274                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 132

a Probation Department, for use in the courts of that city,
which now or may hereafter comprise the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City, in carrying out the provisions of this sub-
title; the said Supreme Bench shall have the power to employ,
to appoint and to remove, under the provisions of this sub-title
hereinafter set out, as many persons as the said Supreme Bench
may determine to be necessary to carry out such provisions.

351B. Probation and Suspension of Sentence. The Crim-
inal Court of Baltimore City (and the several parts thereof as
heretofore, or may hereafter be, instituted), before conviction
of any person accused of crime, with the written consent of
the person so indicted (including persons appealing from con-
victions before Police Magistrates and Justices of the Peace
assigned to the Juvenile Court and to the Traffic Court in
Baltimore City) whether infant or adult; and after conviction
or after plea of guilty or of nolo contendere, without such
assent, are empowered (during the term of court in which
such consent, conviction or plea is had) to:

(1)   Suspend the imposition of sentence;

(2)   Place such person on probation before or after com-
mitment and incarceration;

(3)   And in all such cases above named to make such written
conditions of suspension of sentence and probation as the Court
may deem, proper.

351C. The Court, at any time during the period herein-
after set out, and after notice to the traverser, probationer or
person accused, and after full opportunity to him to be heard
either in person or by counsel, may alter, enlarge, modify or
change any one or more of such conditions, and may add other
conditions of suspension of sentence or probation—all, how-
ever, to be subject to certain conditions hereinafter set forth.

35ID. The said Court shall have power to fix the period
of probation and suspension of sentence, which period shall not
in any event exceed five years from the date of such suspended
sentence or probation, and which said period shall also not ex-
ceed the maximum sentence of imprisonment to which such
person may be sentenced on any count of the indictment or
charge with which he stands accused (but in neither case to
exceed five years). Said Court, from time to time, may con-
tinue to extend the period of probation and suspension of sen-