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May be placed out apprentices or servants 7 years.
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XVIII. And in case the number of such male foundling children shall become so great, that the fund hereby appropriated for the maintenance of the said work-house may fall short of answering the continuing of them in the said house, until they shall severally attain the age of twenty one years, and the other purposes hereby intended; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in that case the said governours in their general court of assembly, or the said court of assistants, or any five or more of them, shall and may place out apprentices such and so many of the male children taken into the said house to such art, trade, or calling, or to the sea-service, or to gentlemen, or house-keepers, who shall think fit to take the same for servants, for any term or time not exceeding seven years, as the said governours in their general court of assembly, fifteen at least being present, shall judge necessary and expedient.
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