The allowances of food continue the same as during slavery, excepting that now the master may give, instead of the allowance, a third of an acre to each apprentice, but then he must also grant an additional day every week for the cultivation of this land.
3.

The master has no power whatever to punish.

A planter observed, "if I command my butler to stand for half an hour on the parlor floor, and it can be proved that I designed it as a punishment, I may be fined for it." The penalty for the first offence (punishing an apprentice) is a fine of five pounds currency, or sixteen dollars, and imprisonment if the punishment was cruel.

For a second offence the apprentice is set free.
Masters frequently do punish their apprentices _in despite of all penalties_.

A case in point occurred not long since, in Bridgetown.