GOVERNOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTEATIVE DEPARTMENTS. 1503

duties appertaining to his office according to the laws of the State and the
rules and regulations adopted in accordance therewith.

An. Code, sec. 7A. 1914, ch. 500.

49. The said Parole Commissioner shall have and is hereby given visi-
torial powers over all institutions to which any person may be committed
upon a criminal charge or to which a minor may be committed as a de-
linquent, whether such institution be a State, County or City institution,
or private institution receiving State, County or City aid; and the said
Commissioner shall have power to summons witnesses before him and to ad-
minister oaths or affirmations to such witnesses whenever, in the judgment
of the said Commissioner, it may be necessary for the effectual discharge
of his duties under this sub-title; and any person failing to appear be-
fore said Commissioner at the time and place specified, in answer to said
summons or refusing to testify, shall be punishable by a fine of not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars; false swearing on the
part of any witness testifying before said Commissioner shall be deemed
perjury.

The said Parole Commissioner shall have power to make all needful
rules and regulations not inconsistent with law for the effectual carrying
out of the provisions of this sub-title, and to prescribe the powers and
duties of all persons employed or appointed by said Commissioner.

An. Code, sec. 7B. 1914, ch. 500. 1918, ch. 249. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 44).

50. The Parole Commissioner shall receive a salary of $2,500 per
annum, and shall, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this
sub-title, have power to appoint and remove at pleasure such number of
parole officers, not exceeding four, as shall be provided for in the Budget,
each of whom shall receive the compensation provided in the Budget.
The Parole Commissioner shall also, in his discretion, appoint and remove
at pleasure other persons to serve as parole officers without pay. The Com-
missioner shall have power to appoint and remove at pleasure a Secretary,
at such compensation as may be fixed in the Budget. The Parole Commis-
sioner, and the parole officers appointed by him, are authorized and em-
powered to arrest, without warrant, all persons who violate the terms of
their parole or conditional pardon, wherever found within the State.

An. Code, sec. 7C. 1914, ch. 500.

51. The Governor upon giving the notice required by the Constitution
may commute or change any sentence of death into confinement in the
Penitentiary or in the Maryland House of Correction or banishment, for
such period as he shall think expedient; and on giving such notice, he may
commute or change the sentence of any person from imprisonment in the
Maryland Penitentiary to imprisonment for a like or for a less period in
the Maryland House of Correction. And, on giving such notice, he may
pardon any person, convicted of crime, on such conditions as he may pre-
scribe, or he may upon like notice remit any part of the time for which any
person may be sentenced to imprisonment on such like conditions without
such remission operating as a full pardon to any such person.