Chap. 83.—An ACT amending and re-enacting an act incorporating the Rich-
mond male orphan society.

Approved January 24, 1804,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
act passed January, twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight,
entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the
Richmond male orphan society, passed March ninth, eighteen hun-
dred and forty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

2. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be lawful for the fatber, or, if the father be dead, for the mother of
any white male infant child, or for the duly appointed and qualified
guardian of any white male orphan child, or for the superintendent
of the almshouse of the city of Richmond (under an order of the
hustings court of that city, to be made for the purpose), or either of
them, to bind out any such poor white child who has no estate, or
ot enough to maintain him, to the said society, to be maintained
nd instructed under the control and direction of the said society,
r its duly authorized agent or agents, until such child shall attain
he age of twenty-one years; and it shall also be lawful, at the dis-
retion of the said society, when such child shall be of suitable age,
o bind him out as an apprentice to some proper master, who shall
ovenant in the articles of apprenticeship to teach him some me-
hanical art or trade, or other business, which shall be particularized
n the indenture of apprenticeship, and also reading, writing and
rithmetic, including the rule of three, and to pay to said apprentice
t the end of his said apprenticeship a sum in money not less than
he sum of twenty dollars.

3. The said society shall have the power and authority, in the dis-
retion of its board of managers, to discharge and also to expel for
oad conduct any such child at any time before he shall attain the
ge of twenty-one years; and shall also have authority to indenture
any child as hereinbefore provided for a period to expire when said
-hild shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or earlier, in the dis-
retion of said board; but the said hustings court shall have and
may exercise all powers and authority over apprentices and masters
who shall come into that relation to each other under this act, which
appertain to that court, under chapter one hundred and fifteen of
the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
ne This act shall commence and be in force from the passage
hereof.