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Like all apostrophes, there are two things it might be doing: indicating ownership, or signalling the absence of some letters. Since there are letters other than S following it, the apostrophe here is to replace some letters, or a letter.

Here, it signals the absence of the letter D; the correct and whole spelling is 'madam'.

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