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 Service of Balti-
more; all such positions shall be classified by the City
Service Commission and all appointments, promotions,
transfers, re-instatements, and removals with respect to
such positions shall be made only in accordance with the
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 con-
stables first appointed under this section shall take office at
the expiration of such terms.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of this State shall be, at the next general election, to
be held in this State in the year 1960, submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adoption, or rejection
in pursuance of directions contained in Article 14 of the
Constitution of this State, and at the said general election,
the vote on the said proposed amendment shall be by ballot,
and upon each ballot there shall be printed the words "For
the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against the Constitu-
tional Amendment", as now prescribed by law, and immedi-
ately after said election, due returns shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for and against said proposed amend-
ment, as directed by said Article 14 of the Constitution.

Approved April 28,1959.

EXPLANATION : Italics indicate new natter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
indicates matter stricken out of bill.