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such accused person, and further to pay the whole or such part of the
expenses incurred by the said mother dur¹ her confinement as the Court
may direct, and to pay the reasonable funeral expenses of said child if he
or she shall die under the age of fourteen years, and in default of such
bond he shall be committed to jail or the House of Correction until said
bond be given, but not exceeding two years; provided, however, that instead
of imposing the punishment hereinbefore provided, the Court, in its discre-
tion, having regard to the circumstances and financial ability of the accused
person, shall have the power to pass an order which shall be subject to
change by it from time to time, as the circumstances may require, directing
the accused person to pay 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, a certain sum monthly, 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, account-
ing, in the discretion of the Court, from the date of the birth of the child,
not to exceed $15 per month, and further directing the accused person
to pay the whole or such part of the expenses incurred by the said mother
during her confinement as the Court may direct, and to pay the reason-
able funeral expenses of said child if he or she shall die under the age of
fourteen years, and to release the accused person from custody on proba-
tion for the period during which the accused person shall be required to
make such payments, upon his entering into a recognizance in such sum
as the Court shall direct, with or without sureties. The condition of the
recognizance shall be such that if the accused person shall make his per-
sonal appearance at the Court whenever ordered to do so within the period
during which he shall be required to make such payments, and shall fur-
ther comply with the terms of the order, or of any subsequent modification
thereof, then the recognizance shall be void, otherwise of full force and
effect. If the Court be satisfied by information and due proof under
oath, at any time during the period for which the accused person shall be
required to make such payments, that the accused has violated the terms
of such order, it may forthwith proceed to impose sentence under the orig-
inal conviction. In the case of forfeiture of a recognizance and enforce-
ment thereof by execution, the sum recovered may, in the discretion of the
Court, be paid, in whole or in part, 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.

Cited but not construed in Klein v. State. 151 Md. 494.

See notes to sec. 2.

7.

See notes to sec. 2.

An. Code, 1924, see. 10. 1912, sec. 10. 1912. ch. 163. 1927, ch. 45S, sec. 10.
10. Upon the death of the father after the passage of the order, or
after having given the bond prescribed in Section 5, the Court may, upon

¹ Evidentally a typographical error.