160 BASTARDY AND FORNICATION. [ART. 12

ARTICLE XII

BASTARDY AND FORNICATION.

1. Warrant for mother ; disclosure of father. 2. Warrant for father ; arrest. 3. Bond for father's appearance. 4. Testimony of mother to be taken down ; transmission to court ; evidence. " 5. Trial of father; bond; support of child ; expenses of mother ; fu- neral expenses of child.

6. Bond; failure to give; penalty. 7. Bonds; record thereof. 8. Modification of court's orders. S. Writs to enforce bonds. 10. Death of father. 11. Limitations. 12. Discharge of surety.

1912, ch. 163.

1. Any justice of the peace in any of the counties of the State or
any justice of the peace in Baltimore City, having criminal jurisdiction,
shall, upon written information, given him under oath, of any woman
being pregnant with or having been delivered of a bastard child, by his
warrant, cause such woman to be brought before him, and shall cause
said woman upon failure to disclose the father of said infant as pre-
scribed by section 2 of this Article, to give bond to the State of Mary-
land, with good and sufficient securities in the penalty of an amount
not exceeding five hundred dollars, conditioned that she will indemnify
the county or city, as the case may be, for any charge that may accrue
for maintenance and support of said child and upon neglect or refusal
to give such bond, the justice of the peace may commit her to jail or any
other institution, for a term not exceeding one year, or until such bond
be given, provided, 'however, that the justice of the peace may suspend
sentence and parole the said woman for the term of two years.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

1912, ch. 163.

2. Whenever any woman who has been delivered of or who is preg-
nant with a bastard child, shall in writing under oath, accuse any person
before a justice of the peace, having criminal jurisdiction, of being the
father of the said bastard child, such justice of the peace shall by his
warrant cause such person to be brought before him, and if the said
accused person is not to be found in the county or City of Baltimore, as
the case may be, then said justice of the peace shall transmit a warrant
to the sheriff of the county or City of Baltimore, as the case may be, in

A "saving" clause is contained in section 13 of the act of 1912, chapter 163—see
also section 1 of that act.

As to the penalty for bastardy, see art. 27, sec. 18.