Section 6. Certifying and returning poll-books............ 111 Section 7. Compensation of officers........ Section 8. Qualifications of electors........................... 112 Section 9. Division of township into election precincts. 117 Section 10. Consolidation of precincts............... CHAPTER X. FENCES AND Inclosures.... Section 2. Leases and rents of reserved lands................................ 159 Section 3. Sale of section 16............................... Section 1. Settlement and removal................ Section 2. Relief in counties having no infirmary......... 184 Section 3. Relief in counties having an infirmary......... 186 CHAPTER XXII. SCHOOL DISTRICTS..... Section 1. Township and sub-districts........ Section 2. Joint sub-districts.................. Section 3. Special districts........... ...................... TOWNSHIP OFFICERS' GUIDE. CHAPTER I. APPRENTICES. Who may be bound.-Male persons within the age of twenty-one, or females within the age of eighteen years, may be bound to serve as clerks, apprentices or servants, until they arrive at those ages respectively, or for a shorter period, in the following manner. 3118. When trustees may bind.-The trustees of townships may bind out any orphan, destitute child, or the child of any person who does not provide for the same. The child may be bound to a master or mistress, or to an orphan asylum incorporated under the laws of Ohio, with the consent of the managers of such asylum. 3119, 3135. The indenture, by whom signed.—The indenture of apprenticeship is required to be signed and sealed by the father, or in case of the death or inability of the father, by the mother or guardian, or in case of an orphan or destitute child, by the trustees of the township, of the one part, and by the master or mistress, or the directors of the orphan asylum, of the other part. 3120-3135. Statement as to age and term of service. It is required. that the indenture contain a statement of the age and time of service of the minor, and if such age be unknown that it shall be inserted according to the best information to be (1) bad, which statement in relation to the time of service, is to be taken and deemed as the true age of the minor.' 3121. Other covenants of the indenture.-It is also required that the indenture shall contain a covenant on the part of the master or mistress to send the minor to a common school for at least twelve weeks in each school year, during the apprenticeship, after the minor is eight years of age, and at the expiration of the term of service, to furnish the minor with a new Bible and two good suits of clothes; and it is provided that all money or property stipulated to be paid by the master or mistress, shall be secured to and for the sole use and benefit of the minor.2 3122. When bound to an orphan asylum.—If the child be bound to an orphan asylum, it is requisite that the indenture provide that the minor shall remain in the asylum to be supported thereby and subject to the control thereof, until such time as a suitable home or place is found for the minor, when the officers of the asylum may bind out the minor by indenture, or such other contract as they may deem most for his or her benefit and interest. 3135. The omission in an indenture of apprenticeship of a covenant that the master should teach the apprentice to read and write, though required to be inserted by the statute, does not render it void so that the master is released from the covenants inserted, nor does the omission of the age of the apprentice. Such an indenture is not void in law, because signed by the infant, his father consenting. The privilege of the infant is for his benefit, and can not be used against him. Francis v. Thompson, Tappan, 248. "Where an indenture of apprenticeship witnessed that "Jacob Criss, son of John Criss, aged, etc., by and with the consent of the said John Criss, bound himself, etc.," and it was signed and sealed by both, John Criss was not liable in an action of covenant for his son's leaving his master before the expiration of the term. Campbell v. Criss, Tappan, 289. |