334 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

If the defendant shall violate the condition of the recognizance, it may
be forfeited, and the justice shall note the forfeiture on the recognizance
and deliver it to the clerk of the court having original jurisdiction of
the misdemeanor described in section 75. The said forfeited recog-
nizance shall then become a record of said court, and shall have the
same effect and may be enforced in the same manner as if it had been
taken and forfeited by the court. If the magistrate be satisfied by
information and due proof under oath at any time during the year that
the defendant has violated the terms -of the order, he shall forthwith
commit or bail the defendant for the action of the grand jury, as in other
cases.

1908, ch. 694.

77. When any person shall have been convicted under the two pre-
ceding sections, or either of them, and sentenced to imprisonment in the
Maryland House of Correction, the court passing sentence upon such
persons may in its discretion pass an order directing the board of
managers of the said House of Correction to allot and pay over to the
wife, minor child or minor children, or to such person or persons on
behalf of said wife, minor child or minor children as the court in its
said order may direct; the whole or such part as the court may specify
of the earnings of the labor of such persons so sentenced, which the said
board of managers under the provisions of section 536 of this article
otherwise would or might allot and pay to such persons so sentenced at
the time of his release; provided, that the said court in its order may
likewise direct and specify the time or times when such allotment and
payment shall be made, and whether the same shall be paid weekly,
monthly or otherwise; and provided further, that the court in its dis-
cretion may modify, amend or rescind such order in whole or part at
any time during the continuance of any sentence.

1910, ch. 683 (p. 86).

78. Any person having the care, custody or possession of any child
under the age of three years, who shall desert or abandon such child
with the intent that it shall become a public charge, or without making
provision for its proper support and maintenance for a period of at
least three years with some responsible person or institution duly author-
ized to take and care for infants, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars
or be imprisoned in jail or in the House of Correction for a period not
exceeding one year.

Destroying Property Maliciously.

1904, art. 27, sec. 71. 1888, art. 27, sec. 48. 1860, art. 30, sec. 38. 1744, ch. 5.

1751, ch. 7.

79. If any person shall cut or destroy any tobacco plants belonging
to any other person, or shall cause the same to be done, or shall by any
means cause or excite any person to cut or destroy any tobacco or
tobacco plants belonging to any other person, on conviction thereof he