58 ARTICLE 12.

ARTICLE 12.

BASTARDY AND FORNICATION.

	5. Trial of father; bond; support of child; expenses of mother; fun- eral expenses of child; alterna- tive sentence; modification of order; probation.	10. Death of father. 12. Discharge of surety.

1.

See notes to sec. 2.

2.

Requirements of this section as to the mother are directory and not manda-
tory—jurisdiction upheld. Purpose of act 1912, ch. 163. Evidence. Docket
entries. Penalty. Appeal. Kelly v. State, 151 Md. 91; Klein v. State, 151 Md.
494.

To first note under this section on page 350, vol. 1, of Code, add Klein v. State.
151 Md. 487.

3.

See notes to sec. 2.

4.

See notes to sec. 2.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, sec. 5. 1912, ch. 163. 1920, ch. 564, sec. 5.
1924, ch. 442. 1927, ch. 458, sec. 5.

5. Immediately upon the passage of said order, said justice of the
peace shall transmit the original papers and a transcript of the proceed-
ings had before him to said Circuit Court or the Criminal Court of the
City of Baltimore, as the case may be, and thereupon, but not before the
said woman shall have been delivered, the same proceedings shall be had
as in other criminal cases, and if the accused person shall be found guilty
by the verdict of the jury, or by the Court, if the case be tried before the
Court, the Court shall immediately order such person to give bond to the
State of Maryland in a penalty not exceeding $500, with good and suffi-
cient securities, conditioned to pay for the maintenance and support of
said child, to the mother, or to the person having said child in custody,
or to the county or to the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, if said
child be a public charge, until said child reaches the age of fourteen years,
or during the life of such child if said child shall die before reaching the
age of fourteen years, such sum, accounting, in the discretion of the Court,
from the date of birth of the child, not exceeding $15 per month, as the
Court shall by order direct, due regard being had to the circumstances of