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22-90.

[The Supreme Bench may, in its discretion, require any and all of
said probation workers, clerical assistants and other employees so
assigned to work in the Probation Department of the Supreme Bench
to give a bond with satisfactory surety in a penal sum to be fixed by
the Supreme Bench, conditioned for the faithful accounting and dis-
charge of duty, said bond to run to the State of Maryland as the
obligee therein; the premiums for said bonds to be fixed as an expense
of the Probation Department and not required to be paid by the
appointee so appointed. Suits on such bonds when directed by the
Supreme Bench to be instituted shall be instituted and prosecuted by
the City Solicitor of Baltimore City, and all moneys recovered thereon
shall be for the use of the Supreme Bench for the Probation Depart-
ment thereof, and sums recovered thereon shall be paid out under its
orders. All fees to the Clerk and Sheriff and costs and expenses
required or necessary and proper to be paid for the prosecution of any
suit on such bond shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore.]

22-91.

[The duties of the probation workers, clerical assistants and other
employees in carrying out the provisions of this sub-heading in said
department shall be prescribed by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City, with power in said Supreme Bench from time to time to change,
alter and amend the same, and to increase or decrease the character
of duties imposed upon each probation worker or clerical assistant or
other employees in said department. No probation worker or person
engaged in the work of the department shall make any investigation,
as herein provided, without the previous order of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City or any member thereof.]

22-92.

Nothing in this sub-heading contained shall be construed to pre-
vent any Judge of the Supreme Bench in suspending sentence and
placing on probation or paroling any person accused of crime either
before or after conviction or plea of guilty or nolo contendere in the
custody of or under the supervision of any person or agency other
than [the Probation Department of Baltimore City] a State or local
governmental agency.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 363
(House Bill 626)

AN ACT to withdraw and repeal Chapter 356 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1971 and to propose amendments to certain
sections of the Constitution of Maryland by repealing and re-enact-