A P P R E 
it is convenient for them to maintain or employ in their 
own families, and are therefore forced to place out or allien 
over fuch apprentice to other perfons, and it is proper that 
inch alignment fhould be legally made, under the infpec- 
tion and controul of the magiffrates, as well for the bene¬ 
fit of the apprentice, as that the original mailer may be 
difeharged from his covenants in refpeft of fuch appren¬ 
tice ; and it is fit that fuch apprentice and the perfon to 
whom he is fo afiigned, fhould be made fubjeft to the or¬ 
dinary jurifdiction of jufiices of the peace with refpeft to 
mafters'and parifii apprentices; it is enafted, that any fuch 
mailer as aforefaid, by indorfement on the indenture, or 
by other inftriiment in writing, with the confent of two 
jufiices of the place where fuch mailer fhall dwell, tefti- 
fied under their hands, to allign fuch apprentice for the 
refidue of the term, to any perfon who is willing to take 
him. Provided, that Inch perfon fhall, at the fame time, 
by indorfement on the counter part of the indenture, or by 
writing under his hand Hating the faid indenture, and the 
indorfement and confent aforefaid, declare his acceptance 
of fuch apprentice, and acknowledge himfelf, his execu¬ 
tors and adminillrators, to-be bound by the agreements and 
covenants mentioned in fuch indenture ; and in Inch cafe 
fuch apprentice fhall be deemed and taken to be the ap¬ 
prentice of fuch fubfequent mailer, and fo from time to 
time as often as it fhall be convenient for any fuch fubfe¬ 
quent mailer to part with any fuch apprentice ; and all 
jufiices fhall have the like power with refpeft to fuch fub¬ 
fequent mailers and apprentices as they fhall then have by 
any law for the regulating parifh apprentices, f. 7. 
And whereas no exprefs provilion has been made for 
the difeharge of any fuch parifii apprentice from a mailer 
who is become infolvent, or fo far reduced as to be una¬ 
ble to employ or maintain fuch apprentice; it fhall be law¬ 
ful for two jufiices where fuch mailer (hall live, on re- 
queft of fuch mailer that fuch apprentice may be difehar¬ 
ged for the reafons aforefaid, to enquire into the matter of 
fuch allegations, and to difeharge fuch apprentice, in cafe 
they fhall find the fame to be true. f. 8. Provided, that 
nothing herein (hall extend to any parifii apprentice with 
whom more than 5I. fhall be given, but the fame (hall 
remain fubjeft to the like rules and regulations as if this 
acl had not been made. f. 9. Provided alfo, that no in¬ 
dorfement made in purfuance of this aft, fhall be charge¬ 
able with any (lamp-duty ; and no fuch other inftriiment 
or writing herein directed to be made, (hall be charge¬ 
able with a higher (lamp-duty than parifh indentures of 
apprenticelhip. f. 10. 
In hundreds or other diflrifts incorporated by particular 
acts of parliament for relief of the poor, where, by fuch 
acts, power is given to bind poor children apprentices ; 
the reipeitive perfons, to whom they fhall be appointed to 
be bound, fhall receive and provide for them according to 
the indentures to be executed by the directors and afting 
guardians, and fhall execute the counter part of fuch in¬ 
dentures: and if any perfon (hall refute to receive fuch 
apprentice, or to execute fuch counter part of the inden¬ 
ture ; he fhall, on conviction on the oath of one of the 
faid directors or afting guardians, or other credible wit- 
nefs, before two jufiices, forfeit 10I. to the poor within 
fuch incorporated didrift, to be levied by diilrefs. Sa¬ 
ving always to fuch perfon his appeal to the next feffions, 
whofe order therein fhall be final. And provided, that 
nothing herein fh-ali extend to compel any perfon to take 
any fuch poor child apprentice, linlefs he be an inhabitant 
and occupier of lands in the parifii to which fuch child 
belongs. 20 Geo. III. c. 36. 
Unlefs he be an inhabitant and occupier. H. 30 Geo. I IT. 
K. againft the directors and guardians of the poor within 
the hundreds of Tuntlead and Happing in Norfolk. In¬ 
corporated by 25 Geo. III. c. 27. The directors, under the 
powers given them by that act, bound a poor male child 
apprentice to one Reynolds, who was an occupier of land, 
but not an inhabitant, within ihe faid hundreds. He ap¬ 
pealed to the feffions ; who were of opinion that he was 
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not bound to receive the apprentice, becaufe he was not 
an inhabitant as well as an occupier. But the court of 
K. B. faid, that incorporated d.idrifts under particular fta- 
tutes, were to be governed as to binding out apprentices, 
by the fame rule as other places'. That for fome purpofes, 
inhabitants and occupiers are fynonimous terms ; that where 
a perfon derives a benefit from property which he occu¬ 
pies in a parifii, he is liable to contribute to the eafe of it. 
If indeed the legiflature had ufed imperative words, the 
court mud have been bound by them, but there are none 
fuch in this ftatute. Order of feffions quafhed. Bumf. 
and Eaft, 3 V. 523. 
OJ Money given or bequeathed to bind out Poor Apprentices .—- 
By the'7 Jac. c. 3. All money given by any perfon to be 
continually employed for the binding out apprentices, fhall 
be employed in manner following, unlefs otherw ife ordered 
by the givers ; viz. All corporations of cities, boroughs, 
and towns corporate, and in places not corporate, the ini- 
nifler, conftables, churchwardens, overfeers, or the mod 
part ot them, fhall have the nomination and placing of 
fuch apprentices, and ordering of fuch money; and, if they 
fhall not employ the fame accordingly, every perfon of¬ 
fending fhall forfeit 3I. 6s. Sd. half to the poor, and half 
to him that fhall fue. f. 2. And the matter that fhall re¬ 
ceive the money, fhall be bound with one or two fureties 
in double the fum, unto fuch corporation, or to the other 
perfons appointed by this aft in places not corporate, to 
take care of it, on condition to repay it at the end of feven 
years* or within three months thereof; and, if the appren¬ 
tice filialL happen to die within the feven years, then within 
one year after fuch death ; and, if the mafter fill all die, then 
within one year after fuch mafter’sdeath, f.3. And the faid 
money fill a 11 always be put forth in three months after it 
fhall come to the faid parties hands; and, if there are not 
then fit perfons to be bound apprentices, within the places 
where the money is given to be employed, it fhall be dif- 
pofed of for binding lome of the pooreft children of any 
adjoining parifii. f. 4. And choice (hail always be made 
ot the pooreft children ; and no fuch apprentice fhall be 
above fifteen years of" age when bound, f. 5. And the faid 
perfons in places not corporate, filial 1 yearly, within a month 
after Eafter, account to their fuccefiors before two jufiices 
dwelling in or next to the place, f. 6. And if any of the 
truftees (hall break their truft, or commit any offence for 
which no penalty is given by this aft ; any perfon may 
petition the lord-chancellor, who may iffue a commiftion to 
hear and determine the fame, and may levy the money mif- 
employed‘upon fuch defaulters, or otherwife upon fuch 
able inhabitants of the place, as they fhall think fitted ; and 
perfons aggrieved may appeal to the lord-clunceilor. 1". 7. 
Of binding Poor Apprentices to the Sea-Service .—It fhall be 
lawful for two jufiices, and for the head officers in corpo¬ 
rations, and for the churchwardens and overfeers of the 
feveral parifhes or townlhips, with the confent of fuch 
jufiices or head officers, ro bind and put out any boy at 
the age of ten years or upwards, or who fhall be charge¬ 
able, or w hofe parents filiall be chargeable, or who (hall 
beg for alms, to be an apprentice to the fea-fervice, to any 
fubjeft being mafter or owner of any (hip or veil'd, until 
he lhall attain the age of twenty-one years. 2 and 3 Anne, 
c. 6. (. 1. And every perfon to whom any poor parifh boy 
fhall be put apprentice by the 43 Eliz. may, with the con¬ 
fent of tv-o indices dwelling near the parifii where fuch 
poor boy was bound, or with the like confent of the chief 
officer in a corporation, at the requeft of the mafter, his 
executors, adniiniftrators, or aftigns, by indenture affign 
over fuch poor boy apprentice, to any mafter or owner of 
a fhip or veflel unrig the fea-fervice, during the remaining 
time of his apprenticelhip. f. 6. And every mafter or 
owner of a fillip, from thirty to fiftv tons burden, fhall be 
obliged to take one fuch apprentice, and one more for the 
next fifty tons, and one more for every hundred tons fuch 
(hip (hall exceed the burden of an hundred tons ; on pain 
of forfeiting jol. to the poor of the parifh from whence 
fuch boy was bound, f. 8. But no mafter (hall be obliged 
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