352 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.,

P. G. L, 1860, art. 29, sec. 68.

201. If Any person convicted in said court shall have a child
or children under the age of twenty-one years, and shall not have
property sufficient to maintain such child or children, the said
court may bind such child or children to any trade or handicraft ,
females until the age of sixteen, and males until thie age of twenty-
one years.

Ibid. sec. 69.

202. If any person who shall be summoned as a witness to
said court shall fail to attend as required in said summons, he
shall be fined by said court in its discretion,' not exceeding one
hundred and fifty dollars.

Ibid. sec. 70. P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 132.

203. In all criminal cases in the said conrt in which bail shall
be forfeited, the person who shall have entered into such recog-
nizance for the appearance of any traverser or prisoner shall be
liable forthwith to an attachment for contempt for the non-
appearance of the said party, which attachment shall be issued
by the court in which an indictment against said traverser or
prisoner is pending, at the instance of the attorney prosecuting
therein.

Ibid. sec. 71. Ibid, sec 183.

204. In all cases in which bail as aforesaid is forfeited, the
court may, on the return of said attachment, order the person,
attached to stand committed until the amount of said recogni-
zance is fully paid and satisfied, or may order said person to be
discharged upon the payment of such lesser sum as it shall, in its
discretion, deem proper; provided, such sum be not less than the
amount of the costs which may have accrued in the case up to
the time of passing such order.

1865, ch, 187.

205. In all criminal cases removed from the circuit court for
Baltimore county to the criminal court of Baltimore and tried,
the judge of the criminal court may allow to the State's attorney
for Baltimore city, in addition to the sum now allowed by law, a