Constable shall appoint, in the manner hereinafter pre-
scribed, all original, subsequent and additional constables
and clerks employed pursuant to this Section, and shall
supervise and direct the work of all such constables and
clerks. There shall be appointed originally fourteen such
constables and sixteen such clerks; the number of either
may, on the Joint recommendation of said Court and said
Chief Constable, be increased by the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore City; no vacancy in the position of any
constable or clerk, however arising, shall be filled by said
Chief Constable unless the Judges of said Court and said
Chief Constable shall expressly find that the filling of such
vacancy is necessary for the efficient operation of said
Court. The positions of said Chief Constable and of all
such constables and clerks shall be positions in the Classi-
fied City Service of Baltimore and the provisions of the
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

i Added by Chapter 163, Acts of 1939, ratified November 5, 1940.