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A.D. 1850.]
ACT XIX.
333
arose on board ship during a voyage, within three months after the arrival
thereof at a port or place in the said territories.
XIX. If the master of any apprentice shall die before the end of the Provision on the
apprenticeship, the contract of apprenticeship shall be thereby determined; ^ath of a master,
and a proportionate part, corresponding to the unexpired portion of the
term, of any premium which shall have been paid to such master on the
binding of the apprentice to him, shall be returned by the executors or
administrators, out of the estate of the deceased, to the person or persons
who shall have paid the same; unless the executors or administrators of
the deceased master shall continue the business in which such apprentice
shall have been employed, and shall, within three months from the
death of the late master, make offer in writing to keep the apprentice on
the terms of the original contract; in which case the estate of the deceased
shall be discharged from all liabilities on account of such premium.
XX. If such oder to keep the apprentice shall be made as aforesaid, the Rules to be observed
same shall be fully expressed and certified by the executors and adminis-
trators on the original contract of apprenticeship, and also on the office
copies thereof by the magistrate or registering officer; and the apprentice
shall be bound to the executors or administrators so keeping him for the
remaining term of his apprenticeship.
XXI. Any apprentice bound under this Act, whose master shall die Apprentices entitled
during the apprenticeship, shall be entitled to maintenance for three months Sree^^monr aft°r
from and after the death of his master, out of the assets left by him ; pro- death of master,
vided that during such three months such apprentice shall continue to live
with, and serve as an apprentice, the executors or administrators of such
master, or such person as they shall appoint.
Apprentices dis-
charged from obliga-
XXII. The apprentice of any person against whom a commission of
bankruptcy shall be issued, or who shall be adjudged to have committed
an act of insolvency during the apprenticeship, shall be discharged from all insolvency of master,
obligation under the contract of apprenticeship; and if any premium was Premium to be a
paid on binding him as an apprentice, he, or the person by whom he was ^ against the es-
bound, shall be entitled to claim the amount thereof as a debt against the
estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
XXIII. For the purposes of this Act, all British subjects, wherever British subjects and
or of whatever parents born, as well as other persons in the territories other persons sub-
under the (government or the East-India Company, without the towns courts in respect of
of Calcutta and Madras, and the town and island of Bombay, shall be Act-
amenable to the jurisdiction of the courts and magistrates of the East-India
Company.
XXIV. An appeal shall lie from any order passed by any magistrate
without the said towns and island, to the Court of Session to which such
magistrate is subordinate, provided the appeal is made within one month
from the date of the order.
Appeals from orders
of magistrates to ses-
sion judges.
XXV. In this Act the words "master,"
" owner," " person," and the Construction of cer-
* tain terras.
ACT XIX.
333
arose on board ship during a voyage, within three months after the arrival
thereof at a port or place in the said territories.
XIX. If the master of any apprentice shall die before the end of the Provision on the
apprenticeship, the contract of apprenticeship shall be thereby determined; ^ath of a master,
and a proportionate part, corresponding to the unexpired portion of the
term, of any premium which shall have been paid to such master on the
binding of the apprentice to him, shall be returned by the executors or
administrators, out of the estate of the deceased, to the person or persons
who shall have paid the same; unless the executors or administrators of
the deceased master shall continue the business in which such apprentice
shall have been employed, and shall, within three months from the
death of the late master, make offer in writing to keep the apprentice on
the terms of the original contract; in which case the estate of the deceased
shall be discharged from all liabilities on account of such premium.
XX. If such oder to keep the apprentice shall be made as aforesaid, the Rules to be observed
same shall be fully expressed and certified by the executors and adminis-
trators on the original contract of apprenticeship, and also on the office
copies thereof by the magistrate or registering officer; and the apprentice
shall be bound to the executors or administrators so keeping him for the
remaining term of his apprenticeship.
XXI. Any apprentice bound under this Act, whose master shall die Apprentices entitled
during the apprenticeship, shall be entitled to maintenance for three months Sree^^monr aft°r
from and after the death of his master, out of the assets left by him ; pro- death of master,
vided that during such three months such apprentice shall continue to live
with, and serve as an apprentice, the executors or administrators of such
master, or such person as they shall appoint.
Apprentices dis-
charged from obliga-
XXII. The apprentice of any person against whom a commission of
bankruptcy shall be issued, or who shall be adjudged to have committed
an act of insolvency during the apprenticeship, shall be discharged from all insolvency of master,
obligation under the contract of apprenticeship; and if any premium was Premium to be a
paid on binding him as an apprentice, he, or the person by whom he was ^ against the es-
bound, shall be entitled to claim the amount thereof as a debt against the
estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
XXIII. For the purposes of this Act, all British subjects, wherever British subjects and
or of whatever parents born, as well as other persons in the territories other persons sub-
under the (government or the East-India Company, without the towns courts in respect of
of Calcutta and Madras, and the town and island of Bombay, shall be Act-
amenable to the jurisdiction of the courts and magistrates of the East-India
Company.
XXIV. An appeal shall lie from any order passed by any magistrate
without the said towns and island, to the Court of Session to which such
magistrate is subordinate, provided the appeal is made within one month
from the date of the order.
Appeals from orders
of magistrates to ses-
sion judges.
XXV. In this Act the words "master,"
" owner," " person," and the Construction of cer-
* tain terras.