300 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 182

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 3, 5, 7 and 10 of Article 12 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition) and (1935 Supple-
ment), title "Bastardy and Fornication", be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and that
four new sections to be known as Sections 4A, 4B, 4C and 5A
be and they are hereby added to said Article, and all to read
as follows:

3. Upon the appearance of said accused person, the justice
of the peace shall pass an order requiring said accused person
to give bond to the State of Maryland in a penalty not ex-
ceeding $500, with good and sufficient securities, conditioned
that he will appear at the next term of the Circuit Court of
the county from which said warrant issued, or the Criminal
Court of the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, or to any
later term of such Court, after the birth of said child, in de-
fault of such security, said accused person shall be com-
mitted to the custody of the sheriff until such bond is given or
until final judgment is rendered by said Court, in case the
bond provided for by this section shall be forfeited, the Court
may from time to time direct that the proceeds thereof be ap-
plied for the maintenance and support of said bastard child.
Immediately upon passage of said order, said justice of the
peace shall transmit the original papers and a transcript of
the proceedings had before him to the Circuit Court of the
County or the Criminal Court of the City of Baltimore, as the
case may be, and thereupon, but not before said woman shall
have been delivered, the same proceedings shall be had as in
other criminal cases.

4A. Whenever any woman, who has been delivered of or
who is pregnant with a bastard child, shall, in writing under
oath filed with a State's Attorney (the term State's Attorney
as used in this Article includes Deputy State's Attorney or
Assistant State's Attorney acting under authority given by
the State's Attorney) accuse any person of being the father
of said bastard child, the State's Attorney may require wit-
nesses other than the person accused to appear before him for
such examination of witnesses as may be deemed in the public
interest. After such examination or inquiry the State's At-
torney may file an information at any time after but not be-
fore the woman shall have been delivered of the child in the
Circuit Court of the County or the Criminal Court of Balti-
more City, as the case may be, against the accused father
charging him with the offense of bastardy.

Nothing in this section, however, shall prevent the State's
Attorney, if he see fit, from submitting any such bastardy
case to the grand jury at any time after but not before the