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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,
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 remamender of their terms, and the
constables first appointed under this Section shall take
office at the expiration of such terms.
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 of selection, duties,
and compensation of all constables, clerks or other em-
ployees for such Court; and (4) all other matters relating
to such Court. After adoption of this Section the Governor
shall not be required to appoint any particular number of
Justices of the Peace in any county or in any of the sev-
eral election districts of the counties as now provided in
Section 42 of the Constitution.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That the aforegoing sections hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of the State of Maryland
shall, at the election to be held in November, 1940, be sub-
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