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(2) to give bond to the State of Maryland in such
penalty as the court may fix, with good and sufficient secu-
rities, conditioned on making the payments required by
the Court's order, or any amendments thereof. Failure to
give such bond shall be punished by commitment in the
jail until said bond be given, but not exceeding one year.

97F. Instead of imposing the punishment for failure
to give bond, the Court may, in its discretion and with due
regard to the financial ability of the accused parent, release
such parent from custody on probation for the period dur-
ing which the accused shall be required to make payments,
upon his entering into a recognizance in such sum as the
Court shall direct, with or without securities. The condi-
tion of the recognizance shall be such that if the accused
parent shall make his personal appearance at the Court
whenever ordered to do so within the period during which
he shall be required to make such payments, and shall
further 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
path that the accused has violated the terms of such order,
it may forthwith proceed to impose sentence under the
original conviction of failure to give bond. In the case of
forfeiture of a recognizance and enforcement thereof by
execution, the sum recovered may, in the discretion of the
Court, be paid, in whole or in part, to the child or to the
county or to the City of Baltimore, as the case may be,
if the child be a public charge.

97G. Upon the death of the child or the parent, or
upon the child securing other adequate means of support,
or upon the parent becoming unable to earn or losing
possession of means sufficient to provide support for
the child, the parent and his sureties shall be released from
the terms of any court order rendered and of any bond
or recognizance given.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1947.

Approved March 15,1947.

CHAPTER 114.
(Senate Bill 205)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
573A of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland