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Indenture of Apprenticeship

The Commonwealth of Kentucky

 

This Indenture made this _28th_ day of ___September_ one thousand eight hundred and ___ninety-nine__ between __VERNON CLINE__________ by R.B. Justice, Clerk of the county court of Allen County, in the State of Kentucky, of one part, and ____LEE CLINE_of the other part;

 

Whereas, by an act of the General Assembly, the Judge of said Court is empowered to bind out orphans and poor children, whoch parents are incapable of bringing them up in moral courses, therefore the Court made the following order, to-wit:

JANE CLINE, mother of VERNON CLINE  and orphan age 10 years; male having filed her petition asking said orphan be apprenticed to LEE CLINE and she having also personally appird in open court and consented to said apprenticeship & it appearing to the court that said Mother is of  bad moral character & will not bring said child up in  mordity & it is hereby ordered that said infant be apprenticed to LEE CLINE.  See Order Book M page 555

 

Now, therefore, this Indenture Witnesseth, that the said R.B. Justice, clerk of said Court, as above recited, hath put, place and bound, and by these presents, doth put, place and bind the said ___Vernon Cline__ apprentice to and under the said __Lee Cline___ with _him_ to dwell, and _him_ to serve, in the condition, duty, and character of an apprentice, until the said __James Ray Kinchlow___ shall arrive at the age of ___21___ years, fully to be completed and ended--- that, during all the said period, the said ___Vernon Cline____shall faithfully serve the said __Lee Cline__ master, in all lawful business, according to the best of _his__ wit and ability, and in all things honestly, orderly and obediently demean and behave __himself__; and the said ___Lee Cline___  doth for __his__ heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant and agree with the said ___Vernon Cline__ that he, the said __Lee Cline___ will teach the said __Vernon Cline__ the trade, art, and business of __Farming_ and will find, provide for, and allow to the said ___Vernon Cline_  sufficient diet, wearing apparel, washing, lodging, proper medical attention, and all other things usually allowed to apprentices by good and just masters, and will treat _him_  with humanity --- that he the said __Lee Cline_will  __also teach the said apprentice to read & write the , or will pay to him at the end of said term $100.

 

In witness whereof, the said _Vernon Cline__ by the said R.B. Justice, Clerk as aforesaid, and the said __Lee Cline__  hever hereunto set their hands and seals, on the day and year first above written

 

/s/ N.J. Guy Clerk 

/s/ Vernon Cline

/s/ Lee Cline