The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
Immigrant Children and Apprentices
Immigrant Children and Apprentices.
Chap. 42.—The L. G. in C. may appoint a Guardian for each county to have charge of immigrant children therein with no known parent in the Province; and he is authorized to apprentice them if girls to the age of 18, and boys to that of 21. Harbouring an apprentice, who has left his master without leave, is punishable with a fine of $40.