Parole Officers:

James A. Cavanaugh.......... .............. .. Baltimore
Thomas P. MacCarthy ................. ........... ........ Baltimore
J. Hubert Black.. —..... ............ .. Woodbine

Parole Supervisor.
John H. McFaul, Jr..... .. ............... Baltimore

Stenographers:

Miss Freda Winterling.... .......... ... .. Baltimore
Miss Eleanor G. Twining ...... .. .. Baltimore
Miss A. Elizabeth Paulus Baltimore

The Governor with the consent of the Senate, appoints the Commis-
sioner. He shall not be less than thirty years of age and shall have
been a registered voter of the State of Maryland for at least four years
prior to his appointment. He is appointed for a term of two years
from the first Monday in May next ensuing his appointment. Ch. 29,
Acts 1922 (Maryland Code 1924, Article 41, Sections 46-66).

It shall be the duty of the said Commissioner to investigate and to
collect all information that may aid him in determining the advisabil-
ity of recommending to the Governor the conditional pardon (parole)
of all persons sentenced for one year or more to any penal institution
of the State upon the expiration of one-third of the term for which
each of such persons has been sentenced.

In pursuing his investigations, the Commissioner is assisted by a
staff composed of, a Secretary, a Chief Parole Officer, three Parole
Officers, a Parole Supervisor and three stenographers. He has been
granted the power to summons witnesses and if necessary to examine
them on their oath. The Commissioner, the Secretary and the Parole
Officers appointed by the Commissioner, shall have the power to
arrest, without warrant within the State, those violating the condi-
tions of their parole. Furthermore the Commissioner shall have visi-
torial powers over every institution receiving aid from the State,
City or private sources, to which prisoners, whether adults or minors,
are committed.

Being the only agency available for such purposes, the Department
also undertakes the investigation of applications for Pardon to restore
citizenship and for reduction in sentences imposed by the Courts, when
requested to do so by the Governor.

Section 56, Article 41, Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
Chapter 125 (1937) authorized and directed the Governor to execute
a Compact in behalf of the State of Maryland with any of the United
States, for mutual helpfulness in relation to persons convicted of
crime or offenses who may be placed on probation, or released on
parole. The State became signatory to such an Inter-State Compact
on September 24, 1937. Under the terms of this Compact, the Hon. J.
Cookman Boyd was appointed by the Governor as administrator
thereof for the State of Maryland It thus devolves upon the Parole
Commissioner to administer the terms of the Compact and develop
rules and regulations under its terms, to the end that there be a
standardization of procedure throughout the country.

Section I of the Compact extends the jurisdiction of the admin..
istrator, during the probationary or parole period, to any person
convicted of an offense within the State of Maryland, who may there-
after be placed on probation or released on parole.