Charter of said City with respect to said City Service are
hereby expressly made applicable thereto, provided that,
the Chief Constable at the time this amendment becomes
effective shall continue and remain in said position and
immediately become a member of said Classified City Ser-
vice of Baltimore; all such positions shall be classified by
the City Service Commission and all appointments, pro-
motions, transfers, re-instatements, and removals with re-
spect to such positions shall be made only in accordance
with the provisions, rules and regulations of said Classi-
fied City Service in force from time to time. Such Chief
Constable and all of such other constables and all such
clerks shall receive from the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore City such compensation as said Mayor and City
Council shall prescribe. Such constables and clerks shall
perform such duties as may now or hereafter be prescribed
by law or rule of Court..

After adoption of this Section no constable shall be ap-
pointed by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City
pursuant to Section 42 or Section 43 of this Article IV, but
constables in office upon the adoption of this Section shall
hold office for the remainder of their terms, and the con-
stables first appointed under this Section shall take office
at the expiration of such terms'.

41-B. The General Assembly shall have power by law to
establish a People's Court in any county, or any part there-
of, incorporated city or town in this State, except Balti-
more City, and to prescribe and from time to time to alter
(1) the number, qualifications, tenure, and method of se-
lection of the Judges of any such Court, and their powers,
duties and compensation, except that the term of office or
compensation of any Judge shall not be reduced during his
continuance in office; (2) the jurisdiction of any such
Court (which may be made exclusive as to any class or
classes of civil cases in such county, or any part thereof,
city or town) and the right of appeal therefrom; (3) the
number, qualifications, tenure, method of selection, duties,
and compensation of all constables, clerks or other em-
ployees for such Court; and (4) all other matters relating
to such Court. After adoption of this Section the Gover-
nor shall not be required to appoint any particular number
of Justices of the Peace in any county or in any of the
several election districts of the counties as now provided
in Section 42 of the Constitution. 1.

1 Added by Ch. 163, 1939, ratified Nov. 1940.