PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 867

any reason fail to make the survey on the day named in the
publication or notice he may proceed to do so at any time within
thirty days after the expiration of the said notice, by posting
three written notices on the land proposed to be located and
surveyed by him, at least five days before proceeding to make
the said survey; and in the certificate of survey, the surveyor
shall certify to the Land Office to the publication or giving of
notice as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 15, 1912.

CHAPTER 596.

AN ACT creating the Penal System Commission, and providing
for the appointment of the members thereof and of a secre-
tary thereto and employees thereof; prescribing its duties and
directing it to investigate the penal laws and penal system
of the State and empowering it to enter and fully investigate
and inquire into the management and conduct of every insti-
tution in the State of Maryland wherein any person may be
sentenced to confinement for violation of any law of the
State, to examine all books and other record's of any such
institution and to summon witnesses and examine them
under oath administered by an officer of the State authorized
to administer oaths; and directing said commission to report
the results of its investigations, with such recommendations
as it may approve, to the next session of the General
Assembly.

WHEREAS, It is deemed desirable to create a commission to
inquire into and consider the provisions of the laws and the
administration thereof relative to the sentence and probation
of persons convicted of offenses, the length of service pre-
scribed and imposed for the several offenses, the parole, pro-
bation and indeterminate sentence system, the method of
employment of convicted persons while undergoing sentence,
and such other matters relative to the penal laws and the
administration and enforcement thereof as said commission
may deem advisable, and to report to the next session of the