720                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 427

County (or the Criminal Court of Baltimore City) and , no criminal
information shall thereafter be filed or the matter referred to the
Grand Jury NOR SHALL ANY PROSECUTION THEREAFTER
BE HAD as to the bastard child unless the accused shall have failed
to comply with the terms and conditions of the settlement.

8.    Whenever a person accused of bastardy, after proceedings
before a justice of the peace or a State's Attorney, shall consent
thereto in writing, or whenever upon failure to give such consent
such person shall be found guilty, the Court shall issue an order
directing such person:

(1)  to pay for the maintenance and support of. said child to the
mother, or to the person having said child in custody, or to the
county or to the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, if said child
be a public charge, until said child reaches the age of [sixteen]
eighteen years, or during the life of such child if it should die before
reaching the age of [sixteen] eighteen years, such sum as may be
agreed upon, if consent proceedings be had, or in the absence of
agreement, such sum as the court may fix, with due regard to the
circumstances of the accused person. The Court, in its discretion,
may also direct payment of the whole or part of the expenses
incurred by the mother during her confinement, and the reasonable
funeral expenses of the child if it die under the age of [sixteen]
eighteen years, and

(2)  to give bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty as the
Court may fix, with good and sufficient securities, conditioned on
making the payments required by the Court's order, or any amend-
ments thereof. failure to give such bond shall be punished by com-
mitment in the jail or the House of Correction until said bond be
given but not exceeding two years. Upon petition of the mother,
State's Attorney or either of the sureties, the Court may inquire
into said bond at any time, and in its discretion require a new bond.

9.    Whenever a person accused of bastardy shall have failed to
give bond as provided under Section 8 of this Article, or shall have
consented to the passage of an Order to support a bastard child,
and has failed to comply therewith, or has pleaded guilty to an
indictment or information charging him with bastardy or has been
found guilty under such indictment or information after trial by
Court, sentence to a term of two years in the House of Correction
shall be imposed; provided, however, that the Court in its discretion
may suspend such sentence and place the accused on probation on
condition that he make payments as the Court may direct for the
swpport of the bastard child until the said child reaches the age of
eighteen years, or if a girl child until she shall marry, or during
the lifetime of such child if it should die before reaching the age
of eighteen years; and that the accused enter into a recognizance
in such form as the Court may direct, with or without securities.
It shall also be a condition of the probation that the accused not
leave the State of Maryland without permission of the Court or
change his address within said State without giving proper notice
to a Probation Officer or other person designated by the Court;
and the Court may in its discretion also impose as a condition of
probation that the accused make payment of the whole or part of
the expenses incurred by the mother during her confinement, and
the reasonable funeral expenses of the child if it shall die under the