116 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Art. 4]

to regulate by rules the administration, procedure and practice of said
Court; such rules shall have the force of law until rescinded or modified
by said Judges or the General Assembly. Unless otherwise provided by
law, (1) all powers granted by this Section or by law to said Court or the
Judges thereof as a body may be exercised by a majority of the Judges
thereof, and (2) said Court shall not be a Court of Record.

There shall be a Chief Constable of said Court, who shall perform
therein the duties prescribed for Clerks of Court by Section 10 of this
Article and such other duties as shall be prescribed by law or by rule of
said Court. Such Chief Constable shall be appointed, in the manner here-
inafter prescribed, by the Judges of said Court; and such Chief Constable
shall appoint, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, all original, subse-
quent 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 recommenda-
tion of said Court and said Chief Constable, be increased by the Mayor
and City Council 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 Classified 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 Service of Baltimore; all such positions shall be
classified by the City Service Commission and all appointments, promo-
tions, transfers, re-instatements, and removals with respect to such posi-
tions shall be made only in accordance with the provisions, rules and regu-
lations 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 com-
pensation as said Mayor and City Council shall prescribe. Such constables
and clerks shall perform such duties as may now or hereafter be pre-
scribed by law or rule of Court.

After adoption of this Section no constable shall be appointed 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 expira-
tion of such terms.

Sec. 41-B. The General Assembly shall have power by law to establish
a People's Court in any county, or any part thereof, incorporated city or
town in this State, except Baltimore City, and to prescribe and from time
to time to alter (1) the number, qualifications, tenure, and method of
selection 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