166 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 120

more 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, trans-
act 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 attach-
ments, 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; pro-
vided, however, that the power aforesaid to punish for con-
tempt shall not be construed to extend to any cases arising in
Traffic Court, except the cases specifically set forth and pro-
vided 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 punishments for contempt of court.

The Police Commissioner of Baltimore City shall designate
four or more members of the police force of the rank of ser-
geants, with the right of the Commissioner of Police to pro-
mote 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 presiding a. t said session. In addition to the num-
ber of Station House clerks now provided for by law, said
Police Commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to em-
ploy such number of additional clerks as may be necessary to
properly keep the dockets and records of arrests and con-
victions. Such records shall be kept in such form and under
such plan as may be jointly agreed upon by the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles and the Justices of the Peace of the Traffic
Court. Salaries paid to police and all clerks assigned for duty
in the Traffic Court shall be paid by the Police Commissioner
out of the funds received for that purpose from the Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles. There shall be one chief clerk, who
shall receive the salary of two thousand two hundred dollars
per annum, payable monthly, and who shall have general charge
and supervision of the entire clerical force of the Traffic Court,
and there shall be one deputy clerk assigned to each of the sit-
ting Magistrates who shall receive the salary of two thou-
sand dollars per annum, payable monthly, there shall also be
such other or additional clerks as may be necessary to proper-