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greater distance than five city squares or blocks from the Court House of
Baltimore City.

The Governor shall also appoint, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, and if the Senate shall not be in session, then the Governor
shall appoint from the City of Baltimore at large an additional Justice of
the Peace, who shall be of high moral character and a reputable member of
the Bar of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, who shall have been
actively engaged in the practice of law for at least five years, who shall
receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly,
and whose jurisdiction, duties and powers shall be the same as those con-
ferred upon and required of the other Magistrates assigned to the Traffic
Court as aforesaid, and who shall be designated by the Governor to sit in
said court in the absence by illness or otherwise of the other Magistrates,
appointed to sit regularly at the Traffic Court, and at other times when it
may, in the opinion of the Governor, become necessary for such additional
Magistrate to sit as a member of the said Traffic Court; and such justice
so designated shall not be required to give bond in a sum greater than that
required of other Justices of the Peace by Section 624, of Article 4 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland.

In the event that any two of said Magistrates are unable to preside at
any time, the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City shall have power to
provide a substitute in the same manner and at the same late of compen-
sation as substitutes may now be provided for Police Justices regularly
assigned to Station Houses in Baltimore City.

All necessary expenses for the operation of the Traffic Court, including
the salaries of the Magistrates and clerks herein provided for, shall be paid
out of monies in the hands of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles realized
and collected from fines and costs imposed by the Traffic Court, and should
said funds be insufficient in any one year to pay said expenses, then the
deficit shall be paid out of other funds in the hands of the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles realized and collected by him from other sources.

Whenever the owner or operator of a motor vehicle is accused of a viola-
tion of any provision of the automobile laws of the State, or of any local
ordinance, rule or regulation of any municipality or county of this State,
and a warrant, summons or notice is served upon him to appear for trial
before the Traffic Court, or any Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction to
hear the case, he shall be notified in said warrant, summons or notice of the
nature and character of the charge against him, and the day and hour of
such trial shall be fixed at such time, so far as may be practicable, as shall
cause the least inconvenience to such person and the witnesses in the case.

PART VI.
Rules of the Road.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 209. 1912, sec. 163. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 163.
1920, ch. 506, sec. 163. 1929, ch. 224.

209. All vehicles, motor, horse-drawn or otherwise, when being driven
upon the highways of this State shall at all times keep to the right of the