HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 239

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be, and the same is hereby added
to Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1935 Sup-
plement) title "Governor—Executive and Administrative De-
partments", sub-title "Parole Commissioner", said new Section
to be known as Section 56, to follow immediately after Section
55 of said Article, and to read as follows:

56— The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and
directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of Mary-
land, 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
this 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

(a) Such person is in fact a resident of or has his family re-
siding within the receiving state and can obtain employment
there;

(b) Though not a resident of the receiving state and not hav-
ing his family residing there, the receiving state consents to
to such person being sent there.

Before granting such permission, opportunity shall be
granted to the receiving state to investigate the home and
prospective employment of such person.

A resident of the receiving state, within the meaning of this
section, is one who has been an actual inhabitant of such state
continuously for more than one year prior to his coming to
the sending state and has not resided within the sending state