ART. 12] PROCEDURE UPON RECOGNIZANCE. 317

recognizance shall be liable to be proceeded against as is pro-
vided in sections 7 and 8 of this article.

Root v. State, 10 G. & J. 374. Owens v. State, 10 Md. 164. Baker v.
State, 21 Md. 422. Norwood v. State, 45 Md. 68. Neff v. State, 57 Md.
385. Sheay v. State, 74 Md. 53. Lynn v. State, 84 Md. 80.

1888, art. 12, sec. 6. 1860, art. 13, sec. 6. 1785, ch. 47, sec. 2.

6. Every justice by whom any recognizance to indemnify the
county shall be taken shall immediately return the same to the
clerk of the circuit court for the county where he resides, or the
clerk of the criminal court of Baltimore, if he reside in the
city of Baltimore; and the clerk of the said court shall record
the said recognizance among the proceedings of the court, and
the court shall, when necessary, issue such process thereon as
hereinafter provided for.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1860, art. 13, sec. 7. 1796, ch. 34.

7. Any justice of the peace, upon application of the mother
of any illegitimate child, or any person to whose custody such
child may have been committed to be maintained, verified by
the oath of such mother or other person that he or she has not
received any sum or sums of money from the father of such
child or either of his securities, his or their or either of their
heirs, executors or administrators, for the use or maintenance
of such child more than credit given, shall issue an order
requiring such father, his security or securities, his or their
heirs, executors or administrators, to pay the mother or other
person having the custody of said child, such a sum of money
as may appear adequate for the maintenance of such child, not.
exceeding thirty dollars per annum, until the said child shall
arrive at the age of seven years.

Grants v. State, 4 H. & J. 121. Eccleston v. State, 7 G. & J. 316. Mong
v. State, 10 G. & J. 380. Oldham v. State, 5 Gill, 90. Owens v State, 10
Md. 165. Barber v. State, 24 Md. 383. Huyett v. Slick, 43 Md. 284. Lynn
v. State, 84 Md. 80.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1860, art. 13, sec. 8. 1796, ch. 34.

8. Upon proof of the service of such order upon the person
or persons to whom the same may be directed, and demand of
payment thereof, and that the money due thereon is unpaid, the
clerk of the court in which the recognizance of the father may
be filed shall forthwith issue a scire facias on such recognizance,
for the use of such mother or other person entitled as afore-
said, and thereupon such proceedings shall be had as shall bring.