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positions under the Merit-System of the State, and, after having complied
with the examinations and pre-requisites thereof, shall be protected by
all the conditions and regulations of the Merit-System.

All employees of the Parole Commissioner, other than the Secretary
who are hereby transferred to, and made employees of the Division of
Parole and Probation shall be subject to such re-classification as may be
deemed advisable by the Board of Parole and Probation and the State
Employment Commissioner; provided, however, that no such employee
by reason of such transfer or re-classification shall suffer any reduction in
compensation. The said Executive Secretary shall receive. such compensa-
tion as may be allowed in the Budget.

1939, ch. 406, sec. 50.

78. The Director of Parole and Probation shall be paid such compensa-
tion as may be provided in the Budget.

The Board of Parole and Probation shall, upon proper examination,
appoint a Supervisor, of Parole and Probation who shall be responsible
to the Director of Parole and Probation for the field work of the division.

Such Supervisor shall by education and experience be capable of per-
forming the duties hereinafter imposed. He shall, with the approval of
the Board of Parole and Probation formulate methods of investigation and
supervision, and develop various processes in the technique of the case-
work of the official staff of the Division, including interviewing, consulta-
tion of records, analysis of the information, diagnosis, plan of treatment,
correlation of effort by individuals and agencies, and methods of influenc-
ing human behavior. He shall, with like approval, prepare and issue
rules and regulations for the guidance of the staff and the conduct of its
work.

The Board of Parole and Probation shall also appoint such staff of
parole officers and other employees as may be provided for in the Budget.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 51. 1912, sec. 7C. 1914, ch. 500.

79. 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 52. 1912, sec. 7D. 1914, ch. 500.

80. In any case in which the Governor may issue a conditional pardon
to any person, the Governor, in the absence of any provision to the contrary
expressed therein, shall be the sole judge of whether or not the conditions
of said pardon have been breached, and the determination by the Governor,
that the conditions of such pardon have been violated by the person receiv-
ing the same, shall be final and not subject to review by any Court of this
State.