State v. Hooper

Indictment of the defendants for harboring an indentured servant. Under the present statute no formal certificate of approval by the justices is now required, as under the former act on the subject. In a case of binding under the provisions of the third section of the act as it now stands, it was sufficient if their approval appeared any where in or upon the indenture, and in this case it appeared in the body of it, and it could not appear or be otherwise from the fact that they executed it and bound the servant to the master. As to the second objection, it was only the money to be stipulated…