ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1139

otherwise of full force and effect. If the Court be satisfied
by information and due proof under oath, at any time during
the three years, that the defendant has violated the terms of
such order, it may forthwith proceed to the trial of the defend-
ant under the original indictment, or sentence him under the
original conviction, as the case may be. In the case of for-
feiture of a recognizance and enforcement thereof by execu-
tion, the sum recovered may, in the discretion of the Court, be
paid in whole or in part to the wife.

87A. The State's Attorney for the City of Baltimore, in
addition to the powers and authority heretofore vested in him by
law, shall be empowered upon personal knowledge, complaint
or information that any person has deserted or failed to provide
for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child or
children to require witnesses other than the person accused or to
be accused to appear before him, the Deputy State's Attorney
or any Assistant State's Attorney, for such examination of
witnesses as may be deemed necessary.

Provided the State's Attorney has reason to believe it to be
in the interest of the public that an investigation or inquiry be
made with a view to the filing of any information to the Crimi-
nal Court of Baltimore, such as hereinafter provided.

87B. After examination or inquiry shall have been made
and completed as provided for herein, the State's Attorney may
file an Information in the Criminal Court of Baltimore against
the person under investigation charging him with offense or
offenses of desertion and failing to support his wife or child or
both, as the facts may warrant.

And the Court before whom such Information shall have been
made is hereupon empowered, upon the written consent of the
person complained of, to pass an order which shall be subject to
change by it, from time to time, as the circumstances may re-
quire, directing the person complained against to pay a certain
sum weekly or monthly for the space of three years for the sup-
port of the wife and child or children, if there be any, as the
case may be, and to release the person complained against on
such conditions as the Court may in writing impose.

And it is further provided that should the person named as
defendant in the Information filed as aforesaid, fail or refuse
to consent in writing as aforesaid, and demand a trial on the
charge or charges therein made, his trial shall proceed in the