provisions, rules and regulations of said Classified 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
constables first appointed under this section shall take
office at the expiration of such terms.] (1)

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. (2)

{.Part V-B—Municipal Court

SEC. 41G. (a). There is hereby created a Municipal
Court of Baltimore City. Said Court shall consist originally
of eleven Judges; the number of such Judges may there-
after be increased or decreased by the General Assembly
by law, but no such decrease shall affect the term of any
Judge then in office or his right to stand for election for

i This amendment was submitted by Chapter 575, Acts of 1959, to be acted upon
by the voters in November. 1960.
' Added by Chapter 163. Acts of 1939, and ratified November 5, 1940.