Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter it shall be lawful for Administrators and Executors who have been appointed to said offices in any of the States or Territories of this Union, to sue for, recover and receipt for all debts and demands due or coming to the estates of their testator or intestate, in this State, in the same manner and under the same restrictions and with the same privileges, that Executors and Administrators in this State may do.

Sec 2 Before any Administrator or Executor appointed in another State shall institute any suit in any of the Courts of this State, or before any Justice of the Peace, , a bond for costs shall be filed with the Clerk of the Court or Justice of the Peace, which shall be the same in substance and conditions as the bond for costs required of non residents in the first section of “an act concerning costs,” approved 10 January, 1827.

Sec 3 Letters testamentary; letters of Administration, and copies of wills and testaments, from any ^other^ State, when certified and authenticated according to the laws of the State in which they were given, shall be admitted as evidence in any Court of law or equity in this State.

Sec 4 All indentures of apprenticeship made and entered into, in any other State or Territory, according to the laws of such State or Territory, shall be considered valid and binding in this State, according to the tenor and effect of such indenture:

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Provided, however, that no indenture of apprenticeship shall be construed to bind any male beyond the age of twenty one years, and any female beyond the age of eighteen years. Nor shall it be construed to effect or be binding on any apprentice who was not free at the time of executing the said indenture.

Sec 5 Every person who shall counsel, persuade, entice, aid or assist any indentured Clerk, apprentice or servant to runaway or absent himself or herself from the service of his, her, or their master or mistress, or to rebel against, or assault his, her or their master or mistress; and every person who shall entertain, harbor or conceal any indentured Clerk, apprentice or servant, knowing such Clerk, apprentice or servant to have run-away, or to have absented himself or herself from the service of his or her master or mistress without leave, shall be liable to be sued before any Probate Justice of the Peace, Circuit Court or Justice of the Peace in this State, in an action on the Case, and upon being found guilty as aforesaid, shall be fined by said Court or Justice of the Peace, in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. Said action may be brought by any person or persons, and one half of said fine when collected shall be paid to the person instituting the suit, and the other half shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the county where the suit is brought for the use of said county: Provided, that before any suit shall be brought under this section, the person bringing said suit shall give a bond for costs, which shall be similar in substance to the bond

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required of non-residents for costs in the first section of “an act concerning costs,” approved January 10,^th 1827.

Sec 6 The seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, fourteenth and fifteenth sections of an act entitled “an act respecting apprentices,” approved December 30^th, 1826, shall be construed to be applicable to all Clerks, apprentices and servants indentured in other States or Territories, as well as to those indentured in this State.

Sec 7 In all actions instituted under the fifth section of this act, brought before the Probate Justice or Justice of the Peace, appeals may be taken by the defendant or the person instituting the suit, in the same manner as is provided by law for taking appeals in other cases.