

county court or a judge on the information of the register — 1917,

ch. 226, sec. 8, ..........

685

Children not answerable for the freight or passage money of their

parents, dead or alive, nor parents for deceased children, nor a

husband for his deceased wife, nor a wife for her deceased husband

—1817, ch. 226, sec. 9, ........

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Masters of vessels, in case of the death of such emigrants, to give to the

register, within ten days after his arrival, an inventory under oath

of all the property of such emigrants, under a penalty of $200, to

be recovered as other fines — 1817, ch. 226, sec. 10,

686

The property to be disposed of by the register for payment of the pas-

sage, and to the heirs as therein provided — 1817, ch. 226, sec. 10,

686

Fees and allowance to the register — 1817, ch, 226, sec. 11,

688

The proceeds of sales uncalled for during three years after publication,

to be paid by the register to the German society — 1817, ch. 226,

sec. 11, ...........

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