Abandoned Minors Apprenticed

When a minor is poor, homeless, chargeable to the Territory, or an outcast who has no visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood, the Superior Court may, with his consent, bind him as an apprentice during his minority. Proceedings therefor may be instituted by any citizen, and no fee must be charged by any officer for any action in connection therewith. In all indentures by the court for binding out an orphan or homeless minor as an apprentice there must be inserted, among other things, a clause to the following effect: That the master to whom such minor is bound must cause him to be taught to read and write and the ground rules of arithmetic, ratio and proportion, and must give him the requisite instruction in the different branches of his trade or calling, and at the expiration of his term of service, must give him or her Fifty Dollars ($50.00), and two

(2)whole new suits of clothes, to be worth in the aggregate at least Sixty Dollars ($60.00).