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age of eighteen years. Upon failure to make the payments as pro-
vided in the original probation order or subsequent modification
thereof, or failure to comply with any other condition of said Order
which the Court may impose, the Court may strike out the proba-
tion and commit the defendant to jail or the House of Correction
to serve the sentence originally imposed and suspended. In the case
of forfeiture 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 mother or the person having said child
in custody, or to the County or to the City of Baltimore as the case
may be, if the child is a public charge.

9-A. The responsibility of a natural father to contribute to the
support of a bastard child shall be a continuing one until the child
shall reach the age of eighteen years, or if a girl child until she
shall marry, notwithstanding any previous conviction of bastardy
under this Article or any previous commitment or the consequent
serving of any term resulting from said conviction. Commitment
of the natural father of any bastard child to a jail or the House of
Correction for failure to give bond as provided in Section 8 of this
Article or failure to comply with the terms of a probation order as
provided in Section 9 of this Article, and the consequent serving of
any term shall not be a bar to a further prosecution under this
section by a new indictment or information charging the defendant
with wilfully failing to contribute toward the support and mainte-
nance of his bastard child. Upon conviction thereof, the accused
may be sentenced to a term of not more than two years in jail or
the House of Correction; provided, however, that in the discretion
of the Court such sentence may be suspended and the accused again
released on probation as provided for in Section 9 of this Article.

9-B. Any monies due and unpaid for the support of a bastard
child at the time it reaches the maximum age for maintenance and
su/pport shall be a continuing obligation of the natural father,
enforceable until finally and completely paid under all the provisions
of law applicable to the order of the Court.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 18, 1955.

CHAPTER 428
(Senate Bill 157)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 174 (b)
of Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.