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of the administration thereof, and who is to receive the salary of four
thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, and not more than two
other associate Justices of the Peace of the Traffic Court, who shall each
receive the salary of three thousand, five hundred dollars per annum, pay-
able monthly, and shall receive no other compensation or fees whatever
for the performance of any duty required by law. Said Traffic Court shall
be divided into separate courts, and one of said Justices of the Peace shall
be assigned to each of said courts. The Traffic Court shall be in session
every day except Sundays and holidays. Said Traffic Court shall have
exclusive jurisdiction within the City of Baltimore to hear and determine
all complaints of violations of the Motor Vehicle Laws of the State, and
shall have exclusive jurisdiction where jurisdiction now or may hereafter
be given to any Justice of the Peace in Baltimore City to try or commit
for trial any person accused of violating any of the Traffic Ordinances of
Baltimore City, and shall have concurrent jurisdiction with Justices of
the Peace, committing magistrates or police justices throughout the State
outside of Baltimore City, to hear and determine all complaints of viola-
tions of the Motor Vehicle Laws of the State in those cases where it is
convenient for the accused to have such complaint heard and determined
in Baltimore City. The jurisdiction, powers and duties heretofore vested
in and required of Justices of the Peace in Baltimore City under Section
158 of this sub-title shall hereafter be exclusively vested in and required
of the Justices of the Peace of the Traffic Court. Said Justices shall,
during the hours when said Traffic Court is required to be in session,
transact no other business except the business required of them by the
provisions of this sub-title. The said Justices of the Peace of the Traffic
Court, and any Justices who may be designated to sit in their absence,
shall have the power and authority to enforce obedience to their orders
and judgments by attachments, and to inflict summary punishment for
contempt of court by a fine not exceeding in any one case the sum of
twenty-five dollars; all of which fines shall be paid to the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles in the same manner as other fines; and imprisonment
in default of payment of such fines shall be imposed to the same extent
as in the case of other fines; provided, however, that the power aforesaid to
punish for contempt shall not be construed to extend to any cases arising
in Traffic Court, except the cases specifically set forth and provided for
in Section 4 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland as within
the power of the several courts of this State to inflict summary punish-
ments for contempt of court.

The Police Commissioner of Baltimore City shall designate four or
more members of the police force of the rank of sergeants, with the right
of the Commissioner of Police to promote their rank to lieutenant in his
discretion, but who shall, however, in any event, receive the salary of
lieutenants while acting in said Traffic Court, one of whom shall be
assigned to each of the parts or sessions of the Traffic Court herein pro-
vided, and who shall execute the powers and directions of Justice presid-
ing at said session. In addition to the number of Station House clerks
now provided for by law, said Police Commissioner is hereby authorized