950 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 434

205S. Probation Officer. One of the clerical assistants
herein provided for shall be assigned and designated by
the chief magistrate as probation officer. The chief mag-
istrate shall have power, whenever he deems it necessary
or advisable, to assign one or more of the other clerical
assistants to assist the said probation officer in his duties.

205T. Terms of Probation. The probation officer,
when directed by one of the magistrates of the Traffic
Court, shall fully investigate and report in writing on the
circumstances of the offense, criminal record, if any, and
social history of a defendant, and shall make any other
investigation or report required of him by said magistrate.
The magistrate shall notify the probation officer in writing
of his designation to act in a particular case, and of the
period and terms of probation. He may also determine
the conditions of probation and may at any time revise,
modify or enlarge said conditions or period of probation
as to any probationer. The magistrate may at any time
discharge a probationer from further supervision and he
may require that the probationer shall appear before him
in person at the end of his probation. Whenever within
the period of probation any probationer shall violate his
probation, the magistrate may impose any sentence he
might have originally imposed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all of the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 434.

(Senate Bill 472)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 6
(2) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1935
Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes'', sub-title "What
Shall Be Taxed and Where", as said section was amended
by Chapter 277 of the Acts of 1939 to correct a typographical
error.