Section V 43 Eliz. c. 2. § 5.

Poor Children appointed Apprentices pursuant to 43 Eliz. c. 2. those to whom they are appointed, bound to execute Indenture and to provide for them according to the Indenture signed by the Justices, &c.; Penalty £10.; Persons to whom poor Children appointed, may appeal.

And whereas by an Act made in the Three and fortieth Yeare of the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor Itt is amongst other Things enacted That it shall be lawfull for the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of any Parish or the greater part of them by the Assent of Two Justices of the Peace whereof One to be of the Quorum to bind poor Children Apprentices where they shall see convenient but there being Doubts whether the Person's to whom such Children are to bound are compellable to receive such Children as Apprentices that Law hath failed of its due Execution Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That where any poor Children shall be appointed to be bound Apprentices pursuant to the said Act the Person or Persons to whome they are so appointed to be bound shall receive and provide for them according to the Indenture signed and confirmed by the Two Justices of the Peace and also execute the other part of the said Indentures and if hee or she shall refuse so to doe Oath being thereof made by one of the Churchwardensss or Overseers of the Poor before any Two of the Justices of the Peace for that County Liberty or Riding hee or she for every such Offence shall forfeit the Su[m]m of Ten pounds to be levied by Distresse and Sale of the Goods of any such Offender by Warrant under the Hands and Seales of the said Justices the same to be applied to the use of the Poor of that Parish or Place where such Offence was co[m]mitted saving always to the Person to whome any poor Child shall be appointed to be bound an Apprentice as aforesaid if hee or she shall think themselves agrieved thereby his or her Appeal to the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace for that County or Riding whose Order therein shall be final and conclude all Parties.