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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
recognizance with security as aforesaid, such justice may discharge
such apprentice
from his master. |
1786.
CHAP.
XLIII. |
VI. And,
to the end that apprentices may be taught their trades, and may not
be rigorously used or turned to common labour, contrary to their contracts,
Be
it enacted, That all that part of the act of assembly, entitled,
An act for the
establishment of orphans courts, that directs the summoning an orphan jury,
be,
and is hereby repealed; and that the justices of the respective county
courts shall
give in charge to their grand juries at every county court, to inquire
into all such
matters and things as as given in charge to the orphans jury; provided,
that all
apprentices shall be compellable to perform reasonable labour in wheat
and rye,
and bay harvests, unless the particular contract shall be to the contrary. |
Part of an act
repealed, &c. |
VII. And,
whereas apprentices are not nor are intended to be assignable, and
on the death of the master, the apprentice, although he hath been maintained
and considerably advanced in the art of his trade, is either bound
to a new master,
who derives an immediate profit from his labour, or is at large, and it
is reasonable
that the widow of the deceased master, if he leaves any, should derive
some
benefit from the expence, care and instruction, of the apprentice, Be
it enacted,
That the widow of any master of a male apprentice bound by the court, whose
time shall not have expired at his master's death, may, with the approbation
of
the court, or of any male apprentice bound by the father, with the
approbation
of the father, assign the whole residue of the contract on such consideration
as
she may agree for to some other person of the same trade, and the new master
and the apprentice shall be bound to perform the residue of the contract
as if the
new master had been an original part thereto, and the gratuity or consideration,
if any received by the widow, shall be to her own use, and not considered
as
assets of the deceased husband. |
Widows may
assign contracts,
&c. |
CHAP. XLVI.
An ACT for the speedy adjustment of sundry purchases of British
property. |
Passed January
20. |
WHEREAS there have been many sales of confiscated
British property
in several of the counties of this state, where the quantities of land
were uncertain, at a certain sum by the acre, and bonds have been
taken on a calculation of the greatest supposed quantity, which in many
instances
are not yet ascertained by accurate surveys; other lands sold are partly
taken away
by elder interfering surveys or titles; in some few other instances there
is a plain
defect of title in the public; in others the title of the public is disputed;
and in
some instances in Cæcil county, the purchasers or others have an
equitable though
not a legal title to the land, or part of the land, purchased of the public,
by a
compliance with the old office terms of Pennsylvania, and the agreement
of the
former proprietors of Maryland and Pennsylvania; in some of which cases,
there
is no remedy by summary proceeding, even in the chancery court, and in
others
a summary proceeding there will require more trouble, delay and expence,
than
necessary; and it is just and proper, that the late commissioners, and
the late
intendant, who were entitled to commissions on the respective property
by them
sold, and for which the money was paid, or bonds given, should finish the
business
by them transacted; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the late commissioners
for the sale of confiscated British property, and the late intendant
of the revenue, shall, as soon as well may be, cause the lands by them
sold respectively, where the sum of the purchase money, according to the
contract,
depends on the quantity of land, to be carefully and accurately surveyed
by skilful
surveyors and careful chain-carriers, sworn to execute their respective
duties
of surveyor or chain-carrier, as the case may be, honestly and truly; and
the
said late commissioners and late intendant respectively, shall cause a
certificate
of each separate purchase to be made, having a fixed beginning, with a
plot thereto
annexed, as well as a general plot of all adjoining parcels purchased,
and on the |
Commissioners,
&c. to
cause lands to
be surveyed,
&c. |
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