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thereof with supervisory control over the several clerks and other employees
assigned thereto. He shall receive a salary of $4,000 per annum. The
Governor shall designate two other of said justices to be known as magis-
trates of the Traffic Court, who shall receive salaries of $3,500 each per
annum. The Governor shall also designate the other justice of the peace
to be known as the associate magistrate of the Traffic Court who shall
receive a salary of $2,500 per annum.

1939, ch. 433, sec. 205B.

213. (Substitutes.) In the event that any two of said magistrates are
unable to preside at any time, the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City
shall have the power to provide a substitute in the same manner and at
the same rate of compensation as substitutes are now provided for police
justices regularly assigned to station houses in Baltimore City, the com-
pensation of said substitute magistrate to be paid out of funds provided
for that purpose in the Traffic Court budget. None of said justices shall
receive any other compensation or fees whatever for the performance
of any duty required by law.

1939, ch. 433, sec. 205C.

214. (Sessions.) The Traffic Court shall be divided into separate parts
and each of said magistrates shall be assigned by the chief magistrate to
preside in such parts at such times as the chief magistrates shall deter-
mine. The Traffic Court shall be in session every day except Sundays
and holidays, and the magistrates shall, during the hours when the Court
is required to be in session, transact no other business except the busi-
ness required of them by the provisions of this Section.

1939, ch. 433, sec. 205D.

215. (Jurisdiction.) The magistrates of the 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 here-
after be given to any Justice of the Peace in Baltimore City, to try or
commit for trial any person accused of violating of the Traffic Ordinances
of Baltimore City.

1939, ch. 433, sec. 205E.

216. (Contempt Proceedings.) The magistrates of Traffic Court shall
have power and authority to enforce obedience to their orders and judg-
ments 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 ($25.00) ; all of which fine shall be paid to the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles in the same manner as other fines; and imprisonment in
default of payment of such fine 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 26 of the Annotated Code of Maryland as within the
power of the several courts of this State to inflict summary punishments
for contempt of court.