820                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 401

agencies, subject only to his responsibility to the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services and to the Governor. The exercise
or performance of all powers, authority, duties and functions vested
in the Commissioner by the provisions of this subtitle, shall be sub-
ject to the power and authority of the Secretary of Public Safety
and Correctional Services as set forth in Article 41 of this Code, or
elsewhere in the laws of this State.

677.

The Commissioner of Correction, within thirty days after June 30,
in each year, shall transmit to the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services, who shall in turn transmit to the Comptroller
of the State an accurate, detailed statement of all receipts and dis-
bursements of the [Department] Division of Correction during the
year ending on the thirtieth of June preceding.

678.

The Commissioner shall make a report every year, on or before
the last day of October, to the Secretary of Public Safety and Correc-
tional Services and to the Governor, showing the expenses, profits,
losses, receipts, disbursements, condition and progress of the said
institutions, together with a statement of the number of prisoners,
their age, sex, color, place of nativity and conviction, offense, term
of confinement, escapes, pardons, and discharges, accompanied by
such remarks and suggestions as may appear necessary to the ad-
vancement of the interests of said institutions. The Commissioner,
at the time of making such annual report to the Secretary and to the
Governor, shall transmit therewith a statement similar to that re-
quired to be made to the Comptroller in Section 677; and the state-
ments and reports required to be made in this section and Section 677
of this article shall be duly sworn to by the Commissioner of Correc-
tion, and the Governor shall communicate such statements and re-
ports to the legislature with such recommendations as he may think
expedient.

679.

(a) The office of deputy commissioner of correction is created.
He shall be appointed by the Commissioner, for an indefinite term
at the pleasure of the Commissioner and shall not be subject to the
provisions of Article 64A of this Code. He shall be a person with
adequate knowledge of penal institutions and systems of prison-use
and institution-use programs and with executive experience therein.
Subject to [departmental] policy of the Division of Correction as
established from time to time by the Commissioner, he is generally
in charge of [custodial matters, of problems and procedures for
treatment and rehabilitation of inmates in the several institutions
and agencies in the Department, of prison-use and institutional-use
programs and work in the several institutions and agencies in the
Department, including the so-called State-use industries and work
done under the so-called State-Use Industries Fund.] administrative
procedures within the Division. In the absence of the Commissioner,
the Deputy shall be acting commissioner.

(b) The office of assistant commissioner of correction is created.
He shall be appointed by the Commissioner, for an indefinite term at