HOWARD v. ROBINSON

Petition by an apprentice for a

It was admitted that the indentures had been signed

sealed by the apprentice, his mother,

master in the presence [of] John Warrington, a magistrate,

many other persons then present,

that the magistrate had interlined by consent some things beneficial to the minor

had written the names for the marksmen, but had neither signed nor certified them, but had kept them in his possession until he left the county,

that then they were left with his papers in the hands of his

"Marksmen" here means illiterates, men using a "mark" for a

Wilson urged that the Act of Assembly [1 Body Laws 177] neither required a signing nor certificate by the magistrate, but only that they should be executed in his presence

with his approbation, which is

Ridgely for the apprentice was prevented by the