1254 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 854. 1901. before any justice of the peace, according to the amount of damages claimed. F¤¤¤ °* °°¤¤¤°*· Sec. 409. Form OF ooNTRAOT.—The form of the contract of apprenticeship shall be the following, or to the same eHect: ‘ This indenture witnesseth, that it is mutually agreed between - - - - and that , a minor,. aged - - years shall be taken and held as an apprentice for the term of -. years, by the said
; and the said . - - - contracts and covenants with the
said ..,. - - - - to faithfully and carefully instruct the said in all the handicraft of a ,... (And the said - - - - further contracts and covenants that the said minor shall be allowed, as compensation for his Services, at the rate of ). Witness our hands and Seals this . . - day of - . - . - - - - ——— —————. [Seal.] . ——- ————·. [Seal.] Acknowledged before me, a notary public (or justice of the peace), this .. .. day of -- -- - A B, Notary Public. b€T,‘j,}‘§f°m “‘°“"Y *0 Sec. 410. To wHoM MoNEY TO BE rA1D.—The money which the master is to pay shall be paid to the father or other party contracting with the master, or to the minor, in whole or in part, as said probate court may direct. ba{‘;’g§,‘}}$i°“ Of P’°‘ Sec. 411. JUa1sD1oT1oN or PROBATE ooUnT.——The probate court may bind out as an apprentice, or indenture to any proper person, any orphan child, any cliild abandoned by its parents or guardian, any child of habitually drunken, vicious, or unfit parents, when any such child as aforesaid shall not be in the care or custody of some person who is providing for its comfortable maintenance and education, and also any child habitually begging on the streets or from door to door, and any child kept in vicious or immoral associations. The terms of such apprenticeship or of such indenture shall be such in each case as the court may deem prope1·, having in view the future interests and welfare of the child. CHAPTER TEN. w{;;gitr¤ti<>¤ wd ARBITRATION AND AYVARD. —i¤ whavcases- Sec. 412. IN WHAT CASES.—-By consent of the attorneys or solicitors on both sides, manifested by written stipulation, any common-law or admiralty or equity cause pending in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, except suits for divorce or nullity of marriage, or suits wherein the defendant to be affected by the result is an infant., idiot, or lunatic, may be referred for trial, upon the issues of law and fact therein involved, by an order of court, to some referee consented to by the parties or their counsel and named in the order. Oath ofreferes- Sec. 413. OATH OF REEEREE.—The referee, before proceeding to hear the cause, shall be sworn faithfully and fairly to try the issues and determine the questions referred to him, as the case may require, and to make a just and true award thereof. —¤i¤¤<= for h¤¤¤i¤s- He shall thereupon fix a time for the hearing of said cause and notify all parties thereof. * Powers ¤fr€f<>r€<>- Sec. 414. POWERS.-HB shall have power to administer oaths, to cause subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum to be issued to witnesses and to compel their attendance by attachment, and to punish a witness by fine and imprisonment for contemlplt of court, for nonattendance, or refusal to be sworn, or to testify. e shall have the same power to adjourn from time to time, and to preserve order in the trial or hearing before him, and to punish any violation thereof, as a court in regular session.
