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Probation, it shall be the duty of the said Director to supervise, when so
requested by said Court, the conduct of such person and to ascertain and
report to said Court whether or not the conditions of such probation or
suspension of sentence are being faithfully complied with by such person.

The parole officers of the Division of Parole and Probation shall when-
ever feasible be available to the judges of the said Courts for the purpose
of making investigations or performing such other probationary services
as the said judges may from time to time request.

1939, ch. 406, sec. 55D.

87. The State's Attorneys in the several Counties and the City of
Baltimore are hereby required to make and transmit to the Board of
Parole and Probation and the Warden of the Penitentiary, or other penal
institution to which the prisoner may be sentenced, a resume of the facts
and evidence adduced in each case tried in the Circuit Courts of the several
Counties of the State, and in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City wherein
a verdict of guilty was found, and a sentence of one year or more has
been imposed, so that the Board of Parole and Probation and the Warden
of the Penitentiary or other penal institution to which the prisoner may
be sentenced may have on file an abstract of each case in which application
for parole may be made under the provision of this Article.

1939, ch. 406, sec. 3.

88. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this sub-title shall,
for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be
unconstitutional and invalid, such judgment shall not effect, impair or
invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to
the clause, sentence, paragraph, or section thereof so found unconstitutional
and invalid.¹

1937, ch. 125, sec. 56.

89. The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to
execute a compact on behalf of the State of Maryland, with any of the
United States legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:

A COMPACT

Entered into by and among the contracting states, signatories hereto,
with the consent of the Congress of the United States of America, granted
by an Act entitled "An Act Granting the Consent of Congress to any two
or more States to enter into Agreements or Compacts for Cooperative
Effort and Mutual Assistance in the Prevention of Crime and for other
purposes." THE CONTRACTING STATES SOLEMNLY AGREE:

(1) That it shall be competent for the duly constituted judicial and
administrative authorities of a state party to his compact, (herein called
"sending state"), to permit any person convicted of an offense within such
state and placed on probation or released on parole to reside in any other
state party to this compact, (herein called "receiving state"), while on
probation or parole, if

¹ Sec. 2, ch. 406, 1939, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent of such
inconsistency.