1082 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 629

In cases where a justice of the peace acting pursuant to
the authority conferred by this section shall order the defend-
ant to pay a fine and/or costs in installments to a duly author-
ized and responsible City or State agency which shall under-
take to collect and account for said installments, he shall not
be responsible for the collection of the same nor be required
to pay the same over to the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas or the Register of the City of Baltimore or the Police
Commissioner of Baltimore City, as the case may be, nor shall
his bond be liable for the same, except to the extent that he
or someone acting under his direction (other than a worker
or other employee of said City or State agency) has received
any part of said fine and/or costs; but said justice of the peace
shall include the same in the report required to be made by
him to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, the Register
of the City of Baltimore and the Police Commissioner of Balti-
more City, respectively, under Sections 743, 744 and 746 of
Article 4 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland (1938 Edi-
tion), with a notation on said report earmarking those fines
and/or costs which have been ordered paid in installments to
a City or State agency, as aforesaid, and specifying the agency
to which said fine and/or costs were ordered paid.

14B. (1) The justices of the peace in and for Baltimore
€ity (except Traffic Court Magistrates), in any case within their
jurisdiction, shall have power, before conviction of any person
accused of crime, with the written consent of the person so ac-
cused, and after conviction or after plea of guilty or of nolo
contendere, without such consent, to: (a) suspend the imposi-
tion of sentence; (b) place such person on probation before
commitment; (c) and in all such cases above named to make
such written conditions of suspension of sentence and proba-
tion as said justices of the peace may deem proper.

(2) Said justices of the peace, at any time during the period
hereinafter set out, and after notice to the probationer or per-
son 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 the limitations hereinafter set forth.

(3) Said justices of the peace shall have power to fix the
period of probation and suspension of sentence, which period
shall not in any event exceed two years from the date of such
suspension of sentence or probation. Said justices of the
peace, from time to time, may continue to extend the period
of probation and suspension of sentence first fixed, until the
conditions originally or thereafter prescribed by said justices
of the peace shall have been fulfilled, but the length of the