1410 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 675

(1) to pay for the maintenance and support of said parent,
or to pay an equal sum to the County or to the City of Bal-
timore, as the case may be, if said parent be a public charge,
during the life of said parent or until the parent is possessed
of other means of adequate support. The sum to be paid may
be agreed upon, if consent proceedings be had, or in the ab-
sence of agreement, such sum as the court may fix, with due
regard to the circumstances of the accused child, and

(2) to give bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty
as the court may fix, with good and sufficient securities, con-
ditioned 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 or the House of
Correction until said bond be given, but not exceeding one year.

93C. Instead of imposing the punishment for failure to
give bond, the Court may, in its discretion and with due re-
gard to the financial ability of the accused child, release such
child from custody on probation for the period during which
the accused shall be required to make payments, upon his or
her entering into a recognizance in such sum as the Court shall
direct, with or without securities. The condition of the recog-
nizance shall be such that if the accused child 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
oath 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 parent or to the county or to the City
of Baltimore, as the case may be, if the parent be a public
charge.

93D. Upon the death of the parent or the child, or upon
the parent securing other adequate means of support, or upon
the child becoming unable to earn or losing possession of
means sufficient to provide support for the parent, the child
and his sureties shall be released from the terms of any court
order rendered and of any bond or recognizance given.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 11, 1939.