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before any person shall be appointed probation officer as aforesaid
he must be certified to the Board of County Commissioners by the
said Department of Parole and Probation as meeting its requirements
and qualifications as a probation officer, and the said Department of
Parole and Probation shall be required to make examinations of per-
sons considered for appointment as probation officer when requested
by the Board of County Commissioners and make report upon their
qualifications. The said Department of Parole and Probation shall have
supervision of the work of the probation officers appointed as afore-
said. The County Commissioners shall appoint such number of
clerical employees as may be needed.]

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Sections 22-82 and 22-92
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1969 Edition,
being Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title
"Baltimore City," subtitle "22. Supreme Bench," sub-heading "Pro-
bation and Suspension of Sentence," be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, and that Sections 22-81, and 22-87
through 22-91, inclusive, of the said subtitle and sub-heading of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Baltimore City, be and they are hereby
repealed, and all to read as follows:

22-81.

[The Supreme Bench of Baltimore City is hereby authorized and
empowered to create a Probation Department, for use in the courts of
that city, which now or may hereafter comprise the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, in carrying out the provisions of this sub-heading;
the said Supreme Bench shall have the power to employ, to appoint
and to remove, under the provisions of this sub-heading hereinafter
set out, as many persons as the said Supreme Bench may determine
to be necessary to carry out such provisions.]

22-82.

The Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall
have power to require that any funds or bonds in the custody of the
Probation Department of the Supreme Bench received for restitution
or for the support of a wife, child or poor relative or for collateral and
which for a period of two years or more after the legal expiration of
the case occurring prior to July 1, 1972 1973 shall have remained un-
claimed or unidentified or two years after the receipt of unidentifiable
funds occurring prior to July 1, 1972 1973 shall, after diligent effort
has been made to locate the person entitled to such funds, or the person
who paid the funds into the custody of the Probation Department, be
deposited with the Treasurer of Baltimore City whose duty it shall
be to receive such funds and to hold them for a period of three
years; provided, however, that in any and all instances where checks
or drafts issued by the Probation Department of the Supreme Bench
have remained uncashed and are outstanding for a period of two
years following the issuance thereof prior to July 1, 1972 1973, the
funds representing the same, and any interest which has accrued or
been received on said funds, shall be paid over by the Probation De-
partment and deposited with the Treasurer of Baltimore City whose
duty it shall be to receive such funds and to hold them for a period of
three years as aforesaid. Should any such claimant within three
years after said monies have been received by the Treasurer prove
to the satisfaction of the Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench his legal