146 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 150

be to him and to the warden of the institution authority
for the release of such prisoner.

When any such prisoner is conditionally released, as
hereinbefore provided, and employed by any such appoint-
ing authority, said authority shall promptly report such
employment to said Commissioner of Employment, or to
said City Service Commission or to any other supervisory
authority of the payrolls of any political sub-division of
this State, as the case may be, which is hereby directed to
establish a special class of employees to be known as
"Emergency Employees" and to include each such prisoner
in said class. The Employment Commissioner, the City
Service Commission or any other supervisory authority of
the payrolls of any political sub-division of this State, as
the case may be, is further directed to certify all payrolls
which may include the names of such "Emergency Em-
ployees, " but such employees shall be excluded from the
Merit System of this State or of Baltimore City or of any
other political sub-division of this State and from all the
privileges and benefits thereof. No such emergency em-
ployee shall be covered or be eligible for any of the benefits
and privileges of the Employees' Retirement System of the
State, as established by Chapter 377 of the Acts of 1941,
or for the benefits of any retirement or pension system of
Baltimore City or of any political sub-division of this State,
nor shall he be covered by the Workmen's Compensation
Policies protecting inmates of such penal institutions en-
gaged in extra-hazardous employment. Any agency, com-
mission, department, institution or other employing au-
thority of the State, or of Baltimore City or of any political
sub-division of this State, which employs any such prisoner
shall cover him within the Workmen's Compensation Policy
protecting its other similar employees. The provisions of
Sections 15 to 17, both inclusive, of Article 64A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), as amended
by Chapter 395 of the Acts of 1941, shall not apply to any
prisoner so released and employed.

Every prisoner so employed shall be entitled to
be compensated at the same rate of base pay as any
other employees in the same classified or unclassified
position. The Director of Parole and Probation shall be
authorized to determine what portion of his earnings shall
be withheld from such prisoner; and the remainder of said
earnings, not so withheld, shall be paid over to the super-
intendent of any institution or other employing authority,
at which he is employed, for disbursement to him. Such
employing authority shall receive the portion so withheld
and shall, on the instructions of said Director, pay any