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351-I. Bonds. The Supreme Bench may, in its discretion,
require any and all of said probation workers, clerical assistants
and other employees so assigned to work in the Probation De-
partment of the Supreme Bench to give a bond with satisfac-
tory surety in a penal sum to be fixed by the Supreme Bench,
conditioned for the faithful accounting and discharge of duty,
said bond to run to the State of Maryland as the obligee
therein; the premiums for said bonds to be fixed as an expense
of the Probation Department and not required to be paid by
the appointee so appointed. Suits on such bonds when di-
rected by the Supreme Bench to be instituted shall be instituted
and prosecuted by the City Solicitor of Baltimore City, and
all moneys recovered thereon shall be for the use of the Su-
preme Bench for the Probation Department thereof, and sums
recovered thereon shall be paid out under its orders. All fees
to the Clerk and Sheriff and costs and expenses required or
necessary and proper to be paid for the prosecution of any
suit on such bond shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore.

351J. Powers and Duties. The duties of the probation
workers, clerical assistants and other employees in carrying out
the provisions of this sub-title in said department shall be
prescribed by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, with
power in said Supreme Bench from time to time to change,
alter and amend the same, and to increase or decrease the
character of duties imposed upon each probation worker or
clerical assistant or other employees in said department. No
probation worker or person engaged in the work of the depart-
ment shall make any investigation, as herein provided, without
the previous order of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
or any member thereof.

35IK. Nothing in this sub-title contained shall be con-
strued to prevent any Judge of the Supreme Bench in sus-
pending sentence and placing on probation or paroling any per-
son accused of crime either before or after conviction or plea of
guilty or nolo contendere in the custody of or under the super-
vision of any other person or agency other than the Probation
Department of Baltimore City.

351L. The powers named in this sub-title are not to be
construed in derogation of or in limitation of any power of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City or of any Judge thereof.