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and sufficient securities, to the State of Maryland, conditioned that she
will indemnify the county or city, as the case may be, from any charge that
may accrue for the maintenance and support of the said child until said
child reaches the age of twelve years, and upon neglect or refusal to give
such bond, the Court may commit her to jail or other institution for a term
not exceeding one year, or until such bond is given, provided, however, that
the Court may suspend sentence and parole the said woman for the term
of two years.

Cited but not construed in State v. Trimble, 33 Md. 470.
See notes to secs. 3 and 4.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1912, ch. 163.

7. All bonds or recognizances required under this Article to be taken
or given before a justice of the peace shall be immediately returned by
said justice of the peace (a copy thereof being retained by the said justice
of the peace), to the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county or the Crimi-
nal Court of Baltimore City as the case may be; and the clerk of the Court
shall record said bonds or recognizances together with any other bonds or
recognizances taken or given by the order of the Court therein among the
proceedings of the Court.

The father and his sureties may be required to pay not exceeding thirty dollars
a year for maintenance provided for the child, before the order as well as
afterwards. The recognizance must indemnify the county from all charges for the
child's maintenance from its birth until it is seven years old. Eccleston v. State,
7 G. & J. 316.

If the sum to be paid is fixed at thirty dollars, a receipt for a less sum, though
purporting to be full, will not operate as a release; contra, however, as to mainte-
nance prior to the time the order is passed. Barber v. State, 24 Md. 390.

This section does not change the character of bastardy proceeding. Oldham v.
State, 5 Gill, 93; State v. Phelps, 9 Md. 28; Sheay v. State, 74 Md. 56.

This section applied. Huyett v. Slick, 43 Md. 288; Eccleston v. State, 7 G. &
J. 316.

Cited but not construed in Lynn v. State, 84 Md. 80.

See notes to secs. 1, 3, 4 and 5.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1912, ch. 163.

8. The Court may from time to time, upon petition of any interested
party, change or modify its order directing the amount that the father shall
pay for the maintenance and support of said child, ten days' notice in
writing mailed to or left at the last known address of the opposite party
shall be sufficient service.

That neither the party maintaining the child, nor the child itself, has resided in
the state since the recognizance, does not affect the right to issue a sci. fa. Mong
v. State, 10 G. & J. 383.

This section applied. Huyett v. Slick, 43 Md. 288.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1912, ch. 163.

9. The Circuit Court of the county or the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City, as the case may be, shall take such action and shall have authority to
direct the issue of such writs as may be appropriate to enforce the bonds
provided for by this Article.