DIVISION OF PAROLE AND PROBATION.

Chairman: F. Murray Benson, 1949
Hall Hammond, Attorney General
Charles F. Snyder, Chief Probation Officer, Supreme.

Bench of Baltimore City
Harold E. Donnell, Superintendent of Prisons..

F. Murray Benson, Director
John G. Eggen, Executive Secretary.

State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Annapolis 2304.

The Division of Parole and Probation was created as the successor
to the Parole Commissioner (Code 1939, Art. 41, sec. 75). The Board
of Parole and Probation is charged with responsibility for the admin-
istration of parole in Maryland. The Governor, with the consent of
the Senate, appoints the Director, who automatically becomes the
Chairman of the Board of Parole and Probation. The Director, the
Attorney General, the State Superintendent of Prisons, and the Chief
Probation Officer of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City constitutes
the Board. The last three members serve ex-officio and without pay.
It is the Director who has the sole power to recommend persons to the
Governor for release on parole, but the Division makes such investi-
gations of applicants for executive clemency as the Governor directs.
The Governor has the sole power to pardon. The Director serves also
as Administrator of the Inter-State Compact for the reciprocal super..
vision of parolees and probationers. The Division makes available
the services of its investigating officers to the Circuit Courts and the
Criminal Court of Baltimore City. In addition to the Annapolis office,
there are offices located in Baltimore City, Chestertown, Hagerstown
and Upper Marlboro..

The Inter-State Compact places under the jurisdiction of the Ad-
ministrator, during the parole or probationary period, any person con-
victed of an offense within the State of Maryland who may thereafter
be placed on probation or released on parole to reside in another
State. Similarly, the administrator decides whether parolees and
probationers from another State may reside in Maryland. The
Division is currently carrying about 120 cases under the Inter-State
Compact..

1948 1949
Appropriations $109,190 $113,887
Staff: 31..

MILITARY DEPARTMENT.

Major General Milton A. Reckord, the Adjutant General and.

Commanding General.

Colonel E. Leslie Medford, Military Assignment, Personnel
Officer and Chief Clerk..

Court of Appeals Building, Annapolis Telephone: Annapolis 4711.

QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT
Major General Milton A. Reckord, Quartermaster General
Brigadier General Harry C. Ruhl, Executive Officer and
State Quartermaster.

5th Regiment Armory, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Mulberry 3388.

The Charter of Maryland granted to Lord Baltimore the power to
raise troops to put down insurrection or rebellion and to subdue the.