THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1991

cumstances may require, directing [the] such person
[complained against] to pay a certain sum weekly or
monthly for the space of three years for the support of
the wife [and child or children, if there be any, as the case
may be], and to release [the] such person [complained
against] on such conditions as the Court may in writing
impose.

(c) And the Court before whom such Information shall
have been made is hereupon empowered, upon the written
consent of the parent complained of, to pass an order which
shall be subject to change by it, from time to time, as the
circumstances may require, directing such parent to pay
a certain sum weekly or monthly for the space of three
years for the support of the minor child or children, and
to release such parent on such conditions as the Court
may in writing impose.

(d) 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 de-
mand a trial on the charge or charges therein made, his
or her trial shall proceed in the same manner as provided
for in the trial of other persons indicted for desertion or
non-support, and the said Information shall take the place
of Presentment and Indictment by the Grand Jury.

(e) Nothing in the above section shall prevent the
State's Attorney from submitting any such case to the
Grand Jury for such action as it may deem proper, in-
stead of proceeding by way of Information.

96. When any person shall have been convicted under
[the two preceding sections, or either of them, ] this sub-
title and sentenced to imprisonment in the Maryland House
of Correction or in the Maryland Reformatory for Women,
the court passing sentence upon such persons may in its
discretion pass an order directing the board of managers
of the said House of Correction or of the said Maryland
Reformatory for Women, as the case may be, to allot and
pay over to the wife, minor child or minor children, or to
such person or persons on behalf of said wife, minor child
or minor children as the court in its said order may direct,
the whole or such part as the court may specify of the
earnings of the labor of such persons so sentenced, which
the said board of managers under the provisions of [sec-
tion 536 of] this article otherwise would or might allot
and pay to such persons so sentenced at the time of his
or her release; provided, that the said court in its order
may likewise direct and specify the time or times when